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Sunday, August 03, 2003

Audio Hijack is a cool app for Mac OS X that grabs whatever audio stream happens to be playing on your Mac and records it to an AIFF file. Friend Roger Ridey, who lives in London, uses it to grab Chicago White Sox games from Internet radio feeds, usually in the wee hours, and listens to them on his iPod while commuting to work. Last night I grabbed my favorite blues show, Crazy About the Blues, from iTunes-compatible KCSM... iTunes converted the AIFF to ACC, making a file 1/10th as large... [www.gulker.com - words and pictures from Silicon Valley] 9:15:15 PM  Permalink  comment []

The P is Silent Oh, to be in Wodehouse's England. Boston Globe Aug 3 2003 1:01PM ET [Moreover - moreover...] Here's a nice review of the Overlook printings of what will be the complete P.G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is by far the funniest writer I've ever read, and his books are a complete delight. I've seen these books in local bookstores, and have been sorely tempted. The problem is, though, is that it takes only a couple of hours to read a Wodehouse novel, and it's hard to justify coughing up the $17.95 they're asking for the books, though there are great deals on combinations at Amazon. You never see Wodehouse books used; people either keep them or pass them along. If you've never read anything by him, do so; it doesn't really matter where you start. They're all good. He's a master of plots, and a great fantacist -- the books are set in an England, a world, really, that never existed. Highly, highly recommended.   2:01:00 PM  Permalink  comment []

Does The Da Vinci Code Crack Leonardo?. The curator of European decorative arts at the Art Institute of Chicago says that Dan Brown's New York Times bestselling thriller, which "unabashedly adapts Leonardo's art and theories, which he says on his Web site he researched extensively, to his own fictional requirements", doesn't have much of a clue. NY Times [Follow Me Here...] 9:34:52 AM  Permalink  comment []

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