Boomselection has closed up shop, but GYBO is going strong. Check them out for the latest and greatest. I've moved on from mashes and mixes for the moment and revisited old '90s music, Tricky, Martina Topley-Bird, Thievery Corporation, Mazzy Star, etc.
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Essential Mix
Ended up buying the Essential Mix 2003 summer mix from eBay. Get it if you can. Great mix.
Alex C - Remixes and bootlegs by Alex C
Alex C - Remixes and bootlegs by Alex C. Been a fan since his Mind Your Bitz mixes. Just checked out Count It Out on GYBO and downloaded a ton more from his site.
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Friday, August 19, 2005
Friday, August 12, 2005
Squeeze Me
Way back on August 5th, which is like decades ago in vlogger time, Mica posted a link to Luxmedia's remix of Squeeze. I thought it was interesting that Charlene posted a sequel to her measure video, measure 2wice. cut once. So I decided to make my own squeeze remix.![[alt]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sOrhfd_I6dxuL_KmERW1-bo0pyVru5oBSCZrwGYFbO70-0BNdzqW-a9xM6vWg0X4xftbDhDDwrmAB3Gd44DNTSYhxgI5kSFRSVAkJYtHkFmjyNEA=s0-d)
Monday, June 27, 2005
Shannon: why?
It appears that Shannon Noble has taken down his videoblogs. But I was able to find my favorite videoblog of his by some Google™-assisted sleuthing. I remembered its name, bug mountain, and guessed that it was a .mov(ie). Here it is, rebroadcast from his site, for however long he keeps it up:
[Link to Shannon's site]
Sunday, June 19, 2005
m.i.a.
bunch of m.i.a. remixes encouraged by the label. if you don't want to bother with m3u files and want to download them, I made some links of the 1st 20 (more later). I recommend the Galang (tone396 Mix) by tone396, which I didn't link to below because I already had it, and the uraqt trash dance mix by i am a sandwich is pretty cool.
mia into the maëlstrom by prospa | sunshine by wire transmission by THRO - DICE | miamare by peter uertz | URAQT(Pantherklubbix) by Pantherklub* | Bucky Done Gun- experimental juke mix by Malfunction | Uraqt - (Banjo Bang Bang Remix) by Mo-Zilla Vs. The Days of Doom - MV2D | Uraqt (Defense Contract Mix) by Majestic Twelve | Bucky Done Gun (Trueman's Sloppy Seconds) by Dave | pull up the people (slowly getting away mix) by Malfunction | Pull Up The People (Barebacker Mix) by Barebacker | Bucky Done Gone (Sounder Mix) by Paul Cantin | URAQT (Sounder Mix) by Paul Cantin | uraqt trash dance mix by i am a sandwich | Pull Up The People (Dubros rmx) by Dubros | Pull up the Poor- chug along by Malfunction | Bucky Done Gun (Hint's no, seriously, wot do u call it? remix) by Hint | ddddd Triple uzi Bucky gone mad by ddddd | U.R.A.Q.T. ?uestlove/ Art-Punk Mix by the Captain | URAQT (Kaiser Leif Remix Take 2) by Leif | pullupthedirt (lundimix) by skókkandi lundi
mia into the maëlstrom by prospa | sunshine by wire transmission by THRO - DICE | miamare by peter uertz | URAQT(Pantherklubbix) by Pantherklub* | Bucky Done Gun- experimental juke mix by Malfunction | Uraqt - (Banjo Bang Bang Remix) by Mo-Zilla Vs. The Days of Doom - MV2D | Uraqt (Defense Contract Mix) by Majestic Twelve | Bucky Done Gun (Trueman's Sloppy Seconds) by Dave | pull up the people (slowly getting away mix) by Malfunction | Pull Up The People (Barebacker Mix) by Barebacker | Bucky Done Gone (Sounder Mix) by Paul Cantin | URAQT (Sounder Mix) by Paul Cantin | uraqt trash dance mix by i am a sandwich | Pull Up The People (Dubros rmx) by Dubros | Pull up the Poor- chug along by Malfunction | Bucky Done Gun (Hint's no, seriously, wot do u call it? remix) by Hint | ddddd Triple uzi Bucky gone mad by ddddd | U.R.A.Q.T. ?uestlove/ Art-Punk Mix by the Captain | URAQT (Kaiser Leif Remix Take 2) by Leif | pullupthedirt (lundimix) by skókkandi lundi
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Bohemian Rhapsody -- Kleptones
Heard an amazing version of bohemian rhapsody remixed by the kleptones. They took a lifetime of recordings and condensed it into one song. Tried to find it on their site, but could only find Night At The Hip-Hopera, which has a bunch of Queen mashups (tracks from Waxy). It came up almost 30 minutes into illegal songs 20.
