ISSN 1496-3221
November 17, 2008
Actually, what you’re about to hear is the sound of multiple drives clunking, clicking, knocking, and otherwise kvetching. Canadian data recovery experts Data Cent have compiled an impressive number of disturbing audio snippets documenting various hard drive failures and mechanistic death throws. My teeth hurt just listening to a few of these. Via Daring Fireball
October 18, 2005
Stewart Smith (working under the canopy of the brilliant Stewdio) has taken two things I enjoy and mashed them together in a simply wonderful way. Frankly, this is one of those things you wish you had thought up yourself. This home-brew video for a song from Grandaddy’s The Sophtware Slump album uses a vintage Apple … More
March 16, 2005
Oh no! What has Celine done with the rest of the Belmonts? That’s no teenager in love by any stretch of the imagination. This afternoon, my iTunes playlist appeared to have been infiltrated by some unwanted Francophone audio dreckage. Fortunately, it wasn’t a terminal affliction. I grabbed this screen capture of Synergy displaying the wrong … More
March 7, 2005
I’d like to personally thank friend Jon for pointing out this charming Jefferson Starbucks story and its related musical accompaniment — but I can’t. Up until today, I had managed to completely avoid this rampaging audiomeme. Sadly, that point in time whooshed past me at the speed of sound. This evening I seem to have … More
December 1, 2004
That fact that URL Removed exists doesn’t surprise me in the least. Why it’s showing up in my referrer logs is another question altogether. Here’s a screenshot and the background audio file archived for posterity. And on a related note… Replace Me!
June 5, 2003
Just like me, you were right ripped that Apple’s ‘improvements’ to iTunes disabled internet music sharing. Part of the wonderfulness of music sharing was being able to listen to your home-based library at work, and now that flexibility was gone. Well, it really didn’t take very long for James Speth (of iCommune fame) to slap … More