Kickin' the Crap Out of Karaoke
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Crap Service for Crap Hound
Crap Service for Crap Hound
08/12/2004 09:14 AM
Dotster has its wicked way with
Cory Doctorow. Any more horror stories involving them, or is he
just unlucky?
Why bl0gging is like karaoke
Why bl0gging is like karaoke
04/09/2004 04:09 PM
Spent the afternoon and evening doing
hanami at Ueno park (with
approximately 200,000 very drunken Japanese people) and watching the
moon. Then we ended up singing
karaoke at a 8-story Karaoke
building in Shibuya with beautiful Russo-Finnish ladies. Yes, even I
sang. There was little reason not to.
Japanese way of doing karaoke is actually not that bad: you go to a
small room (alone or with a bunch of good friends), fire up a TV,
choose a song from 50,000 alternatives, sing to your heart's content,
drink beer, repeat. It's a way of self-expression and relaxation, not
a method for nursing your inner diva.
It's kinda like blogging is for most people. You just write to
yourself or a bunch of close friends, and don't worry it about any
more than that. Only the most curious, the most vocal - and
unfortunately, the most read - persons worry about how and why they
write, what is "right" blogging, why people don't like their
writing, why people do like their writing, and other issues of
insignificance.
It's just a song.
It's just text.
Don't worry about it too much.
All Karaoke, All The Time!
All Karaoke, All The Time!
11/06/2003 07:25 PM The New Orleans Karaoke
Cam comes to you live from Cat's Meow in New Orleans. Choose the
streaming video option and you can watch and listen to the performers
and sing along if you know the song! If karaoke isn't your thing,
there are
other cams on the site as well.
Warning: this can be a MAJOR waste of time.
Karaoke muzzle
Karaoke muzzle
04/04/2005 01:18 PMDavid Pescovitz:
Apparently, this device enables one to
practice karaoke without disturbing the neighbors.
Paraphrased from Google's obviously rough translation from
the Japanese:
"The home turns quickly into the soundproof chamber... even at night,
enjoy the karaoke without reservation..."
Link (via
Popgadget<
/a>)
New: iStar Karaoke 1.0
New: iStar Karaoke 1.0
04/05/2005 12:04 PMiStar Karaoke can rip and play the CD+G format discs used for karaoke,
when used with a supported CD+G-compatible drive.
karaoke John Kerry
karaoke John Kerry
05/02/2004 01:59 PM
Sing your current administration
blues away at a Kerryoke. Vodaphone's Karaoke Cellphone
Vodaphone's Karaoke Cellphone
05/11/2004 09:15 AMI don't know what's bigger news: that Vodafone Japan has a new phone
out that doubles a karaoke mic, or that Dottocomu's Aragoto doesn't
like karaoke! Apparently, the new V610T phone lets you download tracks
to the phone and connect to your TV, singing through the handset while
the music...
Lockergnome Download: Karaoke Anything!
v1.0
Lockergnome Download: Karaoke Anything!
v1.0
07/07/2004 11:02 PMKaraoke Anything! lets you remove the vocals from most songs so that
they can be used for Karaoke playback. The program supports MP3 and
AudioCD input and allows you to adjust the vocal remover strength to
optimize it for the current song. The vocal removing works with almost
any (stereo) song that uses equally mixed vocals - some may work
better than others. Karaoke Anything! only allows real-time playback
and cannot save the vocal-free output.
Karaoke party game
Karaoke party game
07/15/2004 02:06 PMChicago Tribune Jul 15 2004 6:31PM GMT
Power Video Karaoke v1.1.11
Power Video Karaoke v1.1.11
12/18/2003 03:47 PMPower Video Karaoke creates AVI karaoke movies using any MP3 or WAV
files as soundtrack. Users may type lyrics in, use text files, or
import MIDI karaoke (KAR) songs. Karaoke songs can have images,
background animations, and various text effects. Included vocal
removing tool is able to remove singer's voice from many recordings.
