http://www.chickenorfish.com/botcast#botcast1
-Talk about the intro (why it will be the only of this version) fact1 poor
version
-Intro Tune: Ambient Light, Vogue of Triton for Ultrasound Commercial,
FastTracker, XM
18 instruments, 18 samples, 16 patterns, 11different, 4 unused
227k
Who is Triton (demos, FastTracker, other side of Future Crew and Scream
Tracker
http://www.modarchive.com/reviews/amblight.xm.rev.html
Musical Rating: *Excellent / Professional* Ambient Light is one of two songs
by Vogue (the other being Ambient Power) that blends the ambient and techno
styles of music into a pulsing and energetic composition. The only drawback
is that it is so short at 1 minute 22 seconds, BUT I think Vogue assumed
people would have it looping, which is what this song was made for. Technical
Rating: *Excellent / Professional* Vogue is a master composer and tracker,
and it is evident from this song. He also has the notability of being the
main developer of the tracking program FastTracker, and exploited its
capabilites in making this song. This is also a good song to use as a
tracking tutorial, with its many uses of effects like pattern breaking. Note
that this song does not play correctly in WinAmp.
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FIRST SEGMENT
-black helicopters
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OUTTRO
Tune: Point of Departure
Artist: Necros FM/Legend Design/ iCE
Year: 1995
Type: S3M
Channels: 16
Samples: 20, 8-bit
Size: 491
Patterns, 44, 32 different
Details: For Progression music disk
Why: It's the beginning of this netcast.
Un gars demande un formulaire pour porter plainte dans un poste de police,
et ils... oui oui... l'arrêtent!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p53ky3RIjfU (3 minutes)
Light text on dark background vs.
readability<http://digg.com/design/Light_text_on_dark_background_vs_readability>What's
up with the current design trend of light text on dark backgrounds? Many web
designers seem to favour inverted colour schemes, but what happened to
readability and usability?
URL: http://digg.com/design/Light_text_on_dark_background_vs_readability
Vista's Aero Glass: Is It All It's Cracked Up to
Be?<http://digg.com/software/Vista_s_Aero_Glass_Is_It_All_It_s_Cracked_Up...>Windows
Vista provides a host of new features, but the first thing that jumps out is
the slick, sleek Aero interface. Here's a look at the advantages and
disadvantages of the new interface and what's required to get the most out
of it.
URL: http://digg.com/software/Vista_s_Aero_Glass_Is_It_All_It_s_Cracked_Up...
Gmail Audio Player <http://digg.com/software/Gmail_Audio_Player>Gmail has a
built-in player for MP3 attachments. If you receive emails that include MP3
files (maybe a podcast or a public domain recording), you can listen them
directly from Gmail.
URL: http://digg.com/software/Gmail_Audio_Player
Softick Card Export
II<http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2006/08/softick_card_ex.html>
[From Ben Lucas] Ben Lucas comes in this hour with a great program, Softick
Card Export II, so what's it all about? "Using Softick Card Export
II<http://www.softick.com/cardexport2/>it's possible to access SD/MMC
card inserted into Palm OS device as a
logical disk on the Windows desktop. Card Export II emulates USB Mass
Storage device and doesn't require any additional drivers on modern desktop
systems." All devices excluding Sony Clies work fine plus all Treo's.
URL: http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2006/08/softick_card_ex.html
Wi-Fi Helping To Fight War On
Terror<http://digg.com/security/Wi_Fi_Helping_To_Fight_War_On_Terror>Cell
phones have become a key way for terrorists to detonate bombs remotely. But
a Bay Area company has developed a possible solution for the military and
for airports to pinpoint them before it's too late.
URL: http://digg.com/security/Wi_Fi_Helping_To_Fight_War_On_Terror
Do you need multi-tasking in a mobile
device?<http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2006/08/do_you_need_mul_1.html>
For those that may have missed this, Mobile
Gadgeteer<http://blogs.zdnet.com/mobile-gadgeteer/?p=94>put together a
very good written editorial entitled Do you need
multi-tasking in a mobile device? "I was hunting for some news in the mobile
community and stumbled across an article titled, Palm OS–not the best for
the multitasker, and thought it would be a good article to read and discuss
a bit. I started out with Palm devices and after bouncing around for a
couple more years I settled primarily on the Treo 650 for over a year,
before going back to a S60 smartphone."
URL: http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2006/08/do_you_need_mul_1.html
AOL fires employees over search data
scandal<http://digg.com/tech_news/AOL_fires_employees_over_search_data_scandal>The
corporate guillotine has been wheeled out to deal with the apocalyptic
fallout from AOL's infamous decision to release "anonymous" search data on
hundreds of thousands of users for research purposes.
URL: http://digg.com/tech_news/AOL_fires_employees_over_search_data_scandal
Une petite fille de 9 ans demande à sa maman :
- Quel âge as-tu, maman ?
- Cela ne se demande pas ma chérie, lui répond sa mère.
- Combien tu mesures, maman ?
- Cela n'est pas important ma chérie, reprend la mère.
- Maman, pourquoi toi et papa avez divorcé ? Redemande la petite fille.
- Cela ne te regarde pas ma chérie, dit la mère en terminant la
discussion. La petite fille demanda à sa meilleure copine pourquoi les
adultes ne parlent pas de ces choses-là.
Sa copine lui dit :
- C'est vraiment simple, toutes les réponses à nos questions sont sur
leur carte d'identité. Le lendemain la petite fille fouille dans le sac
à mains de sa mère et trouve sa carte d'identité.
Elle est ravie de voir que son amie disait vrai, toutes les réponses à
ses questions s'y trouvent ! Elle court alors voir sa mère et lui dit :
- Maman, je sais ton âge.
