This made my day… unfortunately I can only credit Oliver Willis from whom I blatantly copied the image

These poor people. If someone would finally create a food-shelter for them that I could donate to…

From this article titled “US album sales drop 4.9% in 2006″ at the BBC:

Album sales in the United States - on CD and through legal downloads - fell by 4.9% in 2006, according to research company Nielsen Soundscan.

The most interesting part comes right after that, though:

But the growth of digital music, especially the purchasing of individual songs, meant music sales rose by 19.4% overall, compared to the previous year.

Digital single-track sales were up by two-thirds, while twice as many digital albums were sold as in 2005.

What editor was out of his mind enough that he tried to depict this news message in a negative light? Idiot!

I understand him, though, because the article’s original ending (which has since been deleted by the BBC) was:

However, one anonymous music industry executive, while being interviewed at the local soup kitchen, told us: “if the piracy trend continues, and you don’t pay my $200,000 bonus, terrorists are going to come flying from space and then music will vanish forever“

According to this article on the BBC, 2007 has a 60% chance of being warmer than the current record set by 1998, with an average surface temperature of 14.54°C.

2007! Hopefully it will last longer than 2006 did, which went by with a swooshing sound.

Anyway, Slate has a list of the 10 worst things that the Bush administration did to the United States… it feels like they got done a lot!

This year I’ll hopefully graduate and start my Ph.D. somewhere, until Bush manages to start World War IX or whatever he’s up to next. So this is to 2007 and everything we’ll accomplish! Let’s go! ;-)