Pandora

Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music

At Pandora, we have a single mission: To play music you'll love - and nothing else.

To understand just how we do this, and why we think we do it really, really well, you need to know about the Music Genome Project®.

Since we started back in 2000, we have been hard at work on the Music Genome Project. It's the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken. Together our team of fifty musician-analysts has been listening to music, one song at a time, studying and collecting literally hundreds of musical details on every song. It takes 20-30 minutes per song to capture all of the little details that give each recording its magical sound - melody, harmony, instrumentation, rhythm, vocals, lyrics ... and more - close to 400 attributes! We continue this work every day to keep up with the incredible flow of great new music coming from studios, stadiums and garages around the country.

With Pandora you can explore this vast trove of music to your heart's content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go. It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings - new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you.

You can create as many "stations" as you want. And you can even refine them. If it's not quite right you can tell it so and it will get better for you.

The Music Genome Project was founded by musicians and music-lovers. We believe in the value of music and have a profound respect for those who create it. We like all kinds of music, from the most obtuse bebop, to the most tripped-out drum n bass, to the simplest catchy pop tune. Our mission is to help you connect with the music YOU like.

I may be late to the party on this, but man, it's pretty freaking awesome. I'm danklife on it of course.

Thanks Steve!

DNS kerfluffel

Man, I really can't wait till everyone updates this damn DNS patch. Email is on the fritzm websites are being goofy.... good lord....

Changes to bookmarks are lost whenever you restart Firefox

Bookmarks not saved

If your changes to your bookmarks do not appear when you restart Firefox, the issue may be that your bookmarks file is write-protected. A write-protected file cannot be changed, which prevents your edits to your bookmarks from being saved. Firefox 3: Windows:

To enable writing of your bookmarks file:

1. Go to your Firefox profile folder. 2. Right-click the file places.sqlite, and select Properties to open the Properties window. 3. In the Properties window, select the General tab. Near the bottom of the window, verify that Read-only is not selected.

4. If the folder also contains a file called bookmarks.html.moztmp, verify that it is not marked as read-only.

Mac OS:

1. In the Finder, go to your Firefox profile folder. 2. Select the file places.sqlite. 3. From the menu bar select the File menu and select Get Info. The bookmarks.html info window will open. 4. In the bookmarks.html info window, remove the check mark from the Locked check box.

radiohead vid

RA DIOHEA_D / HOU SE OF_C ARDS - Google Code

No cameras or lights were used. Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.

iphone bug

So, if you unplug your headphones while listening to a song, the iphone will think that the headphones are still plugged in. This means your phone will not ring and you can't hear anything when you try to talk. Kinda frustrating to say the least. Change the volume with the side volume toggle and if it reads "(headphones)" by the volume setting, you have the bug.

The fix is to plug the headphones back in, go to the ipod area, stop the song from playing, go to a different menu in the ipod player and then go back to the main menu. Then you can unplug the headphones and reset the glitch.

That should do it.

If you left the house without the headphones or the $20 Griffin adapter (for gen 1) you are shit out of luck I guess. Way to design a recessed 1/8" jack apple.

Yikes

U.S. Weighs Takeover of Two Mortgage Giants - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — Alarmed by the growing financial stress at the nation’s two largest mortgage finance companies, senior Bush administration officials are considering a plan to have the government take over one or both of the companies and place them in a conservatorship if their problems worsen, people briefed about the plan said on Thursday.

I wonder if it's time to pull the money out of the bank and buy a gun? This is serious end game stuff.....

Fuck it.

You know, I was just gonna post about Karl Rove refusing to testify, but you know what?

Fuck it.

They won. It's over. They got away with it all. Screw it.

War, oil, Iran some to be attacked. Screw it. I'm gonna fiddle while America burns.

Now where's my camera, I'm gonna take purty pictures.

DEMOCRATS WEAK ON CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, FREEDOM.

DEMOCRATS WEAK ON CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, FREEDOM.

The issue put Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in a particularly precarious spot. After long opposing the idea of immunity for the phone companies in the wiretapping operation, he voted for the plan on Wednesday. His reversal last month angered many of his most ardent supporters, who organized an unsuccessful drive to get him to reverse his position once again. And it came to symbolize what civil liberties advocates saw as “capitulation” by Democratic leaders to political pressure from the White House in an election year.

Now this would be fun.

GDR

The Great Divide Race is a self-supported, solo competition following the 2,490-mile Great Divide Mountain Bike Route. Traversing Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, the route demands over 200,000 feet of climbing along it's length. Competitors carry all equipment necessary to negotiate the backcountry, restocking on food and other supplies from the small towns along the route.

Interesting read on stills and motion

The Cloud is Falling

So is the answer for photographers is to pick up a video camera? Should we all produce audio slide shows?

Well - maybe. While there is ABSOLUTELY no doubt that every photographer out there should be actively developing their video shooting and editing skills today and learning it at their schools/universities - I do have some important reservations and concerns to point out.