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Frozen Embryos

We're just a couple of frozen embryos.

Me too. I'm an old geezer and I mostly listen to streaming rather than stuff I own. I subscribe to a couple of streaming services and usually listen to radio streams like WFMU while working. My main complaint against the commercial streaming services like Rhapsody is that tracks will disappear. You can create a playlist and tracks will occasionally become unavailable because the music company has pulled the songs from the service.

Let me just point this out The Bill of Rights for Busy People. Don't worry kids, you don't need those pesky "rights" things anyway.

Let me add the Free Music Archive to that list. Tons of CC stuff of all types. Also, while I'm at it, I'll add a plug for my favorite radio station WFMU, the best station on this planet (not sure about others, get nothing but static from other planets).

If Orson Welles doesn't crawl out of his grave and strangle this arrogant, money-grubbing motherfucker with his own intestines, then at least we finally know that the dead are *truly* and *forever* gone.

We know a remote farm in Lincolnshire, where Mrs. Buckley lives; every July, peas grow there...

Why? That doesn't make any sense. Sorry.

There's no known way of saying an English sentence in which you begin a sentence with 'in' and emphasize it. Get me a jury and show me how you can say "in July", and I'll go down on you. That's just idiotic, if you'll forgive my saying so. That's just stupid, "in July"; I'd love to know how you emphasize 'in' in "In July"...impossible! Meaningless!

- Orson Welles, frozen peas commercial

The charges and the character assasination were ALL bullshit.

No they weren't. By your own words you were a drug addict who lost control of themselves and used tannerite on at least one piece of property that you did not own. Not just "took a plea" you made actual statements about yourself. You admitted to the charges and assasinated your own character. This doesn't sound like an innocently targeted man at all, can you refute any of this? I am not intentionally being derisive; rather I hope you would respond with a statement to exonerate you of this all, be it hearsay or otherwise.

See also this. Did you not consent to be interviewed? You even posted a review of the book this excerpt is from on slashdot!

and what about this? Of course the statements that your anger and gun issues were escalating is pure hearsay; who knows what kind of person you are? But you really glossed over the use of tannerite didn't you? That's WAY more serious than you made it sound. Another article here

Sadly, I agree with everything you say about our overly intrusive gov't and the erosion of out rights, so it's unfortunate that your case doesn't back up those positions. By attempting to be an example of a problem, you are supporting their cause. Please stop.

More here and here. You'll want to read the last couple of comments on this one, bruce. The posters sound like old friends of yours that want to get back into contact with you. This guy too.

But most of all, most of all, I hate the DUTCH!

I live in Finland and I'm 27 years old. Let me explain how weird checks are here.

Some time ago, I made a donation to WFMU (http://wfmu.org/). Since I didn't have ready access to a credit card, sending a check was the only option. I went to my bank and asked if it's possible to do...they weren't sure. Later, I went to another office of the bank and asked again and they said yes, but they have to order it from the main office.

Several days later they phoned me and told me they had the check. I went to get it, and then showed it to my friends. After all, at least the youngest ones had likely never seen one before. I'm not sure I had seen one before, either. People were somewhat impressed by me having such a weird item, or so I thought.

The idea that one's employer wouldn't pay directly to one's account is really weird for people here. Of course, we are probably more backwards in other ways, so don't worry.

Now this site is truly weird....and wonderful....can never get enough of this song....and Zombie movies....

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/

Thanks, I'll check it out. I've found a few streaming stations that I like, including SomaFM and WFMU.

"According to Dr. Beatrice Bartnett in her pamphlet, Urine-Therapy: It May Save Your Life, morning urine is the richest and best urine to drink.

The Urine Cure documents the many practioners of urine drinking (inluding Gandhi and rocker Jim Morrison). Worth a read.

I play this every morning to get me awake and in the mood. Then after the calisthenics, I Bowflex and do free weights (bench press, squats, dead lift) for about 20 minutes three times a week. I do stick my nose outside every once in a while for a slow jog or fast walk, so you might want to invest in a treadmill if that hill's too steep to overcome.

