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RIAA's noise-spoofs turned into
noise-rock

RIAA's noise-spoofs turned into
noise-rock 04/26/2004 10:07 AM
Claire Chanel, the person behind the Jay-Z Construction Set, has decided to net.judo-ify the RIAA's spoof tracks, random noise disguised as top-40 singles which it promulgates on the P2P netowrks.

As a follow-up to our last project, the Jay-Z Construction Set, Scary Sherman and I decided to take a fair & balanced route by highlighting one of the positive moves made recently by music industry leaders.

The RIAA-Mix Vol.1 is a compilation of the hottest underground remixes of top40 hit tracks produced by the upcoming talent at Overpeer. These homages to 20th century noise artists and avant composers pull a frightening bait and switch on listeners veering wildly from recognizable pop hooks to jarring digital distortion.

Available at riaamix.com as downloadable mp3s, streaming flash audio, or on a compact disc, we're hoping our compilation can help support the arrival of challenging new music to mainstream exposure.

Link

To Quiet a Whirring Computer, Fight
Noise With Noise

To Quiet a Whirring Computer, Fight
Noise With Noise 05/26/2004 09:23 PM
The constant drone of a computer cooling fan can be annoying. But tiny microphones and loudspeakers point the way toward quieter computers.

BBC SPORT | Football | Euro 2004 |
Greece win Euro 2004

BBC SPORT | Football | Euro 2004 |
Greece win Euro 2004 07/04/2004 08:07 PM

No Noise PC Reviewed

No Noise PC Reviewed 08/14/2004 11:49 AM

Random Noise

Random Noise 12/31/2004 01:24 AM

SonicMood might not be everyone's cup of tea, but surely I can't be the only person in the world who occasionally wants this sort of sound to emanate from the computer, and in any case it has certainly been helpful to me in my work. By Matt Neuburg, TidBITS

Silence and Noise

Silence and Noise 08/12/2004 12:57 PM
Garaging the road show gave me time to consider what was worth talking about. The mainstreaming of web standards should have freed us to focus on content, design, and usability -- but arguments about minutia prevent us from seeing our work whole.

Noise Pop mix tapes

Noise Pop mix tapes 05/10/2004 10:17 AM
Noise Pop, San Francisco's gem of an indy music festival, and KQED are streaming various underground musicians' playlists-du-jour. The latest selections come from Greg Ashley, a Bay Area psych-folk artist whose exquisite taste ranges from Leonard Cohen to Os Mutantes. Link (Thanks, Birdman!)

Noise Synthesizer

Noise Synthesizer 11/03/2003 03:39 PM
Project creation

The Noise Machine

The Noise Machine 09/06/2004 03:43 AM
The Republican propaganda mill, a brief history It's bigger than Bush vs. Kerry. It's about billionaire funded thinktanks (AEI, Heritage) paying columnists to sit around and make stuff up or legitimize crackpot theories (blacks are genetically stupid, japanese internment was okay). Furthermore its about radio, internet, blogs, tv news and publishing houses working in concert to pummel memes onto the American public. When this stuff infects your culture and is no longer the domain of the loons but now as mainstream as apple pie and Wal-Mart, what do you do?

Noise Control

Noise Control 06/22/2005 02:59 AM

Incidents like the one Dan Gillmor points to reminds me that I need to put more thought into noise control. Let see...

One idea is cookie sharing combined with cookie persistence. Cookie persistence works by allow people to download and save their cookies so they can restore valuable cookies after cookie wipeout or if they change machines. Cookie sharing is one cookie holder giving part of the rating they earned to another. It's like giving some of your voice to another person whose opinions you agree with or appreciate.

A lot of room for creativity in this area.

Update:

Flip-side of the Cookie sharing is mutual destruction which requires giving up part of your rating to degrade another person's rating. I am still clueless as to whether such small set of rules will lead to a stable world instead of something that will blow up. Still, I enjoy working with combining simple rules to build complex systems, probably because of my physics background.

Another thought I had was that, for systems like Wikipedia, unbiased views are sometimes either not possible or premature. In such cases, I think the right thing to od is to record multiple biased/opposing views to capture the conflict in its raw form instead.

Fear the Noise

Fear the Noise 06/17/2005 04:53 PM
Steve Rubel points to the noise on blogging from a UPS marketing executive: ...What concerns me about blogs is the signal to noise ratio -- do we really need all these niche, special-interest blogs, or will it become increasingly...