Their site pointed to mirror sites for other records, including:
klepshimi, which has a lot of mashup links, but was last updated jan 28 05. most of the links are now dead :(
The other funny item on the mix was ni9e's edit of nwa's straight outta compton, with just the explicit content left in.
Their site pointed to mirror sites for other records, including:
klepshimi, which has a lot of mashup links, but was last updated jan 28 05. most of the links are now dead :(
The other funny item on the mix was ni9e's edit of nwa's straight outta compton, with just the explicit content left in.
Sunday, June 12, 2005
Saturday, June 11, 2005
Boomselection.info in the archive
That's right, you can download some mp3s from Boomselection on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
Still can't find the Beach tape, though.
Still can't find the Beach tape, though.
BBC Radio 1 Player
Well, if I can't find it, I might be able to stream it from BBC 1's BBC Radio Player.
Aside from The Essential Mix, Annie Mac's is a popular show.
Aside from The Essential Mix, Annie Mac's is a popular show.
FATLACE MAGAZINE
FATLACE MAGAZINE, which DJ Yoda searches always end up leading to (because he's a contributor and editor). Currently under construction.
Tracklistings :: Essential Mix
Still looking for DJ Yoda & Dan Greenpeace's Beach Tape (Essential Mix from 06-22-03).
Essential Mixes
Essential Mixes
Wednesday, June 8, 2005
from the cached boomselection page
boomselection got hacked and lost its data awhile back, but google still has cached pages. Here are the sidelinks I found:
- base58.com
- IDC
- Need To Know
- B3TA : WE LOVE THE WEB
- Get Your Bootleg On - Get Your Bootleg On - The Tunes -- now at Get Your Bootleg On :: Index
- New York London Paris Munich -- now at FT - New York London Paris Munich
- Mark Vidler // Go Home Productions
- osymyso.com
- OORSMEER
- ::: POPJUSTICE :::
- James Hyman | Green Bandana Productions | Blog
- Cookd and Bombd
- The Freelance Hellraiser
DJ Yoda
I'm addicted to DJ Yoda's latest boomselection release, annie max mini mix (MP3).
I want more but I can't find it. Apparently he's selling his mixes these days rather than putting them up on the internet. Well, it happens to the best of them, I suppose. And I'm coming into this really late in the game too so I can't expect much.
I found the old boomselection info on him and would love to hear tje DJ Yoda & Dan Greenpeace Essential Mix 22/06/03. I'll begin my search for this now (scroll down on
Google's cached page for the info).
I want more but I can't find it. Apparently he's selling his mixes these days rather than putting them up on the internet. Well, it happens to the best of them, I suppose. And I'm coming into this really late in the game too so I can't expect much.
I found the old boomselection info on him and would love to hear tje DJ Yoda & Dan Greenpeace Essential Mix 22/06/03. I'll begin my search for this now (scroll down on
Google's cached page for the info).
Sunday, June 5, 2005
elbo.ws > your mp3 blog dashboard
Searched for blo_up-10dl on Google, found thiselbo.ws > your mp3 blog dashboard
the Tape-beatles
tape-beatles site, but you can get it free on U B U W E B :: The Tape-beatles / Public Works / Collaborations
Wednesday, June 1, 2005
The Social Security Non-Crisis
The Social Security Non-Crisis, by Noam Chomsky
Opinion and official policy are out of step. As in the past, most Americans favour national health insurance. In a 2003 Washington Post-ABC News poll, 80 per cent regarded universal health care as "more important than holding down taxes."
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Indie 103.1
Searching for more mashups. Found Indie 103.1 after reading about Mark Vidler in Twenty Questions.
They link to more sites:
Most of whom I've heard about, but didn't blog yet.
They link to more sites:
Most of whom I've heard about, but didn't blog yet.
Glass
[The video was called Glass. It is no longer posted.]
