Re: FLUXLIST: edition

2006-05-02 Thread Björn Eriksson
A nice little tool is the Screamer Radio www.screamer-radio.com Free application to listen to and record internet radio/audio streams. /Björn - Original Message - From: Kamen Nedev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FLUXLIST@scribble.com Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 6:52 AM Subject: Re: FLUXLIST

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2006-05-02 Thread Rod Stasick
On 2006 Apr 30, at 1:34 PM, Kamen Nedev wrote: I remember a fascinating moment in Ninotchka in which Greta Garbo (in her role as a Soviet envoy to the West) tells her just-seduced Western counterpart who's about to turn on the radio: No, honey! Let's play music just for ourselves! and

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2006-05-01 Thread Rod Stasick
On 2006 Apr 30, at 9:03 AM, Ann Klefstad wrote: Very interesting, yes! It presumes a kind of purposeful inquiring search that I mostly seem not to have. Radio survives, I think, because we like being ambushed by small bits of diverse things to hear. I have boxed sets too and seldom

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2006-05-01 Thread Kathy Forer
On May 1, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Rod Stasick wrote: If we really don't have a central repository of all recorded music readily available to us, then I've long wished for everyone to have their own personal radio station - which is possible now. Even if you only have a dial-up connection of

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2006-05-01 Thread Rod Stasick
On 2006 May 01, at 8:48 PM, Kathy Forer wrote: The concept isn't quite as personal as yours, -- it's a commercial service customizing a feed to your taste, not an individually produced station, -- and some are lacking in variety and depth, but there are a few pretty darn good custom

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2006-05-01 Thread Björn Eriksson
Be yourself the neighbourhood broadcaster: http://www.broadcastyourpodcast.com/ /Björn being ambushed by small bits of diverse things to hear. I have boxed sets too and seldom listen to them because somehow I want to hear X occurs to me much less than I want to hear something. Surprise

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2006-05-01 Thread Kathy Forer
On May 1, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Rod Stasick wrote: Apart from those, you can really get personal using something like Nicecast: http://www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/ With them (and probably others that are PC friendly), anyone can narrowcast from their desktop. If I want to hear ForeRadio, then

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2006-05-01 Thread Kamen Nedev
Ah, that would be the ultimate utopia - no physical media anywhere, everyone just emitting their own sounds and pieces, everywhere in the world! And then, tools - in a Net crowded with streams and sounds, we could devise tools to navigate the audio streams, sonnar-like. Then, by the

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2006-04-30 Thread Roger Stevens
Interesting post thanks On 2006 Apr 28, at 4:08 AM, Kamen Nedev wrote: Hmmm, you have a point here. CDs suck. Period. The thing is, I'm not into CDs, I'm into the idea of publication, edition, or whatever you might call it. I don't care if it's a CD or a USB stick or a vinyl record,

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2006-04-30 Thread Ann Klefstad
Very interesting, yes! It presumes a kind of purposeful inquiring search that I mostly seem not to have. Radio survives, I think, because we like being ambushed by small bits of diverse things to hear. I have boxed sets too and seldom listen to them because somehow I want to hear X occurs to me

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2006-04-30 Thread Allan Revich
Disease of the will - or the willing of dis-ease? Either way it afflicts me too Ann. Allan Are -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ann Klefstad Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 10:04 AM To: FLUXLIST@scribble.com Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: edition

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2006-04-30 Thread Kamen Nedev
: FLUXLIST: edition Very interesting, yes! It presumes a kind of purposeful inquiring search that I mostly seem not to have. Radio survives, I think, because we like being ambushed by small bits of diverse things to hear. I have boxed sets too and seldom listen to them because somehow I want to hear

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2006-04-30 Thread Rod Stasick
On 2006 Apr 28, at 11:03 PM, Kathy Forer wrote: Ahh, then you need to go to molecular, protein or holographic memory. How about 10 GB per cubic centimeter in a sugar cube? http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~nd/surprise_97/journal/vol1/ary/ Thanks for this. I've been watching the holographic storage

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2006-04-30 Thread Rod Stasick
On 2006 Apr 29, at 1:53 AM, Kamen Nedev wrote: So maybe, in this sense, an appropriate way to prepare a Fluxbox nowadays would be to turn it into a Fluxdrive... Yup, I'm in for it. Yeah, a Sony Fluxstick. rod --- Now playing: The Fall - New Puritan RANDOM RODIO: (often)

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2006-04-30 Thread Rod Stasick
On 2006 Apr 29, at 2:18 AM, Kamen Nedev wrote: Well, the costs are the costs. Once upon a time, we had these things called public libraries, which were really cool for people who couldn't, you know, buy 20-30 books or records a week. But we kind of forgot about these places. I mean,

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2006-04-30 Thread Kamen Nedev
On 01/05/2006, at 0:07, Rod Stasick wrote: On 2006 Apr 29, at 2:18 AM, Kamen Nedev wrote: Well, the costs are the costs. Once upon a time, we had these things called public libraries, which were really cool for people who couldn't, you know, buy 20-30 books or records a week. But we

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2006-04-29 Thread Kamen Nedev
Well, the costs are the costs. Once upon a time, we had these things called public libraries, which were really cool for people who couldn't, you know, buy 20-30 books or records a week. But we kind of forgot about these places. I mean, even our university libraries aren't what they used

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2006-04-29 Thread Allan Revich
And I want to vanish into the ether of the eternal infinite Internet. A!!an -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rod Stasick Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 9:50 PM To: FLUXLIST@scribble.com Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: edition On 2006 Apr 28, at 6

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2006-04-28 Thread Rod Stasick
On 2006 Apr 28, at 4:08 AM, Kamen Nedev wrote: Hmmm, you have a point here. CDs suck. Period. The thing is, I'm not into CDs, I'm into the idea of publication, edition, or whatever you might call it. I don't care if it's a CD or a USB stick or a vinyl record, as long as I get this idea

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2006-04-28 Thread Kraig Louis Lamper
i'm not gonna lie... i've almost purchased the Merzbox about 7 times and each time i manage to resist the temptation somehow. lately i've been wanting to buy An Anthology from LaMonte Young and the MELA foundation except it costs so damn much for a poor college student to purchase. Quoting

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2006-04-28 Thread Kathy Forer
On Apr 28, 2006, at 7:04 PM, Rod Stasick wrote: Need a solo 29 minute work? OK, let me play the part of the Metzgermeister and just slice some off for you. Would you like that wrapped? How about 3/4 of a terabyte? http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16748

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2006-04-28 Thread Rod Stasick
On 2006 Apr 28, at 6:41 PM, Kathy Forer wrote: On Apr 28, 2006, at 7:04 PM, Rod Stasick wrote: Need a solo 29 minute work? OK, let me play the part of the Metzgermeister and just slice some off for you. Would you like that wrapped? How about 3/4 of a terabyte?

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2006-04-28 Thread Rod Stasick
On 2006 Apr 28, at 6:23 PM, Kraig Louis Lamper wrote: i'm not gonna lie... i've almost purchased the Merzbox about 7 times and each time i manage to resist the temptation somehow. lately i've been wanting to buy An Anthology from LaMonte Young and the MELA foundation except it costs so

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2006-04-28 Thread Kathy Forer
On Apr 28, 2006, at 9:50 PM, Rod Stasick wrote: No, I want to move UP from 1 TB. Something like this: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10351 There's bigger too - 2.5TB but you get into large RAID arrays. Ahh, then you need to go to molecular, protein or holographic memory. How