One of my
favorite things about New York is the perpetual discovery of new
things that were right under my nose. Case in point: Tubesville, a
local shop owned by Blackie Pagano that specializes in custom-built
tube amplifiers and hi-fi systems, including the one-offs of the Noise
Outlaw Audiodesign series, a set of bespoke audio equipment that usual
starts around $3,000 apiece. Each unit is hand-hand to the customer's
specifications and is never exactly duplicated (it looks like
the Tricky and Powertrip amps can be bought without much
customization).
But anyway, it's really amazing looking work (check out this iPod
dock and speakers inside a retrofitted victrola ) and as soon as I
figured out where Ludlow Street and what shoes I should wear, I'm
going to have to go check Pagano's work out in person.
Grok Headline matches for Tubesville: Outlaw Audio Design
Axiom Audio Introduces Breakthrough Design in New EP600 Subwoofer
Axiom Audio Introduces Breakthrough Design in New EP600 Subwoofer06/06/2005 12:02 AM The Epicenter EP600 subwoofer represents a major advance towards
Axiom's goal of seeking "musical truth," -- producing the lowest,
cleanest, loudest, smoothest distortion-free bass available in this
price range and cabinet size. [PRWEB Jun 2, 2005]
Indieanna Offers New Audio, Graphics, and Web Design Services for the Independent Musician
Indieanna Offers New Audio, Graphics, and Web Design Services for the Independent Musician08/17/2004 03:34 AM Indieanna, a musician-run company based in Northern California,
provides integrated solutions for the indie artist, including mixing &
mastering, home studio consultation, Web site design, album artwork,
creative photo enhancement, and more. The company's innovative Remote
Studio system allows musicians to collaborate with Indieanna on their
projects via the Internet. [PRWEB Aug 17, 2004]
Jacob Cane Design – Website Design and Graphic Design services ...
Is It Possible To Outlaw Spyware?11/18/2003 01:53 PM Now that Congress is rushing around trying to outlaw spam, some are
wondering if they should turn their attention to the next big
annoyance online: spyware. The problem is that it's very very
difficult to write a law outlawing spyware that doesn't also outlaw any
number of completely legitimate applications. Right now, many
spyware products are perfectly "legal", because they hide the details
of what they're doing in the very very very fine print within huge,
unreadable license agreements that most people agree to without even
getting through the first sentence.
Vince Outlaw
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Outlaw Radio
Vince Outlaw just posted a terrific
bunch of pointers to cool stuff he's doing with radio (also Radio)
and RSS:
I just completed an attempt to duplicate some of the audio
material I used for a recent live broadcast on Jazz 88 as enclosures in an RSS enabled
weblog. I'm attempting to push it a little further by including
Quicktime video in the RSS stream also. I'm trying to move in the
direction you are pointing to:The Bob Gibb Memorial Weblog: http://thenewjazzthing.com/categories/theBobGibbMemorialWeb
log/index.htmlSubscribe to the weblog's RSS feed with an enclosure enabled RSS
reader, and you get the material I used during my live broadcast last
Sunday, November 30, 2003. It's a start in that direction. One thing
missing is the scripting, much like an MP3 playlist (or SMIL) to then
replay the RSS enclosures as a continuous stream...A SHOW!
Does Vince have the perfect surname or what?
From now on, I'm calling her Andrei
I was driving to pick up the kid yesterday evening when an Andrei Codrescu essay came on NPR.
I've always enjoyed Codrescu. He edits Equisite Corpse (an outstanding
online pub — take a look around if you're not familiar with it
already) when he isn't otherwise busy writing delightful and wise
poetry and prose across an endless variety of subjects.
So yeah, I like the guy.
Anyway, his audio essay, Working
for Nothing? was about the spider in his back yard. She made a
multi-leveled, many-storied web that stretched from the ground to two
oak branches...
A meditation on personal industry and the onset of Winter, I assumed.
But alas, no...
I mention my front yard architect for several reasons.One, she seems a lot more interested in her creation than her
prey, though I do not doubt she eats well in such a cleverly designed
trap.Second, she conducts her operations unbothered by humans who mow
very carefully around her and admire her work.Thirdly, she was very smart to build in a place that was
sheltered enough from the elements, and open enough to elicit
admiration instead of disgust.And fourthly, she was lucky. She squatted on a liberals' lawn.