Yes, if you listen carefully, you can already hear the accordion of triumph in the distance!

Big shout out for Tufte!

I've actually got that graphic along with the wonderful Black Flag Hair Timeline hanging on my wall as examples of truly great data graphics.

It usually takes some explaining as to why they're so great. Especially the Black Flag one. But by my calculations, it would take at least 355 data elements to express what's in the Black flag chart. I always pull this one out whenever someone wants to take up an entire page with a pie chart showing two data elements.

In contrast, I like showing this graphic demonstrating the number of DJs and MCs in the Beastie Boys

Dude!
You forgot flying car(Henry Ford said it would happen!), personal pneumatic transportation, cure for baldness, miniskirt, and communication with animals.

FCC, F U! All radio stations should play this every half hour:

Anthem:
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/12/fcc_fu_the_a nth.html

Official site:
http://fccfu.com/

WFMU in the NY/NJ area plays all kinds of great music and has no commercials. Their DJs are actually amusing, yet they don't talk too much, and you can listen to them online and even listen to archives from the last 7 years or so (though older than two weeks is lower quality real audio).

http://www.wfmu.org/

Keep and eye on WFMU through all of this. They have apparently been collecting royalty waivers from many smaller labels and recently obtained a grant as part of the New York payola settlement to setup a "free music archive" of public domain and creative commons licensed songs.

Jenny Scheinman sure has been on NYC-area radio. In fact, pretty much the only NYC-area radio station worth listening to: WFMU-Jersey City, the "freeform station of the nation". If you are looking to find interesting music you've never heard before, go no farther. 91.1 in NYC area and 90.1 if you go up the Hudson valley a bit. http://wfmu.org/ on the web, streaming in many different formats. All shows archived, and searchable (http://wfmu.org/search.php), which is how I found that Jenny Scheinman has been played at least 19 times on WFMU in the past few years (maybe more, because some dj's are less fanatical about posting playlists than others). Find your favorite artist and jump to their song; it's like a gigantic jukebox. Many dj's on WFMU also do shows for XM and Sirius. I could go on and on, but please check them out...

Jenny Scheinman sure has been on NYC-area radio. In fact, pretty much the only NYC-area radio station worth listening to: WFMU-Jersey City, the "freeform station of the nation". If you are looking to find interesting music you've never heard before, go no farther. 91.1 in NYC area and 90.1 if you go up the Hudson valley a bit. http://wfmu.org/ on the web, streaming in many different formats. All shows archived, and searchable (http://wfmu.org/search.php), which is how I found that Jenny Scheinman has been played at least 19 times on WFMU in the past few years (maybe more, because some dj's are less fanatical about posting playlists than others). Find your favorite artist and jump to their song; it's like a gigantic jukebox. Many dj's on WFMU also do shows for XM and Sirius. I could go on and on, but please check them out...

Does this mean that we'll get some decent radio stations back? Clear Channel effectively ruined the radio for me, NPR being the only remaining reason to turn it on.

Well, for me that would be Democracy Now!, which you can may be able to hear broadcast somewhere, depending on where you live, e.g. KPFA, in the SF Bay Area, and WBAI in the New York area. In general, the Pacifica stations do a decent job of "alternative" broadcasting, provided you don't mind the almost exclusively left-wing focus.

Also, there are many, many small college stations (and other non-coms) scattered around, usually located at the bottom of the dial. They also all have internet streams these days:

• KZSU
• KFJC
• WFMU
• WREK
• WRCT
• KALX
• KUSF
• WNUR
• KSPC
• KXLU
• WPRB
• KTRU
• KALW

For me, it's not the AM/FM limitations so much... It's just the suckiness of the music. If you set this thing up to record each unique song played in a 24 hour period on one particular station, you'd have just 20 different songs. Radio plays the same songs over and over again. Once you've recorded one days' worth of broadcasting, you'd be set for the next month... or whenever the radio station refreshes their playlist.

Your only exaggerating a little bit, but you're essentially describing only commercial radio. In many places around the country there are alternatives to that, college radio stations and non-profits like the Pacifica stations, and you'll hear a wide variety of stuff broadcast there.