Music "Any Ideas" by AOR, courtesy CC Mixter
Music "Any Ideas" by AOR, courtesy CC Mixter
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Manufacturing Consent (excerpt)
Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
Liberals at home, often accused of being pro-Communist or insufficiently anti-Communist, are kept continuously on the defensive in a cultural milieu in which anticommunism is the dominant religion. If they allow communism, or something that can be labeled communism, to triumph in the provinces while they are in office, the political costs are heavy. Most of them have fully internalized the religion anyway, but they are all under great pressure to demonstrate their anti-Communist credentials. This causes them to behave very much like reactionaries. Their occasional support of social democrats often breaks down where the latter are insufficiently harsh on their own indigenous radicals or on popular groups that are organizing among generally marginalized sectors. In his brief tenure in the Dominican Republic, Juan Bosch attacked corruption in the armed forces and government, began a land-reform program, undertook a major project for mass education of the populace, and maintained a remarkably open government and system of effective civil liberties. These policies threatened powerful internal vested interests, and the United States resented his independence and the extension of civil liberties to Communists and radicals. This was carrying democracy and pluralism too far. Kennedy was "extremely disappointed" in Bosch's rule, and the State Department "quickly soured on the first democratically elected Dominican President in over thirty years." Bosch's overthrow by the military after nine months in office had at least the tacit support of the United States. Two years later, by contrast, the Johnson administration invaded the Dominican Republic to make sure that Bosch did not resume power. The Kennedy liberals were enthusiastic about the military coup and displacement of a populist government in Brazil in I964. A major spurt in the growth of neo-Fascist national-security states took place under Kennedy and Johnson. In the cases of the U.S. subversion of Guatemala, I947-54, and the military attacks on Nicaragua, I98I-87, allegations of Communist links and a Communist threat caused many liberals to support counterrevolutionary intervention, while others lapsed into silence, paralyzed by the fear of being tarred with charges of infidelity to the national religion.
Chomsky bookmarks
Exported from Firefox. No particular order.
Chomsky
- International Relations Center - IRC - Promoting citizen-based agendas for global affairs since 1979
- Lannan Foundation - dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity, and creativity
- Iraq Elections And The Liberal Elites: A Response To Noam Chomsky :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq
- The Bulletin - The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA
- Infoshop News - Noam Chomsky: The Toothpaste Election
- Blogcritics.org: A test on language Insight: A completed Virual Mime
Chomsky_20040419
- Lannan Foundation - dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity, and creativity
- MEDIA ALERT: IRAQ AND ZIMBABWE – A TALE OF TWO ELECTIONS :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it
- Khaleej Times Online
- Noam Chomsky Interviewed
- << CounterCurrents.org >>
- Blogcritics.org: Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left, by David Horowitz
- The Real Communists Part III - The New Hampshire - Commentary
- The Reader - Get Yours Today!
- Malaysiakini - Rentakini
- ZNet |Corporate Globalization | ZNet Book Interview
- Just another charade - GW Hatchet - Opinions
- Principles by Frank Speiser
- FrontPage magazine.com :: Chomsky: The Theory Unified and Deconstructed by John Williamson
- Editorial
- :: Novopress.info North America » Blog Archive » Capitalism Wants People to Be Interchangable Cogs
- Noam Chomsky vs. Noam Chomsky by Frank Speiser
- FrontPage magazine.com :: Chomsky's Book Burners by Tom Nichols
- RedState.org ||
- FrontPage magazine.com :: Juan of a Kind by Steven Plaut
- ZNet |Foreign Policy | On Globalization, Iraq, and Middle East Studies
- Progressive News - Entries for a Devil’s Dictionary of the Bush Era by Tom Engelhardt
- Khaleej Times Online
- (DV) Williamson: Agent Orange -- Thirty Years After
- Khaleej Times Online
- 'Coming events' - Socialist Worker
- Playwright brings Iraq controversy to Actors
- ZNet |Israel/Palestine | Letter Of Resignation From The Jewish People
- << CounterCurrents.org >>
- diary of an anti-chomskyite
Chomsky_feb2005
- Khaleej Times Online
- Khaleej Times Online
