Speaking of DVDs, I actually bought a few on Tuesday, contrary to my strong preference for digital-only media, thanks to their very low price. ^_^; A friend had let me know the night before that a particular place had a cheap copy of Satantango (a film you need to set aside about seven hours for =:). Perhaps needless to say, I was unduly tempted, and also picked up a box of the Leningrad Cowboys, including their magnificent concert with the Red Army Choir; Code Unknown, which sounded quite interesting; A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, which looked much too strange to ignore; and The Night is Young. FWIW, if you haven't heard, or even heard of, the Leningrad Cowboys, YouTube can oblige: here's a playlist of tracks from said production. It is quite gloriously daffy.
Most cool! In an apparent first, the US Mint will be producing - albeit only as a high denomination collectors' gold coin - a coin with a black Lady Liberty. It's in commemoration of the Mint's 225th anniversary, with future designs exploring other ethnicities as well. ^_^ (h/t
supergee)And technology progresses.. Kingston's announced 1TB and 2TB thumb drives. =:D (Cue memory of the Mars University library on two tiny storage devices, per Futurama. Come to that, are we there already? I wonder how much storage you'd need to digitise an entire large library.. well, the British Library lays claim to 150,000,000 items, but that includes not just books and documents, but audio, maps, stamps, and more. Still, if you say roughly 100m books and magazines, stored purely as high resolution images - let's say 1MB per page, and an average of 250 pages (magazines and newspapers would be lower, books likely higher), so that's 250MB per publication. Multiply that by 100m, and you're at 25PB. So, using those 2TB sticks, you'd need around 12,000. They're 72x27x21mm each, so if you treble the volume to allow for cabling and ventilation, so about 120cm3 each. Multiply by 12,000 gives about 1,500,000cm3, or about 1.5 cubic meters. Wow)
