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  1. Leo

    How little money musicians earn online

    http://flowingdata.com/2010/06/04/how-little-musicians-earn-online/ wow, less than i thought.
  2. Leo

    Six Degrees of Black Sabbath

    http://labs.echonest.com/SixDegrees/index find the path between any two bands/musicians...who knew there was a connection between john denver and nurse with wound? sonic youth>lucille ball?
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    The Swinger

    http://musicmachinery.com/2010/05/21/the-swinger/ One of my favorite hacks at last weekend’s Music Hack Day is Tristan’s Swinger. The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. It does this be taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while...
  4. Leo

    Peter Christopherson

    Just heard that some Soisong shows in Paris have been canceled because Peter Christopherson has health issues. Anyone know anything about this, the seriousness of the situation, etc? Going to put on some Coil and TG records and send him good thoughts for a speedy recovery.
  5. Leo

    London hotel/restaurant recommendations

    the misses and i will be in london on our anniversary in june. we're staying with friends/family for the week but want to be on our own at a hotel on the actual anniversary night. anyone have any suggestions for a cool place to stay? while i wouldn't say price is *no* object, it's a special...
  6. Leo

    Who's seeing ash in the sky?

    i'm in the states, so not me, but wondering who in our international membership is experiencing this firsthand. what's it like...cool? scary? my wife is currently in the uk visiting family, supposed to fly back on sunday. hopefully skies will clear by then.
  7. Leo

    luddite asks: charging iphone and macbook pro

    this has probably been asked before but i can't find anything here, so... what's best practice for charging a 3Gs iphone? i've heard opposing recommendations. the tech guy at the at&t store said to always let it go down to practically zero before charging, don't "top it up" if it's just at...
  8. Leo

    Logorama

    http://www.cinematical.com/2010/02/09/watch-this-brilliant-oscar-nominated-short-logorama/ pretty cool, not sure how they got away with using 2,500 logos. watch in two parts.
  9. Leo

    Terry Riley - In C

    there are dozens of versions of this on cd, any recommendations? interested in a definitive version, and then maybe a interesting interpretation or two. thanks.
  10. Leo

    Banana Exploding on Face

    not quite sure what to say, really...
  11. Leo

    BBC Essential mixes

    http://www.essentialmixes.net/siteMap.php supposedly every BBC Essential mix since 1993 for dl...
  12. Leo

    Literary remix

    i can see using/mixing influences, but copying entire pages?? ---------------- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/world/europe/12germany.html?hp Author, 17, Says It’s ‘Mixing,’ Not Plagiarism By NICHOLAS KULISH BERLIN — It usually takes an author decades to win fawning reviews, march up the...
  13. Leo

    Prestwick bar crew

    can't tell if this is all real or done with camera/editing tricks. pretty amazing if real.
  14. Leo

    everything in one place

    http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf cool...of course, there's no way to know if it's actually accurate, but still.
  15. Leo

    Beatles short documentary

  16. Leo

    RIP Technics 1200/1210

    bound to happen eventually but still feels like a stab to the heart... http://www.inthemix.com.au/news/intl/45075/Technics_is_dead Technics is Dead The DJing community and the greater dance music scene mourns the loss of a clubbing staple today. No, Steve Aoki hasn’t hung up his record bag...
  17. Leo

    FarmVille

    http://www.farmville.com/main.php immryr's "go" thread got me wondering about a new online craze: what do you make of farmville? i've just heard about it, never investigated myself, but apparently it's a huge fad with millions of alienated cityfolk (and others) playing to chill out and get...
  18. Leo

    RAR expander for Mac

    any recommended applications for expanding .rar files on a mac? i've searched some forums and some people love stuffit, but others seem to hate it. there's some freeware called RAR Expander that looks simple enough. i'm new to the mac world, just thought i'd check here first before...
  19. Leo

    Shred vids

    there's a whole series of these, check out the ones for kiss, ac/dc, etc. a guy from finland who takes music videos, removes the sound, and adds his own bizarre backing. this passing stones vid is cool. and bizarre.
  20. Leo

    Sneaky bastards (aka, "Don't Trust the Charts!")

    From a recent edition of the NY Post: 'SCAM' DJS SCRATCH UP ITUNES $$ By MURRAY WEISS Criminal Justice Editor June 10, 2009 -- A group of popular London deejays used stolen credit cards to buy their own music on iTunes in an elaborate scheme that netted about $650,000 in bogus royalties...
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