Monthly Archives: July 2008

BBC NEWS | Health | Rock drummers are top athletes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7518888.stm




Playing the drums for a rock band requires the stamina of a Premiership footballer, research suggests.

Tests on Clem Burke, the veteran Blondie drummer, revealed that 90 minutes of drumming could raise his heart rate to 190 beats a minute.

Despite rock’s reputation for unhealthy living, Dr Marcus Smith, from Chichester University, said drummers needed “extraordinary stamina”.

travisswicegood.com

http://www.travisswicegood.com/index.php/2008/07/20/the-internet-is-an-orgy

Ever since I mis-titled Terry Chay’s talk, I’ve been thinking of putting together a presentation called The Internet is an Orgy. Just like a real orgy, it can be a lot of fun but it just takes one person to screw everyone.

That point has been getting proven today. Amazon’s S3 service is experiencing it’s second outage of the year. According to Amazon’s status site, they’re been down for roughly 6 hours right now. Sites like SmugMug are completely down as they rely 100% on S3 to serve photos from. Avatars on Twitter are broken because Twitter uses S3 to offload that content.