The tutorial included in the documentation shows how to create VideoCD
karaoke disks. [Shareware $89.00 5.48 MB]
The King and Queen of Karaoke (Reuters)
The King and Queen of Karaoke (Reuters)
08/02/2004 10:04 AMReuters - An Austrian man and a Lebanese
woman were crowned king and queen of karaoke at the world
championships after treating a crowd in Finland to a Bon Jovi
classic and the theme of the 1980s musical "Fame."
Playstation It Again, Sam, With New
Karaoke Video Game
Playstation It Again, Sam, With New
Karaoke Video Game
08/20/2004 11:42 PMAbcnews.go.com - Fri Aug 20, 12:01 pm GMT
Karaoke Revolution Volume 2 (PS2) Review
Karaoke Revolution Volume 2 (PS2) Review
06/28/2004 08:08 PMG4 Tech TV Jun 28 2004 11:45PM GMT
Malaysia Closes Karaoke Bar in Crackdown
Malaysia Closes Karaoke Bar in Crackdown
06/09/2004 03:45 PMAP via Los Angeles Times Jun 9 2004 8:11PM GMT
Karaoke booths hit wrong note (Reuters)
Karaoke booths hit wrong note (Reuters)
01/22/2004 02:10 AMReuters - Karaoke singers in the Californian city of San Mateo can
still sound as bad as they want, but now they will
have to do it in public.
Call for entries: artist-made karaoke
videos
Call for entries: artist-made karaoke
videos
06/23/2004 02:53 AMPaging William Hung...
CONTRABAND, STOWAWAY LOUNGE:ARTIST-MADE KARAOKE VIDEOS
For screening at ISEA2004 CRUISE AND LOS ANGELES FREEWAVES FESTIVAL
Deadline: July 26, 2004
We are soliciting short videos for a global karaoke jukebox on a ferry
between Helsinki and Stockholm as part of ISEA2004 Inter-Society for the
Electronic Arts. Videos for CONTRABAND, STOWAWAY LOUNGE should
re-invent the pop-cultural medium of karaoke. From Tokyo to Tallinn,
the ubiquitous, democratic form of entertainment activates national
identity, nostalgia, sentimentality, and glimmers of rock-stardom.
Individual performances transform this generic format into ironic,
campy, critical and individualized meanings. Erupting within the
entertainment-industrial complex, these do-it-yourself appropriations
recode the corporate into the personal. We invite artists to create
musical video-dramas for the crooners of ISEA2004, and later, Los Angeles Freewaves
Festival.
Videos the length of pop songs should be submitted with vocals-free
music. Read along lyrics preferred. Midi files, if necessary, can be
downloaded for free off the web.
For more info, e-mail
this
woman. (
Thanks, Mara!)
Off Key? Off Color? City Bans Karaoke
Booths (Reuters)
Off Key? Off Color? City Bans Karaoke
Booths (Reuters)
01/22/2004 08:42 AMReuters - Karaoke singers in the California
city of San Mateo can still sound as bad as they want, but now
they will have to do it in public.
IE is crap
IE is crap
06/24/2005 10:03 PMKatjaW
pointed out that my blog looks like crap on IE these days (both side
bars are missing). Well, it does work pretty well on every other
browser I've tried (don't use Windows at all at home, so I can't be
bothered to check on IE whenever I change the template, and Mac IE is
braindead when it comes to CSS most of the time anyway), so frankly,
I'm tempted to leave it as-is for IE users. Or maybe just disable the
difficult bits, and leave a very plain experience for IE users.
According to my statistics, less than half (41% to be exact) of my
readers use IE anyway...
Maybe I can be bothered to do something about it someday. Tips
appreciated.
Update 24.06: Tweaked the CSS a bit and added some explicit
"display:block;" -commands to some places, which seemed to
required on IE (boo hiss). It still looks a bit crappy (and the
window is too wide), but now at least you can see all the
content.
