World's Largest Record Collection is Worth $50 Million; No One Wants it for $3 Million [Physical Media] (29)
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If you're looking for a sign that we live in a digital world that cares not for the physical manifestations of our analog past, you need only look at Paul Mawhinney's record collection. At over 3 million records, it's the largest in the world. He's trying to sell it due to his advancing age and health problems. Unfortunately, as he puts it, "no one gives a damn." Paul's been building his collection for most of ...
RIAA "problem" shutters online-music startup Muxtape [Copyfight] (4)
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Muxtape, a New York-based online-music startup much favored by the Tumblr set, has shut down its website, citing a "problem" with the RIAA, a music-industry organization which polices copyright. Could it have anything to do with the ease with which users can download music files from the site, despite founder Justin Ouellette's efforts to block them? The company blog elaborates, barely: "No artists or labels have complained. The site is not closed indefinitely. Stay tuned."
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Angus said:
screw the rosa
Ender's Game vs. Orson Scott Card (5)
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I found Ender's Game when I was 13, and I loved it. I must've read it a dozen times. Based on that love, I snapped up every new Orson Scott Card book as soon as it appeared in my local book store, and devoured them. Even then, I recognized that some of them were just OK, but I loved his writing style--enough so that I even bought a book he wrote about how to write ...
DVD Hunter Catalogs Your DVD Collection [Featured Mac Download] (8)
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Mac OS X only: Free application DVD Hunter organizes and categorizes your DVDs on your virtual shelves to help you keep track of your budding collection. The $40 Delicious Library won out in our recent Battle of the Media Collection Managers, but it was also the only Mac app on the list. DVD Hunter's iTunes-like interface automatically grabs cover art, and it even integrates with Address Book and iCal to help keep track of movies ...
Video tech uses photos to enhance, alter shots: it's the Photoshop of video, and no one is safe (32)
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Filed under: Digital Cameras We've seen some decent video alteration in our day, but this new research project by some folks at the University of Washington has the potential to turn the entire concept on its head. Using some rather advanced algorithms to analyze video and photographs of a the same scene, the software can meld the two into something slightly better or even dramatically different. In effect, it's Photoshop for video, since it brings ...
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Angus said:
lol old news abhisek
Silent Alarm Clock Wakes You Up With Good Vibrations, Smooths Roommate Relations [Silence Is Golden] (9)
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Back when I was in college, one of my most frustrating experiences involved a roommate in my dormitory apartment who mistakenly believed that she would be able to wake up daily for her 8:30am lecture series. Said roommate could sleep through an elephant parade. Oh how I seethed in the mornings as I clutched my pillow to my head, begging for the noise to pleasepleaseplease just STOP. If only this alarm were available back then. ...
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James Fridley said:
This is brilliant. Esp with a 2 yr old and another baby on the way. Sign me up now!!
Periodic Table of Videos Makes Chemistry Extremely Watchable [Science Rules] (12)
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Science nerds and fans of British accents rejoice! University of Nottingham scientist/professor Martyn Poliakoff and video journalist Brady Haran have put together what they've dubbed The Periodic Table of Videos, where each square contains a link to a video showing some fascinating facts about its element. Who knew Bismuth was so pretty (quite honestly, who knew what Bismuth was in the first place)? Best of all, the project is continually updated, so even after you're ...
Colbert's top threat of the week: killer iPhones so buy Zune (16)
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Filed under: Cellphones Of course, it all seems so obvious now! How did we not interpret El Jobso's true meaning of the iPhone kill-switch -- it actually kills you. We have noted iPhone expert Stephen Colbert to thank not just for this brilliant deduction, but also for sticking up for the lot of us and giving the iPhone 3G a cold staredown -- but not before declaring, "I knew I should have gotten a Zune! ...
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Jeremiah said:
I share this mostly because of the whole Threat Down after the jump. Very funny.
