More iPod Nano Torture

While the previous What's Inside an iPod Nano ?!? examination was more of a vivisection, these folks at ARS Technica took to a new level in a stress test (followed by a dissection). They didn't expect the patient to live so they had to keep upping the ante of their test. Just so you know, dropping your iPod Nano while you bicycle may not cause any problems at all. Actually, there's a chance it'll survive being dropped while your driving the car (at 50 MPH). Don't worry about running it over, okay, maybe you should worry about running it over, but it doesn't mean the music will stop playing! (The good stuff starts on page 3)

$2.59 a gallon

Considering it was 60 cents more a week or so ago, this is pretty good. I got a half tank of gasoline so I'm all topped off...

And what's just as important as this post is, it's also important that it wasn't about music or iPods or Apple.

It was in Allen Park (or maybe Melvindale), MI at Allen and Outer Drive.

A Wizard of Mars

I know I've mentioned Diane Duane several times before. But I just got her last two Wizardry books (7-The Wizard's Holiday and 8-Wizards at War, the latter which came out early!) for my birthday (I read the one, but it just recently came out in paperback and I hadn't gotten it yet since I had it on my Wishlist) the other is my only hard cover of it. She writes a wide gambit of stuff but the Wizardry books are my favorite and the first two are among my favorite books ever. As books like that go, they are probably more Narnia than HP. Part of what I like are there are rules that define How Wizardry Works, you just don't wave a wand...

So I'm excited about the new book that's coming out later next year, A Wizard of Mars, generally if they leave the planet it's for another galaxy or dimension, this will be pretty close to home. Probably tie into some real science and be more fun that just some make believe planet.