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• Music thing: ASCII Keyboard hacked into fine keytar
  Droon, a breakcore musician from Antwerp who also makes cool games. He plays live (at clubs like Breakcore Gives Me Wood) with a homemade keytar, built around a normal ASCII keyboad. Unfortunately, this image sort of illustrates everything that’s wrong wi
  (tags: laptop dj music hack keyboard breakcore)
• Create Digital Music » Liberate Portable Music Players: UMS, MTP, and Platform-Agnostic Drag-and-Drop Music Listening
  The old way, UMS (USB Mass Storage), happens to work just fine with Windows, Macs, Linux, and anything else that supports USB drives. You drag and drop files, you drag and drop music — simple. But UMS doesn’t work with music with DRM. Apple requires y
  (tags: mp3 portable player itunes ipod creative media drm)
• From Jump Shots to Journalism - New York Times
  Time Inc. paid $4 million for photographs of a baby (yes, that baby). A few weeks earlier, Time magazine, crying poverty, fired Donald Bartlett and James Steele — often cited as two of the finest investigative reporters in the land. That $4 million “wou
  (tags: business magazine brangelina scoop)
• ‘Thirst for knowledge’ may be opium craving
  The brain’s craving for a fix motivates humans to maximize the rate at which they absorb knowledge, he said. “I think we’re exquisitely tuned to this as if we’re junkies, second by second.” Biederman hypothesized that knowledge addiction has strong evolut
  (tags: brain science psychology learning human knowledge)
• PBS | I, Cringely . June 15, 2006 - Taking One for the Team
  Where this Net Neutrality issue will hit home is for Voice over IP telephone service, which becomes pitiful if there is too much latency. That’s what this is all about, folks: VoIP and nothing else. The telcos want to use it to keep out the Vonages, Skype
  (tags: netneutrality voip cringely Microsoft technology)
• Rendering spectra
  Everything from 462 to 466 nm is solid B, with no G or R; everything from 515 to 552 nm is solid G; and everything from 609 to 644 nm is solid R. So these pieces of the simulated spectrum come out a uniform color, while a real spectrum shows a continuous
  (tags: color rgb cmyk nm wavelength colour cie-xyz)
• Executive pleads guilty to an obstruction charge - Jun. 21, 2006
  Wrong on so many levels:
  A former executive at Computer Associates Wednesday pleaded guilty to an obstruction charge for his role in scheme to pay millions to two clients in exchange for silence about improper deals that were part of a $2.2 billion accou
  (tags: ca scandal fraud cnn)

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