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Friday, 23 April 2004
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BluePhoneMenu is a small application that adds Caller ID functionality to your menu bar and desktop using your Bluetooth enabled phone.
Free, too. I'll be interested to see if or how well it works with Salling Clicker.
[Backup Brain]
Great little free app for Macintosh. When your cell phone rings, a little window pops up on your computer screen and shows you the incoming Caller ID. Also shows you the signal strength of your cell phone and how much battery you have left...This way you don't have to avert your eyes from the screen, ever...keep your eyes on the screen....keep your eyes on the screen...
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Artists who don't censor their own work. Picasso is one, Miles Davis is another, Prince is another. They're all people who just put it out, and have almost no critical self-censorship. They say, 'Let the market decide; let the world decide.' You might not be the best person to judge it.
That's a kind of humility, actually: it's a mixture of arrogance, which says, 'I know I'm fucking good.' But a humility, which says, 'I'm not the person to decide.' I'd love to get there! Instead I usually play the "That's brilliant" - "No, that sucks!" mind game....Great web site, this. I especially enjoy the random quote feature!
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Ben Saunders of the the Serco Transarctic Expedition. He's blogging nightly from the Arctic, and it's great great stuff. Human Edge Tech expedition software suppliers are my new heroes.
One of my mp3 players has gone slightly haywire and what used to be 'random shuffle' mode is showing worrying signs of telepathy - it seems to be able to read my moods and respond with appropriate tunes. Just as today seemed to be turning into a repeat of yesterday (atrocious ice and weather conditions) it played Survivor's The Eye of the Tiger, a tune I didn't even know was on there. I broke into a smile. I skied a touch faster. I even threw in a little shadow boxing now and then (although thanks to the whiteout, I had no shadow). As you can see from the photo, the ice is still really bad and I had to fight for the mileage again today, but I was way, way happier doing it. [Ben Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent] Well, my iPod has gone seriously haywire if I hear "Eye of the Tiger" - there is just no way that song would ever be on there...I hope our roadies are not hearing this - because they would "borrow" my iPod and put the song on it just to mess with me....
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It sounds like a setup to me, but the San Francisco Giants game a couple nights ago had a mid-game 'Singles Night' competition, where three bachelors tried to woo a brunette fluent in Portuguese. The second bachelor's line that he "wouldn't mind picking up a little Portuguese," (Translation: You aren't... [Gizmodo] Perfect post to end the week with...
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I have been checking this site out from time to time for quite a while now. Web art you can get lost in....good for wasting any amount of time you are willing to spare....
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the next Christmas album I thought I was settling on "1001 Christmas Nights" until I read Mark's suggestion of "1001 Silent Nights". I quickly recorded some music with that title in mind and you can download it here - our belated March download. Our April download is three full-length songs from Jon's "Transit" album. Listen, enjoy.....and if you dig it, you can order the CD here.
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Kinetic Wood Sculptures
Man oh man, check out the flash animations
on this guy's gorgeous site. Those things are almost as impressive as the sculptures themselves.
[Beyond the Beyond]
Yes, the site is great, I would love to see the real deal.....
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Creative Collective What if you take your creative process and move it beyond your brain and into the collective. That collective experience that so defines a particular time and culture and leaves its imprint in all music from such an era is present in so much great music. I suspect that once one taps into that source it can be explored and expressed in so many different ways. I don't understand the brain, I do not understand the higher levels, but we can still experience those levels and enjoys the fruits that it may offer. The brain must be a silent motor that takes us into deep thought without thinking. - Fred • 4/22/04; 10:40:21 PM I believe William Burroughs said once that an idea, any idea, doesn't belong to a person, but to a time period. There are many good arguments that can be made for this theory, one of them being Patent filings. People in different parts of the world often made similar inventions within a relatively small time-frame. Some of those inventions were more successful than others, but the basic idea seemed to knock on many people's door. I believe this is true for the electric light bulb, the typewriter and many other inventions. Of course, the same is also true for musical ideas and concepts. I had proof of that a few years ago in Singapore, where I had been flown to record with an Asian percussionist. I found that the Indian percussionist, the Chinese A+R person, the Japanese engineer and I all shared a similar vision of world music. That was a powerful experience. I wrote about musicians being the canaries in the mine-shaft recently, because artists can anticipate many changes about to happen in Science or even in society in general...if musicians from different continents can make MUSIC together, then eventually all peoples will be able to communicate...I have always thought that there is a curve to all music...if the curve is too far ahead of society you are considered a crackpot and too far out and few will want to listen to you. If the curve of your music is behind the curve of society you are yesterday's news, and in my opinion the place you want to be is just slightly ahead of the curve. This way you are doing something that is different and stands out, but it isn't too different...Until NF, my music was always slightly too far out, but with NF I unconsciously got it right. I say unconsciously because it seems to me that one cannot plan this stuff...you just have to trust your muse....
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Ottmar Liebert.
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