There's a pie-chart meme several years old:
http://artandavarice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/record-company.gif

That graphic might be derived from information in this article from the 1990s:
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html

I've not been able to find a direct source for that famous pie chart, let alone the original data source. But in my experience as a musician and publisher, it's plausible.

[heed the signature]

It's still on her Facebook page as of 8:57pm PST:
http://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/dont-get-demoralized-get-organized-take-back-the-20/373854973434

March 23, 2010 4:49 PM on CBSNews.com:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20001021-503544.html

Oh, yeah. That's what I'm talkin' about!

More seriously, the link is a totally valuable yet MF time sink! I mean both valuable and time-sink. This is what the Web was meant to be: a twisty maze of clickable links, all of which are fascinating to read and may sink your time

I did sink quite a bit of time into reading the presented data/trivia. I'm amazed at how much information was readily available at a click or two.

Nicely done!

I can't tell from TFA whether the user's custom whitelist has also disappeared on the affected accounts. If it has been deleted, then your newly-emptied inbox might start filling up quickly, even if you thought you had whitelist protection on your inbox. S/N ratio essentially zero? Even negative?

Even better: how about 'It should apply to all OBJECTS'. Every single object, mobile or immobile should emit a different tone constantly.

They already do. Every object in the universe already emits its own vibrations. Your sensory apparatus just needs to be tuned correctly to detect it. The extremely narrow range of oscillating frequencies detectable by the auditory sense of earth humans is only a tiny slice.

On Optheria they have a musical instrument (inadequately called an "organ") that plays to many senses, not just hearing. Some would say it plays directly to the soul and bypasses the senses entirely. That's another story altogether.

Wimpy Earthling: if you can't detect objects because you can't sense the vibrations they already radiate,
      GET A HEARING (or whatever) AID!

Or use your other sense organs. Whatever. Or maybe, just maybe, DON'T WALK DOWN THE F**KING MIDDLE OF THE ROAD WITHOUT LOOKING BEHIND YOU. Sheesh!

Although this was posted to the wrong thread/window, it definitely is a very interesting read.

I have not been killed by H1N1, nor by any of the seasonal flu variants :-). But because my job requires lots of travel meeting face-to-face with people who are likely to be vectors of flu (and other casually communicable infections), I always take the seasonal flu vaccine, and this year also the H1N1 vaccine. If there were an innoculation to protect from the "common cold" I would go for it in a heartbeat.

It's not that I am afraid that I might die from flu; I'm not -- it's just that since I run my own business, I simply can't afford the downtime from getting sick for a week to 10 days. And if I go back to work before my illness has run its course, I'll risk getting my employees sick. That doesn't help the business productivity at all. It's really frustrating to go to my health provider and have him rattle on and on about how H1N1 probably won't kill me. I'm not worried about that, I expect to survive a flu infection, just as I have and nearly everyone has. Only a tiny percentage of people have a serious problem with H1N1, which is the flu variant everyone is scared so shitless about.

But lots of people think that everyone dies if they catch H1N1 flu; this 100% mortality mindset is a problem for employers. On the one had we have people who come in even though they are clearly and obviously sick (risking infecting everyone else). And on the other hand we have people who stay out with just a sniffle.

Preventive measures contributing toward uptime are seldom brought up in this discussion. And we simple non-medical people have no way to discern proper response in each individual case.

I agree, superb.net is a good hosting service. We used them for several years, but have moved to another provider for reasons completely unrelated to the service/support/security we received with Superb (we had to switch because of states claiming that web hosting constituted a "nexus" for tax purposes).

I would recommend Superb for hosting, as well as our current provider Westhost. We've had good service and good support, with people who actually know what they're doing. Quite refreshing!