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Garage Bands Everywhere, Rejoice!.

Technology and Music, Good Partners

“This is a recording studio, believe it or not. It's a four-track recorder and mixer. It stores MP3 data files on a Compact Flash card, and includes equalization and several useful audio effects.

I'm in Anaheim, and found this Pocketstudio in the Tascam booth at the International Music Products Association annual winter trade show. The device is an example of how music and technology have intersected to the benefit of musicians everywhere.” [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]

 

[The Shifted Librarian]

this looks fun….

annimations. How cool is a
Linux rebel with a cause, find your serenity with
Linux meditation, the errie
Linux monster is alive, a little bit of Linux tenderness, mighty Linux crawl out of the muck, and finaly a dancing Linux fool

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“I poisoned P2P networks for the RIAA” , a whistleblower from the IFPI (the global version of the RIAA) has said. Someone else actually claimed this a few days ago but it was admitted to be a hoax. Now, a fellow by the name of Matt Warne comes forward with a new claim.

While I'm sure many MeFi'ers disagree about the ethics of music piracy (which it is, whether or not you think it should be okay) – I think we can all agree that two wrongs don't make a right, can we not? Can the RIAA be sued for this, or will it be an invincible body, impervious to injury just like a certain other huge body that has problems getting hacked all the time, and simply has to repeatedly settle in court rather than admitting true wrongdoing? [MetaFilter]

everyone knew it was going on, everyone that used it, i hope.

The War on Women. I'm not sure how I missed this NY Times Op/Ed from January 12 on the Bush Administration's War Against Women:

“What is important is the actual impact of the presidential assault: women's constitutional liberty has been threatened, essential reproductive health care has been denied or delayed, and some women will needlessly die.”

Along those lines: 30 Reasons We're Still Fighting for Choice. [megnut]

keep up the good fight i say, distribute news, make people know who is actually prosecuting what sort of terror campaign, how, and where…

English 515 at Purdue University focuses on weblogs. One of the assignments is to read this weblog. “;->” [Scripting News]

it is always great to here about nifty classes

Nostalgia.

I remember when …

:: people had surnames instead of screenames.
:: people knew my home address instead of my email address.
:: icons were largely associated with religion.
:: I had to watch the news at night to find out what was happening.
:: I did my Christmas shopping at the mall instead of on Amazon.com
:: instant messaging was in its infancy.
:: dial-up was the only thing you could get.
:: I had a stack of phone books instead of a set of bookmarks in my browser for finding numbers.
:: I last went into the post office to buy stamps.
:: Yahoo! changed the worldwide web.
:: .com was always the end of a url.
:: when beauty.com was sold for lots of money.
:: I saw Hackers for the first time and thought it wasn't all that great.
:: digital cameras were something you sold a major organ to pay for.
:: the debate on whether or not to tax internet sales began.
:: I had to talk with the neighbors, face to face, on the porch with a glass of iced tea to find out the local gossip.
:: long distance phone calls ate up my bill instead of dsl.
:: Compuserve, way back in 1984.
:: every email address I've ever had.
:: every url I've ever had.
:: Java was something people from the city called coffee.
:: when you had to buy music, at the store.
:: when Napster first opened its doors, and when it closed them.
:: I bought my first trinket off ebay, the first of many to come.
:: friends became lost in the shuffle when they moved because I just couldn't be bothered to dropping a letter in the mail.
:: cd burning was something religious groups did when they didn't like 2LiveCrew or NWA compact discs.
:: there wasn't an organization designed to monitor what people were researching.
:: a browser was someone who just went to the store and looked.
:: writing my first term paper using only online sources.
:: building my first home page, utilizing HTMLgoodies.com.
:: everything was still connected with SCSI cords.
:: PDA was against school rules.
:: cookies were served with milk after recess.
:: Blackberry was something you picked in the springtime.
:: IBM and Apple were the only machines on the market.
:: bookmarks were bought at Waldenbooks and designed to hold your page in a book.
:: I entered my first chat room.
:: Netscape was the leading browser.
:: I made my first friend online (and you'e still with me Ali!)
:: I started reading weblogs before they were weblogs.
:: I had to go to a movie to see trailers and previews.
:: the world seemed a lot bigger.” [<unit 219>]

[The Shifted
Librarian]

but can you remember what color shoes you had on 3 year years ago… and yes, i am labelling this a freeverse pome

Congratulations to Rachel Singer Gordon on the publication of her book The Accidental Systems Librarian, available now!

[The Shifted Librarian]

this looks like it could be a great book for many of the up and coming programs in this area.

Asia's Online Gamers Trounce Shoppers

“Online gaming has beat out Internet shopping for popularity in the Asia-Pacific region, according to market researcher IDC.

A recent survey of more than 3,600 Internet users across six Asian countries shows that the boom is especially evident in China and Malaysia where the number of online gamers outnumber shoppers two to one.

In China, for example, 43 percent of those surveyed said they play games online, compared with 16 percent who said they shop over the Net.

This sea change is also mirrored in Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and India….

Males continue to dominate the regional online gaming scene. However, the gender disparity is narrowing significantly in countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and Korea. Females in these countries account for 48 percent, 47 percent and 36.5 percent of all online gamers, respectively.” [CNET News.com]

[The Shifted Librarian]

this is not uncommon really, you can find the same sort of thing in the u.s. in various arenas.

Three-hundreths of an inch thick.

A new credit card-sized hard disk that can hold up to 5GB. The StorCard, as it's called, is just 0.03″ thick, and actually has a superthin disk of Mylar spinning inside. The cards should be out later this year, and are expected to retail for under $15. Sounds a little too good to be true, but if this is for real, you could see wafer-thin MP3 jukeboxes on the market by next year.
Read [Via PocketPCThoughts]

[Gizmodo]

wow, this is amazing…

Are you a benny tied to a tree?. Playground law – a comprehensive (warning: pun) list of school yard insults. Beware – it sucks you in, I've been reading for an hour and I'm only on 'c'. [MetaFilter]

this is great stuff, i remember some interesting ones that shouldn't be reiterated, wait, i do use them on irc often enough.