Archive for October 19th, 2005

Portable Audio for Snobs - How to make your iPod an audiophile’s dream. By Evan Cornog

Published by Yuletide on October 19, 2005 in Audio. 0 Comments

Portable Audio for Snobs - How to make your iPod an audiophile’s dream. By Evan Cornog

Portable Audio for Snobs
How to make your iPod an audiophile’s dream.
By Evan Cornog
Posted Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005, at 5:30 AM PT

Can an audiophile find happiness with an iPod? I so disliked the iPod I bought a year ago that I sent it back. When I complained to a Slate editor about the lousy sound quality, he asked what it would take to make an audio snob like me happy with an MP3 player. After a month of trials, I discovered that it’s possible to build a portable system that produces remarkably rich, clear sound. And fortunately, the high end in portable audio comes much cheaper than it does in home audio.

O’Reilly: Turn Your Mac into an Audio Transcriber

Published by Yuletide on October 19, 2005 in Hacks, Programming and Tech. 0 Comments

O’Reilly: Turn Your Mac into an Audio Transcriber

That’s when I hit on the idea of converting my Mac into a virtual Dictaphone, the kind of remote-controlled tape deck that professional transcribers use. Typically, these systems (which cost hundreds of dollars) play analog cassette tapes under foot pedal control. When you tap the left pedal, the tape will rewind slightly and then resume playing. That’s much more convenient than taking your hands off the keyboard and hitting Stop, Rewind, and Play; and the rewind length is consistent. Holding the pedal will usually rewind the tape further, and the right-hand pedal will stop playback, fast-forward the tape, or perform other functions. Newer Dictaphone-style machines use digital signal processing to maintain the speaker’s pitch while playing back faster or slower.

Kinja, the weblog guide

Published by Yuletide on October 19, 2005 in Interest and Tech. 0 Comments

Kinja, the weblog guide
About Kinja

Kinja is a weblog portal, collecting news and commentary from some of the best sites on the web. Visitors can browse items on topics, everything from food to sex. Or they can create a convenient personal digest, to track their favorite writers.

Weblogs are much talked about, but still challenging to navigate for the average web user. Kinja is designed to bring weblog writers to a broader audience, by making it easier to explore topics, posts and writers.

Kinja is not aimed at early adopters. Users wanting to analyze patterns of meme propagation, and other sophisticated data, should try the excellent Technorati.

A link to my kinja digest page: here

inform.com -

Published by Yuletide on October 19, 2005 in Tech. 0 Comments

inform.com -
About Them:

Inform is creating a free online tool that we believe will revolutionize how people read news on the web. We not only provide thousands of news sources and blogs in a convenient single interface, we process the news for you, allowing you to get at what you’re interested in more quickly, intelligently, and comprehensively.

Inform’s differentiating technology uses a series of information structuring techniques and natural-language interpretation to auto-categorize and group news stories into thousands of categories, and then shreds the text of the stories to isolate the important elements of each. Once the elements have been identified, you can easily connect and read news on any person, place, organization, topic, industry or product quickly, successfully, and easily right from the article you’re reading, or by utilizing a custom news channel you create, all for free.

5ives » Blog Archive » Five rules from the NPR drinking game

Published by Yuletide on October 19, 2005 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

AMAAAAZING!

Here are a few entertaining posts from 5ives: Merlin’s Lists of Five Things, written by the author of the 43 Folders blog.


Blog Archive » Five rules from the NPR drinking game

October 13th, 2005
1. Nina Totenberg reads a transcript (1 drink)
2. oboe is heard (2 drinks)
3. Malcolm Gladwell reference (1 drink)
4. Scott Simon cracks himself up (1 drink)
5. Daniel Schorr mentions Watergate (3 drinks)


Five revelations from Rene Descartes’ LiveJournal

September 19th, 2005
He used to be into Emo, but now he thinks it’s “kind of gay”
He’s thinking of getting a job next summer
He totally blew the math quiz on Friday
He’s frenched three times now (and one time got a little tit)
He’s using a Bob Marley icon some dude made

Five things I’d ask every Supreme Court nominee if I sat on the Senate Judiciary Committee

September 13th, 2005
If you knew to an absolute moral certainty that you could capture and consume a live infant without being caught, how many do you suppose you could eat in a weekend?
Have you ever been spanked erotically by someone who was not your current legal spouse? Just yes or no, please.
Nominee, do you regard these slacks as accentuating my basket in an un-senatorial fashion?
Describe in single words, only the good things that come into your mind about…your mother.
Kindly rise, and sing the 1979 hit, The Piña Colada Song, also known as Escape.

Five more slightly misleading revelations of federally-funded abstinence programs

December 29th, 2004
Liberal senators want to award slutty girls free sub for 6th abortion
Wearing green on Thursday makes you so totally gay
Douche with Dr. Pepper and your baby will have luxurious brown hair
When you masturbate on a Sunday, Jesus punches Keith Moon in the mouth
Latex condoms make your kooch smell like a pork rind: forever!


Five places that make me nervous

April 15th, 2002
Hooters
“Just stopping by this one guy’s house for a minute”
Bars where women sell shots in test tubes
Rooms containing teenagers
Anyplace people are praying

ThinkGeek :: TV-B-Gone

Published by Yuletide on October 19, 2005 in Gadgets and Tech. 0 Comments

ThinkGeek :: TV-B-Gone
Enter the TV-B-Gone, a small television remote that hangs on your keychain and turns off virtually any television with the press of button.

I want!

Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems | The Register

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Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems | The Register

A great resource that has allowed me to procrastinate many hours… researching things…

Also an interesting idea. This article talks about some problems it may have…

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