MP3s, and more Make your own Radio Station Yes, you too can have your own Internet radio station. Actually, it's a bit of a hype, but it's cool anyway. And a great promo device for unknown bands. You have to have an account at JavaMusic, but it's free. And while you're there, check out Kim Novak's "You Rescue Me." Great song. I'm going to DL a lot more of her stuff. She has whole albums available for DL. Lots more DLs and streaming audio too. Stay with the site a while. There's a lot on it that's not immediately obvious. This is at least as good a site as garageband. I think I'm going to make it my #1 music site.
Why wool shrinks? A mini-research Project suggested by ana voog: www.fg-a.com. Good site. Much royalty free animation, and lots more. I got the flags on my July j-zine page from here. www.infmind.com A site devoted to (selling you the technology of) speed reading. Pretty good, but expensive. It's a subscription that's only available for as long as you pay for it. (I'd buy it, maybe, if it were a one time expense.) This is well-known practical psychology. It uses the same principles I studied in the seventies in a workshop at The University of Pittsburgh, but it combines them with modern computer technology. The whole point is that you've got to train yourself to be an active reader. We're too well programmed by passively watching tv and movies. You've got to "approach" the written content, focusing your attention on it in such a way as to avoid the pitfalls of the slow reader syndrome, such as the way you allow your eyes to pause on the page. You program the techniques so that they occur automatically, but in order to use them correctly, you've got to get the idea out of your head that reading is something that you do. It should be more like something that happens to you, like tv does. But this doesn't happen unless you go out of your way to make it happen. I managed, with the help of Offline Commander, to download the entire sample program--but it's only the first of a series of training exercises.
Umberto Eco on PCs & Macs Computer Religion. A clever little piece by a very clever man. I had no idea he was a postmodern poet. (Actually, I kind of did, but it took this article to make me fully realize it.)
MP3s Check out this page at CD Baby. This guy has one of the wittiest sales pitches I've seen in a long, long time. And his CD with eleven songs on it is only $4.40 (discounted from $4.41) [See what I mean?] But check out the free DLs first at revolution records. I can't say that I admire the music so much as the hype that got me to DL it. It's kind of a cross between Jimmie Hendricks and Billy Joel, if you can imagine that. It's okay, I guess. Technically competent, but I'd rather listen to something a lot more radical, like maybe Meg Lee Chin or Chucklehead. Hong Kong. Sophisticated cartoons, political dissent, maps, and lots of other Hong Kong stuff. Very interesting. Good insight into some of the local reaction to turning HK back over to the Chinese. In particular, check out How To Make Money. Funny.
FREEWARE WinStars 1.029 (3.16MB) A virtual planetarium. Unzips straight to a folder without a registry entry. Simple, intuitive and easy to use, yet finely detailed. If you want to learn about the cosmos, this is a good way to do it. You can view stars and planets as if from any place on Earth. Includes all kinds of tools.
MP3s More DLs added to the lobsterjesus website, and the site itself has been upgraded and looks great. Also, found two other related bands there that are very interesting:
Good explanation of the lyrics to "Yankee Doodle Dandy" here.
Arlene Bishop I've been listening to Arlene's music ever since I stumbled across "98 Points" at garageband.com. What else can I say except "She's great !" I thought, at first, that she was an unknown, but then one day I happened to be watching New Waterford Girls and there in the middle of the film was "98 Points." A very pleasant surprise. I like the few promo pics I've seen of her, and wish I could find more. She needs more exposure in the states, although I have to admit that, if I like her, it's probably a waste of time to promote herself here. I tend toward being an outcast here, preferring more of a "backwoods" type of new age style. She's probably not destined to be one of this country's favorites, which is a good thing. After all, we made people like Britney Spears famous. Arlene is far better than that. |
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