Archive for the 'General' Category

Ok, here is a big new time waster for me.. Pandora Internet Radio

So far it's about the best engine I've found for finding new and old music that I have not heard before…

I included an RSS feed to my listening groups on the sidebar for a while, so you can see for yourself what you can do with pandora.

If only they can come up with a way to classify and sell all the new unsigned artists from MySpace I think we might be close to kissing the RIAA goodbye… 

Thanks for the link El Gordo… :) 

I agree 100%. Most of our kids have been cultivated primarily into being users of technology, with no real understanding of what is under the hood…

 I cannot tell you how many computer science majors I've interviewed who could not code their way out of a wet paper bag… That is of course unless there is a Microsoft wizard or a collection of Microsoft objects they can string together to complete the task.

Why Johnny can't code | Salon Technology

There are some really good ideas here. Personally I'm voting for a french fry bush…

Here is a nice article that makes the case that the war is over, and points out that the name "War on Terror" is simply political manipulation by the Bush administration. I would like to point out that Kerry not only supported most of the same offensive measures for the anti-terrorism initiative, but also used fear of terrorism as a campaign tactic. It is my belief that the Democrats are no more innocent than the Republicans regarding media manipulation for political good.

I think it's time to send them all home… 

Reference Link – Lots of info. 

Another site to add to your torrent search engine list… This one looks good… The RSS feature looks interesting. 

Snarf-It – One site to index them all

Rip-off Report.com is a site to check for your online retailer for complaints before you give them your credit card number… 

I think my favorite quote from this article is "Federal law expressly makes the ordering of surveillance under the [NSA-Bush] program a federal felony. That would mean that the president could be guilty of no fewer than 30 felonies in office." Bush says he has reauthorized the program 30 times. And, Turley continues, "it is illegal for other government officials to carry out such an order."

Why is it that you cannot find a tramp with presidential spooge on her dress when you need a good impeachment? 

Subtitled, cute homemade Movie…

Wow… Don't piss off Bank of America… This sounds as bad as having your identity stolen… 

Picked up this link for a friend….

Convert your Christmas yard deer to something much more interesting… 

Deck the Halls… with a deer!

myFairTunes6 v.0.2b – is a cute little Windows program that removes the Itunes 6 DRM from music purchased in the iTunes music store…

Warning though: "Backup your library before using. The Mac DeHymn project ran into some snags when the Apple upgrades to iTunes detected songs with the DRM removed, and refused to play them. It was at a later point the project was updated to further clean the songs so they could play."

It's so funny. This hilarious scene from the Red Dwarf series came up in conversation yesterday. I've seen this episode a dozen times and never really thought about playing it backwards.

This is just so cool, and a little scary… Someone has broken musical composition down to it's nuts and bolts and has written a program that can replicate the style of a composer based mostly on their published body of work…

I bet the RIAA is already preparing a lawsuit… 

Get your fish here. Fish appears to be a pretty cool shell replacement for Linux/Unix/OSX… 

Yah, I know there aren't many McWeenies out there. This link is mostly just for me…

I'm surprised he made it past his 40th birthday… 

Stingray kills Steve Irwin

Science news articles online technology magazine articles 20 Things You Didnt Know About… Death

Now if they can come up with an engine to suggest bands based on your musical interests (myspace is already handy for browsing common interests through friends and friends-of-friends bands) this could be the perfect way for music to reach the masses.