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Download retailers launch pointless "MP3 Compatible" logo

Well, this is a big waste of everyone's time. The Entertainment Retailers Association has launched a new logo that purports to indicate to consumers whether or not a store sells MP3s, as opposed to DRM-ed WMA files. They're calling it "MP3 Compatible".

In Depth: 16 totally pointless apps that shame the iPhone

Wouldn't it be great if, instead of a contacts book, you had an individual app to call each person you know? Why stop there? Why not have a different iPhone for each person?

Learning by heart is 'pointless for Google generation'

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Quantum Cryptography: As Awesome As It Is Pointless

Quantum cryptography is back in the news, and the basic idea is still unbelievably cool, in theory, and nearly useless in real life.

Jewel-Like Luxe MP3 Player Pairs With Cellphones

Right now, it's almost pointless to go up against the iPod with any regular kind of MP3 player, which is why even Philips has decided to follow the novelty route.

Finding Unlikely Ideology in Prokofiev: Polyphonic and Anti-Authoritarian Gestures in The Gambler

"Alexei must be condemned to the pointless, loveless, and finally false freedom of a spinning limbo, as unfinished and unfinishable as the best Bakhtinian polyphony. "

CRICKET: Blues hope Kiwi thumping flows through

NSW will be keen to generate some much needed momentum in a so far pointless month of domestic competition when they face Queensland in a Sheffield Shield match starting in Sydney on Friday.

Gawker gobbles up Valleywag

You know there must really be a crisis when even Valleywag seems to be falling apart. Is the Silicon Valley gossip blog everyone loves to hate about to be folded into Gawker, the curious but pointless celebrity gossip blog?

International Space Station flushes rubbish down the world's toilet

Floating miles above the Earth in the International Space Station must really put things into perspective. The world is such a small, fragile place compared to the rest of the universe - from above, all conflicts must seem pointless, and it must be pretty clear that humanity must put aside its differences in order to ensure the survival of this small blue and green marble.

Stoooopid .... why the Google generation isnt as smart as it thinks

On Wednesday I received 72 e-mails, not counting junk, and only two text messages. It was a quiet day but, then again, I’m not including the telephone calls. I’m also not including the deafening and pointless announcements on a train journey to Wakefield – use a screen, jerks – the piercingly loud telephone conversations of unsocialised adults and the screaming of untamed brats. And, come to think of it, why not include the junk e-mails? They also interrupt. There were 38. Oh and I’d better throw in the 400-odd news alerts that I receive from all the websites I monitor via my iPhone.

Mobile Phone Chicken: The latest from chav world

The continued existence of the chav species appears to depend on high breeding rates. Like baby frogs, the chavs face many threats to their survival not experienced by other members of society: getting attacked/killed by other chavs in pointless street aggro, crashing a twocked Sierra Cosworth into a flyover, falling off buildings while attempting to burgle them whilst pissed, etc.

U-Turn On UK ID Cards

An anonymous reader writes "The UK appears to be watering down its national ID card system, with the revelation by the government that it will now only check the cards against a central biometric database in a minority of cases. Critics are saying it not only renders the whole scheme pointless but will pose a security risk by making it far easier to use copied or cloned cards. 'But an Identity and Passport Service spokesman denied the system would be vulnerable to fraud: 'The majority of instances where people use their identity cards will be day to day situations where the cards offer a convenient method of proving identity such as a young person proving their age to buy alcohol,' he said.'"

Turn the Channel to iPod Nano TV

Like the Nanoscope hack before it, the iPod Nano TV magnifies the screen of your iPod while built-in speakers amplify the sound—making it seem as though you are watching a tiny, retro television. It even has a VHS combo style to complete the effect. It seems kind of pointless if you ask me, but it might be a great way to introduce 21st century technology to Grandma without shocking her system. The mini-magnifying TV works with any third generation Nano and will be available for soon for about $23. [Thumbs Up UK via GeekAlerts]

OpenOffice Vs. Google Apps

jammag writes "Both OpenOffice and Google Apps are free, so the choice is purely down to which is better. Bruce Byfield, after looking at both, concluded, 'comparing Google Apps to OpenOffice.org is like clubbing a staked-out bunny — Google Apps is so far behind that the whole exercise seems like an exercise in pointless cruelty.' Ouch, that hurts."

YM Blog-a-Thon: Best of the Worst

It was last Saturday, and I was wandering San Francisco’s sunset in a dream state. I was somewhere around 34th and Ulloa with two very good friends of mine, about an hour into our wandering, when we decided the beach was our destination. We hooked a right down Ulloa and started walking. It was 10:30 P.M., and we started talking about only the deepest, most inconsequential, and pointless things possible. We are, after all, youth. Around 47th we took a right, and then rounded the corner onto Taraval, where we encountered my boss and a small percentage of my co-workers gathered outside a bar. Without a second thought I was back around the corner running, my friends in close pursuit.

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