February 2011
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Kanaku & El Tigre
My housemate from uni, Bruno Bellatin, became something of a local music hero after some seasons playing solo at the renown Huddersfield acoustic club -the building would literally shout “BRU-NOOOO!” in hype of his talented performances, which also became troubling in uni lectures when we walked in late.
He went back to Peru in 2007 and started this group Kanaku & El Tigre, who...
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The Impending 24-bit Audio Con →
There’s been some heavy discussions between engineers on twitter about the reports that consumers will be sold 24-bit audio. While on one hand we should be applauding any steps towards better quality music markets, it seems the consensus is that we want regular 16-bit, 44.1khz (or, CD quality) audio on iTunes. 24-bit, while with significant benefits in a studio, do not present a notable...
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Confessions of an Apple Store Employee →
The worst is when we have to work the Phone Room, which is where calls to the store are answered. The other day, I felt like I was working a suicide hot line. People sometimes call us up and treat us like we’re their therapists. Or we have women who want help with their computers as they try to prove their husbands are cheating on them. Usually I just transfer people to AppleCare so I...
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Finding Radiohead’s King Of Limbs | Blogs | DIY →
After hearing that Radiohead were naming their album after a tree in the nearby Savernake Forest, and as an obsessive fan, I had no choice but to find it. It took some work, but eventually I got there. The excellent music site DIY posted my pictures and story on it, but here’s a couple of extra Savernake tidbits for you:
Oak trees only become this old because of the cutting technique called...
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PatternSketch - HTML5/JavaScript Drum Machine and... →
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Visualising the Egyptian Revolution (Or,...
There’s been lots of links and discussion about whether the internet really played a defining part in the Egyptian revolution. First, the link-baiting social media blogs assumed twitter made the protest happen, then there were the reactionary “…or maybe it didn’t” posts from writers wishing to emphasise the tangible people power that ultimately caused Murabeck to...
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Roy Orbison in Cling-film →
My name is Ulrich Haarbürste and I like to write stories about Roy Orbison being wrapped up in cling-film.
If you have written any stories about Roy being completely wrapped in clingfilm please send them to me and I may put them up on the site.
If you have a site with stories about other pop stars being wrapped in cling-film mail me and we can exchange links.
Umm…
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Nerd saves entire BBC archive - download it here →
Presumably for reasons of frugality, the BBC recently chose to take lots of their websites offline. Not a pressing issue for most of us, but there’s the modern debate that our wide and varied web culture is not permanant, and should there be the equivalent of a ‘Time Team’ in 1000 years, they’ll probably scold our generation for not taking measures to back up everything...
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"Against Chrome: A Manifesto" →
Good points on interface design and the proliferation of that ‘Chrome’ look (the colour/finish, not the browser), citing examples from audio software including Logic:
Chrome arises from a chronic case of object-envy. We like interacting with physical objects in the real world, goes the reasoning, so it will presumably be more pleasant to interact with computer software if it pretends...
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Lowest number one album ever - for the third time... →
Amos Lee sold 40,000 copies of his new album Mission Bell - reportedly the third week in a row that the record has been broken.
So what does it means, besides less charting records are selling? Are online streaming subscriptions having an impact, or are music fans spending more on independent acts?
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The Spotify Fee Conspiracy | Blancomusic →
Bad behaviour from certain music streaming sites, including last.fm, Spotify and MOG.com. But could the real troublemaker be the digital distributors?
Essential reading, reminding us that the supposed saving grace of online music, subscription streaming, might be a darker cloud than we realise.
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“Here’s what I want you to do: Take everything you thought you knew about...”
– 4-Hour Dentist « The Bygone Bureau
This Tim Ferriss parody really cracked me up. And I actually liked 4 Hour Work Week.
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The complete meme collection of "Parents throwing... →
Ouch, this is funny. The images get progressively more hilarious - how did I miss them?!