Blog Archives
Steve Vai on MySpace
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Steve Vai now has his own MySpace page. Head over to listen to songs from his Real Illusions: Reflections, Passion & Warfare, and Fire Garden albums.
Christopher Penn, “Nice Guy Eddie”, dead at 40.
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Chris Penn, best known for his role as “Nice Guy Eddie” in Reservoir Dogs and Willard in Footloose, was found dead late Tuesday at his home in Santa Monica, California. He was 40 years old.
Stuckey and Murray … Taking a Dump @ work
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For some reason, I find this song very funny. So did Jake.
Apple includes Podcasting features in new GarageBand release
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Check out this description of the new release of GarageBand. A lot of new podcasting features including support for artwork, sound effects and jingles, and a built in speech enhancer.
Thunderbird is go | The Register
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This article over on The Register talks about the latest version of Mozilla Thunderbird and its support of RSS and, yes folks, podcasting. For more information, check out the release notes for the 1.5 release.
news @ nature.com – Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye – Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds.
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Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye – Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds. – From the article: “The discovery came as a surprise to some experts. “My colleagues believed it would be impossible to really see anything in less than 500 milliseconds,” says Gitte Lindgaard of Carleton University in Ottawa”. One question. Any of these guys read Blink?
Podcasting 101 Tutorial
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Ken Underwood has put together a very simple “listening to podcasts HOWTO” in both printable and screen resolution PDF. For those of you who want a simple set of instructions to get your family and friends into podcasting, check out the Podcasting 101 links in the “Getting Started” section over on this page.
Shelley Winters dies at 85
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Shelley Winters dies at 85 – New York Daily News
MySQL Gets Government Thumbs Up
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MySQL Gets Government Thumbs Up – General Services Administration signs five-year contract with MySQL AB.