livephish.com, the site where Phish sell their official bootlegs in MP3 or lossless compress SHN files are swapping to FLAC lossless compression. I'll have to check that one out. SHN is used by etree.org. A SHN file is typically half or less of the size of the original WAV file.
The last few weeks I've been slowly ripping my entire CD Singles collection onto the computer. I'm just using MP3 (using the "best" instructions from r3mix.net, who seems to have lost his domain) but thought about SHN for some of the rarer singles just incase they get eaten by RIAA fungus or something.
I'm annoyingly highly ranked when searching on Google. This at first seems pretty cool except when you're trying to find stuff you like... like say 'micallef walken' to find the amusing performance Micallef did of a David Bowie cover as Christopher Walken (three of my favourite things in two short minutes)... and all I find is this bloody page at number 3.
Meanwhile, the tax office idea of splitting incomes hits my eyeballs. The idea is that a couple would be able to split their income between them, so a single income "family" of $50,000 would be taxed as two people on $25,000, thus ending up about $3,500 better off at the end of the year.
It snuggles nicely into Howard's "for the family" idea and keeps a lot of people (who are defacto/married) happy. Will most likely piss off those who are single though. But then, everything pisses single people off.
I particularly found amusing the headings in the table in the Herald Sun today (unfortuantely not on the web). "Tax payable where income taxed to husband only" and "Tax payable where income equally split between husband and wife". Inference of course being that it could only ever be the husband out working while the wife is at home.
Actually, the inference of the table also says it'd only be for married couples... which I don't agree with. Damn. Actually, maybe they'd only let you do it if you had kids. That would be disaster. Oh god...