Saturday, January 31, 2004
posted by Irdial , 7:21 PM Þ 
posted by Claus Eggers , 7:15 PM Þ 

Embeddable MP3 Player for personal blogs and web pages

Tuesday, December 16, 2003

About The Laszlo SoundBlox

SoundBlox is an MP3 audio playing Internet application that can be embedded into a personal blog template or Web page, and displayed in any modern Web browser.

Laszlo Systems provides SoundBlox free for non-commercial use, to spread awareness of Laszlo's XML-native platform for rich Internet applications. The code behind SoundBlox is freely available under the same terms as the Apache Open Source license

Please put SoundBlox to good use. Respect the letter and spirit of content copyrights. Support the efforts of the Creative Commons.

http://soundblox.blogspot.com/
http://blogs.it/0100198/
posted by Irdial , 3:02 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 2:45 PM Þ 

8
posted by Irdial , 2:27 PM Þ 

Blogdial: 7 bit, 8 bit or 16 bit?
posted by captain davros , 1:10 PM Þ 

"BBC NEWS | Politics | BBC names Alistair Campbell as new director general"
All change at the BBC!
posted by Irdial , 12:17 PM Þ 
Friday, January 30, 2004

BBC NEWS | Americas | Castro 'prepared for US invasion'

five hour speech. calls the US 'idiots'. will go down shooting.

awesome!
posted by Ken , 10:05 PM Þ 

posted by Mess Noone , 9:49 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 6:32 PM Þ 

Click here to find out why.

Armalite Rifle,
And the Holy Trinity,
Used against you,
Like Irish Jokes on the BBC.
posted by Irdial , 6:06 PM Þ 
posted by Ken , 5:50 PM Þ 

Another from Waco Texas:
posted by Irdial , 5:15 PM Þ 

"The Museum's mission is to educate and entertain the general public through the collection, preservation, interpretation, and exhibition of objects relevant to the history of the soft drink industry, and through that example, the free enterprise economic system."

Dr Pepper Museum - Waco, Texas - Home of Dr Pepper

HAHAHAHAHA!! Free enterprise economic system.
posted by Ken , 4:32 PM Þ 

Pingvin: 3627.9
posted by Irdial , 4:29 PM Þ 
posted by Ken , 4:27 PM Þ 

Ahem; yes indeed Ken!

The Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) has launched a new campaign against DJs in an attempt to control copyright infringement.

They have already confiscated $100,000s worth of mix CDs from independent record stores across the US.

DJ mix CDs, sold in almost every independent record store are on the whole unlicensed and technically illegal to distribute. However, DJs and producers alike often rely upon these illegal mixes in order to gain credibility, and to promote themselves to the general public.

The practice is in fact approved of by most producers who see it as fundamental to the survival of the dance scene - even if it is their tracks that are being copied and played without permission.

This latest attack by the RIAA is therefore hypocritical - they claim that their pursuit of copyright infringement is primarily in the interest of the artist, yet most dance producers actually approve of and rely upon this illegal distribution.

The dance scene relies upon these "illegal" ways to survive, and it seems that the only people who actually care about this particular copyright infringement are not the artists themselves but the record companies ? who are only involved in the dance scene for profit. [...]

hmmmm is self promotion "promotion" like the stipulation further below in the blog from this site?

It has to be said, these guys, individuals, if they are selling these mix CDs sell only in the low hundreds, and just to eat burgers, it's simply not rational to go after them. If its some organized dude pumping out 5,000 cds a month and making alot of money off of other peoples mixes and records, thats a BAD THING.
posted by Irdial , 4:15 PM Þ 
posted by Ken , 3:46 PM Þ 

The most famous man from Vancover at the time in the danish papers Robert Pickton

What a neighbourhood! Mary have you been there? is it really like in this article?
posted by Alison , 3:06 PM Þ 
posted by Alison , 2:57 PM Þ 
posted by captain davros , 11:57 AM Þ 

Something for the Canadians to laugh at:

With snowfall ranging from 2cm to 28cm and temperatures falling to -5C (23F), commuters were faced with even more treacherous conditions yesterday morning and delays continued.
posted by meau meau , 11:03 AM Þ 

Hip-hop star gets Hitchhiker role

Hip-hop star Mos Def is to star in the film version of Douglas Adams' novel The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

He will appear as Ford Prefect, the alien who takes earthling Arthur Dent - played by The Office's Martin Freeman - on a strange galactic trip.

