I’ve heard it repeated many times that artists make no money from services like Pandora. I guess that is incorrect- at least in some situations.
Pandora: Pandora and Artist Payments: “For over two thousand artists Pandora will pay over $10,000 dollars each over the next 12 months (including one of my favorites, the late jazz pianist Oscar Peterson), and for more than 800 we’ll pay over $50,000, more than the income of the average American household. For top earners like Coldplay, Adele, Wiz Khalifa, Jason Aldean and others Pandora is already paying over $1 million each. Drake and Lil Wayne are fast approaching a $3 million annual rate each.”
Pandora Blog (Via Daring Fireball)
Scientists Just A’Wanna Have Fun [Random Tech Videos]
Ok, look — I don’t know if these are real scientists or what, but a bunch of song and musical-style parody videos where the subject is crazy science concepts and gear that even I (in my extreme geekiness) know almost nothing about, well… let’s just say I was too busy giggling to find out. And that was one hell of a run-on sentence – but hey! It’s another long weekend up here in Canada, and when I get a long weekend post, I like to loosen up the reigns a bit.
Seriously, though, if you want something that will boggle your brain, and maybe make you laugh to the point where your loved ones and co-workers look at you funny (not talking about myself here… really!), then you need to take a look at these!
Here are three of the videos for your viewing pleasure! And here’s a link to the entire 11 video playlist put together by BioWorld Today.
A Little GTCA and DNA to the Tune of YMCA
Monitor Cell Impedance with Motley Crue (I know…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVnTUN1Fn1g&feature=view_all&list=PL880AF6B6904C868D&index=1Boy Band Pipetting Madness
And last, but not least:
Building Blocks of Cell Biology Done to the Black Eyed Peas – in LEGO Animation!
Thoughts? Giggles? Sardonic Messages?