With crap like this
With crap like this
04/02/2005 02:14 AMGoogle Ride Finder .. RideFinder
labs.google.com/ridefinder
track this
site | 3 links
Tomcat Crap
Tomcat Crap
06/24/2004 05:51 PM
Urgh. I just spent a few hours trying to figure out why JNDI
JavaMail session
stopped working. Previously, I had Tomcat 5.0.26 beta
installed and it was working
just fine. In an attempt to debug another problem, I peddled
back to 5.0.25,
which is the latest version without any beta tag, and found that I
couldn't send e-mail
out from an webapp. Error message was rather bland so it took
me a while to
find the relevant bug report. Guess what? 5.0.25 build
left out some
key classes related to JNDI JavaMail session support. Heck, I
think I'll go
back to the beta version and keep my fingers crossed.
Like crap, falling from the sky
Like crap, falling from the sky
01/11/2004 07:04 PMWell, it's officially happened. Someone wrote an automated comment
spammer for Movable Type. As I type this, I'm watching repeated
netstat show port 80 connections, and seeing the "MT-Blacklist comment
denial" messages show up in the log. (36 so far) After 37 of the damn
things actually made it through (some while I was in the midst of
de-spamming things). Whups, make that 40 of the damn things. A few
more just slipped through. And even more on the logs, and I'm not
going to bother counting. (Okay, I did. 70 were blocked, 38 made it
through (I mis-counted) in...
Holy Crap
Holy Crap
07/29/2004 09:58 PMSo I just got an email from my friend Jessamyn, who might be on tonight's Daily
Show, and I guess she somehow got Ed Helms to do this:
Like I said, holy crap.
More Crap From Dvorak
More Crap From Dvorak
12/29/2004 03:30 AMI thought about doing a detailed rebuttal about John Dvorak's latest
turd, Grim Macintosh Market Share Forebodes Crisis, but I couldn't get
past the second sentence before I realized that a thorough debunking
would take more time than I have....
Because if its not Scottish, its CRAP!
Because if its not Scottish, its CRAP!
09/22/2004 02:56 PM
Utilikilts: Comfort,
Style and Utility for Today's Modern Man - committed to pioneering
a comfortable alternative to trousers by producing "Men's
Unbifurcated Garments".
I can't decide if its a joke or not. I think it began as a joke and
then people started ordering them. Note the trendy
Surviv
al Kilt (currently on backorder) or the stranger looking than the
others and that's saying something
Denim
Kilt. And don't worry about the beer gut, fellas, they've got an
option for a special cut just for you ($25 upcharge but comfort knows
no price!).
Free Crap
Free Crap
02/01/2005 09:39 PMI'm honored to be included in The Silicon Valley 100, a group of
influentials formed by Auren Hoffman that gets free crap. Its
kind of like schwag for a virtual tradeshow with a decentralized
cocktail party. Newsweek has a...
Too much crap over the phone
Too much crap over the phone
03/14/2005 05:04 PMI just got the same push-poll that jenniebee did: A push-poll kind of
group, calling themselves "Dove" called me this morning, wanting to
screen me to see if I wanted to be inundated with calls from an outfit
called "Feature...
Why IRC is crap, yet useless
Why IRC is crap, yet useless
06/07/2004 05:57 AMAfter several (well, since 1989 anyway) years of experience on
IRC, I still probably
can count the useful hours I've spent there using one hand only.
(Then again, I can count in binary.)
But the reason why IRC is interesting is that it functions as a
collective subconscious. On some channels certain things pop up
constantly, even though nobody really cares about them. For example,
on #go.fi people talk about EGF rating points. These have
no significance for any player whatsoever, unless you are a
very strong. But they are a slightly-better-than-randomized way of
evaluating performance. So everybody has some interest. On #joiito,
most of the discussion is completely incomprehensible, yet those
people feel a strange connection, and gather together at conventions.
IRC is like a common subconscious, where thoughts come and go, tucking
in different directions, yet never converging.
Most of the discussion on any channel is bullshit. Pure and honest
crap. Nothing but the equivalent of waving your lips in the wind in
the faint hope a meaningful sentence will appear, if you keep
producing syllables just long enough.