I like Mos Def. I've not bought much hip-hop in the last few years, but Mos Def sticks out. Anti-pop Consortium and Gold Chains are the only others.
posted by Alun , 10:34 AM Þ 


I think that what we have is evidence that there are differences between what we knew going in and what we found on the ground
Condoleezza Rice


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3443627.stm



I tell you that this war was based on bluff and based on... wrong calculations based on lies and deceptions by the Americans and the British.
Tariq Aziz


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2902347.stm



I tell you, as I have said on many occasions before, that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction whatsoever. We challenge anyone who claims that we have, to bring forward any evidence and present it to public opinion.
Saddam Hussein


http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/may2003/wmd-m17.shtml



A long list of the lies from the mouths of a murdering bunch of international criminals:

http://billmon.org.v.sabren.com/archives/000172.html



ENOUGH ALREADY of the lie listing, lest it become a lollypop.

Back to "what is to be done". Reading the Guardian this morning, its clear that the patient is prepped for injection with the best idea yet; withdrawl to enforce decency. This means a witholding of consent, and the means to make the bad stuff happen until mechanisms are created that prevent warmaking and interference in other countries affairs on a permanent basis.

Anything less is business as usual, which means more spectacular outrages and a fickle public forgetting why things happen and simply taking the blue pill.

And you KNOW what that means.
posted by Irdial , 9:52 AM Þ 
posted by Ken , 12:41 AM Þ 
Thursday, January 29, 2004

A widget to control this one which would be perfected if you could use it without regexps would be cool.
posted by Irdial , 11:27 PM Þ 

I hope the widgets are cross platform!

A lot of them use Applescript, so probably not!

Have you tried writing your own? There are 2 I want to make, one will show me new mail in folders and the other will remote control iTunes via Rendezvous.

Applescript may be an easier solution for #2, but I don't know enough Applescript yet. One day maybe...
posted by alex_tea , 9:21 PM Þ 

Konfabulator: Hmmmmm!

And did you know that there is going to be a version of Konfabulator for windoze? I use it for its clock, the weather, a bandwidth monitor and beautiful battery indicator...I hope the widgets are cross platform!
posted by Irdial , 8:58 PM Þ 

What is Konfabulator?: "Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your AirPort signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather.

What sets Konfabulator apart from other scripting applications is that it takes full advantage of Apple's Quartz rendering. This allows Widgets to blend fluidly into your desktop without the constraints of traditional window borders. Toss in some sliding and fading, and these little guys are right at home in Mac OS X.

The format for these Widgets is completely open and easy to learn so creating your own Widgets is an extremely easy task.

For the 'skinning' crowd, Konfabulator is a dream come true. You can easily change the look, feel, layout, even functionality of a Widget so that it matches your lifestyle, your desktop, or the pants or skirt you have on that day.
"
posted by alex_tea , 7:33 PM Þ 

Amazing, especially with the middle eastern music on wfmu in the background
posted by meau meau , 5:05 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 4:35 PM Þ 

Kid 1: "What's this?"
Kid 2: "Some cereal. Mom says it's supposed to be good for you."
Kid 1: "Try it."
Kid 2: "I'm not gonna try it! You try it!"
Kid 1: "I'm not gonna try it ... Let's give it to Mikey! Yeah!!"
Kid 2: "He won't eat it. He hates everything!"
Mikey: [Chomp! Chomp! Chomp!]
Kid 2: "Hey Mikey! He likes it!!"


Hmmmmmmmmmmm!
Do you get the meaning of this?
posted by Irdial , 4:29 PM Þ 

M2 have you heard the voice in the wilderness yet?
posted by Irdial , 4:23 PM Þ 



via this via that...
posted by meau meau , 3:58 PM Þ 

Vive le difference....quelle difference????!!!

http://noisydisco.free.fr/kaba-kick.jpg
posted by Irdial , 3:28 PM Þ 

Mr. James Brown is a victim of "The Man". His mugshot, in facf all mugshots, should never be released to the public, unliess the person is on the run and is a danger to the public.

It is a total violation of his privacy to have this police photograph spread all over the world in newspapers and the internet. Doing it doesnt prevent crime, is in no way useful and only hurts Mr. James Brown.

