Eric Roche – Bushwacker

I found this recording of Bushwacker on a “Guitarist” magazine CD i bought a long long long time ago that Eric Used to write for, i was fairly sure i threw it out along with all the other guitar magazines i got rid of a few years ago but luckily enough this one slipped by me.

its such an excellent version of bushwacker too.

Sounds from Space

I was watching the video of the Atlantis Shuttle Launch last week on youtube which shows all the different camera angles as it launches. Some parts look really amazing especially that parts where you can see the whole earth coming into view, but i thought the sounds from the SRB intertanks sounded even amazinger.

I figured they would sound pretty neat together so i took the audio from the left SRB intertank and panned it to the left audio channel and panned the right SRB to the right channel and this is what it sounds like: (sounds best with headphones on!)

Google plus profile hack

I noticed earlier today that the “about” page of google plus profile lets you to upload 5 photos at the top of the page so i couldnt resist doing a Facebook type hack on it. I didn’t do anything as fancy as those ones though, i just used a panoramic photo i took sometime last year:

Evernote Note Launcher

It was/is a busy year for Evernote…. updates for webOS in January, updates for android & blackberry in February; complete redesign of iPhone app, Evernote web and chrome extension in March, notebook sharing in April along with even bigger updates to the android platform and now, finally… a feature that a lot of people have been asking for:

The update has been out since Friday but i only noticed it yesterday morning when i was checking the android marketplace for updates.

Bob Dylan 70

7 artists who covered Bob Dylan, one for each decade  (which is good because i only know 7)   Happy 70th Birthday Bob.

1.Fourth Time Around – Yo La Tengo

2.It Ain’t Me Babe – Robin Pecknold

The Defibulators – This Charming Man

The Defibulators doing a great version of “This Charming Man” by The Smiths (via mortaqui on youtube)

uploaded to soundcloud for your listening pleasure, yiii haaaa!

Grab your partner, do-si-do! 

Kickstarter Projects: Alan Watts and Terence McKenna

For those of you that have not heard of Kickstarter its a website that helps fund creative projects that range from film, music, design, technology and publishing. First, you create a pitch/video of what your project is about, then you make rewards that will entice people to donate more to your project. You then have a certain number of days to reach your target. If it does not reach its target in time any money donated to the project will not be taken out of anyone’s account. If it does reach its target then everybody ends up getting cool things such as Diaspora, the Cosmonaut, Kind of Bloop, and the Glif.

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Update (18/04/2011): The Alan Watts project just reached its 50,000 target!

Update (31/05/2011): The Terence McKennna project just reached its target (more updates below)

Google rewrites Joyce’s Wake… again

It looks like Google has updated their audio transcription feature on youtube since i posted about it last year (Google rewrites Finnegans Wake). Its really just the same nonsense as the last one but it does seem to get a few more words right this time round… maybe 10-15 altogether. Well done Google.

Odd words to look out for: bare-breasted rifles, IBM, lol, dot com, the golden brown!, e-mails, a few mentions of the government here and there like the last one.

Unfortunately Bill Clinton doesn’t make an appearance in this one but Reagan does, along with Joni Mitchell, Katie Couric, Jeff Toobin, Betty Ford and other fictional characters Lori Milroy, Cairo Clooney, Gregory, Julie and Goldberg.

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So here is Google’s second draft: (if your not familiar with the book watch the video below first and then read this)