Electronista is reporting that “according to French sources familiar with negotiations for multiple online music stores,” Apple is set to drop EMI’s DRM-free catalog onto iTunes this week. Techs are entering the last stages of encoding and prepping the files to go live.
While previous statements seemed to indicate a gradual release starting this month, the kinda-but-not-really late release is in part due to a desire to dump the whole catalog at once.
Concerned with expanding waistlines in the land of tenpura, katsudon, and American fast food, doctors and insurance companies in Osaka have launched services that let patients send glamour shots of their grub to nutritionists from their cell phones. The nutritionists then offer a nutritional breakdown, analysis and advice, laying out what’ll turn you into a fatty and what won’t.
The only problem is that one of the services has a three-day turnaround time, meaning you’ll have to wonder for days if that Country Boy Breakfast from Cracker Barrel was bad for you after all. – Matt Buchanan
Cell phone cameras help Japanese lose weight [CNN] Image via Flickr
Just in time for the 30th anniversary, someone conjured up one sweet rendition of a Star Wars-style space port via LEGO, complete with the Millennium Falcon, AT-AT walkers, and an Imperial Shuttle. The only thing it’s missing is a Slave I model, because you can’t have the Falcon without Boba Fett close behind. – Matt Buchanan
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Incredible LEGO Star Wars Space Port [TechEBlog]
You don’t have to look like Joe Dirt when you haul your Memorial Day barbecue detritus to the curb tomorrow if you chunk it in these snootier-than-thou fashionable trash bags.
Covered in a damask pattern with a baby blue drawstring, they make standard black or white garbage bags look plain uncivilized. Or they just make you look like a dick, especially since they run $10 for 20 bags. – Matt Buchanan
Product Page [via Slashgear]