Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Why British cellists may no longer fly to New York | csmonitor.com

Thursday, September 14th, 2006

Why British cellists may no longer fly to New York | csmonitor.com For more than 30 years, Ralph Kirshbaum bought two airline tickets for his trips. The world-renowned American musician, who lives in England, bought one seat for himself, and the other for his strong, silent companion - a priceless 250-year-old ...

The Roadhouse Premium

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006

The Roadhouse The Beta Roadhouse Premium subscription is now available here. This version of the show is ad-free and encoded at 160 Kbps. Without the ads, there will be addtional cuts in each premium show not found in the ad-supported version. I’m also working hard to provide some additional incentives to ...

Chip Chick: Pink iPod Editions from Colorware

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Chip Chick: Pink iPod Editions from Colorware If you're a pink lover who has been hesitant to let go of your beloved pink ipod mini, the time has come to move on and shell out money for Colorware's pink ipod editions. Their pink 30GB IPod Video retails for $389, the 60GB ...

Lego Guitar

Monday, August 14th, 2006

Lego Guitar If I had more time to play these days I'd be tempted to try making one myself. This is not my guitar. I just took the pictures before the guy sold it on eBay. The guitar was playable, but had to be re-tuned after a few chops. The 'truss ...

Attack of the Pod Penguins: Not Why, Why Not?

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

Attack of the Pod Penguins: Not Why, Why Not? - Network World My good friend Tony has started writing what looks to be an excellent series on Linux and podcasting. Head over to LinuxWorld if you've got a few minutes to kill and give it a read. While you ...

linuX-gamers.net - Frets On Fire - Games - News

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

linuX-gamers.net - Frets On Fire - Games - News Cool looking game. Should be a hoot at the next geek party. Unreal Voodoo, a group of talented finnish people dedicated in bringing you the finest in multimedia presentations, has released their brand new amazing opensource game, made with Amanith Framework: Frets ...

Jonathan Coulton: Code Monkey MP3

Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

Jonathan Coulton: Code Monkey MP3 Interesting song for the geeks in the audience. If you've never made a living as a code monkey many of the jokes will be lost but it should be funny for most of you geeks. http://www.jonathancoulton.com/music/thingaweek/CodeMonkey.mp3 Be sure to click through to his site and ...

Music thing: The Tritare: A guitar with Y-shaped strings

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

Music thing: The Tritare: A guitar with Y-shaped strings Yesterday morning, at the Acoustical Society of America's 151st meeting in Providence, RI, Sophie Léger of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Université de Moncton, Canada, will be presenting a paper on "A New Family of Stringed Musical Instruments". She's one of ...

Guitar Hero For the PC, With Any Music

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Guitar Hero For the PC, With Any Music Want a way to play Red Octane’s awesome PS2 game Guitar Hero, but lack Sony’s console? Have your own music saved that you’re just dying to convert and play? Want to create your own tracks and have a go at those? A former ...

I’m The Decider

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006

I'm The Decider Interesting take on the president's latest stubborn disregard for popular opinion. Last I checked the people were the deciders and Bush was an elected official. I am me and Rummy's he, Iraq is free and we are all together See the world run when Dick shoots his gun, see ...

one red paperclip

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

one red paperclip I've posted about this before, but thought this was worth an update. So far he's traded all the way up to a pretty sweet sounding recordind deal with Metal Works Studios in Toronto. My name is Kyle MacDonald. I started with one red paperclip on July 12th, 2005 ...

How many folksingers does it take to change a light bulb?

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

How many folksingers does it take to change a light bulb? How many folksingers does it take to change a light bulb?

Blingo: I Win!

Friday, February 17th, 2006

Blingo I just won $10 iTunes on Blingo! Yesterday iTunes Gift Certificate Anton O, Texas