The best job interview questions from Microsoft, Google... and IKEA (Royal Pingdom) (13)
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Royal Pingdom: The best job interview questions from Microsoft, Google... and IKEA — Tricky, funny and interesting, these are some questions people claim to have been asked at job interviews with Microsoft and Google. And IKEA, sort of... We came across these because we are currently looking for a developer …
Vivid Gallery of High Speed Photography [Photography] (16)
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No, high speed photography is by no means a new idea; we just very much enjoyed this Flickr collection by user nebarnix. A large gallery of objects frozen in motion with a 500-nanosecond flash, a visual cacophony of exploding eggs and firecrackers captured mid-pop await those who hit the link. Oh, and there's a great shot of a Pabst Blue Ribbon eating a hollow-point bullet: Trendy or not, I always hated that beer. [Flickr via ...
Michael Phelps' iPod (9)
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Before each race during the Olympics, Michael Phelps is seen sporting those ubiquitous white iPod earbuds. But what's he listening to? A lot of rap and hip hop. (link)
John Lennon interview infographic movie (9)
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a beautiful "infographically" animated movie that illustrates a 1969 interview of John Lennon by a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan. armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, Jerry snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto & convinced him to do an interview about peace. using the original interview recording as the sole soundtrack, the movie titled "I Met the Walrus" suspends a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood ...
Steven Sinofsky starts blogging on Windows 7 (3)
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Just thought I’d do a little promotion for one of our old friends, Steven Sinofsky, who is now blogging with John DeVaan over at Engineering Windows 7 (or e7 for short). There’s a welcome post up already, which leaves you in no doubt as to their intentions for the blog. “We strongly believe that success for Windows 7 includes an open and honest, and two-way, discussion about how we balance all of these interests and ...
Barack Obama Shares 10 Favorite Tunes With Blender Mag (1)
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In case you were curious, here they are:Fugees - 'Ready Or Not'Marvin Gaye - 'What's Going On?'Bruce Springsteen - 'I'm On Fire'The Rolling Stones - 'Gimme Shelter'Nina Simone - 'Sinnerman'Kanye West - 'Touch The Sky'Frank Sinatra - 'You'd Be So Easy To Love'Aretha Franklin - 'Think'U2 - 'City Of Blinding Lights'Will.i.am - 'Yes We Can'View John McCain's picks here.MP3: Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady
Big Contrarian → Divide. (16)
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There’s a bit in this three-year old article that Gruber linked to about Apple’s design process that caught my brain: Products get worked on in parallel by all departments at once—design, hardware, software—in endless rounds of interdisciplinary design reviews. Managers elsewhere boast about how little time they waste in meetings; Apple is big on them and proud of it. “The historical way of developing products just doesn’t work when you’re as ambitious as we are,” ...
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James said:
Word: "Teams must collaborate throughout the project. Designers challenging engineers to at least try their idea. Engineers reminding designers that the supply of time and money being finite, choices have to be made. The two together defining more perfect solutions that ship, and work not just correctly but elegantly."
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JR Boyens said:
"You hack of hacks!"
Girl Talk Announces North American Tour (1)
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All dates on the extensive trek are as follows:10/9/2008 Starlight Ballroom, Philadelphia10/10/2008 9:30 Club, DC10/11/2008 Sonar, Baltimore10/13/2008 Cats Cradle, Carrboro10/14/2008 Orange Peel, Asheville10/15/2008 Valarium, Knoxville10/16/2008 Variety Playhouse, Atlanta10/17/2008 House Of Blues, New Orleans10/18/2008 Warehouse Live, Houston10/20/2008 Emo's, Austin10/21/2008 Palladium Ballroom, Dallas10/23/2008 Rialto Theater, Tucson10/24/2008 Henry Fonda Theater, Los Angeles10/25/2008 Henry Fonda Theater, Los Angeles10/27/2008 The Fillmore, San Francisco10/28/2008 The Fillmore, San Francisco10/30/2008 In The Venue, Salt Lake City10/31/2008 Ogden Theater, Denver11/1/2008 The Granada Theatre, Lawrence11/3/2008 ...
