Jul 9 2008
This Week in Linktown [Jun 29 to Jul 06]
The World is in the Turlet
Tom Scharpling, listeners and Ted Leo write a song live on the radio on The Best Show on WFMU.
Blog Links Archive
Jul 2 2008
This Week in Linktown [Jun 22 to Jun 29]
House Concerts… in your home
What could be better than talented artists performing for you and your friends in the comfort of your home?
Rhapsody Opens DRM-free MP3 Store
Yet another online music store moves away from DRM and launches an MP3 music store.
All Known Metal Bands
This volume contains the names of over fifty thousand metal bands. If one presumes that each of these bands had an average of four members, and multiplies that by the bands, one might figure that at least a quarter of a million humans have pledged allegiance to one of these groups of wandering beasts.
Jun 25 2008
This Week in Linktown [Jun 15 to Jun 22]
MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Build your own Flux Capacitor
I am so doing this. If I can figure out how. And get a hold of the tools I need. So I probably won’t. But it’s still pretty awesome.
YouTube - Requiem For A Day Off
A trailer for Ferris Beuller’s Day Off using the music from Requiem for a Dream.
Nikon | Feel Nikon | Universcale
Relative sizes. The entire universe to the proton and everything in between.
Paine’s Park Project
An ambitious project to build a 2.5 acre skatepark in Center City Philadelphia.
Jun 11 2008
This Week in Linktown [Jun 01 to Jun 08]
DimP - A Direct Manipulation Video Player
Control video playback by dragging the objects in the video.
Raytheon Exoskeleton brings ‘Iron Man’ to life
The “Iron Man” movie is not as far-fetched as it might appear. The Exoskeleton project from Raytheon’s Sarcos team enables soldiers in the U.S. Army to lift and carry 200 pound payloads and more without tiring.
Concert Photography Masterclass
Some good information for the aspiring concert photographers out there (myself included).
Frets On Fire
Open source Guitar Hero for Windows, Mac and Linux
Burn After Reading (2008) RED BAND Trailer HD
New Coen Brothers movie. Do you really need to know anything else?
Siren Records Fights For Their Right to Party
Concerned about public safety, Doylestown (our hometown) is cracking down on concerts at Siren Records and the Classic Cigar Parlor.
Dean Kamen’s Robot Arm
Someday soon, amputees will be walking around using the robot arm from Terminator 2
Jun 4 2008
This Week in Linktown [May 25 to Jun 01]
DimP - A Direct Manipulation Video Player
Control video playback by dragging the objects in the video.
Raytheon Exoskeleton brings ‘Iron Man’ to life
The “Iron Man” movie is not as far-fetched as it might appear. The Exoskeleton project from Raytheon’s Sarcos team enables soldiers in the U.S. Army to lift and carry 200 pound payloads and more without tiring.
Concert Photography Masterclass
Some good information for the aspiring concert photographers out there (myself included).
Frets On Fire
Open source Guitar Hero for Windows, Mac and Linux
May 21 2008
This Week in Linktown [May 13 to May 20]
Illegal public art at it’s finest
Animation created in public spaces. You have to see this.
b3ta.com challenge: extending album art
See what’s going on just outside the frame of your favorite album covers
Kama Sutra for Terminators
The binary code stands for the names of the positions the T-800’s have come up with.
Fractal Furniture
If you thought it was impossible for a set of drawers to blow your mind, you may be wrong.
Napster rolls out all-MP3 download store
Another online music store goes DRM-free.
May 14 2008
This Week in Linktown [May 07 to May 14]
NARM Panel Discusses CD Revitalization
Could CD 2.0 be on its way? “The CDVU+, an enhanced disc with videos and other extras, topped the list of possible improvements to the current format. “
hobnox.com :: Audiotool
Play with a TR-909, TR-808 and a couple of TB-303s running through a bunch of BOSS effects pedals.
Band “shoots” video by sending Data Protection Act requests to CCTVs that caught them performing
Pretty good idea for a video. I can’t imagine the time it took to gather all this stuff and put it together though. (via Boing Boing)
Great tits cope well with warming
Great tits in Britain seem to be adapting to climatic change, scientists report…
Dave Mustaine’s Monthly Coffee Crew
Have your daily cup of coffee, Megadeth-style with a coffee hand-picked by Dave Mustaine.
May 7 2008
This Week in Linktown [Apr 30 to May 07]
City Gardens, Trenton, NJ 1992-1994
If you were going to shows in this area in the 90’s, you probably went to a few at City Gardens. This is an archive of flyers from shows between 1992-1994.
5 Cats that Look Like Wilford Brimley
Do you really need an explanation?
AOL, RealNetworks and Yahoo Owe Us $100 Million
And by “us” I mean ASCAP members.
A Tale of Two Brothers: Jim Morrison & Michael Hutchence
Apparently Jim Morrison and Michael Hutchence talked to a psychic about their “controversial deaths” and the “many myths that surround them” and she put all of it into this book.
Solve the fruit mystery
“Normally this game would cost you one thousand dollars, but its free today, naturally.”
The Black Oven
A black metal recipe blog. Learn how to make “Frostbitten Molasses Cookies Entombed with Ginger” and “Call of the Wintermoon Lemon Curd Cookies!”
Paintings by Jason Waskey
This artist does a new painting every day and posts it to his blog. I wish I had that kind of consistency.
May 1 2008
Link Posting
I’ve been experimenting with the options on Ma.gnolia for automatically posting our links to the blog. The latest configuration was to post links every 3 days. But for some reason there was some overlap where links were being posted multiple times. The feature is still in beta so I guess that’s to be expected. Add to that the fact that the links posts are far outnumbering any other kinds of posts and it’s starting to look like that’s all that’s going on here.
So for now I’m gonna try keeping the links posts to once a week. It will naturally be a much longer post, but it will keep the links-posts-to-actual-content-posts ratio a little more reasonable.
photo by Rigmarole
Apr 30 2008
Meanwhile… in Linktown (Apr 27 to Apr 30)
Being unable to post a proper blog entry due to forces beyond their control, our heroes provide for you the following items of interest:
Imagekind
For all the artists and photographers out there, this looks like a great way to sell your stuff. I smell Sinch posters…
What the Future Sounded Like
From Dr Who to the Dark Side of the Moon, the members of the Electronic Music Studios used pioneering technology and ideas to create a radical new soundscape for the 20th century.
Realistically Painted Bowser
The last two of these really creeped me out. This one is actually pretty cool.
