• Holy cow. What a day for multimedia (well, within 24 hours or so of each other). First, Sony/BMG are working at dropping DRM from their online music offerings. That makes them the last of the major labels to do so.
• But that’s not the big news. Warner Bros has declared their exclusive allegiance to Blu-Ray. While most people following this brutal format war expected Warner to do this eventually, the speed at which they did it was surprising. Not to mention the timing. This announcement comes just before the start of the weekend for CES. It apparently caught the HD-DVD camp completely off guard, causing them to cancel their primary shindig. So far, Warners is swearing that this was not the result of any payoff from the BDA camp, a fact that I would believe. More surprising, their listed justifications actually make business sense, rather than the usual PR spin most of the companies try to put on these kinds of maneuvers. So, it looks like the idiotic high def format war is finally in a tailspin. With some 70% of exclusive studio support, the HD-DVD camp doesn’t stand a whelk’s chance in a supernova.
• Congratulations to Mars rover Spirit, for four years on the job. Boy, Spirit and Opportunity have been quite the little troopers. Spirit is a bit worse for wear, but the little guy just refuses to give up. In a few weeks, Opportunity will celebrate its fourth year, still going strong.
• How about a man who amazingly survives a 47 story fall?
• So, Asus is splitting into 3 companies. Interesting.
• And to end today’s post on a serious note, here’s a blog posting you won’t see every day (thank goodness). Definitely worth the read.

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