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Chanson Hindoue (Hindu Song)
Chanson Hindoue (Hindu Song), originally uploaded by alecmuffett. I have no idea what this sounds like.
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This is why we talk of Music being released as an Album.
This is why we talk of Music being released as an Album., originally uploaded by alecmuffett. Really. It’s an Album. I have others to post.
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A Selection of 78 RPM Records – Part 1
Via complicated means (read: having them dumped on me) I’ve obtained a big chunk of my parents’ 78RPM records, some of which doubtless go back to their parents, and some of which are even stranger, higher RPM, possibly shellac and with spirals which go from inside to out. The Pathe discs demand a “sapphire stylus”
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Twitter Updates for 2012-07-22
@ketan Anaglyph on APOD this morning. # For anyone who's not familiar with Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner" and its historic role in development of digital music: http://t.co/1Pr8RQ7F # (Just did the Tom's Diner test and the MM-1s came out fine. Luka for a followup.) # Incidentally the standard candle for Graphical compression is Lenna, a
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View from the ISS at Night on Vimeo # THIS IS A MUST-WATCH, USE HD IF POSS
This is one of those videos where you realise a connection between science and humanity; it’s very simple: there’s a big window on the ISS now – in a whole bunch of ways it doesn’t need to be there, but it is there because we are human and ought to look at ourselves. Carl would
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Twitter Updates for 2012-07-21
: Government should legislate on web browsing copyright issue, says media monitoring firm http://t.co/MFJDzrSs # : ILL MIND OF HOPSIN 5 #hopsin – YouTube http://t.co/vDcFZHmk # : Bill Binney Keynote Address at #HOPE9 http://t.co/xeJyUgSu # : Kitten attack! – YouTube http://t.co/afuqWysZ # : A dialogue on sending users their passwords in clear text in e-mails,
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Girls denied cervical cancer jab | UK news | The Guardian
Wow. See also. Some schools in England have opted out of the HPV vaccination programme because their pupils "follow strict Christian principles" and "do not practise sex outside marriage". The jab guards against two strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) virus – 16 and 18 – which cause 70% of cases of cervical cancer. It
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“GO FORTH AND FIND GOOD SMUT!”
I think someone objected to 50 Shades of Grey. I found this on the display in WH Smiths lol twitter.com/HypnoPeter/sta… — Peter Mabbutt (@HypnoPeter) July 19, 2012
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BBC accused of broadcasting
THE BBC is under fire for putting famous, expensive people on television, almost like a broadcaster. For whatever reason, people like him Jeremy Clarkson, who earns the BBC millions for a show in which he makes a small man crash cars, is controversially given a share of those millions almost as if he were working
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‘Online Now’ on Vimeo # interesting short film both pro- and crit- of new modes of communication
I think that the short version is: 1) we do things differently nowadays 2) the assumption that just because you’re plugged into a device you’re being antisocial is both narrow and wrong 3) just because it’s new doesn’t mean that it’s better or more honest; instead it’s different, and with that difference comes new and
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A dialogue on sending users their passwords in clear text in e-mails, includes the fabulous line:
Actually, the hosting password and server passwords are stored using the CC Encryption Hash. They are reversible but not stored plain text. A hash is not reversible. Ask any potato. Password security.