From the recently revived and still great bash.org:

* andy Quit (Quit: Your Mom is so dumb that she tried to minimize a 12 variable function to a minimal sum of products expression using a karnaugh map instead of the Quine-McCluskey Algorithm.)

Gladly, I’m rather sure that my mom would never attempt to do that.

Some time ago, I considered dumping eMusic as my prime supplier of online music. My main gripe with them was very limited catalogue growth over the years I’ve been a subscriber and great big gaps in their supply of important classical works.

However, this has recently all been turned around by the addition of the Naxos catalogue. By adding this one label to their repertoire, there are now some 4000 new classical albums on eMusic. Just counting my favourite composers, there’s around 250 albums for Beethoven and Bach, some 300 for Mozart and so on. Of course, this includes plenty of duplication (even what claims to be the Complete Mozart is only 170 CDs), but there’s still much more choice than before – instead of zero Fidelios (except one 1930s recording, which may be exciting to Klemperer fans, but has the fidelity of a grammophone recording), we now have three. Same for most Mozart operas I’ve been looking for (no Idomeneo, though). Händel’s Fireworks Music that was missing before? Check. Barber of Seville? Check. And did I mention that it all comes in 160kbps MP3s with mostly correct ID3v2, DRM-free, compatible and convenient as hell? Suck on that, iTunes.

In short, I’m a very happy eMusic customer again right now, and my 65 tracks for November were gone in some 5 minutes. I’m looking forward to December 4 when my subscription will refresh and cursing the sorry state of my studen budget that doesn’t allow me to upgrade my subscription right now. Go eMusic!

I always thought the car chase scenes from Ronin were cool, but this beats them hands-down. Note that it was made in 1978. I wasn’t even alive back then…

Via jwz.