I used to listen to the FBI recordings of convicted criminals at The smoking Gun. I stopped reading that website because of this sort of inexcusable violation for titilation.

George Clinton recently had the same treatment. Its funny to see these great men with their hair all wild and their eyes staring like deer caught in a headlamp, but think about this:

WHAT IF IT WAS YOU WHO HAD HER MUGSHOT PUT ON THE INTERNET for all to download and laugh at?

And dont spin me the line of "Celebrities give up their rights to privacy when they become famous" because that is total hogwash. No one "gives up their rights" involuntarily and at the behest of Police men and Newspaper Editors....oh shit, thats wrong...ANYWAY, 911 is a joke, Fuck the Police and down with mugshot releasing!
posted by Irdial , 3:07 PM Þ 

5. Be careful with content that may lead to argument

Truth is Born of Argument
posted by meau meau , 2:41 PM Þ 

No!

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http://artport.whitney.org/gatepages/artists/galloway/
posted by Irdial , 2:26 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 2:20 PM Þ 


"Improper Use Of Public Telecommunication System"

(1) A Person who -

(a) sends by means of a public communication system, a message or other
matter that is grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing
character, or

(b) sends by those means, for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience
or needless anxiety to another, a message that he knows to be false or
persistently makes use for that purpose of a public telecommunication system,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment
for a term not exceeding six months or a fine….. or both".

http://www.abuse-guidance.com/
posted by Mess Noone , 2:01 PM Þ 
posted by meau meau , 1:39 PM Þ 

I'm rather tired of all the "Bushisms" and "Rumps-Felt" isms books and websites out there. Now that the dirty bastards have all admitted that the WMD porposition was a total lie and sham, we should be collecting the words of Tariq Aziz and the words of the other members of the legitimate Iraqui government in exile to see what they were saying and when. Not that it will change anything , but "lest we forget".

Here is an example. "Rather" refers to warmonger Dan Rather of CBS:

Rather: Mr. Aziz, the U.S. government and the much of the world believe that Iraq has weapons of massive destruction, chemical, biological, if not indeed including nuclear and that you have been acquiring the increasingly the ways to deliver those weapons. Now why shouldn't the United States invade Iraq and put an end to this threat?

Aziz: Because those allegations are false, the U.S. government has not provided any solid information evidence about that. We invited the American congress to come on a fact finding mission, search the country, inspect all the sights that the American government says that they are being used for reproduction of weapons of mass destruction. They declined. If there is a genuine concern about this matter and the American government and the American congress and opinion, this matter could be resolved very quickly and we are ready to provide the information and facilities to reach the truth. Why did not they accept our invitation if they are sure that there are such places sights that contain weapons of mass destruction? This tells you, tells any intelligent person that their accusations are untrue. [...]

From the mouth of Tariq Aziz. How many can YOU find with Google??!
posted by Irdial , 1:35 PM Þ 

If the intention is art, it is art.

If the intention is art, it is arty!
posted by Alison , 1:32 PM Þ 

"Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong, and I certainly include myself here," Kay told a Senate armed services committee hearing in his first appearance on Capitol Hill since stepping down last week.

He said European countries, including those that did not support the war like France and Germany, had also believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. "It turns out that we were all wrong probably ... and that is most disturbing. [...]


Toronto Star
posted by Irdial , 1:30 PM Þ 

what's to be done?

Here is how you do it:

In Chapter 23 of theBook of Lies by Aleister Crowley, the chapter consists entirely of:
SKIDOO
What man is at ease in his Inn?
Get out.
Wide is the world and cold.
Get out.
Thou hast become an in-itiate.
Get out.
But thou canst not get out by the way thou camest in. The Way out is THE WAY.
Get out.
For OUT is Love and Wisdom and Power.
Get OUT.
If thou hast T already, first get UT.
Then get O.
And so at last get OUT.
posted by Irdial , 12:09 PM Þ 

produce anything worthwhile.

Yahoo News

Is reporting a new form of matter that will produce (eventually, maybe) room temperature superconductors.

Think about it, 10% of alll electricity goes to waste during tranmission as heat. Fix that, and we save huge amounts of energy. Couple this with the new light bulbs that are 60% more efficient than incandescent bulbs, and we are on the way to becoming electricity efficent on a previously unimaginable scale.

