And you thought all those NYU undergraduate-level classes intending to explicate the theory and cultural significance of Sailor Moon were outlandish. Liverpool Hope University, home to such illuminating alumnae as erstwhile Dr. Who Terry Molloy, Hollyoaks scribe Nicholas Hoaks, and Olympian Diane Allahgreen, clearly hasn't caught on that a generation of celebritologists armed with pirated wifi, pots of coffee, and Wikipedia (sounds familiar!) can synthesize everything they ever needed to know about The Beatles into bite-sized chunks. But the program, entitled "The Beatles, Popular Music and Society," is touting itself as the first organized academic incision into the mythical hoopla of the original fab four. Ever. Anywhere.

This morning I had the following conversation:

The Consumerist: Want to download every Beatles track made, legally?
Me: Not particularly.
The Consumerist: [NRKbeta.no via BoingBoing]
Me: ???

What the recently sold-off consumer advocacy blog was trying to alert me to was the fact that a Norwegian broadcasting company has, thanks to a recent deal, gotten a chance to play the prolific back-catalog of The Beatles in podcasts that, because of this deal, contain less than 70% actual music.

Today is Paul McCartney’s 66th birthday! To celebrate (not really, but the timing couldn't be better), Australian music masher Wax Audio has compiled a remix of Justice’s “Waters of Nazareth” and the Beatles' “Come Together” for an epic duel entitled, er, “Come To Nazareth—Beatles vs. Justice.” While the new version won't ever replace the greatness of the original, this might be one of the most inspired remixes of late.