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Mittwoch, 29. Dezember 2004 |
Incredible Beatles mashup mixes 40+ different tracks
Cory Doctorow: Hank sez, "Where ordinary mash-up mixes mix two or perhaps three songs, this mix is made up by appx 40 Beatles songs, with sometimes five different songs playing at the same time. A must hear!" I concur; this is mind-blowingly amazing. Man, all these Beatles mash-ups this year are really making me yearn for my old Beatles vinyl. I especially love the juxtosition in this track of the old skiffle-Beatles with the later psychedelia. Soo-poib.
PS: I am reasonably certain that this server will be shortly overwhelmed. If you've got a mirror, email me and I'll post a link to it. However, I have no such mirror, so if you find yourself unable to get a copy, don't look at me!
Update 1: Ian Clarke, the co-author of the awesome P2P tool Freenet, has graciously offered to distribute this file through Dijjer, his new (still pre-beta) P2P content distribution tool; here's the Dijjer Link
Update 2: Brian Arnold offers this more conventional mirror
Update 3: David Chin was good enough to make and seed this Torrent for the file (though I have my doubts about BitTorrent's efficacy with a file of a paltry five megabytes)
(Boing Boing.)
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"Video: Tsunami wave hitting Phuket beach, RealVideo...
"Video: Tsunami wave hitting Phuket beach, RealVideo format"
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Benjamin Rosenbaum - Journal for December 2004
Tsunami Relief: Charity Efficiency and Transparency Ratings
My contribution to the blogosphere's response to the tsunami...
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Quake Changes Earth's Rotation, Moves Islands
"This week's deadly Asian Quake and Tsunami may have been so powerful, that it changed the rate of Earth's rotation. In a Reuters article, a NASA geophysicist theorizes that the quake compacted the Earth enough to speed up the planet's rotation by 3 microseconds. A second article says the quake moved undersea tectonic plates by up to 98 feet, shifting islands near Sumatra out to sea an unknown distance. Also, a USGS team wants images from commercial satellite operators to help pinpoint coastline damage. Lastly, an interesting article from the Australian Spaceguard Survey about the need for a Tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean. The author comments that tsunami warnings may not help much, as people often flock to the coastline to see the giant waves." The current estimated death toll is now nearly 70,000; Amazon and Google, among others, have added front-page links to simplify donating to the disaster relief effort.
(Slashdot.)
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futurezone.ORF.at
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Tsunami News Updates
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Taucher.Net - Tsunami-Personensuche
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Myanmar's govt suppressing tsunami news?
Cory Doctorow: GeekCorps founder Ethan Zuckerman has astutely noticed that there is almost no news about the effect of the tsunami on Myanmar (formerly Burma), which was surely in the disaster's path. It appears that news of the tsunami's effect has been supressed by Myanmar's military dictators.
There's two possible explanations for this story. One is that Myanmar, with 1930 kilometers of coastline, numerous fishing villages and huts on stilts along the coast, and a common border with Thailand - where over 1500 are reported dead - miraculously escaped the effect of the tsunami.The other explanation is that Myanmar's famously secretive military government hasn't wanted to reveal the extent of the tsunami damage to the outside world... and especially to their own citizens. (As in many represive regimes, it's easier to to get news from outside the country than news from within it.)
(Thanks, Alex!)
(Boing Boing.)
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Before and after hi-res satellite images of tsunami zone
Xeni Jardin:
Amazing, amazing images of beachfront in Sri Lanka before and after the tsunami hit. Also, hi-res satellite images of the tsunami itself. Snip:
"This is a natural color, 60-centimeter (2-foot) high-resolution QuickBird satellite image featuring the southwestern coast of Sri Lanka. Imagery was collected at 10:20 a.m. local time, slightly less than four hours after the 6:28 a.m. (local Sri Lanka time) earthquake and shortly after the moment of tsunami impact."
Link (Thanks, WW!).
Previous BB posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
(Boing Boing.)
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podzilla installed!
Podzilla
I just installed Podzilla on my iPod, enabling Linux on my white elephant! Went off without a hitch and my songs are still on the device, which I can access from my desktop. ScreenShot
Now we can write software for the iPod! The first needed bit is already in there, hi-quality microphone or line-in recordings. Booiinngg!!
Next, built-in iPodder that talks to the network via ethernet over firewire.... telnetting into my iPod is the stuff dreams are made of.
Update: OK, it really works. recording as well as playback, and you can access the file system. Far from ready for prime-time, but beyond promising. This would be a wonderful device to navigate outlines with. spin/click/spin
I soooo want OPML to run on this :)
(Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog.)
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Daypop search - tsunami
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"Crossroads Dispatches: Slammed by Tidal Wave, But...
"Crossroads Dispatches: Slammed by Tidal Wave, But I'm OK"
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"Donations for Tsunami Victims"
Doug Kaye
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