Electric cars, Hydrogen cars and superconductors will finally be the nail in the coffin of Big Oil. You are absolutely correct. Pressure is useless. Only economic warfare will replace what we hate with what we need.
posted by Irdial , 12:01 PM Þ 



Say it loud: I'm Black I'm Proud!

I'm also tired and drawn, and maybe a tad crazed, OK
posted by Alun , 11:38 AM Þ 

Lord Hutton has stuck to the brief he was set

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-

Apparently Exxonhas been very naughty, here and here

"This global warming report should send shivers through the boardrooms of oil companies across the world. For the first time, the long-term impact of one company on climate change has been identified and assessed. This brings closer the day when the victims of climate change can take legal action against ExxonMobil for the damage its activities have caused and will cause in the future. ExxonMobil and other oil companies should not stick their heads in the sand like the tobacco companies that knew the harmful impacts of their product and ultimately paid the price."

There is absolutely no way any legal action of this sort will produce anything worthwhile. Has anyone brought a case against gun manufacturers for murders committed by the public, or for war crimes...? You may as well try and sue the government for building roads. A lot of lawyers will make a lot of money, forests will be decimated with all the paperwork produced in the years and years of legal action, by which time Exxonn, like BP will not even be extracting oil or gas from the ground - it won't be there.
posted by meau meau , 11:10 AM Þ 

Welll there is some hope at least; these people are the only ones stupid enough to think that a petition is going to effect change.

That line gave me my first good laugh of the day.


Democracy has never existed in these Isles, and it's unlikely it ever shall. This fact becomes clearer with every word of history I read. The professional politician, who has never experienced life in other fields, has finally killed off any lingering hope from when all adult male and female citizens (with certain exceptions, don't forget) got the right to vote.What experience does Blair have of running a multi-billion pound turnover economy, or Hoon of running anything, let alone an army? Get's one hankering after the 'bad' old days when Lords, Admirals, Generals and rich businessmen decided what was what. For all their faults, at least they knew something of the world outside Westminster. Now we're left with student debaters, egoists after an easy life and a pseudo-fame, people not good enough to go into business, 'labour' MPs referring to their grandfather's struggle down the pits, revering Aneurin Bevan when their CV tells a tale of Oxford Union to the floor of the Commons with nothing in between.

That was my second laugh of the day.

The question is, how does one live in these times? I like society, I loathe government. The latter is crushing the former presently. What's to be done? Individually, and collectively, what's to be done?
posted by Alun , 11:03 AM Þ 

Dear Friend,

You are no friend of peace, my friend.

On behalf of Our World Our Say, I am asking you to join in an effective and targeted initiative to help call the Government to account over the way they led Britain into war with Iraq.

This is completely wrong; it will not be effective, and calling the govt. to account will not undo this wrong, and will not stop the next wrong from taking place.

Far from answering the key question, Lord Hutton has stuck to the brief he was set '...to conduct an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr Kelly'.

This nonsense beggars belief; if the key question had been answered, what would be the result? A war was waged, and the principle country behind it now openly admits that the premise for starting it was just a convenient excuse. If the UK govt. admits that it was completely wrong, nothing will change. Writing petitions and marching are pacifiers for people with a child like belief in democracy - imbeciles who repeat its catchphrases like 5 year olds reciting their times tables.

OWOS is aiming to get at least 50,000 to sign the ONLY petition in the UK calling for a full judicial inquiry into whether Parliament and the British people were misled over the threat from Iraq.

Welll there is some hope at least; these people are the only ones stupid enough to think that a petition is going to effect change. Even the most retarded of goons can understand the math:

2,000,000 march on London, BEFORE WAR STARTS, and it makes no difference.
50,000 People sign a single petition - will this make MORE or LESS of a difference?

This is SIMPLE MATHS, SIMPLE LOGIC.

Go back to the drawing board you stupid FOOLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by Irdial , 11:02 AM Þ 

I put all the parts from the G5 into a box and gave it to my friend. He was rather happy. I think he is going to try to install them into his G3 - I hope he's successful.

