Nope, not Nirvana. But a damn great holiday parody of one of my favorite songs by Nirvana, “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Just read along with the captions, and I hope you laugh as hard as I did. I love the parody’s album cover… the little bow is too cute.

Just read along with the music.

Thanks, Motley News

A Wisconsin cemetery worker could spend 10 years in jail after pleading no contest to stealing an electric guitar from a casket.

The cream-colored Fender Telecaster was laid upon the body of Randall Jourdan, who wished to be buried with his “pride and joy,” the criminal complaint said. The guitar was recovered from the suspect’s home the next day.

“I have to have that guitar. It’s too expensive to be in a crypt,” Steven Conard allegedly told a groundskeeper at the Allouez Catholic Cemetery and Chapel Mausoleum near Green Bay where he was working, the complaint said.

Jourdan was a guitar player for more than 40 years, family members told investigators.

Not a serious market force. Petty theft, that is.

… and it was down to two of the most iconic voices in music, Robert Plant from Led Zepplin and Janis Joplin, both of whom would wipe the floor with any of today’s contestants. Who would win?

Side question, who from the time period would have been eliminated by them?

Devices and clocks with amazingly intricate mechanisms were the rage a few centuries ago. Today it’s all done with computers and computer graphics. It just ain’t the same.

That all-important “one more thing” from Apple’s software presentation is part of the iCloud Web application and storage suite. It was a coup of sorts — and Apple’s win over competitors could be attributed to Jobs’ experience at Pixar Animation Studios, which he co-founded.
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In that interview eight years ago, Jobs described the vast divide between technology and entertainment executives, and he talked about how he bridged it.

“One of the things I learned at Pixar is the technology industries and the content industries do not understand each other,” he said. “In Silicon Valley and at most technology companies, I swear that most people still think the creative process is a bunch of guys in their early 30s, sitting on a couch, drinking beer and thinking of jokes. No, they really do. That’s how television is made, they think; that’s how movies are made.”

Likewise, record executives can’t relate to technical people, Jobs said.
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Because technology companies treat record labels like clearing houses for content, Silicon Valley bigwigs have trouble getting through the door, Jobs suggested. So it was perhaps Jobs’ expertise from Pixar, during his exodus period from Apple, that has given him the edge to secure risky deals with entertainment giants first.

Far from being quiet, mice are soprano singers whose musical talent improves with age, a study has found. Scientists made ultrasonic recordings of mice and discovered evidence of learned behaviour similar to that seen in birds. Many features of high-pitched mouse songs, including syllable patterns, changed and became more complex as the animals got older.
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Mice are known to sing in two very different situations. Infant mice call to their mothers with song-like sounds when distressed, and male mice serenade females.

The American-led team, which included a British scientist from the Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research in Nottingham, compared the songs of mice at different stages of life and found that even the youngest pups produced complex sounds with song-like features such as variations in frequency and timing. As the young mice aged, the complexity of their songs increased.