- Rocky Mountain News: Columnists
- Rocky Mountain News: Local
- Login
- Press Action ::: Same As It Ever Was
- Greater Kashmir Daily English Newspaper from Kashmir (INDIA)
- Charlotte Observer | 02/06/2005 | Plays use lessons from the past to illuminate our present state
- FrontPage magazine.com :: Columbia University Considers the Elimination of Israel by Oleg Preusner
- FrontPage magazine.com :: Ward Churchill and the Politics of Campus Extremism by Edward Alexander
- "The Waterbury Connecticut Republican American Newspaper"
- Blogcritics.org: Straight Up with Jan Herman: February 09, 2005
- Press Action ::: Ward Churchill's Real Sins
- Playing Mind Games with Peace
- ZNet |Mainstream Media | Silence Is Green
- Aljazeera.Net - Chomsky: Budget attacks America's majority
- Palestine Chronicle
- Opinion & Analysis
- Rocky Mountain News: Columnists
Democracy Now: Chomsky (to download)
- Details for Democracy Now! Wednesday 31 December 2003
- Details for Democracy Now! Monday 07 June, 2004
- Details for Democracy Now! Wednesday 17 March, 2004
- Details for Democracy Now! Thursday 24 June, 2004
- Details for Democracy Now: 2003-02-18
- Details for Democracy Now! Monday 23 August, 2004
- Details for Democracy Now: 2001-12-17
- Details for Democracy Now! Tuesday 26 October, 2004
- Internet Archive: Details: SourceCode Episode 2
- Internet Archive: Details: SourceCode Episode 3
- Internet Archive: Details: American Power And The New Mandarins
- Details for Democracy Now! Monday 07 June, 2004
- chomsky.info : What's New
- International Relations Center - IRC - People-Centered Policy Alternatives Since 1979
- Noam Chomsky: Iraq After the Election
- ZNet Blogger: Noam Chomsky
- International Relations Center - IRC - People-Centered Policy Alternatives Since 1979
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
village voice > music > Slim Swanee by Michaelangelo Matos
...i don't care if I'm 3 years behind the curve...
village voice > music > Slim Swanee by Michaelangelo Matos: "Eminem"
village voice > music > Slim Swanee by Michaelangelo Matos: "Eminem"
with or without me / eminem bootlegs / boom selection
with or without me / eminem bootlegs / boom selection
desperately seeking the ragtime/snookered/mky
more links
google noam chomsky mp3 search
a-infos radio project chomsky search
this guy seems to have mp3s for trading
chomsky audio search on webjay via blogdigger
MIT World: Institutions vs. People: Will the Species Self-Destruct? (stream only)
MIT World: The New War Against Terror (stream only)
from this site you can download one mp3
Monday, May 16, 2005
Raiding the 20th Century
Did a Google Search for "raiding the 20th century" and found the official djfood site as well as a review of Raiding the 20th Century on scissorkick.
Here are the two links referred to in the review:
- Ninjatune's bio of DJ Food
- More info about Raiding... I especially like this quote "...and finish something that neither of them actually started..." isn't that what life's about? This page also has links to the PDF listing the tracks, which I've also linked to, if you don't want to click twice to get it...
Monday, May 9, 2005
2005 Potter Lecture - WSU 4/22/05
4/22/2005 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
2005 Potter Lecture
Imminent Crises: Responsibilities and Opportunities
Noam Chomsky, MIT professor of linguistics and philosophy,
gave the 2005 Potter Memorial Lecture on Friday, April 22nd,
at 3:30 p.m. in the Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum.
In Real or Windows Media formats.
Massive repository of MP3s
This was buried in an earlier post, so I moved it to call it out more...
Massive repository of MP3s spanning the decades. Search the page for Chomsky to find MP3s. Too many to list here...
Massive repository of MP3s spanning the decades. Search the page for Chomsky to find MP3s. Too many to list here...
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
[VIDEO&AUDIO] UW Meany Hall talk 4/20/05
- seattle channel
- seattle channel video of chomsky uw talk
- kuow audio available
- Real Audio format
- More info
- Stream the M3U
- Right-click this link and click "save link as" to save the MP3
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Found Chomsky MP3s
While looking for the MP3 of Chomsky's recent UW talk at Meany Hall on April 20th, 2005 (mentioned during his KUOW interview), found the MP3s below. As for the UW talk, he's given talks in the past with the same title ("Illegal but Legitimate: A Dubious Doctrine for the Times"). It would be nice to hear the latest one with Q&A, as he usually integrates comments on current events... listen to his interview before the event here on KUOW (also posted below).
