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2002-06-11
Vacuum tube motherboard: Whoa,
wicked cool. Read the article, it explains. I'm adding this to the "when I'm a gozillionaire I'll buy this" list. [via David Chess]
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music
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2002-04-14
Love makes the world go round: ...at least, according to the Powerpuff Girls, it does.
I'm introducing a new feature that I call MP3 O The Moment. I'll be posting an mp3 file now and then, available only for a short time. Eventually I plan to feature all the songs that have ever been my favorite.
The first one is The Powerpuff Girls - Love Makes The World Go Round. It's a cute little song done by cartoon characters, so don't bother downloading it if that isn't your bag.
My favorite part of the song is Buttercup's solo. Maybe I'll change that to be my Windows start sound file. Hmm...
Anyway, I know the sound is kinda tinny. We wrestled with a couple different computers and connections trying to get it to sound better, and we couldn't. I'm tired, and I'm sick of struggling. So it's not great, but it's serviceable.
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beauty
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2002-03-27
Cool little movie: Daniel sent me a link to
this spiffy movie (
local mirror) that I call "Anthem for the Atari Generation".
It's got lots of kookie low-res graphics and really neat music all created with simple beeps and so on. Brought back lots of fond memories for me. :)
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2002-02-25
Coolest. Metafilter. Thread. Ever.
It's all about the recently announced royalties to be paid per song (0.14 cents for *each* listener) for web streaming music.
Shall I go on about how the metafilterian IPLawyer posts her glimmering elucidations several times? Nah. The coolest part is that at the current end-point, she asks a fellow poster (who had mentioned that the college radio station they volunteered at would have to go through a whole lot of work to figure out all the royalties) to contact her since they're looking for people to testify about how ludicrous the record-keeeping requirements would be.
Dude, this is how the web is *supposed* to work!
Rock on...
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2001-07-21
Strange connections sometimes appear:
when you aren't expecting them, but if you pay attention, you can catch when they're happening.
One I experienced recently was this: I heard a song I'd never heard before on the radio, and I kind of liked it, and as the song went on it sounded relentlessly familiar, in a way.
As it played, different instruments were emphasized in turn, and I realized that the sounds were all from the music program
Noodle, which I had played with a few times (and thought was really cool/funky).
"Whoa", says I, "that's cool that a song made with a program like that made it on the radio". Well, I paid attention when they said what group did the song - it's the
Afro Celt Sound System. Their song "When I'm Falling" is big right now (Peter Gabriel sings on it).
So anyway, I looked it up and of course on the Noodle page it lays everything all out - they created Noodle and included it on their second cd. The song I heard on the radio is
#2 on their first cd.
So, it's all linked, and if I hadn't recognized the song on the radio, I wouldn't have known at all. I remember how the smile slowly spread across my face as recognition of each sound pattern sunk in. It was just a very cool experience.
So I suggest: play with the Noodle program, then listen to the sample of the song. If that sort of thing sounds interesting to you...