Of course, they also all tend to have some form of internet streaming going, so this by itself would not be a reason to do capture of FM signals (possibly you might like to do this to get higher audio quality and to reduce bandwith usage).

It is, by the way, an odd peculiarity about all the buzz about "podcasting" making radio broadcasting more democratic: when I actually listen to amateurs playing DJ, it seems really unimpressive... college stations on the other hand, have something of a tradition of exploration of new music to fall back on, they're pros at the business of being amateurs.

A quick list of stations that might be worth a listen:

• WRCT
• KZSU
• KALX
• KUSF
• KFJC
• WNUR
• WREK
• WFMU
• KSPC
• KXLU
• WPRB
• KTRU

From stock@stokkie.net Mon Aug 14 22:46:00 2006 +0200
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:46:00 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Robert M. Stockmann"
To: list
Subject: 911 Economics

Hi,

According to Dave Emory, the Muslim brotherhood is propagating a economic agenda which closely fits the Bush regime. Do the Bush and USA bashers inside the middle east know that themselves also?

July 18, 2006: FTR # 560: Economic 9/11
http://archive.wfmu.org:5555/archive/DX/dx060718.m p3

There seems to be a entire economic system installed throughout the middle east, where the fundamentalist Muslim stooges of the Muslim Brotherhood are put in power and apparently easily adopt the laissez-faire tradition of Western economics.

Unbelievable how bended this sounds. How bended?

Well Dave Emory, the instituted propaganda radio broadcaster starts reading, without showing any reservations or hesitations, a Newsweek article on this, like it was a Goebels lecture. Using the same methods and principles he apparently tries to fight :

"Islam in Office"
By Stephen Glain, Newsweek International, July 3-10, 2006 issue
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13529579/site/newsweek/

"July 3-10, 2006 issue - Judeo-Christian scripture offers little economic instruction. The Book of Deuteronomy, for example, is loaded with edicts on how the faithful should pray, eat, bequeath, keep the holy festivals and treat slaves and spouses, but it is silent on trade and commerce. In Matthew, when Christ admonishes his followers to "give to the emperor the things that are the emperor's," he is effectively conceding fiscal and monetary authority to pagan Rome.

Islam is different. The prophet Muhammad himself a trader-preached merchant honor, the only regulation that the border-less Levantine market knew. In Muslim liturgy, the deals cut in the souk become a metaphor for the contract between God and the faithful. And the business model Muhammad prescribed, according to Muslim scholars and economists, is very much in the laissez-faire tradition later embraced by the West. Prices were to be set by God alone anticipating by more than a millennium Adam Smith's reference to the "invisible hand" of market-based pricing. Merchants were not to cut deals outside the souk, an early attempt to thwart insider trading."

Bill Gates must be delighted to hear about such juicy business deals laying ahead for him in the future. Bill Gates? Don't you know Bill Gates owns newsweek? :