"A Response to the Noise"

"A Response to the Noise" 04/01/2005 10:26 PM

The rest is noise

The rest is noise 07/05/2004 10:45 PM
The Rest is Noise : New Yorker music critic Alex Ross' blog.
Also: A C Douglas. Jessica Duchen. Greg Sandow. Michael Brooke. The Rambler.

Grokker Makes Some Noise

Grokker Makes Some Noise 01/07/2004 02:50 PM
An engine we first talked about last summer has received some recent press.

Robots that Hear Through Noise

Robots that Hear Through Noise 06/24/2005 09:05 PM
Roland Piquepaille writes, "The Japanese Humanoid Robotics Project has produced the HRP-2 robot, which is known for dancing and preserving Japanese culture. But now, the HRP-2, which is about 1.6 meter high and weighs about 60 kilograms, can hear humans and understand them with its sophisticated software and hearing equipment. It uses an array of microphones consisting of eight omnidirectional microphones mounted around the robot's head. Stable speech recognition is obtained by combining information from the microphone array and a camera also mounted on its head, and by isolating and eliminating noises, even from your TV. These hearing capabilities are essential "for helping humans to communicate with robots in real environments by 2025." For more details and photos see Roland's blog. Also, see our previous story on the HRP-2 robot's dancing abilities.

Nintendo DS Leaks UHF Noise

Nintendo DS Leaks UHF Noise 12/22/2004 01:36 AM

Nintendo's new DS handheld gaming system (which I've been told is pretty much out of stock everywhere, although Nintendo is supposed to drop another shipment on the 22nd) apparently dumps out video noise that can be picked up by some older, presumably unshielded televisions. That probably wouldn't necessitate an entire post, but Jim Younkin busted out his old Sony Watchman to test it, which is one of my favorite gadgets ever (I had a later model that I would often impress nerdy girls with on field trips for the 10 to 15 minutes that the batteries would last).

DS on TV Experiments [Mac]

Apple Makes Noise

Apple Makes Noise 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
Music store and iPods help boost stock, but how long will it last? By Mike Musgrove, Washington Post (via MyAppleMenu)

Digital Cameras and their noise

Digital Cameras and their noise 11/02/2003 06:32 PM
This excellent overview of pixel noise in digital images also offers up some plugins to help make your photos look better and print cleaner. I'd noticed the effects and noise in much of my digital photos, but had no idea how to remove it -- until now.

Make a Not-So-Joyful Noise

Make a Not-So-Joyful Noise 03/06/2004 01:56 AM

Troops get high-tech noisemaker : I need this to fend off my cat.

Dubbed "The Sound of Force Protection" in a company brochure, the devices can broadcast sound files containing warning messages. Or they can be used with electronic translating devices for what amounts to "narrowcasting."

If crowds or potential foes don't respond to the verbal messages, the sonic weapon, which measures 33 inches in diameter, can direct a high-pitched, piercing tone with a tight beam. Neither the LRAD's operators or others in the immediate area are affected.

If it can broadcast the soundtrack to my daughter's Barney video, then it may exceed its non-lethal status.

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Other News: Big Noise Music

Other News: Big Noise Music 05/25/2004 10:09 AM
Oxfam prepares to launch Big Noise Music, a download service that will contribute to Oxfam's aid programs.

Visual Noise Reduction

Visual Noise Reduction 06/26/2002 01:02 PM
If it were possible, I would reduce every page down to the content, 1-3 direct links to related content, and one link back to root for a maximum of 5 links on a page. Unfortunatly, pages like that rarely work in the real world.

Keep Out The Noise, Stay Sane

Keep Out The Noise, Stay Sane 12/08/2003 12:58 PM
Noise pollution is a topic that you don't hear all that much about. However, over in Europe they've decided it's time to start tracking information on noisy urban areas, and soon, there will be noise pollution maps of most major urban areas in Europe. Some of them are already up on the web (here's Paris and London). The World Health Organization is worried that too many people are suffering from living under conditions with too much noise - and many don't realize the damage they're doing to their ears. They even claim that being subject to such noise constantly can "contribute to hypertension and heart disease, and may impair mental health." That's right. Your sanity may depend on how quiet your surroundings are. Now, the question is how to quiet the noise down. Not everyone agrees, but having the maps to indicate where the problem areas are could certainly help. Some people are talking about adjusting traffic patterns to try to help with the noise, but a more reasonable solution might be focusing on adding soundproofing to noisy areas where people live or work.