- From the University of Michigan Academic Freedom Lecture Fund page:
In October MIT Professor Noam Chomsky delivered at the University of Michigan Law School the 14th Annual University of Michigan Senate’s Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom before an overflow audience, which included many students. His lecture, entitled “Illegal but Legitimate: A Dubious Doctrine for the Times,” and an interview of Professor Chomsky by WUOM radio host Todd Mundt, are being aired repeatedly by University of Michigan Television (Channel 22). In addition, you can download a streaming video recording of the lecture from the site referenced above.
- The referenced site is the Lectures on Demand page available here, or you can skip to the Real audio page here.
- Also, Noam Chomsky gave the same talk, lasting 1:17:44, Tuesday, November 16, 2004 at 1:00 p.m. at Columbia University. Click the links below to view:
- Quicktime
- Real
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Weekday interview 04/20/05
For those who want to bypass the playlist format above and save the mp3 directly so they can listen to it on their iPods, go here.
Monday, April 25, 2005
MP3s on alternativetentacles.com
MP3 of some of Noam Chomsky's Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind available off of Less Rock, More Talk | Direct link to MP3
Complete list of Noam Chomsky MP3s available from Alternative Tentacles.
Interview at MIT 4/4/05
Igor Volsky interviews Noam Chomsky around 4/4/05 at MIT 1 | 2. Integrated with show & commentary. Full interview available here.
Chomsky speaks at Beasley
Noam Chomsky spoke at 3:30PM on Friday, April 22, 2005 at the Wallis Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum at Washington State University, in Pullman, WA. Chomsky gave the 2005 Potter Memorial Lecture, his speech was called “Imminent Crises: Responsibilities and Opportunities” and was open to the public, free of charge. The lecture gets its name from Frank Potter, a former WSU philosophy professor. Each year, an internationally-known philosopher is invited to speak at the University under this banner.
Primordial Ooze posted his notes and summerized the lecture on daily KOS.
Chomsky on Anarchism, a book of old anarchist texts by the author, some previously unpublished, is due out in May.
Monday, March 28, 2005
[VIDEO/AUDIO] Gifford Lecture 03/22/05
Illegal but Legitimate: a Dubious Doctrine for the Times. Chomsky's University of Edinburgh Gifford Lecture on 03/22/05 at McEwan Hall in Edinburgh. Windows Media or Real Player versions available.
View the file in a stand-alone real player application.
Downloadable OGG audio format of the lecture, hosted by indymedia.org.
From indymedia article:
The phrase "illegal but legitimate" is taken from the report of the International Independent Commission on Kosovo, which held that the NATO bombing was "legitimate" while recognizing it to be in violation of internation law.
- Scotsman.com article by Gareth Edwards about Chomsky's lecture in Edinburgh from 03/19/05
- Sunday Times article gives background to Chomsky's Edinburgh speech. From 03/20/05.
References:
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Saturday, March 19, 2005
Sunday, February 27, 2005
Campaign for the New Time
Campaign for the New Time
Great diagram of the long count calendar, with discussion of Mayan culture and their knowledge of time.
Great diagram of the long count calendar, with discussion of Mayan culture and their knowledge of time.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Surreptitiously taping
Surreptitiously taping while walking in the city.
[The video was called whirley things. It is no longer posted.]
[The video was called whirley things. It is no longer posted.]
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Picture from a very tall building
A nice view. They thought so too. Click to view movie.
[The video was called picture of a picture. It is no longer posted.]
[The video was called picture of a picture. It is no longer posted.]
Thursday, February 3, 2005
Xacti arrived
The camera arrived Tuesday morning. I have been playing around with it. No complaints so far-- there are many features. Can save a range of quality images-- over 7000 JPEG images at 640x480, over 350 at 8 megapixel. Over 40 minutes of video and audio at 640x480 30 fps high quality, or 16 a 1/2 hours of sound only. Easily connects to the TV for playback. Connects to both Mac or PC via USB for transfer. The issue I have is not related to the camera, but editing. The software that comes with the camera for editing, from Ulead, is sub-standard. I'd like to pick up an Adobe Premiere package for about $100 before I post my first video. Either that or spend $500+ for a Mac...
By the way, the eBay deal was great. Ordered Sunday evening, arrived Tuesday morning before 10.
More later...
By the way, the eBay deal was great. Ordered Sunday evening, arrived Tuesday morning before 10.
More later...