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From stock@stokkie.net Mon Aug 14 22:46:00 2006 +0200 Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:46:00 +0200 (CEST) From: "Robert M. Stockmann" To: list Subject: 911 Economics Hi, According to Dave Emory, the Muslim brotherhood is propagating a economic agenda which closely fits the Bush regime. Do the Bush and USA bashers inside the middle east know that themselves also? July 18, 2006: FTR # 560: Economic 9/11 http://archive.wfmu.org:5555/archive/DX/dx060718.m p3 There seems to be a entire economic system installed throughout the middle east, where the fundamentalist Muslim stooges of the Muslim Brotherhood are put in power and apparently easily adopt the laissez-faire tradition of Western economics. Unbelievable how bended this sounds. How bended? Well Dave Emory, the instituted propaganda radio broadcaster starts reading, without showing any reservations or hesitations, a Newsweek article on this, like it was a Goebels lecture. Using the same methods and principles he apparently tries to fight : "Islam in Office" By Stephen Glain, Newsweek International, July 3-10, 2006 issue http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13529579/site/newsweek/ "July 3-10, 2006 issue - Judeo-Christian scripture offers little economic instruction. The Book of Deuteronomy, for example, is loaded with edicts on how the faithful should pray, eat, bequeath, keep the holy festivals and treat slaves and spouses, but it is silent on trade and commerce. In Matthew, when Christ admonishes his followers to "give to the emperor the things that are the emperor's," he is effectively conceding fiscal and monetary authority to pagan Rome. Islam is different. The prophet Muhammad himself a trader-preached merchant honor, the only regulation that the border-less Levantine market knew. In Muslim liturgy, the deals cut in the souk become a metaphor for the contract between God and the faithful. And the business model Muhammad prescribed, according to Muslim scholars and economists, is very much in the laissez-faire tradition later embraced by the West. Prices were to be set by God alone anticipating by more than a millennium Adam Smith's reference to the "invisible hand" of market-based pricing. Merchants were not to cut deals outside the souk, an early attempt to thwart insider trading." Bill Gates must be delighted to hear about such juicy business deals laying ahead for him in the future. Bill Gates? Don't you know Bill Gates owns newsweek? : [jackson:stock]:(~)$ nslookup www.newsweek.com Server: 10.0.18.71 Address: 10.0.18.71#53 Non-authoritative answer: www.newsweek.com canonical name = newsweek.com. Name: newsweek.com Address: 207.46.245.32 Name: newsweek.com Address: 207.46.245.33 Name: newsweek.com Address: 207.46.150.50 Name: newsweek.com Address: 207.46.150.51 [jackson:stock]:(~)$ [jackson:stock]:(~)$ whois 207.46.245.32 OrgName: Microsoft Corp OrgID: MSFT Address: One Microsoft Way City: Redmond StateProv: WA PostalCode: 98052 Country: US NetRange: 207.46.0.0 - 207.46.255.255 CIDR: 207.46.0.0/16 NetName: MICROSOFT-GLOBAL-NET NetHandle: NET-207-46-0-0-1 Parent: NET-207-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Assignment NameServer: NS1.MSFT.NET NameServer: NS5.MSFT.NET NameServer: NS2.MSFT.NET NameServer: NS3.MSFT.NET NameServer: NS4.MSFT.NET Comment: RegDate: 1997-03-31 Updated: 2004-12-09 [some parts removed of whois query] # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2006-08-13 19:10 # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database. Today i heard someone was claiming that in the end the Rothschild's owned everything, and that people like Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch, are nothing more but the Kings Horses and Nobel men. Maybe, maybe not. I somehow get the feeling, the moment a Rothschild wants to withdraw cash f

but she plays radio birdman too

http://www.wfmu.org/tt/

... to read it out loud while the disco accordion is playing in the background. Then you realize it has been a huge joke.

Disco Accordion here

This is the silliest attempt at legislation yet. What with stations whose mainstay still is FM, but also do MP3 as a service? Will their streams be DRMed also? The radio waves they send out sure as hell aren't! As a foreign listener without any possibility of snapping up US radio stations via the ether, will I lose my WFMU?

I could not care less about 99.9% of the music available. But the fact that there is just absolutely loads of good music available in all genres and all prices and in undiscovered back catalogs suits me just fine.

The idea from FOSS people that somehow I should or should not pay this or that for a concert/show or this or that for a prerecorded version of music is just laughable and also annoying

So you do what you want, but realize that many many music fans are very content. But here's a little tip, if you are having trouble finding something you like, check out WFMU Broadcasting out of Newbridge NJ or Streaming Live on the Internet

I personally love Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T and if you were cool like me, you would too.

I could not care less about 99.9% of the music available. But the fact that there is just absolutely loads of good music available in all genres and all prices and in undiscovered back catalogs suits me just fine.

The idea from FOSS people that somehow I should or should not pay this or that for a concert/show or this or that for a prerecorded version of music is just laughable and also annoying

So you do what you want, but realize that many many music fans are very content. But here's a little tip, if you are having trouble finding something you like, check out WFMU Broadcasting out of Newbridge NJ or Streaming Live on the Internet

I personally love Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T and if you were cool like me, you would too.