Now I should be so lucky. Or you.The only analogy in the human world is an Internet habitat called
a blog.The blog is the grapho-egomaniac's perfect outlet. It's a daily,
hourly or perpetual diary belonging souley to a writer and her
thoughts. These thoughts are made public to the world every time a writer
is at a keyboard. Which is, in some cases, twenty-four seven.Some people cruising by will read the postings and respond to
them with thoughts of their own. Or even better, some admiration. And some move into the blog, reacting to the writer's every entry
with one of their own. Like a family member. And all in real time.Eventualy a small community is born, with the blogger in the
center of the web, entertaining or devouring the haphazard relatives
or any number of guests.Today there are literally millions of blogmasters on the Web,
each of them spiderlike at the center of their own world.Most of them believe doubtlessly that this is all the world they
need and that they're the center, not just of their private world, but
that of the world itself.In the real world Winter comes and even the greatest spider dies
eventually.The blog will likewise go on, until the blogger runs out of room
on the server and can't pay the bill.Then it's clear not only that there is a bigger world, but
students of webs and blogs who watch and wonder about all the
work.
We've been watching a spider too, every evening, here on our front
porch in Santa Barbara. By the time we go outside to sit and look at
the stars before bedtime, she's built a new web, and sits in its exact
middle, waiting for prey.
In the morning, the web is still there, slightly tattered. The spider
is back up under the gutter somewhere, waiting for darkness.
I'm sure she'll be back out there again tonight, looking bigger and
nastier than ever. The only difference will be her name.
Platformations
Brad Spry is a new eponymous
blog that explores its author's new computing platform: OS X.
Me, I'm (hopefully) setting (in several cases, re-setting) up no less
than four Linux boxen tomorrow. Should be fun.
Outlaw blows himself up (Reuters)04/08/2005 12:22 PM Reuters - Albania's most wanted man fought off special police and
eluded capture for years only to
blow himself up while fishing with dynamite, police and newspapers
say.
Australia Looking To Outlaw Spyware
Australia Looking To Outlaw Spyware12/26/2003 01:45 PM Over in Australia, they've realized that as they try to slow down the
spam tide, the worst spam scammers have moved from spam on to spyware.
Thus, they're now talking about outlawing spyware - at which point the
scammers will move on to something else. While I do think something
needs to be done about spyware, I wonder how they're going to define
spyware. Whenever politicians start outlawing technologies, there's a
big risk that they'll do such a bad job of defining the software, that
plenty of legitimate applications get banned as well. In the case of
spyware, I guess the focus should be on applications that are
installed without the computer owner's clear consent (which means not
sneaking approval into an end user license agreement either).
Yesterday, Marybeth Peters, the head of the US Copyright Office,
testified before the Senate regarding the INDUCE Act. Her testimony
was even more radical than the RIAA's. Not only did she
(inappropriately) explain what outcome the Appeals Court in the
Grokster case should reach and argue (wrongly) that the INDUCE
Act wouldn't have a chilling effect on innovation, she actually said
she thought the INDUCE Act was not enough. The Register of Copyrights
argued that the Betamax decision, which made VCRs legal, should be
overturned by Congress. Wow.
Outlaw Laid Low by Short Fuse (Reuters)04/11/2005 07:53 AM Reuters - Albania's most wanted man fought off
special police and eluded capture for years only to blow
himself up while fishing with dynamite, police and newspapers
said Friday.
Turkey Backs Off Plan to Outlaw Adultery (AP)
Turkey Backs Off Plan to Outlaw Adultery (AP)09/14/2004 08:12 PM AP - Turkey's government backed off its plan to outlaw adultery after
criticism within the European Union, strident protests from opposition
politicians and a march on parliament Tuesday by hundreds of outraged
Turkish women.
Outlaw Militia Plays Role of Ad Hoc Police Force
Outlaw Militia Plays Role of Ad Hoc Police Force08/08/2004 12:12 AM BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 2 - The Mahdi Army, a militia loyal to the radical
Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, is one of the biggest thorns for
Americans in Iraq, periodically erupting in violent challenges to the
American-backed interim government. But even when truces are declared,
the militia is at hard at work on the streets of Sadr City, a slum
neighborhood here in the capital.
