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since i seem to be in a musical mood, here’s another post for sound lovers:

if you’ve listened to any song that uses samples, be it hip hop, drum n bass, dub or a lot of other flavors, you’ve heard the “amen break”. it’s a sample from the b-side of a single of the winstons from 1969, that only lasts 6 seconds.

it’s absolutely amazing how far those snare beats came, it became the base of nearly every drum n bass and jungle song.

it’s been quite a long time since i’ve posted something about new software additions to my mac. this app here is actually completely useless, but nonetheless it’s been running since half an hour.

sound of traffic is a tiny java application (112 kb) that converts your network traffic into midi notes. my traffic sounds like a laid back chill-out track (i’m downloading/seeding the latest episode of the it crowd over bittorrent and updating some feeds from time to time). the app needs your admin password to access some devices and only works on OS X and Unix [1].

while on the way to oberwald i finally found some time to watch the it crowd (on my psp ). since cory doctorow posted about that new show on boingboing , i’ve been downloading all the episodes of the ultimate geek comedy.

the show is about a sysadmin duo. the two ubergeeks moss and roy [1] get a new boss who has far better knowledge of shoes than of computers. each of the first three episodes i’ve watched up to now is hilarious, the people that rode on the train with me must have thought i’m utterly insane, because i couldn’t help to chuckle and laugh out loud. it’s not the plot that is so funny, but the fact that each episode progressively gets weirder and belly rupturing funny.

sometimes later in the afternoon at work i wish for something like this . a rocket bike with a rather impressive acceleration, from 0 to 96 km/h in five (!!!) seconds.

the bike where the rocket is bolted on looks a bit goofy, but i guess you could improve that easily…

now i just want to see a video of it in action!

[via makezine ]

technorati tags: bike , make , rockets

google revamped their video service . you can now buy a big selection of videos. but the more important thing (for me, personally…) is, that you can download pretty much every video, readily formatted for your psp/ipod/big box on the floor.

now i really need tho fork out those 15 bucks for pspware , so i don’t get that nag-screen when synching my movies over to my new gadget.

oh, and google earth is now officially out of beta and available for the mac , too.

[via c&h-feed ]

Cute Overload , the name says it all. nothing but pictures of cute stuff, mostly animals and such. like mark frauenfelder said on boingboing, “Visiting it is like taking a happy pill”. you absolutely must look at the archives , there’s a lot of cuddly stuff there. really!

[via boingboing ]

technorati tags: cute

i seldom post jokes here, but this blonde joke just made me ROTFLOL .

it really did.

i know, i have a kinda crooked humor, or maybe i just need to go to bed.

[via :elbewerk ]

**update: **stefan (elbewerk) posted a followup : now the spiegel online (one of the bigger german newsmagazines) picked up the joke, too. even funnier :-)

2nd update: the joke propagated quite a bit now: see here for a rather thorough investigation with a node graph (or full 136kb .png-file here ) of the link sphere. i’m node 91, btw. [via haslo.ch ]

the war of the worlds ecomic has been loitering around in my netnewswire-tabs [1] for some months now. every now and then, the darkhorse -team has been releasing a few new pages of their adaptation of the novel by h. g. wells .

if you also dig comics a lot, then you might give it a go.

[1] there’s some other stuff waiting, too:

technorati tags: comic , ecomic , tag

yesterday i read on fscklog.com , that there’s a leaked version of google earth for os x in the wild. and today the uaw posted a link to macupdate.com , where you can download an unofficial beta release of the program. it works nicely on my mac, but your mileage may vary, and keep in mind that this is not an official release, so it might contain stuff you don’t want, i’ve warned you…