Unfortunately some of the plans cost some $$$, but it is certainly doable to get a 128k stereo mp3 stream using a broadband wireless network such as EVDO network and nifty phone. Broadband connections seem to work best on short trips or sitting in one place but that's fine for those who work at jobs with firewalls.

In fact, I work for WFMU and I've tested a 40k live mono OGG, a 32 live mono mp3 and 20k mono Real audio archive streams while on the 1xRTT network(think narrow band network delivery that all cell phones work on) going form the George Washington Bridge on up to Mohegan Sun in CT riding along on I95. I'm sure that pumping up the buffer settings in my player was largely responsible for nary a drop or rebuffering while my wife telephone conversation would drop during the trip.

For those interested, we've cobbled together a FAQ here:

http://wfmu.org/mobile_faq.html

video of Bird-Man's first flight suit.

That sounds incredibly dull for those of us who like to be surprised by what we listen to. I like discovering new music and new genres.

Not to say most of FM radio is any better. But I'd much rather listen to WFMU any day than hyper-formatted satellite radio.

<BGSOUND src="http://content.ytmnd.com/0/444/sound.wav" volume=100 loop=infinite hidden="true" AUTOSTART="true">
<IMG src="http://www.wednesdayweb.com/kirk/jtk.gif" style="POSITION: absolute; LEFT: 35%; TOP: 35%">
<IMG src="http://sam.zoy.org/fun/goatse/cake.jpg">

Lots of people are already blogging about this - some referring to slashdot, some to the actual article. Looks like this may be the next 5 day wonder - but will something make people change things??????

http://www.chatvenue.com/thoughts/2005/11/01/drm-a s-malware/

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/11/sony_cds_cau ght.html

http://www.cubicgarden.com/blojsom/blog/cubicgarde n/culture/2005/10/31/Make-no-mistake-the-new-battl e-lines-have-been-drawn-rootkits-and-all.html

And many more!

I installed real alternative so I could listen to the BBC, which is almost as much a pile of crap as real player; but it just about works and doesn't try to worm its way into the depths of your OS.

These days I pretty much only listen to WFMU anyway ( http://www.wfmu.org/ ).

Nothing's wrong with Apple. What with Clear Channel's takeover of most radio stations complete, and the non-CC stations using the same formats, there's no radio worth listening to in most cities.

At least I can get WFMU on the internet ...

I have no idea how to deal with these clearly irrational people. It's generally impossible to reason with them, and even if you do manage to get through to one of them, there's always another crackpot willing to take up the torch in front of the news cameras.

I also reccomend finding radio stations which have shows that play music you like, and see what else they play.

For example, WFMU has a nice playlist search where you can look for shows which have played certain artists. They also have all of their shows archived back to ~2000, so you can find a show that plays stuff that you like and listen to a few of the archives to see if they play anything else you like.

They also have a genre finder that allows you to search for shows by genre.

I also reccomend finding radio stations which have shows that play music you like, and see what else they play.

For example, WFMU has a nice playlist search where you can look for shows which have played certain artists. They also have all of their shows archived back to ~2000, so you can find a show that plays stuff that you like and listen to a few of the archives to see if they play anything else you like.

They also have a genre finder that allows you to search for shows by genre.

Conlon Nancarrow created rather crazy player piano compositions which sounded like several fighting performers at once. Have a listen - Study No. 3a for Player Piano http://www.wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=2690&starttime =00:27:39 The sound clips for the CrazyJ weren't too bad, but I don't think it's up to doing Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption" or Leo Kottke or Manitas de Plata.... Oh well...

Wrong link, try here: http://www.wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=14706.

Sorry

I just tried it with a song which I have been trying to figure out off and on for awhile. 411-song failed on two attempts, which I suppose isn't too suprising. On the bright side they claim that I won't be charged since they didn't identify the song.

Moodlogic as suggested by other people seems to want me to identify the artist and song title before it will tell me the artist and song title which seems about as worthless as anything.