- Ah oui ? Et j'ai quel âge ?
- 36 ans. Et je sais combien tu mesures.
- Ah oui ? Combien ?
- 1 mètre 71. Et je sais aussi pourquoi toi et papa avez, divorcé.
- Et bien cela m'étonnerait fort !
- Tu as eu un F en sexe... et çà, ce n'est vraiment pas une bonne note!
Robertson, Olmert pray for
victory<http://www.ziopedia.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=129...>[Editor's
note: Pat Robertson is probably the most notorious representative of the
Hollywood churches, also known as Christian Taliban,...
URL: http://www.ziopedia.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=129...
Cheat Sheet: Web 2.0
<http://digg.com/software/Cheat_Sheet_Web_2_0>Web 2.0is one of those
phrases which we're hearing a lot about currently. Everybody
says they're very excited about it but do they really know what it is?
URL: http://digg.com/software/Cheat_Sheet_Web_2_0
Subject: Make tents fit in the transport bag
NeoCons Are Busy Covering Their
Asse(t)S<http://www.ziopedia.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=130...>
Israeli
press reports about the Israeli Defense Force's Chief of Staff dumping
stocks just before war broke out served as...
URL: http://www.ziopedia.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=130...
Apple fires retail employees for downloading Leopard
<http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/22/apple-fires-retail-employees-for-d...>
Filed under: Desktops <http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/>,
Laptops<http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/>
<http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0608retailleak.html>Nobody touches Big
Brother's Apple's OS until they're good and ready -- not nobody. Apparently
not even Apple employees are beyond the long arm of the law, since a few
Apple Retail employees have been sacked after being overheard by the Thought
Police co-workers while discussing their evil deeds, and were subsequently
reported to corporate. Their crime? Downloading the WWDC edition of Mac OS X
10.5 Leopard<http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/07/apple-os-x-10-5-leopard-officially...>that
was handed out to developers at the recent keynote and has been <
South Koreans make hydrogen solid for a brighter fuel cell future
<http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/south-koreans-make-hydrogen-solid-...>
Filed under: Transportation<http://www.engadget.com/category/transportation/>
<http://www.platinum.matthey.com/media_room/1155740404.html>While storing
hydrogen as a solid by fusing it to titanium isn't an entirely new idea, a
team of South Korean scientists look to be the first to find a reliable and
efficient method of doing so. The solid-state storage of hydrogen has long
been a goal of fuel cell
<http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=%22fuel+cell%22>systems, since it
does away with those nasty explosive notions of storing
hydrogen at a high pressure and low temperature. Apparently the new method
being unveiled by the team from the Korea Institute of Science and
Technology not only manages to bind hydrogen with titanium into the form of
a stable solid that has much less
14-year-old girl sues friend over missing
iPod<http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/14-year-old-girl-sues-friend-over-...>
Filed under: Portable Audio<http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/>
<http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/top/2_1_AU22_IPOD_S1082...>You
gotta love the litigousness of youth -- especially when there's an iPod
involved. A spat over a missing iPod resulted in a lawsuit in Wheaton,
Illinois, when 14-year-old Shannon Derrik sued her (now former) friend
Stephanie Eick for losing her brand new iPod. It seems that Shannon made the
fool mistake of lending her iPod to Stephanie, who decided it'd be a good
idea to give back the iPod by leaving it on Shannon's desk rather than
waiting for her to return from the restroom to hand it over in person. The
iPod managed to disappear -- apparently someone in that classroom had some
sticky fingers -- and so Shannon sued for $475
Maybe I should get one of
these<http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2006/08/maybe_i_should_.html>
[image: Linux_feeder_cat]
<http://palmaddict.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/linux_feeder_cat.jpg>
*TechEBlog* is reporting on a "Ubuntu Linux controlled DIY cat feeder and
water dispenser" created by a fellow named Lee Holmes.
Lee uses his "JasJar PDA phone to SSH into the box, and feed[s] the cats on
demand just by running the script."
The computer runs Ubuntu Linux, so a crontab entry controls the scheduling.
The script calls eject /mnt/cdrom to open the CD Rom, delays, and eject –t
/mnt/cdrom to close it again.
Head over to *TechEBlog* and watch the video
<http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/linux-controlled-diy-c...>
.
URL: http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2006/08/maybe_i_should_.html
Best Buy: "Media Center - OLD / DO NOT
USE"<http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/23/best-buy-media-center-old-do-not-use/>
Filed under: Media PCs <http://www.engadget.com/category/mediapcs/>
<http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/subclass.asp?logon=&langid=EN&catid=22914>
Best Buy Canada's online megastore wants to break it down for you about the
HP A1410N Media Center they have on sale for a mere $644.97 (after $55
mail-in rebate): it's old and should not be used. Maybe they're trying to
cover their asses in case of buyer's remorse (obsolescence is now
instantaneous), maybe it's one of those rare instances of truth in
advertising, or maybe, just maybe, they're using some powerful reverse
psychology on us, telling us not to use the HP A1410N so that we'll lust
after it that much more. It has to be something, because we just ordered a
half-dozen of 'em.
[Via reddit <http://reddit.com/>]
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New passport holder claims to block unwanted RFID
signals<http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=5cbd07482c09564b527ce0b5d5de0b62>An
Orem Utah-based forensics company is now selling metal mesh bags that it
claims will stop identity thieves from accessing the newer US E-Passports.
Paraben Corporation, known for their mobile phone forensic kits, is selling
a nickel, copper and silver mesh "Passport StrongHold" bag will block RFID
transmissions from hitting unopened passports.
URL: http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=5cbd07482c09564b527ce0b5d5de0b62