- Fast but not noise-free

- Fast but not noise-free 05/18/2004 10:36 PM
Computer Times Asia May 19 2004 2:47AM GMT

"Rondayview: Da Funk and Da Noise"

"Rondayview: Da Funk and Da Noise" 11/05/2003 04:10 AM

Fast but not noise-free

Fast but not noise-free 06/01/2004 09:47 PM
Computer Times Asia Jun 2 2004 2:31AM GMT

Bayesian Noise Reduction Library 1.2

Bayesian Noise Reduction Library 1.2 07/26/2004 10:38 AM
An implementation of the Bayesian Noise Reduction algorithm.

Bayesian Noise Reduction Library 1.0.0

Bayesian Noise Reduction Library 1.0.0 07/22/2004 12:49 PM
An implementation of the Bayesian Noise Reduction algorithm.

"Signal/Noise: 2k5: Creative
Revolution?"

"Signal/Noise: 2k5: Creative
Revolution?" 03/28/2005 03:18 PM

Berkman Signal to Noise conference

Berkman Signal to Noise conference 04/05/2005 12:23 PM
This one looks different — Fan fiction, dance, machinima, deviant art, remixing, mashups, On Friday. Open to all ($20 admission fee) but you need to register ahead of time because the space is not infinite. [Technorati tags: berkman s2n]...

WordPress: Noise Response Loopback

WordPress: Noise Response Loopback 04/02/2005 10:51 PM

Matt finally responded with a post titled A Response to the Noise.  Noise?  I think this incident is a great example of how easily we can be blinded by the people we surround ourselves with.

Frankly, I now regret having wasted words.

"theBoom noise cancelling headset "

"theBoom noise cancelling headset " 04/29/2004 04:26 PM

Lou Dolinar: If there's too much noise
coming from the bedroom, it may be the
PC

Lou Dolinar: If there's too much noise
coming from the bedroom, it may be the
PC 05/09/2004 11:22 AM
Newsday May 9 2004 3:38PM GMT

* Makes TARDIS noise, dematerializes*

* Makes TARDIS noise, dematerializes* 03/30/2005 11:46 PM
Christopher Eccleston, the new Doctor Who, has tendered his resignation. Geez, his first episode wasn't that bad.

Photos: Making noise at P2P hearings

Photos: Making noise at P2P hearings 03/29/2005 08:51 PM
Supporters of both the music industry and file swappers demonstrated their causes before the Supreme Court hearings.

Helicopter versus airplane noise

Helicopter versus airplane noise 12/17/2004 06:36 PM

Helicopters that are descending with a fair amount of power produce an annoying sound called "blade slap".  Beginners are cautioned to avoid this condition because it leads to people on the ground complaining to the FAA about "those damned helicopters."  (One can avoid blade slap by lower the collective to descend more positively rather than drifting slightly down.)  A big turbine-powered helicopter flew over Harvard Square the other day, slapping away.  I was with a friend, call her "K", who hasn't spent much time in the work force.  I asked her whether she found the sound annoying.

"Helicopter noise doesn't bother me," K responded.  "I assume that it is a traffic helicopter or some sort of medical emergency.  What I really hate is airplane noise."

Why?

"Whenever I hear a big commercial jet overhead I think about companies sending their employees out for ridiculous meetings with each other where they will show vacuous PowerPoint presentations and have meaningless conversations."

Korean cameraphones will need to make
some noise

Korean cameraphones will need to make
some noise 11/11/2003 04:33 PM
In a classic case of overreaction, the South Korean government is going to require cameraphones to emit a loud shutter-type noise whenever a photograph is taken. The idea being to make it more difficulty to surreptitously snap pictures while in public. Read [Via TechDirt]...

Bayesian Noise Reduction Library 2.0.2

Bayesian Noise Reduction Library 2.0.2 01/02/2005 04:17 AM
An implementation of the Bayesian Noise Reduction algorithm.

Bayesian Noise Reduction Library 2.0.0

Bayesian Noise Reduction Library 2.0.0 12/28/2004 11:39 PM
An implementation of the Bayesian Noise Reduction algorithm.