But it's common crap. That crap which binds us together, and
builds communities. Some people have this odd notion that
"social activity" is the same as sitting in a pub, drinking
beer and talking horseshit. Fine. The important thing is
"crap".
All of social software is mostly about crap. This is what the CSCW
folks never realized - they thought it was important to increase
productivity and get more achieved through computer-assisted work.
The social software phenomenon (weblogs, Orkut, LinkedIn, IRC, chats, bulletin
boards, ...) is built on the notion that people wish to talk crap.
They enable you to use your time idly, do nothing, because conscious
thoughts (and the inevitable good ideas) rise from the subconscious
soup of crap. I think that's why Wikis haven't really flown is that
they are not that good places for crap: the community deletes anything
that is not considered to be in line of the other contents of the
wiki. They don't allow the subconscious simmer of thought in the same
way as IRC. It remains to be seen how much crap will surface on Orkut
or Friendster, and whether that amount is enough to allow them to
survive. (I've noticed I don't use Orkut anymore, even though I am
listed. There's just so little point.)
The Finnish IRC service IRC-galleria, is really a place for
IRC regulars to post their picture and have comments appended to it.
However, there are now many young people, who put their pictures on
the IRC gallery, and then "go ircing" on it - meaning
posting comments on other peoples pages on the IRC gallery, creating
large amounts of anger among those who know what IRC really is. I
think this is a wonderful example of "crap in action" - if
you build a way for people to discuss, they will come.
The societies are built on crap. The internet is built on crap.
Crap is good. Keep talking bullshit, and while the world may not be
better, at least it will be a far more interesting place. :-D
Oh holy crap...
Oh holy crap...
03/12/2003 10:16 PMMacFixIt - Camino nightly builds may not be as stable
“We’re seeing lots of feedback from people that are
surprised the current Camino nightly builds aren’t as stable as
the ones leading up to the 0.7 milestone. This is to...
ReMove CRAP
ReMove CRAP
07/11/2004 08:06 PMInitial file release
holy crap that's a big boat
holy crap that's a big boat
04/22/2004 06:55 PMthis NY Times slideshow demonstrates that the Queen Mary 2 is freaking
gigantic
Cut The Crap Software 2004-04-21
Cut The Crap Software 2004-04-21
04/21/2004 04:57 AMJava packages implementing a generic persistence model.
Cut The Crap Software 2004-05-26
Cut The Crap Software 2004-05-26
05/26/2004 07:39 AMJava packages implementing a generic persistence model.
Cut The Crap Software 2004-05-20
Cut The Crap Software 2004-05-20
05/20/2004 05:53 AMJava packages implementing a generic persistence model.
Cut The Crap Software 2004-04-14
Cut The Crap Software 2004-04-14
04/14/2004 08:59 AMJava packages implementing a generic persistence model.
Crap marketing sites
Crap marketing sites
03/06/2004 02:01 AMi-am-asian.com is
McDonald's excruciating "I'm lovin' it" site targeted at Asian Pacific
Islander Americans. With gems like whether we're sipping green tea or
enjoying a Big Mac sandwich, we're helping make the magic mix called
America become even richer
you can't go wrong. Meanwhile, the
infamous beef industry sponsored cool-2b-real has rebranded
itself as "zip 4 tweens" - for
"tween" kids - not quite teens but definitely not children!
Where's the raging
platypus when you need him?
Cut The Crap Software 2003-10-30
Cut The Crap Software 2003-10-30
10/31/2003 12:49 PMJava packages implementing a generic persistence model.
Crap. Goodbye Elliot.
Crap. Goodbye Elliot.
10/28/2003 11:07 PMElliot Smith killed himself today. I
downloaded a few songs of his back in the Napster heyday and ended up
buying a few CDs. I had the opportunity to see him live a few times in
SF, but never went.
Crap, I really liked his stuff.
It's a little weird, in a life-imitates-art sort of way, to realize
his song was used in a suicide scene (in The Royal Tennenbaums), and
now he's gone and done that himself.
