MP3 begins to slip as the music compression standard
The Guardian Online Blog points to a survey suggesting that although MP3 is still the most favoured format for music files stored on hard drives, its pre-eminence is slipping. The stats are:
MP3 — 72%
WMA — 19.6%
AAC — 4.3%
Other — 3.9%
What’s in a name?
From Saturday’s Guardian: Staff at the south London Horniman museum have discovered that up to a tenth of all emails sent to or from the museum are being hoovered up by spam filters. Visitors trying to access the website, www.horniman.ac.uk, are being blocked or, worse, redirected to more specialist-interest sites. Tut, tut.
Pierre Salinger — as good as his word
Pierre Salinger, JFK’s Francophile Press Secretary (imagine such a thing in Bush’s xenophobic White House) died of heart failure on Saturday at the age of 79. He died in a hospital near his home near Avignon, after recent surgery to fit a pacemaker, his wife, Nicole, said. The couple moved to the Vaucluse to run a B&B when George W. Bush won the 2000 election. “He was very upset because he thought Bush was not fit to be president,” Nicole Salinger told the Associated Press. “He said he would leave if Bush became president, and he did.”
Hmmm… I wonder how many of the folks who are currently threatening to emigrate from the US if Dubya wins will do the same.