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{ Daily Archives } Saturday, April 2006

22 April 1968

Today has been my 38th birthday. I bought a circular saw from B&Q. I will use it to help make a 100 megapixel digital camera. I also bought some solar-powered lamps. Apparently they will work in the dark.

2006 04 22 alecm life Comments (13)

The Divine Comedy on MySpace

Neil, Neil, what are you doing? [www.myspace.com]

2006 04 22 alecm music Comments (0)

MP3 facts I didn’t know.

[en.wikipedia.org] An article in Business 2.0 magazine revealed that “Tom’s Diner” was also used by Karlheinz Brandenburg to develop the audio compression scheme known as MP3 at what is now the Fraunhofer Society. He recalled: I was ready to fine-tune my compression algorithm…somewhere down the corridor, a radio was playing “Tom’s Diner”. I was electrified. [...]

2006 04 22 alecm music Comments (0)

Listen to ThePartyParty

Well it’s no Grey Album, but ThePartyParty is one of the best, funniest, and most disturbing albums I’ve ever heard. It’s an electronica/hip-hop mashup that sounds like it was partly soundtracked on a Nintendo, ripping lyrics and influences from Led Zep, The Who, Grandmaster Flash, Lennon, Eminem, U2 and a bunch of others, rewriting them [...]

2006 04 22 alecm music Comments (0)

License Plates for Cycles ?

I just heard Alan Howarth [en.wikipedia.org] on Radio4′s “Today In Parliament” ranting about the dangers of cyclists running red lights and saying he wants to propose all cycles to have license plates a-la cars and motorcycles (“and you don’t hear anyone complaing about that!”) to bring a degree of accountability to the urban cyclists who [...]

2006 04 22 alecm cycling Comments (4)