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4-30-02 / 20:12:58

MP3s "Needles" - System of a Down - DLd via Morpheus. This is the most original group I've heard in a long time. Originality is hard to come by these days, when everybody's imitating everybody else. I really like this group. Previous songs by System that I DLd:

"Prison Song"

"Toxicity" (You might have seen this video on VH1. Great stuff.)

[All 3 songs from the album "Toxicity."]

You can get Morpheus at Downloads @ CNET.com

Nightbringer2000, in an opinion posted to the CNet page, says "56K, Well then don't bother -- The idea of Morpheus is a great one. It fails however to provide any use if you have a dial-up connection. Not only that, but it seems the vast majority of people refuse to share their shares unless you have a superfast connection. I would not suggest downloading this product if you have a dial-up connection. As a side note to any Morpheus users out there who are guilty of not sharing with the slower users, I would like to thank you for your most generous 'sharing'."

Night, this so so true, dude, but there must be some people out there who share, cause tho it's tuf, I do manage to get some files DLd. It takes a lot of patience, tho. E.G., today I managed to DL "Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone," by Bill Withers, "Purple Haze" by Jimi, and the second half of "closet freak" by cee lo that I started to DL last month but gave up on. (With Morpheus, you can resume DLs later.)

4-28-02 / 20:10:16

MP3s Beef Savage:

"Beef Is Lucky"

"Touch of Evil"

"Same Vein as Religion"
This is the band that Pud belongs to. Pud is the creator of Fucked Company, a website devoted to the documentation of, yep, you guessed it, fucked companies. This is a pretty good site. Beef Savage is a pretty good band. Nothing very special, I think, but competent. But the downloads are free at the Beef Savage site, so what have you got to lose? "Touch of Evil" is the best. I like it a lot. Sounds a lot like the old Frank Zappa stuff. Clever and sarcastic lyrics.

The personal site of a babe, Evany, who works at Webmonkey. An absolutely adorable site. All pink and pretty, and clean. I hate busy sites with all that clutter. But the blurb in Webmonkey's newsletter promised pictures, and the few I found were too small to reveal too much. I want to see a large close up of her face, and more. At Webmonkey: Evany's "Photoshop 7.0 Overview"

TRIALWARE "For peer-to-peer blogging with dynamics that don't end try out Radio8 from Userland Software" (39.95 for a year with 20MB of free hosting. Free 30 day trial Keep the still-usable software even if you let the subscription lapse after a year.) I'd do this, if I needed the Web space, and if I didn't have such a strong aversion to paying for anything I can get for free elsewhere, such as:

FREEWARE Movabletype Blogging software. Downloaded this yesterday, but I haven't set it up yet. But it looks promising. And it's free! [Update: Forget about it, unless you're well-versed in coding and using CGI scripts. It's a very complicated set-up.] [Or, best of all: see May 21st, 2002 - Blog 5.0. This weblog is made with that freeware.]

4-25-02 / 20:08:54

FREEWARE Minute Timer 1.1 (39K) Handy little program that sets up and is ready to use in a minute. When you need to be alerted when a specified amount of time has past, this is the program to do it. I lose track of time all the time. Now all I got to do is remember to set this thing.

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