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Interesting retrospective on the history of the audio CD, with some good links for add’l info. Let me know if this is a pay-only article.
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Oh hai! The Journal discovers the LOLCat mania. As with alll of these Journal articles, send me a comment if the article is premium users only.
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Pretty hilarious. MP3 player was called “i.Beat blaxx.” I visited it on Sunday when the name was still racist/hilarious. Now changed just to “blaxx.”
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Colbert debates himself regarding whether it is a good idea for Freakonomics to post the best ways for terrorists to attack (to help prepare our defenses).
links for 2007-08-28
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links for 2007-08-26
August 25th, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
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Fricking hilarious.
links for 2007-08-25
August 24th, 2007 § 2 comments § permalink
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Awesome. Mac keyboard shortcut that cuts out the step of finding the to-be-deleted file in the library itself.
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Pretty cool mashup of Yelp and Google Maps. HT to Daring Fireball.
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Hilarious. Shots of the freshman QB starter at Georgia (now a sophomore) living it up in the offseason.
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August 23rd, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
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Apparently studios are reducing the dynamic range of recordings, perhaps in part to increase the perception of loudness.
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Favorable take on the Tigers’ draft, including first-round pick Porcello. HT to Detroit Tigers Weblog.
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August 22nd, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
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Nice, 0.0 rating!
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Hmm, bummer that there are these downsides to grilling. Good that I don’t eat well-done meat.
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I’d like to have a beer right now, as I sit at my desk at 5pm with a long night of work in front of me.
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Failed marriage proposal at a game. Ouch.
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Bauer provides info on various Italian food items. Most are new to me. I think Vaness and I had speck at Range last month.
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Solid review by Bauer.
links for 2007-08-22
August 21st, 2007 § 0 comments § permalink
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Painful to read the quick recap of Stanford’s 2006 season.
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Nice, a comparison of Wily Mo Pena to Shareef Abdur Rahim.
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Economics explanation. To use a real-world baseball example, this is what has happened to the Tigers’ offense since the beginning of July.
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From the Detroit Free Press.
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LOL
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Updated version of Mac movie conversion software.
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User compendium of movies that foil most ripping software. The latest version of MacTheRipper should handle these w/o a problem.
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This is me being a pedant: Apple’s market share going from 15.4% to 17.6% isn’t a 2.2% increase, it’s an increase of 2.2 percentage points and a 14.3% increase. Perhaps they’ll have corrected the error by the time you read this.
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The visual history of their smartphones is incredible. The same form factor for coming up on 4 full years? Jesus. At least they offer good value for the money. Oh wait, Treos ares super-expensive!