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Category Archives: Geek
The Mp3 Encoding Debate: Results Are In
A follow-up to this post: Cognitive Daily yesterday published its rather (un?)surprising results: For both recordings, there was a significant difference between ratings of the 64 kbps sampling rate and the 128 kbps sampling rate, but no difference between ratings … Continue reading
An mp3 Is An mp3 Is An mp3?
Cognitive Daily is carrying out an online poll to determine just how audible the fluctuation in quality is between mp3’s that have different encodings: I created three different versions of two song clips — 64, 128, and 256 kbps MP3 … Continue reading
Zappa Wiki Jawaka: Upgraded
It took some blood, sweat ‘n tears, but Zappa Wiki Jawaka has (finally) been upgraded from its ancient 1.4.2 incarnation to MediaWiki‘s newest, super shiny 1.11.0 version. Spambots be gone! I hope!
Uber Cool High Nerd
Took The Nerd Test. The results of the jury: Mmmmyeah. 46% for math? Somewhere my high school math teacher is popping a vein or two right now. But the nurse is getting his meds, so that’s okay. Oh, and uber … Continue reading
Posted in Geek, Randamonium
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NoSo
Take your myspace, your facebook, your twitter, your pownce, your virb, your mashable — and ram it up yer snout. Finally here’s a social network I wouldn’t mind subscribing to: NoSocial. From the about page: NOSO is a real-world platform … Continue reading
Ooooh Shiny
Last.fm now allows for the making and off-site inclusion of playlist “widgets”. Let’s see how that works out! Here are my Recently Played Tracks (my iTunes is currently on Party Shuffle mode by the way): Now then: I’ve shown you … Continue reading
Posted in Geek, Music, Personal
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The Sound Of Pi
What does the number Pi (Ï€) sound like as a piano solo? It sounds like this. Definitely has a certain je-ne-sais-quoi about it. More variations here.
Lossless Schmossless?
As a follow up on yesterday’s post about the 256 vs 128 kbps debate, here’s a little challenge for you. Can you tell the difference? Haven’t had a chance to listen myself, but by all means: do tell us your … Continue reading
Posted in Geek, Music
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Extreme Makeover: Zappa.com Edition
Quoth beepee with regard to Spifnificently Soonly: It’s a website makeover. Expect Nothing. Hey, I’d actually be very interested to see an all fresh ‘n new zappa.com. The whole Flash thing they had going was fun for a while (read … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Geek
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Last.fm
Right, as usual I’m the last person in the world to jump onto the hipness that is Last.fm. I’ve only just signed up and am still playing around with it but this could be interesting. As per the site’s blurb: … Continue reading
Posted in Geek, Music
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B-List
With 106 links in the last 180 days, Technorati places killuglyradio.com in the high authority group. That makes you a B-List Blogger! In keeping with the theme of the maturation of the blogosphere, it seems evident that many of these … Continue reading
Posted in Geek, Silly
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Kiss YouTube
A little over a year ago I, quite naively, wrote: If you have some time on your hands, take a look at YouTube. There’s loads of interesting video to watch, including some live Frank Zappa. … to which KUR regular … Continue reading
Posted in Geek, Zappa Audio/Video
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Geni
Build your own family tree online: Geni. How long before someone signs up as Dweezil?
Posted in Geek
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Reactable
Is this how we’ll be making music, 20 years from now? The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a … Continue reading
Posted in Geek, Music
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