Every cloud has a brushed metal lining

--

Whoever the cleaner is in the office where I work is deliberately incompetent and has been for at least the last six months. And they can stick their fucking crappy attitude right up their arse where it will probably meet their 'intelligence'. If they don't like their job they shouldn't do it. If they want to do their job they should do it properly. Like everyone else should.
posted by meau meau , 9:38 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 9:26 AM Þ 

It emits a green glow from the front...

http://www.overclockers.com/tips1133/
posted by Irdial , 9:14 AM Þ 

"It turns out we were all wrong," he said, "and that is most disturbing."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3439673.stm
posted by Irdial , 9:09 AM Þ 

1.3 billion Chinese citizens to get new ID cards

By INQUIRER staff: Wednesday 28 January 2004, 08:53
CHINA IS TO arm its lucky lucky 1.3 billion citizens with ID cards over the next five years, but some will get their new chipped up identities as soon as March.

That's what the People's Daily says today.

The technology used in the card will include a chip and as far as can be judged, the card and the semiconductor are both Chinese implementations.

The card, said the scary Daily, will "greatly increase security because police can use a card processing machine to check" it.

Some lucky citizens will get the 85.6mm by 54mm as early as March, with the entire scheme complete by 2008.

The Daily claims that the country will allow "free movements of population" but such a "floating population" will make it difficult to "maintain public security".

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13855
posted by Irdial , 8:54 AM Þ 

I have just now put my finger on an uneasy feeling I get a lot. I wonder if any of you experience it.
It feels akin to deja vu but is not. In the past, I will think of a situation happening and this will stick in the back of my mind (I suppose, absolutely everything does stay in the back of the mind). This situation will then actually happen in the present. It's like deja vu, but in reverse, and it spooks the hell out of me since it always happens. I will just stop in my tracks, feel weird and mal a l'aise, then continue about my business.
A more accurate way to describe it would be the feeling of being in two times at once - both thinking it will happen and witnessing it happen. Definitely odd and would prompt me to reach for a stiff drink if I did drink. So I'll just go to bed.
posted by Barrie , 8:36 AM Þ 
Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Vermont is the only state where an individual can have a non-photo driver's license, for any reason, no questions asked. (Other states have various restrictions.)

Indeed, if you want the photo, it'll cost you $5 extra. http://www.aot.state.vt.us/dmv/LICENSES/LICFEES.htm

The very independent people of Vermont have decided that not everyone needs or should be required to have a photo ID card. Why their ex-Governor is not on board remains a mystery to me. [...]

From Politech...
posted by Irdial , 5:10 PM Þ 

If the intention is art, it is art.
posted by Claus Eggers , 4:58 PM Þ 

posted by Alison , 4:52 PM Þ 

Whale explodes in Taiwanese city


Passers-by and cars were soaked in blood and body parts were sprayed over a road after the bursting of the whale.....


But is it art?
posted by Alun , 4:34 PM Þ 

This is cool just don't expect me to eat it.
posted by meau meau , 3:30 PM Þ 

Well, quite. It's funny you should mention that because my artwork, "Car" has been going on for ages now, and is visible 24 hrs per day, 7 days per week, all year round on every continent. It's pretty simple, you just get in your car and go for a drive and then come back. Doesn't matter where you go, it's the collaboration with other drivers that's the thing.

The artwork will end when...well, when will it end?
posted by captain davros , 3:29 PM Þ 

If the airwaves were free...

It would be unlistenable chaos, dominated by shit broadcast by those with the strongest transmitters. Already weekends in Hackney and elsewhere the FM wavelengths transform into a nightmare of 'posses' and 'crews', 'bigging up' their friends over a soundtrack of 'bangin' garage, R'n'B, bad MCs embarrassing themselves with awful rhymes and no rhythm, contaminating the radio and echoing in the streets from the bassbins in 10-year old highly polished Bimmers. My only mental defence against this bombardment is to remember John Cage, who commented that he coped with urban noise pollution by treating the entire cacophony as an ongoing symphony in which the population were free to contribute as they wish...

