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Today’s Artist: Amphibians
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Band: Amphibians
Genre: Groove Rock (Rock/ Alternative)
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Today’s Frappr photo delight is from Allen Parekh in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Allen has a complete instructions, schematics and code that allows you to make good use of one of those 40Mb hard drives turning it into a glow in the dark analog clock – while running at more or less full speed.
He has a video of the result. When you drop by to take a look, leave a note on his Frappr page ! He already has fans in Brazil and Turkey.
ofIt looks like the bittorrent feed is finally back in operating order. For many months, we have maintained a totally parallel path for the bittorrent seeding, with it’s own private RSS feed. That’s what has been giving the trouble while mobile and got the database out of sync. The patch is to pull directly from the main feed and then seed, avoiding the parallel process. We will see how that works. Hopefully better than the past ten days.
Holiday schedule again this weekend - the normal break on Saturday and then Sunday. I’ll be back with a holiday weekend summary Monday night.
Recent Links and Announcements:
A new addition to the site at SDR.com , an array of MobilCast Qualified handsets. The engineers at Melodeo run handsets through the mill and qualify them for the MobilCast service. The list changes every few days, as Sony Ericsson and Nokia enhance and obsolete various model numbers. I’ll try to keep it up to date.
Thanks to Pete Murry of Laporte PA for a video clip that he posted as his photo on the Frappr page. Right next to Rob’s dignified photo. If you are a fan of the TV show NCIS, this is a DiNozo moment from the animal world. It is worth the trip to the page, watch the penguin carefully.
About a year ago I found a great WGBH Boston TV program that I have linked before about the music business called “The Way the Music Died” If you want to really understand why indy music is a part of SDR, take time to stream the program on the site.
Steve Holden, always on the alert, has forwarded a link for a snow blower that should be featured on an entire episode of Home Improvement. Binford Manufacturing would love this one: Bona Fide designed from the ground up around a big block Chevy V-8 : The manufacturer’s quote “.you¹ll never get bored with the job as the 454 cubic inch big block Chevrolet V8 produces 412 horsepower, 430 foot pounds of torque and can throw snow 50 feet at just 3500 rpm . Plus heated grips and turns on a dime. Links and a photo on the site for those interested. Still can’t figure out how a podcaster in San Diego has such in depth knowledge..
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