Today’s Links (17/07/06)
- SoundLathe 2005
"Combining a traditional pole lathe with custom built software, sensors and switches, Sound Lathe will produce audio data, saw dust, noise and chippings. With this contraption, turned spindles are shaped into complex sounds…"
- flickrInspector | http://netomer.de/flickrtools/
Very nice tool to display information about a Flickr account.
- Cub Scouts proud to serve twp.
"Cub Scouts Michael Fritsky, Alexander Reilly, Jack Mottram, Aidan Pignataro, Stephen Kostman, Jake Stein, Thomas Heideman and Brian Tobi all picked up litter and other debris in an effort to help keep the local park beautiful"
- Elgato Systems
A tiny wee Freeview receiver that plugs into your USB port, comes with PVR software.
- Last.fm Site Updates - Last.fm
Some seriously stupid changes to Last.fm: no more Audioscrobbler plugins, replaced by an application, and friends now have to be approved (so you can’t just add a stranger with good taste to see what else they’re into over time).
- Platform Wars: Question of the Day
‘Why doesn’t Google invest anything in Blogger?’
- Rosemary Jacob’s argyria introduction page
Lady turned grey by medication containing silver, now campaigning against similar snake oils.
- 85121816138512.jpg (JPEG Image, 7200x7200 pixels) - Scaled (8%)
The geography of Lost. (Whopping great big JPEG.)
- Electroatomics - How to recover a lost Master padlock combination
- The Herald
My review of the Transmission members show.
- The Herald
My review of the new-look Kelvingrove.
- BlogsNow: tracking 12,709,699 weblogs
"real time link popularity in 12,709,699 weblogs" - nice clean design.
- Westinghouse Digital - 7.0
Blimey, a digital picture frame that doesn’t look horrid. Only 16MB memory, but takes most memory cards.
- Dark Side of Oz | MetaFilter
Watch the Wizard of Oz ‘synchronised’ with Dark Side of the Moon. Only a dribbling mushroom casualty will see/hear any connections, but if you’ve wondered what all the fuss is about…
- Beating Heart: Description Archives
"A series of posts contextualizing heart-rate visualizations, GPS-maps, and personal journal entries… users are given a rare entrance into personal medical-grade statistics, stalker-level location tracking, and the private thoughts of the blogger."
- A piano in a gallery
"A piano sits in the middle of an empty gallery. All the sound in the room is amplified and the sound passed through loudspeakers which resonate over the piano strings which vibrate into the room in a continuous cyclical process."
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I agree with your comment about the Last.fm changes. I fear the decision was made to pre-empt any criticism of the service’s security measures after the whole MySpace stalker phenomenon — but I wouldn’t have thought that Last.fm was really a place to network in the same way as MySpace and their ilk are. So not only is such action on their part pretty much redundant, but they’ve also alienated/antagonised many of their own users in the process. Oy.
Posted by MacDara at 12pm on 17.07.06
I wouldnââ¬â¢t have thought that Last.fm was really a place to network in the same way as MySpace and their ilk are
That’s why it seems so odd - the point of ‘friends’ on Last.fm was always (for me, anyway) to discover new music, not new people. I thought that the approval thing was more about repositioning the site as social one like MySpace, rather than worries about limiting stalking, though.
Still, I’m not too fussed about it - my profile doesn’t reflect what I listen to, because I rarely use iTunes and mostly listen to records and, to a lesser extent, CDs. Now that I’ll have to remmeber to fire up the app before listening to music on the computer, this will just get worse.
I wish someone would invent a wireless device that would ‘listen’ to what you play, identify songs from the CDDB and a Shazam-style service, then upload the info to Last.fm or a similar site…
Posted by Jack Mottram at 1pm on 17.07.06