And All That Could Have Been…

I know I've been going on and on about the new Nine Inch Nails album. It's not just because I really like the music. Trent Reznor has always been a big technology buff, and his recent experiments have shown he's on the ball when it comes to modern social networking. Case in point: Nine Inch Nails Ghosts Film Festival. Since the Ghosts album is released under the Creative Commons license, you can reuse it for non-commercial purposes. Reznor is running a context on YouTube where people can submit their films/videos that include music from Ghosts. There's no actual prize, but the ones that NIN likes best will get highlighted, which is likely to look very good on a resumé.

To go with that, all the tools to remix The Slip album are now available on remix.nin.com. Since it's also under the CC license, you can reuse it too.

Well, crap

Not a good weekend for the Geek! My parents weren't able to make it out for Hillbilly Days, and it rained anyway, so that was shot. Luckily, I got some pictures and video on Friday. Unluckily, I had to offload them to my boyfriend's laptop, which he currently has at work. I'll try to get a hold of them tonight or tomorrow, so I should have some images up here and video up on Youtube by mid-week.

I work registration for the local hospital, and typically get stuck down in the emergency room. And this weekend was bad. The festival drew in a lot of people and we had quite a few minor accidents, and a few major medical problems, piling into the ER over the weekend. Scrambling to get someone into the computer so the doctor can order labs, while trying to get insurance info from others before they leave, while trying to keep up with paperwork, is a nightmare. I've been trying to convince management to computerize more of this paperwork, but they aren't technology-oriented and have been resisting.

To top it all off, our Dish DVR died last night. It still runs and outputs audio, but the video is screwed. I wouldn't mind terribly, except it had the new Doctor Who Christmas special on it (yeah, America is way behind), and I still hadn't watched the new episodes of Battlestar Galactica yet! At least I can watch BSG on Hulu. I'll probably have to hunt around Youtube for the Doctor Who special if it doesn't rerun later this week, when we get the new DVR.

The Cute has reached critical mass…

Being a geek, I often run into silly things online. Often, this comes from another site that grew up here in Kentucky: FARK.

Other times, it's just random browsing. In this case, I just happened to run across a video on YouTube that is, perhaps, the most tooth-rottingly cute thing I've ever seen: The Snuggle Song. (Sorry, they've got embedding disabled, so you'll have to click the link to watch.)

After the sugar overload wore off, I went looking up more info. Apparently, it started out as a ringtone in Europe. It caught on and, like the Crazy Frog, spawned full-length songs and the (cheap) music video above. Turns out, you can buy the song on iTunes now, but surprisingly it doesn't include the option to use it as an iPhone ringtone.

I have a feeling we've got another meme on our hands…