Apple Issues Advice On Power Mac G5
Noise

Apple Issues Advice On Power Mac G5
Noise 03/06/2004 02:06 AM
(MacNN via MyAppleMenu)
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Jawbone Telephone Headset

Jawbone Telephone Headset 06/10/2004 07:55 AM

Wow, from the tenor of their press release you'd think these guys conquered cancer or caught a fly in some chopsticks or something, what with their 'revolutionary's and their 'radical's and their 'breakthrough's; I was all hepped up, but it turns out the Aliph Jawbone is just a telephone headset, and a wired one at that, designed to filter out background noise and provide clear voice pickup even in noisy environments like trading floors. Now if Aliph had a commercial where this long-haired muscle man cleaves through legions of Canaanites with a giant-sized version of the headset, only pausing to look at the camera, covered in gore, as he raises his oversized Jawbone headset to heaven where, panning up, we see God dialing a number (maybe eating a hoagie and he has a Jets jersey on), and then right in the middle of battle Samson gets a call on his Jawbone headset and God can totally hear him above the din of battle, well, that'd be the sort of fucking awesome that's going to sell a $150 headset, people.
Read [Jawbone]

LTB Introduces Worlds First 2.4Ghz
Wireless Surround Headphones and New
Wireless 2.4Ghz 16 Channel Digital
Wireless Headphones

LTB Introduces Worlds First 2.4Ghz
Wireless Surround Headphones and New
Wireless 2.4Ghz 16 Channel Digital
Wireless Headphones 09/25/2004 02:14 AM
Sunnytech, Inc., the leading maker of True 5.1 Surround Sound headphones introduces two new 2.4GHz Digital headphones systems under the LTB Brand name. [PRWEB Sep 25, 2004]

Blender 2.31a

Blender 2.31a 12/04/2003 07:18 AM
A very fast and versatile 3D modeler/renderer.

Blender 2.30

Blender 2.30 11/04/2003 06:00 PM
A very fast and versatile 3D modeler/renderer.

Blender 2.36

Blender 2.36 12/30/2004 11:44 PM
A very fast and versatile 3D graphics creation suite.

Blender 2.33

Blender 2.33 05/02/2004 08:57 PM

Blender 2.34

Blender 2.34 08/05/2004 07:27 PM
A very fast and versatile 3D graphics creation suite.

BLENDER ARTICLES

BLENDER ARTICLES 04/20/2004 08:38 AM
the worst bands in the history of rock .. their being named .. top 50 worst list .. things like this

blender.com/articles/article_466.html
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BEAST BLENDER

BEAST BLENDER 06/05/2005 11:30 PM
create a being that has never existed .. BEAST BLENDER .. any better .. beest

beastblender.com
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'Preview' de Blender 2.3

'Preview' de Blender 2.3 11/06/2003 02:42 PM

Blender Adds Raytracing

Blender Adds Raytracing 12/13/2003 08:16 AM

National Barbie in a Blender Day

National Barbie in a Blender Day 07/14/2004 08:22 AM
Freeculture.org is throwing a "National Barbie in a Blender Day" to celebrate the victory over Mattel, which sued a photographer for taking pictures of nude Barbies.

Freeculture.org has launched an official site for the National Barbie-in-a-Blender Day project, at www.barbieinablender.org. Users are invited to submit artistic pieces inspired by Forsythe's "Food Chain Barbie" series to blended@barbieinablender.org for the site's upcoming gallery of submitted work.

Link (Thanks, Alex!)

Hand-Cranked Blender

Hand-Cranked Blender 03/22/2005 04:46 PM

Providing you with the perfect excuse for a belated Daiquiri, Lehman's Hard-Cranked Blender lets you hit speeds of 3600 rpm (based on 80 turns/minute) and blend just about anything without using any electricity. Just $100, the 5-cup capacity blender has two gear ratios allowing for "low" and "high" speeds, so if you want "Puree", it's on you. Nevertheless, it's quite the polar opposite of the Gas-Powered Blender. "Because being old-fashioned is always in fasion," as Lehman's proudly states.

Catalog Page [Lehman's via Tre ehugger]

Cierra foro hispano de Blender

Cierra foro hispano de Blender 09/08/2004 03:41 AM

Blender 2.33 Re-enables Game Engine

Blender 2.33 Re-enables Game Engine 05/01/2004 11:38 AM

instinctive-blender: A tasty 3D fork

instinctive-blender: A tasty 3D fork 04/08/2005 10:16 AM
You may be familiar with Blender 3D, the open source modeling, animation, rendering, and post-production package from the Blender Foundation. If you have used Blender for longer than a few weeks and miss some aspects of the old pre-2.3 user interface, or if you are looking for some interesting features to improve your 3D experience, you should get to know instinctive-blender, a fork created by the small German company instinctive mediaworks.

