Archive for June, 2005

Another reason I adore eMusic

Here’s another reason I love eMusic: I downloaded a Catie Curtis album from eMusic a few months ago on the recommendation of a friend. After listening to the album on-and-off for the last couple of months, I’ve decide that I quite like Ms. Curtis’s music. So I logged onto eMusic and downloaded the rest of [...]

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Titan dark spot may be large lake

Is this a picture of a lake on Saturn’s moon Titan? Researches are saying, Maybe, maybe not: “A dark, lake-like feature on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, has been imaged by the US-European Cassini spacecraft.
“Researchers have long speculated that Titan might harbour open bodies of liquid methane – and the 235km by 75km target is the [...]

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Linux rescue CDs

Linux.com is running a great article that reviews three Linux rescue CDs. What is a Linux rescue CD, you asK? The article does a great job of explaining:
We’ve all had this nightmare. You turn on your functioning Windows/Linux PC, and all you get is a blank screen, or a message telling you that certain [...]

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Sleep inertia

Wow, imagine that. There is an actual, documented medical condition which explains why I can’t take naps. Well, I can take a nap, but when I wake up I feel even more tired than I did before napping. I feel like I can’t think clearly, and I feel very clumsy. It’s a horrible feeling, bad [...]

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Another playlist website – Webjay

Here’s another web community for creating playlists/mixtapes: Webjay. Webjay takes things from a slightly-different viewpoint: it helps users create playlists of freely-available music. Users can actually listen to playlists on the website.

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Tiny Mix Tapes

I think that the concept behind Tiny Mix Tapes is pure genius: “Here’s the deal: You send us a style, genre, word, phrase, emotion, or whatever else, and if one of our mix tape robots fancies your suggestion, that crazy set of circuits might just make a mix tape out of it — well, at [...]

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DVzine.org – THE ZINE

Ultra-cool: Some dedicated Dvorak fans published a comic which tries to convince users to change their keyboard layout to Dvorak. “‘The Dvorak Zine’ is a 24 page self-published zine that uses the power of COMICS to help promote The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard Layout. It is broken down into three chapters: 1) The history of the [...]

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