Measure to Outlaw Flag Burning Advances in Senate (Reuters)
Measure to Outlaw Flag Burning Advances in Senate (Reuters)07/20/2004 02:27 PM Reuters - A proposed constitutional amendment
to outlaw the burning of the American flag won the approval on
Tuesday of a Senate Judiciary Committee split largely along
party lines.
Turkish Premier Defends Plans to Outlaw Adultery (Reuters)
Turkish Premier Defends Plans to Outlaw Adultery (Reuters)09/07/2004 08:49 AM Reuters - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan
has defended plans to outlaw adultery that have outraged
women's groups and raised eyebrows in the European Union, which
Turkey aspires to join.
Sound Audio Systems Announces Huge Sale on Selected Professional Audio Products
Elemental Audio offers Neodynium audio compressor09/14/2004 07:23 AM Elemental Audio Systems on Tuesday introduced Neo
dynium, a plug-in for RTAS, Audio Unit and VST-compatible audio
software designed for compression and dynamics processing. It uses an
"I/O Map" visual interface that helps audio pros optimize and direct
their efforts, rather than relying on more common transfer curves and
displays. Neodynium costs US$159 (and is available for $139 for a
limited time). It works with Digidesign Pro Tools, Emagic Logic and
other software. System requirements call for a G3 or faster with Mac
OS X v10.2 or newer and a compatible host application.
Westec InterActive Selects the Voice Tracker™ Array Microphone for Enhanced Audio in Retail and Restaurant Audio/Video Surveillance and Operations Audit
Enhancing all audio output via Audio Hijack09/03/2004 08:46 AM This is kind of a followup to this previous hint regarding an iTunes
equalizer setting.
Something I do as a matter of course is configure Audio Hijack Pro to
enhance the sound that iTunes (and DVD Player, Real Player, you na...
Audio controller promises next gen audio systems
Audio controller promises next gen audio systems06/25/2004 11:57 AM The latest version of Oxford Semiconductor's OXFW970 FireWire audio
controller IC allows next generation audio systems to be easily added
to desktop and notebook systems on the Mac and PC platforms, reports
electropages in an article noted at MacSurfer...
M-Audio introduces Revolution 5.1 audio card
M-Audio introduces Revolution 5.1 audio card08/04/2004 10:03 AM M-Audio on Wednesday introduced the Revolution 5.1, a surround sound audio card
compatible with both Macs and PCs. The PCI card comes bundled with
Aspyr Media's Wakeboarding Unleashed featuring Shaun Murray, billed as
the first Mac game optimized for surround sound. The Revolution 5.1 is
available for US$99.95.
AAC Audio Format Selected for DVD Audio
AAC Audio Format Selected for DVD Audio04/09/2004 04:10 PM Tony Smith writes for the Register, “The AAC (Advanced Audio
Codec), the audio format supported by Apple’s iTunes Music Store,
has been chosen as a key future DVD Audio disc technology by the
standard’s governing body, the DVD Forum.” [Mar 25]
IBM, Intel Open BladeCenter Design Specifications; Companies Simplify Server Design
Introducing the Band of Gonzos Web Design and SEO Forum: Website Design Contest
Introducing the Band of Gonzos Web Design and SEO Forum: Website Design Contest06/15/2004 02:12 AM We invite entries for a basic website design with navigation for a
hosting company website (OgreHosting.com). The winning design will
incorporate the existing graphics/logos and the general theme of
OgreHosting. [PRWEB Jun 15, 2004]
Design Intuition 1.3: 3-D CAD Software Makes Woodworking And Design Projects Easy
“Solving Difficult Design Engineering Challenges with High-End CAD” – Presentation by Design Visionaries at the Bay Area CDI - CAD Event
“Solving Difficult Design Engineering Challenges with High-End CAD” – Presentation by Design Visionaries at the Bay Area CDI - CAD Event03/17/2005 03:36 AM Design Visionaries, Inc., provider of top quality mechanical
engineering and CAD services, invites you to the presentation entitled
“Solving Difficult Design Engineering Challenges with High-End CAD”.
The presentation will be held at 6:00pm on March 23rd, 2005 at the Bay
Area CDI-CAD Event, hosted by DeAnza College, Cupertino. DeAnza
College 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd.Cupertino, CA 95014 [PRWEB Mar 17,
2005]
ActiveWin.com: "Thirteen Years of Innovative Design", Interview with Ken Fry, Design Group Director: Microsoft Hardware
