29 October 2009 – 12:53 am
There have been some good creative packaging on CDs this year. My favorite may be the functional CD tray of Moldover’s Album. The Awesome Edition comes with a circuit board in lieu of the standard jewel case tray. The artwork and track listing are traces on the board, which is cool, but the great thing [...]
23 October 2009 – 12:06 am
The Flaming Lips released their latest album, Embryotic, this week. And they did something kind of cool. The standard release is a double CD album. The deluxe edition adds a DVD which contains the full album as 16 bit 48 kHz and 24 bit 96 kHz PCM audio. The DVD is not region coded, and [...]
21 October 2009 – 12:13 am
Archaeologists looking back on our time will be confounded by two problems of our own making: the Cultural Black Hole and a Digital Black Hole. We live in amazing times. Technology gives us pocket-sized computers which allow us to communicate with others thousands of miles away, as well as record events in audio and video. [...]
By Bangsplat
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Posted in Computers, Musings
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Tagged 8 Track, CD, data, digital, hard disk drive, Leo Laporte, Long Now, Long Now Foundation, LOTS, magnetic media, Microsoft, MP3, Sidekick, Stuart Brand, T-Mobile, technology
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17 October 2009 – 7:19 pm
The Financial Times has an article on the current state of American copyright, and while the article itself mostly focuses on the Google Books brouhaha, it has a great title: “A Copyright Black Hole Swallows Our Culture”. Once upon a time, three things held true. Copyrights were relatively short. You had to renew them (most [...]
5 October 2009 – 12:30 am
If you don’t know what is geocaching is, don’t feel too bad – most don’t. I kept hearing the term when researching GPS units, but didn’t really understand what it was until I downloaded the Geocaching iPhone app a short while ago. Now I’m hooked. The missus doesn’t really understand, and I guess it does [...]
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