If anyone wants to take a crack at it, it is the second song played in this rm file: Glen Jones Radio Programme April 3, 2005

• SpeakEasy DSL terminating equipment, including VOIP terminal adapter ($85/mo for *everything*), and no need for a local analog loop. Good riddance, SBC!
• Smoothwall box
• Primary Windows desktop
• Wireless router to pick up various boxes in hard-to-wire locations and the occasional guest laptop.
• Linux server w/ big drives to hold music and test server configs (http/SMB/VNC/audio streams/etc)
• Linux box dedicated to audio playback. It has a reasonably powerful FM broadcaster attached (~80 yard range) so we can listen to local MP3/OGGs or distant streams anywhere in the house/yard. Great for cookouts! Playlists are accessible through a variety of methods, so just about any box on the network can manipulate the queue.
• A hacked Virgin Webplayer at the main stereo for streaming something different from what's going out on the FM broadcaster.

What I'd really like to find is a better music storage system. Move it all out of the file system and into a database. I'm thinking of something that would store the track in whatever format (OGG/MP3/flac), plus whatever metadata you might care about (artist, track title, track #, track length, date, album title, album genre, song genre, writing credits, publishing company, lyrics, album cover & back art, liner notes, producer, band members, guest artists, who played what, record label, affiliated artists, sources of samples or borrowed riffs, drugs the band used while recording, ...).

Work up APIs to plug file-systems into the database so that it can present the data as if it were actual files with appropriate filenames and ID tags. Let the streaming software and Samba look at it as if they were actual files in a filesystem. Create multiple virtual directory systems (similar to Evolution's vFolders) based on whetever metadata you care about (all non-classical/non-jazz instrumentals; everything with "love" in the title; Beatles recorded before 1970 with only Mac-Len co-writing credits; everything that samples James Brown; P-Funk and ALL related side projects; etc.). Have it name the file according to whatever scheme you prefer (Artist-SongTitle.foo)

The Speakeasy with Dorian, on freeform station WFMU is a weekly interview show with guests from the sciences, the arts, media, and other areas. Shows are archived going back years- mostly in realaudio, but some in mp3 form, too. The show, along with a number of others, is also available in podcast form.

The Speakeasy with Dorian, on freeform station WFMU is a weekly interview show with guests from the sciences, the arts, media, and other areas. Shows are archived going back years- mostly in realaudio, but some in mp3 form, too. The show, along with a number of others, is also available in podcast form.

The Speakeasy with Dorian, on freeform station WFMU is a weekly interview show with guests from the sciences, the arts, media, and other areas. Shows are archived going back years- mostly in realaudio, but some in mp3 form, too. The show, along with a number of others, is also available in podcast form.

This is slightly off-topic, but for broadening your musical knowledge I recommend you start listening to your local college radio station. Assuming you are in the US, and not too far from an urban area, you've probably got at least a couple stations with hugely varied programming available to you on your dial. A couple of my favorites: WRUW of Cleveland, and WFMU, a non-college indie station in New Jersey. Share eand enjoy.

If you've interest beyond genning wisecrax, here is an interesting site that discusses the history of cardboard records.

The Internet Museum of
FLEXI/CARDBOARD/ODDITY
Records - Records - Records

I guess the hobby magazines of the MOSTEK era were just too cheap to include code on flexi media. FWIW I still have two KIM-1 and a bunch of cassette tapes. One is early ceramic chip andotherislater plastic. It was quitethemachinein it's day for cheap computer play.

Wonder if these guys (referenced in parent article) have given flexi any thought?

I also wonder if anyone remembers optical pickup phonograph record transducers. They were expensive but would keep your vinyl in pristine condition.

At the other end of the spectrum, there were record it at home devices using a hot wire and acetate disks or tape. This system was also used with a large acetate loop for recording police calls, including the JFK assination shots back in '64.

All in all mechanical sound reproduction is pretty neat and if you think about your experience with other recording media, may be the only thing that survives into the next millenium.

FWIW I also have a working example of the Walkie-Recordall mentioned in this recording history link.

I am not affiliated with any of the referenced sites.

If chickens can learn to play the piano, why do dolphins(not the fish) get all the press?