Monday, January 31, 2005
Xacti arriving from HK
I went with the Hong Kong dealer on eBay for $515. The Xacti should be arriving tomorrow. Thanks for your comments.
Saturday, January 29, 2005
Xacti Mania
More links on the Xacti
It's also known as the VPC-C4.
Best reputable price $449.00 from Hong Kong dealer on eBay.
Dealtime listing with links to reviews
Plemix lists price at $389.00, but this may be too good to be true
Preparing to Vlog
I've been looking for a good camera to use to vlog. So far, I've narrowed it down to the Sanyo Xacti DMX-C4, which is the updated version of the Fisher FVDC1. It also comes in blue or orange!
I may buy one from Semsons & Co. Inc. for $680.98, which includes the Xacti for $549.99 plus a 1GB SD memory card for $90, extra battery for $15.99, and $25 for shipping. I hope this company is reputable. I'll report more when I get it.
UPDATE: I went with a Hong Kong dealer on eBay for $515 including shipping. Highly recommended. Ordered on a Sunday, arrived Tuesday morning.
It looks like camcorders of the future will take advantage of video blogging by appealing to people who want to record videos directly onto a hard drive or memory card. Video tape will go away much like audio tape has, as it is simply easier to record directly to digital to edit. Pretty soon, in camera editing will become much easier to do, with software like iMovie installed right on the camera so you can edit on the LCD, or when you plug in to a TV. The pros are already using cameras that record to directly to hard drive. By this time next year, hardware manufacturers will be selling a lot more of these. But I can't wait... I need one now. If you are interested in my research, here's what I found out about some other cameras that record directly onto memory card or mini-hard drive.
Sanyo Xacti
The Xacti was released on Aug 23, 2004. Here's a google translation of the Japanese press release. (Be patient, it took about 5 minutes for it to work for me) If you can read Japanese, here's the original press release.
This seems like the perfect videoblogging device. It is small, it can record Mpeg4 video, which is standard for most vlogs these days. It can record an hour's worth of video on a 1 GB card. It has image stabalizer technology, which was one criticism of the Fisher camcorder (it didn't). It records up to 30fps in a 640 by 480 pixel resolution.
Reviews:
Research Notes
Please understand, this is all in my opinion and not a professional review of any of these cameras. I'm simply writing up my notes for geeks like me who like research. I'd like to update this page, so watch for updates if I have time.
- Panasonic SVAV50 MPEG-4 SD Video Camera. $300-400. Reviewers say this is not good in low light. The camera also does not look very ergonomic.
- Panasonic SVAV50S MPEG-4 SD Video Camera.
- Panasonic SVAV100 D-Snap MPEG4 Digital Video Recorder w/10x Optical Zoom.
- Panasonic PVDC252 MiniDV. This got good reviews, but it is minidv.
- Canon Powershot S400. Steve Garfield uses this. Reviews said the camera has some noise issues.
- Fisher FVDC1. Jakob from Vimeo uses this. Check out his videos to see the quality. It records to mp4, which is great for posting to the web. Released Nov. 13, 2003 for around $800. This past November Sanyo dropped the price a couple hundred dollars for the holidays. I am sure they are ready to release another version, but I haven't seen any news about it. However, I looked around some more and found the Xacti. You can get the Fisher on Amazon for 569.99.
- JVC Everio GZMC100 2MP Digital Media Camera with 4 GB Microdrive & 10x Optical Zoom. $1000 new. This is the camera with microdrive technology. However, the drives are expensive. One reviewer says it cost him $567.33 on the JVC site, so instead he "found the same Hitachi 4GB drive on Amazon for $219.88." JVC sells batteries for $73.12, but this same industrious reviewer found one on eBay for $22.80. Reviewers complain about the zoom noise, pale colors in weak light, how both units take 8 seconds to turn on, the microdrive can overheat, it was hard to handle, and there was weak image-stabilizing. However, this looks to be the direction the manufacturers are going. There's also a horizontal version but I don't see what that adds. They were announced in the New York Times on November 25, 2004, and released in December 2004. (FYI-- The Times requires that you register to view the article, I find it easier to use Bugmenot)
With a lot of these cameras, the software isn't very good, for instance with the Panasonic cameras, the output is a non-standard .MOD file that you have to manually change to .MPG if you want to edit it using most other editing software.
