The Matchbox

• 2010-07-25

  The system is down

  — Strong bad

• 2010-07-24

  Found footage: iPad app turns sheet music pages with the tap of a toe

  This makes me happy.

• 2010-07-23

  

  The line for iPhone 4. Crazy!

• AmpliTube for iPad available, Yngwie Malmsteen en route to Apple Store -- Engadget

  As a musician, I think this is cool as shit.

• 2010-07-22

  This could be a very very cool app for the iPad.  It’s over capacity right now but I can’t wait to try it out.

  Flipboard - a free app!

• 2010-07-16

  venomous porridge: Apple Offers Free Cat Sweaters to Address iPad Issue

  CUPERTINO , Calif. — Steven P. Jobs, chief executive of Apple, acknowledged Friday that the company’s iPad 3G posed some health risks for cats when users placed the device on top of their cats and then sat on the device, but said the same problems affected all tablet computers and had been widely…

• 2010-07-13

  

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  dwineman:

  strutting:

  via Chockenberry, the damage record companies have wrought on the Rolling Stones masterpiece Exile on Main Street. LET’S MAKE EVERYTHING LOUDER YEAH THATLL SOUND GREAT …

  … buncha jerks.

  Wow.

  What’s going on here is that in remastering (top soundwave), the audio has been distorted (via compression and amplification) so much that basically everything is the same volume. There’s no dynamic range; every instant of sound is now at peak loudness. One of the greatest recordings of all time has been made harsh, dull, and tiring to listen to because record company executives want it to sound “loud.”

  It’s hard to tell from this graphic, but it looks like there may even be some clipping going on. See where the waveform is flattened against the top and bottom of the window? That’s audio data being amplified to the point of becoming indistinguishable noise. Normally when this happens, it’s a mistake: some piece of equipment is turned up too loud, overdriving the thing it’s plugged into. You turn it down, the clipping goes away. But when the clipping is part of the recording, it just sounds like dogshit at every volume level, forever.¹

  I’ll be keeping my non-remastered, non-ruined copy, thanks.

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  1. Wayback Machine link because the original, classic Rip Rowan article seems to have disappeared. ↩

• 2010-07-12

  

  I took a brief trip to Plant Park Saturday after teaching a lesson.  Got a couple of decent shots.

• 2010-07-06

  

  I don’t know who this is but I thought it made a cool photo.

• 2010-07-05

  

  I decided to try to be a little creative with some pictures I took on the 4th.

• 2010-06-30

  

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  Would you believe this was taken with an iPhone 4?

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