Do you LOVE the video of Feist "counting to 4" on Sesame Street?! Sweet. She's a sport.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Feist is adorable on Sesame Street
Do not trust your ears - you must hear this
Listen (and then listen again) to the amazing Shepard scale.
And check out the Shepard-Risset glisssando (towards the bottom of the linked page).
And check out the Shepard-Risset glisssando (towards the bottom of the linked page).
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
The "Twilight" books and Stephenie Meyer
My daughter just started in on the "Twilight" teen-vampire books. To get in the loop I found this overview of who's who in the "Twilight" novels from Entertainment Weekly to be handy.
No doubt a road trip to Forks, WA will be in in our future.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Bwa Ha Ha... Chris Brown hit song is a commercial!
Wow, clever these marketers are.
We will no doubt see a lot more of this.
The audio cassette slips further away
I still remember my first mono cassette recorder/player from the early 70s. It was amazing to be able to record my voice or the radio and play it back right away. And then came stereo, and Dolby, and all those blank TDK, Maxell, Memorex, and BASF tapes I bought over the years.
I still have a few hundred cassettes - mostly spoken word stuff and radio airchecks - that really, I'm going to convert to MP3s... someday. Here another publisher says goodbye to the once cool cassette.
I still have a few hundred cassettes - mostly spoken word stuff and radio airchecks - that really, I'm going to convert to MP3s... someday. Here another publisher says goodbye to the once cool cassette.
How cool will Cuil be?
Maybe really cool, since it's a new search engine built by ex-Google engineers.
8/13/08 - or, maybe not so cool at all...
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
The man with the sound
Neat piece from Rotten Tomatoes about Ben Burtt, the former Lucasfilm and now Pixar sound genius (and voice of Wall-E).
Wicked Pissah in Boston
When I arrived in Boston for college I learned right away that something wicked was good, and that something "wicked pissah" was THE stuff. A fun listen in on the world of Boston-area accents.
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
Yet another way to discover music
I tried StumbleAudio, and after a few clicks found myself liking this album from pianist Mike Longo.
Building your online brand
Some solid sounding advice from Chris Brogan.
Writing guest blog posts is sure one way, because the above-linked post made me want to subscribe to Chris's newsletter.
How to Be Interesting
Good ideas on how to engage people from Copyblogger.
For example, I like "metaphors are the paths we create to lead our readers to our ideas. Create one strong enough, and it will become a highway of attention, leading readers to your blog more quickly than any other technique..."
Online Alarm Clock
Nice and simple Online Alarm Clock.
Will work even if you're not connected to the Internet, or so they say.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008
now being outside the 18-49 demo? Friday, June 13, 2008
Nintendo has another HUGE month
The May sales numbers are out for the video game industry, and no surprise that GTA IV was the #1 software title. But Mario seemed to clean up everywhere else.
Nintendo on the hardware side:
Nintendo on the hardware side:
"...the company has once again destroyed the competition. This is the fourth consecutive month that the Wii and DS have captured the top two hardware sales spots, and they have an iron grip on their locations. The Nintendo Wii sold 675,100 units in May, while the Nintendo DS has sold 452,600. To put that in perspective, the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, and Xbox 360 sold 577,600 units combined."
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
More TV coming to a Blog Near You
CBS has announced that their video player will soon let you embed a show in to your blog, like this:
More and more TV will be seen on something that's not a TV...
"Why does embedding matter? Because it reflects the increasingly distributed nature of network television."
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