Keep Your Crap Out Of My iPod, Say Users
Keep Your Crap Out Of My iPod, Say Users
06/17/2005 03:35 PMOwners of Apple's popular digital music player love being able to
shut out the world's distractions, hate their cellphones and would
prefer not to talk to anyone. By Judy Monchuk, Canadian Press
Cut The Crap Software 2004-07-21
Cut The Crap Software 2004-07-21
07/21/2004 11:23 AMJava packages implementing a generic persistence model.
Grok Description matches for Kickin' the Crap Out of Karaoke
GrokA matches for Kickin' the Crap Out of Karaoke
Plarpebu beta 18
Plarpebu beta 18
09/20/2004 05:12 PMA karaoke player (MIDI and MP3+CDG).
Device Server - Wireless Serial to
Ethernet Converter for RS232/422/485
Serial Devices
Device Server - Wireless Serial to
Ethernet Converter for RS232/422/485
Serial Devices
12/29/2004 05:50 AMHelloDevice SS110 is a Wireless-enabled serial to ethernet converter
for RS232/422/485 based serial devices. [PRWEB Dec 29, 2004]
Bluetooth serial adapter ousts RS-232
serial cable
Bluetooth serial adapter ousts RS-232
serial cable
03/31/2005 02:28 PMElectronics Talk Mar 31 2005 7:18PM GMT
ATS Engineer (Perl, Unix Systems
Engineer)
ATS Engineer (Perl, Unix Systems
Engineer)
06/04/2004 04:05 AMOverture - United States, CA, Pasadena (2004-06-03)
LGA 775: A Joke And A Threat That Is No
Joke.
LGA 775: A Joke And A Threat That Is No
Joke.
06/21/2004 10:18 PMOverclockers.com:
LGA 775: A Joke And A
Threat That Is No Joke. "This is a threat, the biggest threat
we've ever faced. If you wait until it becomes reality, it's too late
to do anything about it." Awwww.
MD5-Reverse-0.01
MD5-Reverse-0.01
08/22/2004 05:58 AMNew: AddressBook Reverse Look-up
New: AddressBook Reverse Look-up
04/14/2004 10:28 AMAddressBook Reverse Look-up is a plug-in for the Mac OS X 10.3 Address
Book that takes a phone number and finds a matching address.
Reverse Connect
Reverse Connect
11/14/2003 02:23 AMReverse Connect 0.301a Released
Reverse Journalism
Reverse Journalism
03/23/2005 01:22 PMYesterday I had a long talk about the search competition between
Google and MSN. That competition is interesting, but so was the
conversation, and what I can say about it. I was talking to a journo
from a big-name mag that you see on every newsstand. He’d just been
briefed by one of the search titans and wanted some insight from an
independent search expert. The briefing was along the lines of
“We’re gonna kill ’em dead because of X, Y, and Z” and he
wanted my take on X, Y, and Z. Here’s the problem: X, Y, and Z are
real interesting, and in particular it’s interesting that the vendor
who’d briefed him thought they were important. But you know, I
don’t think I can ethically say who the reporter was and who briefed
him and what X, Y, and Z are, even though these are things that the
vendor was trying to get published; because I didn’t think to ask
the journo. Hmm, looks like I
covered this ground
once already, in August of 2003.
Reverse Graffiti
Reverse Graffiti
06/27/2004 10:50 PMReverse Air Rage
Reverse Air Rage
07/20/2004 04:38 PMClassic - reverse air rage on an Aeroflot flight as drunk cabin staff
attack a passenger, giving him a black...
Reverse Casemod
Reverse Casemod
09/20/2004 12:28 PM
Xeni Jardin:
BoingBoing reader D says, "Have an old computer case? Or, perhaps
you're doing a casemod for your computer, so you don't need your old
case. Enter, The Reverse Mod; turn your old computer case into a
bookshelf!"
Link
A Not-So-Bad Reverse Split
A Not-So-Bad Reverse Split
09/22/2004 04:55 PMA reverse split is always bad, isn't it? Not in ALLETE's case.
Kickin' the Crap Out of Karaoke