Conversation between Morton Feldman and John Cage:
M F: John, wouldn't you say that what we're dependent on we call reality, and what we don't like we consider an intrusion in our life? Consequently, I feel that what's happening is that we're continually being intruded upon.
J C: But that would make us very unhappy.
M F: Or we surrender to it, and call it culture.
J C: Call it culture?
M F: Or whatever.
JC: Give me an example. What would be an intrusion on your life for instance that you would call culture?
MF: Well, this weekend I was on the beach.
JC: Yes.
MF: ... And on the beach these days are transistor radios.
J C: Yes.
MF: ... blaring out rock 'n' roll.
JC: Yes.
MF: All over.
J C: Yes. And you didn't enjoy it?
M F: Not particularly. I adjusted to it.
J C: How?
M F: By saying that... Well, I thought of the sun and the sea as a lesser evil.
J C: You know how I adjusted to that problem of the radio in the environment. Very much as the primitive people adjusted to the animals which frightened them, and which, probably as you say, were intrusions. They drew pictures of them on their caves. And so I simply made a piece using radios. Now, whenever I hear radios - even a single one, not just twelve at va time, as you must have heard on the beach, at least - I think, "Well, they're just playing my piece."
MF: That might help me next weekend.
J C: Yeah, and I listen to it with pleasure. By pleasure I mean I notice what happens. I can attend to it rather than, as you say, surrender. I can rather pay attention and become interested in the ... Well, what it actually is that you're interested in is what superimposes what. What happens at the same time together with what happens before and what happens after.
posted by Alun , 1:17 PM Þ 

If the airwaves were free...

If the airwaves were free, information could be transmitted from node to nodes expanding its coverage to the nation in a matter of minutes. Groups of people tuned into the same frequency could have the same party in loads of locations, you could transmit to the party locations from various places so it would be difficult to impinge on peoples happiness, and like mushrooms they'd pop up all over the place again in bigger numbers
posted by meau meau , 11:22 AM Þ 

Only if you want...
posted by meau meau , 11:18 AM Þ 

-34 C, -47 if you count the wind chill. Yeah, it's actually cold for once!
Yes, the weather is the only interesting thing I have to talk about. Hmmm. That, and my harm hurts! why?!

Talked to an American friend today, who seemed generally unconcerned about Dean's ID card policy. I should probably learn him some.
posted by Barrie , 7:45 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 12:41 AM Þ 
Tuesday, January 27, 2004

MyDoom clogs up net

STUDY: CO-WORKER MORONS FOUND MOST SUSCEPTIBLE TO MYDOOM VIRUS
posted by Ken , 10:32 PM Þ 
posted by Ken , 10:16 PM Þ 
posted by Ken , 8:45 PM Þ 

Friends I miss: number 1 in a subliminal series.

Lee Kerr



Of all of the people I ever knew
There should have been one
And it should have been you

You should always keep in touch with your friends.

I'll tell you something. I know what you're thinking.

Waterboys, Wedding Present and Duran Duran. I'm showing my age here.
posted by Alun , 8:39 PM Þ 
posted by Josh Carr , 7:56 PM Þ 
posted by Ken , 4:28 PM Þ 

The whole house in QTVR

The Simpsons House: Plans
posted by alex_tea , 4:20 PM Þ 

Quick mini-essay time. Please post if you want to join in. One para at least. You can continue my theme or write something of your own if you want.

Today's Title: If the airwaves were free...

My contribution:

If the airwaves were free, we could enjoy a walk in a neighbourhood for the music as well as the architecture. It would be easy to add a small FM transmitter to your home audio/entertainment console which would broadcast on a fixed frequency for a radius of 10 or 20 feet only. Passers by could tune their personal radios in and experience a collage of sounds that would vary like the colours of front doors, the patterns of curtains and the plants in your garden. Neighbourhoods might get reputations as being "rock" and "dance" as well as being "expensive" or "suburban". Some would be quiet, some loud. What fun.
posted by captain davros , 4:19 PM Þ 

Are people who are on SoulSeek interested in making a Blogdial room? How many of us are there?
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posted by Irdial , 4:09 PM Þ 

MM, I can probably find you a copy of The Prepared Vinyl Project if you want...
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posted by Ken , 4:02 PM Þ 

A friend was recently professing the wonders of Argentinian group the Reynols, a noisy, make-up-the're-own-rules-as-they-go-along musical excursion led by drummer/singer Miguel Tomasin (who, incidentally, suffers from Down's Syndrome). They made an album that was just a collection of different brands of blank tape hiss.



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What is the convention for leaving the BT window open after downloading. I uploaded a total of 93.1 MB over the course of 24 hours. Doesn't seem like much...
posted by Josh Carr , 3:43 PM Þ 

You Say Deserter, I Say More Dessert... by Michael Moore

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