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Article suggesting that it is the artifacts we are familiar with, that we like.. I remember wondering what audiophiles were up to, buying extremely expensive home audio systems to play old vinyl records. They put turntables in sand-filled enclosures with elaborate cabling schemes. I wondered what they heard in that music that I didn't. Someone explained to me that audiophiles liked the sound artifacts of vinyl records -- the crackles of that format. It was familiar and comfortable to them, and maybe those affects became a fetish. Is it now becoming the same with iPod lovers? The Sizzling Sound of Music - O'Reilly Radar

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/calling-bullshit/james-randi-offers-1-million-if-audiophiles-can-prove-7250-speaker-cables-are-better-305549.php best contest ever probably

Damn. Just...damn.

So I really like the look of slow motion (and am thinking that with Bobby, it's going to be necessary). What's the best bang-for-the-buck camera that I want? Most of the ones that do 60fps seem to be just less than what I want to do, and 120fps seems to be enough, although I could probably be convinced one way or the other -- my research kind of sucks in this realm. Any additional thoughts would be welcome. Is it just fps that I'm worried about, or are there other parameters? I have to admit to beeing full newb on this.

Party on Chris! Cheers!

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This gets crazy discounted once a year and it's that time. If you want a wealth of fiction, music reviews, film commentary, cartoons, etc. here you go. Although the software isn't up to the content (though updates to it are better than some early reviews), 4,000 issues over 80 years for under $20 is incredible. Content is searchable by keywords, but like all these summary DVD collections, they're not going to go back and get permissions from every writers estate so these are decent resolution images - basically PDFs - of every page, not the text. You get over it quickly though and you can always 'print to PDF' with OS X or Acrobat to get outside. There's an update disc fr…

Once again it's time to remember Matt on what would be his Birthday. It would be hard for anyone who met Matt to forget him. I hope there's a better place, where you're happy Matt!

Happy birthday to you, Jeff!

http://usga.usopen.com/2009/virtualopen/signup/ This is pretty damn fun, but the course is very difficult. The best I have shot is an 80 so far. Post your scores if you play.

Don't have time to sit around listening to all those damned albums? Well, here's all of the Beatles UK albums compressed into a single 1 hour MP3 by speeding them up 800%. http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/10/the-complete-be.html Enjoy!

Happy birthday to the minions who were all born on the 1st of January, especially the plethora of 15 year olds who have graced this hallowed portal over the years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bH8apMqPw0

http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/wtb.pl?dgtlplay&1216359002 At the very least, we should be able to properly use the capslock in our ad title.

I felt like the amount of evidence in this case was overwhelming, and Murdaugh's testimony was underwhelming. But you never know how a jury will react, especially in the case of a wealthy defendant. I think this jury got it right, even though they only deliberated for 3 hours.

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/send-money-to-friends-with-gmail-and.html Interesting that Google has made it so easy to send money. I do have to wonder just how many folks are actually aware of Google Wallet to begin with? Paypal has such a stranglehold on the market...

I have to ship a Linksys "Music Bridge" to a friend in Denmark (from the US). Can somebody please suggest a reasonable shipping method? I'd like to get it there fairly quickly but at a reasonable price. Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

I don't normally do birthday greetings for long absent Head-casers, but noticed that @Duggeh turned 40 today. Seems like only yesterday that he was a young Scottish squire experimenting with large obscure headphones. If you happen to see this, then I hope you are well, Duggeh, and would love to hear tales of your middle age! Cheers!

I doubt he'll see this, but back in the early headphone days, especially in the Bay Area, Whitney was a regular. I know plenty remember him from those early meets. Great guy and always incredible music suggestions. After peeling off, he reshowed in my world from this Stanford Medicine article - The Puzzle Solver. With today's HC birthday reminder I looked up his web site and see he's posted a few recent videos to his YouTube channel. He has had a very tough time with severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, also called Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS). Saying happy birthday Whitney, but also bringing those who were not aware up-to-date. https://www.whitneydafoe.…

Does anybody use Earthlinks DSL-based local phone service?Impressions? QOS? Is it great? Does it suck? It just came available in my neighborhood. I would so enjoy saying goodbye to ATT. I currently use Earthlink for DSL. It's fine. Nothing extreme to report good or bad.

I assume many/most have already seen this poster (online or in print), but as it came up in conversation today I thought I'd link in case some haven't. Death and Taxes: 2009 Edit: And this has nothing to do with todays holiday. Just thought I'd link since it came up.

I usually only bid on eBay items with PayPal payment allowed, but I was careless this time and bought some tubes from a seller who doesn't accept PayPal. I would appreciate someone in the US paying the seller on my behalf, with a money order or personal check. The amount due is US$106. I will pay you back by PayPal plus a "fee" for your trouble. Send me a PM if you are willing to help. EDIT: Someone has offered to help, thanks