Talking Back to Your Squeezebox

August 25, 2004 – 12:00 am

Some silliness with a Squeezebox:
http://hostname:9000/status.txt?p0=display&p1=firstline&p2=secondline&p3=5
Tells the SlimServer at hostname:9000 to send the message in p1 and p2 to the display of the Squeezebox it controls for p3 seconds.
Worth a try if you’re on a friend’s network with a Squeezebox.
Proving that any good piece of software will expand until it reads email, there’s a hacker community [...]

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Pythonesque Music Video

July 29, 2004 – 12:00 am

UK popsters The Clinic do a homage to Pythonista animator Terry Gilliam in their video for the single The Magician. [ QuickTime ]

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Margaret Cho on Elvis Costello

May 27, 2004 – 12:00 am

Margaret Cho remembers how Elvis Costello could do subversion:

Elvis has always been political. Once on Saturday Night Live, as a last minute replacement for The Sex Pistols, he awkwardly but gracefully - the Elvis way of doing things - stopped the performance of a second song, “Less Than Zero,” to play the song they told [...]

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Moby Division

May 18, 2004 – 12:00 am

Michael Winterbottom delt with Ian Curtis when he made 24 Hour Party People, so I don’t know why Moby feels compelled to do it again.
By the way, if you like film, I recommend Filmbrain’s weblog: Like Anna Karina’s Sweater.

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Bathtime in Clerkenwell

May 16, 2004 – 12:00 am

Go find a friend with a Windows PC to watch this: an animated video for The Real Tuesday Weld’s Bathtime in Clerkenwell in which an army of cuckoos attempt to wake and bathe a reluctant human. [ Windows Media ]
I got to see this last fall at a Sprocket Ensemble show in Oakland. Mind you, [...]

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Mermen Show Archive

April 9, 2004 – 12:00 am

The Mermen are one of my favorite bands, playing heavy instrumental surf influenced by psychedelica and Sonic Youth.
They are best heard live. And the band supports tapers.
So you can find plenty of their live shows at the Internet Archive.
You’ll need a tool such as Shorten to convert the audio to WAV format.

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XTC Returns to America, 30 Seconds at a Time

March 20, 2004 – 12:00 am

Hopefully you all watched or taped Wonderfalls last night. Did you realize that the theme song is probably the largest mass exposure of American ears to Andy Partridge’s music since XTC toured with The Police?

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Another reason to like Wonderfalls

March 13, 2004 – 12:00 am

[ via Whedonesque ] Andy Partridge (of XTC) wrote and recorded the theme song for the new show Wonderfalls.
Watch the music video.
Buy it from the iTunes Music Store.
Oh, and the pilot was wonderful.

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Drum Machine

February 23, 2004 – 12:00 am

Coolest. Flash. Ever. [ 3.0 MB, Have your headphones ready. ]

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bôa’s ‘Duvet’

February 8, 2004 – 12:00 am

Anime’s not just a Japanese-only game. The theme music, Duvet, to Serial Experiments Lain, for example, was written and recorded by the UK band bôa.
You can download mp3’s of Duvet and a remix from the band’s website.
Alternatively, I’ve created a Webjay playlist you can open in iTunes or other player that understands playlist files.

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Squeezebox Praise

February 7, 2004 – 12:00 am

I’m happy to report that I love my Squeezebox, the wireless music player that plugs into my stereo and streams music from my home network.
The new version of the server software now plays all the tracks I had ripped in AAC format (which was almost all my Yoko Kanno) so I now can listen to [...]

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iTunes Music Store RSS Generator

January 22, 2004 – 12:00 am

I learned from Bill Bumgarner that the iTunes Music Store now has RSS feeds.
I’ll withhold comment on the markup, but hey, we have feeds.

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No, really, it’s a tribute to Johnny Cash

January 2, 2004 – 12:00 am

[ via Hal ] Um, Desperado. With monkeys. [ Flash ]

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Meta Best of 2003

December 31, 2003 – 12:00 am

[ via W6 Daily ] The list of lists for 2003.

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Books, Music, and Movies of 2003

December 30, 2003 – 12:00 am

Folks are posting their 2003 bookslists, and it’s time for me to follow suit.
These are books, music, and movies I found and liked during 2003. That doesn’t mean they were released in 2003.
Books of Note

Oliver Morton, Mapping Mars
Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven
Iain M. Banks, Look to Windward
Gwyneth Jones, Midnight Lamp
Bruce Schneier, Beyond Fear
Timothy [...]

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