This Day in Blogging History: Gamelan free to good home; Homemade motorcycle ad; How many bytes to store entirety of human speech?

One year ago today

You need a 1.5 ton gamelan, and I know where you can get it: Jon Singer is custodian of a traditional Javanese gamelan (~1.5t worth) and it needs a home.

Five years ago today

Homemade motorcycle ad on Craigslist: The seat blew out a few years ago and I made do with a sofa cushion, duct tape and a couple of 2x 4's ( the ultimate fix! ). It runs like a champ but does smoke alot.

Ten years ago today

How many bytes to store all human speech, ever? A 5 exabyte store would roughly be eight thousand times too small to store "all words ever spoken by human beings", at least in audio form.