Monday, January 17, 2005
Sunday, January 16, 2005
The sun is dimming
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Why the Sun seems to be 'dimming'
The greenhouse effect is being countered by particles in clouds reflecting the sun's light back into space. Therefore, the greenhouse effect may actually be worse than we know, but we don't feel it because we are getting LESS sunlight.
Friday, January 14, 2005
Make Your Computer Intenet-Safe
It amazes me that there are people out there who don't know how to use the Internet safely. To me, it is like crossing the street. You have to know to look both ways and observe the rules of the road, or you will get hit by a speeding car. This article makes it sound like there are many people out there surprised they are getting hit when they walk blindly out into the middle of the road. The internet is being sold like the telephone network. It is safe, secure, and nothing can happen to you when you go on it. That's just not the case. The internet is not the phone network. It is dangerous, and to use it, you must protect yourself.
There are a few programs that are helpful in protecting you on the internet. They are free, and very useful. There are also some very helpful sites that are trustworthy and worth looking at every once in awhile for security updates. If you just bought a new computer, I recommend that you download all of these programs, including the latest Windows updates, and burn them onto a CD to install onto the new machine BEFORE YOU EVEN CONNECT IT TO THE NET. I've read some other articles about how some people who just bought their new computers in December plugged them in and immediately got hit with worms and viruses, AS THEY WERE DOWNLOADING UPDATES FROM WINDOWS UPDATE! It's a rough world out there. And you have drivers looking for pedestrians to run down... so check these programs out.
- Zone Alarm - a helpful firewall, the free version does just as much as the paid version.
- Ad Aware - protects against spyware and malicious programs.
- Spybot Search & Destroy - gets rid of most spyware if you have been unfortunate enough to have any on your system.
- Firefox and Thunderbird - the best alternatives to Internet Explorer and Outlook that you can get for free.
- Gmail - the best free e-mail service you can get. It's in beta now and you can only get an account if you know someone else who has one, but if you ask around, there should be someone who has free accounts to give away. I have 9. Ask me. I'll give you one.
- Norton Antivirus - I've never had a problem with this virus protection software. You have to pay for it, but it's worth it.
- Windows Update - If you are using Windows to connect to the Internet, be sure to run Windows Update every month, week, or day. As bad a reputation as Microsoft has gotten for their security holes, they do offer helpful patches that should be installed as soon as they are released. The only unfortunate thing about Windows Update is that you have to run in on IE. But if you protect your system with all of the above methods before you go here, you may be safe.
- Leaktest - tests your internet connection to insure that it is free of leaks-- that is, that you can surf the net without opening up your IP address or computer to malicious users.
- Gibson Research Corporation - Steve Gibson is the best security/Windows programmer on the net. His Leaktest program is proof that Zone Alarm is the best firewall out there, and that a firewall is needed to make your system safe. Check out his site every once in awhile. There are a lot of good programs there. And another good thing about his work is that it is free. However, I keep meaning to give him some money one of these days...
Hopefully those "rules of the road" will help some of you that use Windows how to make your systems safe. I never wrote them all down as I assumed everyone knew about them! But I guess, everyone has to take a driver's test at least once, and learn about all of this stuff at some point in their lives.
Mobile Phone Real Games
From this videoblogging list message, I was introduced to the concept of Mob Art, which includes Mobile games that you can play on your cellphone. I clicked on a list of these games, and saw one called Raygun, by a company called Glofun, which uses GPS to track your location and send "ghosts" to you which you must then "zap" with your phone by moving towards them.
Sounds fun.
Saturday, January 1, 2005
Fly like an eagle
Animal Planet :: Spy on the Wild :: Bird Technology
Mini-cameras mounted on an eagle let you see a true bird's eye view...
Holiday Traffic
Spent the day following links:
- Daily Experience - This guy has been video blogging significant moments in his life for a couple years.
- c 7 11 23 - This guy has taken a picture of himself every day since 1998.
- Tehching Hseih - A performance artist that did one year performances in NY, like living in a cell for a year, and punching a time clock every hour for a year.
- Jobs in Antartica
- Family photos - a family documents their life through yearly photos.
- Same thing as above, with sisters
- American Mile Markers - A guy drove across country from NY to San Francisco and took a photo every mile.
- More obsessive photo projects, courtesy of c71123.com.
- Ten Years of My Life - A guy takes a picture a day, for the next ten years.
- More obsessive photo projects, courtesy of c71123.com.
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