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[landed me on a pooh] foc over!: YB and Emily were the hosts. Music came on and it was time to dance along to the music. After that, all of us were bonded together by pieces of raffia string. The string went through the sleeves of all of us and knots were tied to connect us to other groups.
[Ben's Blog] iTunes is rubbish: players. Each zone player can act as a standalone hi-fi, playing the local users choice of music...Sonos Digital Music System Thursday 19th May, 2005 I've now seen the Sonos Digital Music System... the music output is called a Zone Player. It's connected to the mains power supply and then to all
[The Complaint Department] Of Bits and Bytes: Once the network is set up - no trivial task to be sure - the cost to own and operate (given the reliability of the electronics involved) is basically the cost of electricity. So, tomorrow, when a million people go to Starbucks with their PDA's and laptops and connect to T-Mobile's wireless signal for $6.00 a day or upwards of $50 per month depending on the plan, T-Mobile will have made a mini-fortune on the bits and bytes traveling through the air. They make that fortune every day. But, don't download too much, or you'll have to upgrade your plan.
hack a day - www.hackaday.com _: I don’t think “nuisance breeds innovation” was ever a common phrase, but that is exactly how greasemonkey, the firefox extension, came into life. Greasemonkey lets users add their own scripts to web pages they visit. Yeah, I didn’t really jump out my seat when I heard that in January, but then I started to see people apply it. Sure there’s the standard “remove all advertising” hacks and the slightly more interesting “skip full ad pages”, but there is so much more you can do.
Music and Cats: Commuting is a common strategy for working families to cope with high housing costs. When the cost of transportation is considered together with the cost of housing, the percentage of working families paying more than half their total expenditures increases five-fold from 8.3 percent to 44.3 percent of working families. Calculations show that working families spend 77 cents on transportation for every dollar decrease in housing costs. Although not all of family transportation cost is attributable to commuting, the journey to work from less expensive housing likely accounts for a substantial part of it.
The Digital Music Weblog - digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com _: The saga of Motoroloa’s iTunes ROKR phone, which has been in limbo since its launch demonstration at a European trade show was pulled at the last minute, continues. First, everyone thought the delay was Motorola’s fault—or Apple’s fault. Then common wisdom pegged the blame on cell carriers upset that they would be cut out of any music-revenue loop by underwriting a phone that synched with the user’s local music collection. Now, Engadget notes that Motorola CEO Ed Zander denies that conclusion … but fails to name any carrier partners that are behind the phone, and also fails to explain the delay.
Not Even Wrong: Quite a few people have written in to point out to me a recent paper by some condensed matter physicists about the possibility of trapping a fermionic atomic gas in a vortex inside a Bose-Einstein condensate. As far as I can tell, about the only thing this has in common with superstring models of quantum gravity and elementary particles is that their abstract starts the same way as many superstring abstracts: "Supersymmetric string theory is widely believed to be the most promising candidate for a 'theory of everything'". This article has gotten wide attention in the press and on the internet at Slashdot which informs us that this will "(provide) the first experimental evidence to support superstring theory." At Slashdot you can also read comments from large numbers of confused souls who now believe that experimental confirmation of superstring theory is right around the corner. Obviously this is about as absurd as believing that the existence of my shoelaces provides excellent experimental confirmation of the existence of open strings.
crashingjets.nu: I hope this is redundant for most of you. Colbourne has teamed up with my man, Ben to produce one hour of mixed music each week in anticipation of a 48 hour rave sometime next year. The first installment has dropped and it’ll make you wish you were rocking Fire Island back in the 70’s.
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