At the Globe and Mail web site they always have a poll where they ask peoples opinion about some topical question. Today's poll questions was:

During the sponsorship inquiry Justice Gomery noted that "There is a substantial portion of the population of Canada that never reads the newspapers and never watches television, and they live in blissful ignorance of what other people -- newspaper junkies like I am -- consider to be common knowledge." This prompts us to ask: Do you think the average Canadian is dumber than you?

For some reason I thougth this was very funny. Not surprisingly, the overwhelming majority of people thought that the average Canadian was dumber than them.

Q. Why did the girl fall of the swing?
A. She's got no arms.

Q. What's Mary short for?
A. She's got no legs.

Q. Where do you find a dog with no legs?
A. Right where you left it.

A man is lying in a hospital bed after a violent car accident. The doctor walks in, and the man cries, "Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs." The doctor replies, "Of course not, I cut your arms off."

15:38. Not too bad.

I just read an interesting article on Rolling Stone about the battle for music sales between Wal*Mart and the record labels. Wal*Mart is pushing for $10 CDs and the record labels are pissed because they'll probably have to do it given that 20% of CDs are sold by Wal*Mart. You can read the article here. In addition to being an interesting article, there was a little tidbit at the end about where the money for an CD goes:

"This breakdown of the cost of a typical major-label release by the independent market-research firm Almighty Institute of Music Retail shows where the money goes for a new album with a list price of $15.99.

$0.17 Musicians' unions
$0.80 Packaging/manufacturing
$0.82 Publishing royalties
$0.80 Retail profit
$0.90 Distribution
$1.60 Artists' royalties
$1.70 Label profit
$2.40 Marketing/promotion
$2.91 Label overhead
$3.89 Retail overhead"

You can't make this shit up:

So, I just added comment functionality to this blog, as per Oliver's request. Demanding prick. I feel like a bit of a lame-ass though, I should really implement all this stuff my self, it would be a good exersize for me to create a blogging tool for myself. Maybe tomorrow. Instead I'm using the tools provided by blogger.

So, on the weekend I watched an episode of Much More Music's listed, which was counting down the best 40 albums of the last 25 years. At about #35 or #36 they had Odelay, by Beck. I decided to check it out at All of MP3, and while I like it, it kind of bugs me that the song 'Jackass' heavily samples from It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, by Van Morrison (a Bob Dylan cover). It doesn't bother me because it's a rip off, but just because the original song was so much better. The Beck song is just boring.