Blender Demo Reel Released

Blender Demo Reel Released 07/31/2004 10:46 AM

Blender alcanza la categorķa de CAD para
ingenierķa

Blender alcanza la categorķa de CAD para
ingenierķa 01/16/2004 11:02 AM

Primero pasos de nueva Comunidad Blender

Primero pasos de nueva Comunidad Blender 09/22/2004 04:44 AM

Barbie in a Blender responds to Orrin
Hatch

Barbie in a Blender responds to Orrin
Hatch 07/28/2004 05:48 AM
Ind uce Act. 85.5k JPEG Link (Thanks, Donna!)

Blender Conference Closes, Version 2.3
Released

Blender Conference Closes, Version 2.3
Released 11/05/2003 11:37 PM
Qbertino writes "The 3-day Blender Conference 2003 has closed as of last Sunday. It was a successful one, with the front line of open source 3D people ...

Seminarios y talleres sobre Blender en
Barcelona

Seminarios y talleres sobre Blender en
Barcelona 11/16/2003 07:06 AM

New underwater digital camera

New underwater digital camera 11/04/2003 12:13 PM
New waterproof underwater digital camera from Ffreefire (that isn't a typo, either). The EWC300F is submersible to a depth of five meters, has a decent resolution of two megapixels, and uses SD memory cards for image storage. Read [Via I4U]...

DIY Underwater Camera Housing

DIY Underwater Camera Housing 06/21/2004 01:43 PM

This do-it-yourself waterproof camera enclosure is pretty involved, and isn't the sort of thing you'd want to screw up, even a little, but if you're handy with the heat gun and aren't afraid to get your handheld deburring tool with swiveling cutter a little dirty, you can take pretty much any type of camera you'd like into the drink. Of course, if they make an underwater housing for your camera, it would probably just be easier to buy that, and maybe a little more reliable. Also, just for the record, this will work with your pet turtle Sub Captain Sandy, but only for about three minutes or so.
Read [mit.edu/~tim via GeekDIY]

New Underwater Volcano Discovered (AP)

New Underwater Volcano Discovered (AP) 05/20/2004 03:56 PM
AP - A previously unknown underwater volcano has been discovered off the coast of Antarctica, the National Science Foundation said Thursday.

Underwater Bot Roams the Seas

Underwater Bot Roams the Seas 04/06/2005 04:59 AM
Oceanographers have high hopes for a new generation of inexpensive, autonomous underwater vehicles that can undertake long journeys and capture data on climate shifts and the world's oceans. By Stephen Leahy.

That Special Underwater Glow

That Special Underwater Glow 08/17/2004 03:47 AM
Many coral colonies have a nice healthy glow about them, but the glow from certain colonies of great star coral in the Bahamas was different.

New underwater volcano discovered

New underwater volcano discovered 05/20/2004 11:34 PM
AP via New Jersey Online May 21 2004 4:06AM GMT

Acoustic Underwater Communication
Computers

Acoustic Underwater Communication
Computers 06/30/2004 09:23 AM

Although calling it "underwater SMS" might be a little misleading, the underwater diving computers recently purchased by the Australian Navy from Nautronix sound extremely useful -- and use sound to communicate. The Windows-based PCs use both GPS and sonar to track the position of the divers and underwater object, and can beam messages from one machine to another via acoustically powered network, not unlike a telephone modem. The manufacturer has a wide array of products designed to facilitate communication wireless underwater, where radio waves are often soaked up and diffused by the water.
Read - Underwater SMS for Navy divers [TheAustralian via Panbo]

Can You Patent Purchasing Underwater
Options?

Can You Patent Purchasing Underwater
Options? 01/05/2004 04:56 AM
The latest in bizarre patent applications is a business model patent being applied for by JP Morgan for the concept of buying underwater stock options. How is this patentable? That's unclear, but the folks at JP Morgan think they've hit onto something. They think that many companies trying to help employees get rid of underwater options may sell them to Morgan - following Microsoft's lead (where Microsoft let employees switch over from stock options to restricted stock). Of course, now that the economy is starting to pick up again, companies (and their employees) may be more interested in holding on to their options. Either way, it doesn't explain how making a risky investment is patentable. It's certainly not an original idea. I remember discussing just such a business model with some people in 1998 - when we knew a few people who had left jobs where their options were underwater, and who had no interest in buying them. Of course, we realized that the risk of buying underwater options on a regular basis meant that it could be quite difficult to ever actually make any money - but the folks at JP Morgan are betting the market is turning around and are hoping to buy up now before anyone realizes it.

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