witchstone:

i believe the box set was to contain a bunch of other unreleased demos/outtakes/live recordings.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 1:08 PM on September 23, 2002

This editorial pretty much sums up how I feel about the whole mess.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 6:54 AM on July 10, 2002

There were 30 players per squad in 1960, it seems. Also of note, was that for a few years starting in 1959, there were two all star games, a doubleheader spread out over consecutive days.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 3:21 PM on July 10, 2002

Well, it looks like Apple still might offer Windows support. More evidence is the fact that the above special ends this month.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 11:45 AM on June 24, 2002

I'm downloading it for OS X as I write this. I have been using chimera quite a bit lately, and really like it. It's based off of Mozilla, but is nimble, quick, and has a nicer interface. Of course, it is still only at version 0.2.8.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 2:38 PM on June 5, 2002

oops. this is the correct link.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 2:39 PM on June 5, 2002

Here's an article from USA Today about the plan.

Recording Industry Association of America president Hilary Rosen calls the proposal "the most disingenuous thing I've ever heard. It's ridiculous."
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 12:15 PM on May 28, 2002

pxe2000: I agree with you. Services like mp3.com, Pressplay, etc. do not appeal to me at all. I would love an online service that has hard to find albums, that are out of print or othewise unavailable. None of these services have that. The record industry's solution is the equivalent of a Sam Goody, or some other record store in a mall, when what I want is Aquarius Records or some other independent store with a huge selection of unique and hard to find records.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 6:50 AM on May 29, 2002

As for vinyl prices vs. cd prices, I think there are several variables in the mix. In the last five years, I have never seen vinyl versions of major label cheaper than their cd counterparts. In most cases, the vinyl versions are actually considerably more expensive because they are imported from the UK. For independent label stuff, I find most lps are priced around $7.99 - $9.99 in stores. This is usually a dollar or two under the cd prices. However, double and triple lp albums always cost more,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 7:00 AM on May 30, 2002

The company's database examines CDs' tables of contents down to slices just one-seventy-fifth of a second long. Copies that look identical at that scale almost always come from the same master copy, the company says.

So, while the RIAA is trying to crack down on filesharing services (and succeeding), there are still over ten-thousand copies of the album that originated elsewhere. It is not mentioned in the article, but I am assuming that the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 1:34 PM on May 28, 2002

tsarfan: Each "listen" in the Gracenote charts comes from a physical CD that is in your computer's CDROM drive. Winamp, Itunes, and other players use the CDDB(Gracenote) to get song information based on the CD's track layout. Since those programs usually store the information on your hard drive, they only contact the server once per unique CD. These charts have nothing to do with retailers.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 1:40 PM on May 28, 2002

I don't think that most of the listens for the album came from people breaking the street date on Saturday, but from bootleggers. I think the figures were tallied on Friday or even before.

In the case of the Eminem CD, eight slightly different versions accounted for most of the traffic. That means there's likely "eight major guys doing most of the pressing of this," Hyman said.

Los Angeles was the top... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 6:22 AM on May 29, 2002

Another interesting thing about this article was that it made me go and look at the differences between the charts at gracenote(cddb) and freedb. Not too shocking, but there are some differences. I was expecting more of a dichotomy, like the one between Billboard and CMJ.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 6:41 AM on May 29, 2002

It was on slashdot this morning.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 12:20 PM on May 22, 2002

If the GameCube drops to $149, I'm getting it. The Resident Evil remake looks awesome, as does Rogue Squadron II. The new Mario and Metroid games are also looking quite interesting.

I don't understand why Nintendo doesn't release a NES and SNES classics disc, that has has 10 or so of the top games on it. I would love to play Super Mario World, Chrono Trigger, etc.

I love that you can do that with Dreamcast by burning an emulator disc. And Sega... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 7:11 AM on May 15, 2002

Nintendo has now dropped the price of the Gamecube to $149.99.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 10:36 AM on May 20, 2002

It was much better than I thought it would be. They glossed over several major issues, but I suppose walking the audience though all nine seasons with flashbacks would have taken three hours.

I'm probably alone in this, but I always enjoyed the episodes that had nothing to do with the overreaching alien conspiracy plot. The later season finales were just began to get too melodramatic for me.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 7:09 AM on May 20, 2002

I'd consider buying it for Halo alone, but since Halo will be coming out for PC and Mac later this year, it doesn't seem worth it. I might reconsider if a few more must-have games come out.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 6:58 AM on May 15, 2002

Qambient: What are some of the games? Now that Gamespot is for pay, I'm a bit out of the loop.

Any suggestions of a quality video game review/news site?
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 7:12 AM on May 15, 2002

That goat has devil eyes!
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 2:24 PM on April 30, 2002

I don't really think of Eyehategod as death metal. They're much more on the sludge/doom side. It was a nicely written appeal for those who aren't usually into that genre. I'm always trying to get people into similar bands, but a lot of folks can't get past the fact that metal is not just for redneck teenagers...
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 3:18 PM on March 7, 2002

Speaking of dhtml, I still love Assembler, even though it hasn't been updated in over a year.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 6:30 AM on February 27, 2002

If you are curious about the process, there is a tutorial done by The Chopping Block at the Adobe Studio(registration required). They use Streamline to do bulk bitmap->vector conversions.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 3:11 PM on January 27, 2002

Personally, I think the show has been going downhill for the last 3 years. I thought Fox would end it when Duchovny left, but I assume they wanted to milk it for all it was worth. Replacing the primary characters (Gillian Anderson had also been phasing out her involvement this season) and keeping the audience's interest is a tough stunt. I guess Fox figured if Law & Order could do it, the X-Files could too.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 7:51 AM on January 17, 2002

I was always more of a fan of the self-contained episodes. It became too much of an effort to keep up with the overreaching "arc", which consistently doubled back on itself and ultimately became too complicated to keep up with. I did like the movie, but I felt that was never dealt with afterwards on the show.

sassone: I felt the exact same way about 24.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 2:56 PM on January 17, 2002

"This is what my life is all about right now," said McGowan who broke up with his girlfriend last month.

That's my favorite part of the article by far.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 7:12 PM on January 14, 2002

jfuller:
Maybe I've missing something, but those reviews sound pretty awesome to me.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 2:57 PM on January 13, 2002

You can watch the text stream over at MacNN, if you can't get the video stream.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 9:04 AM on January 7, 2002

When I first saw the title of the post, I thought they were finally sending this Buddy up the river.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 8:34 AM on January 3, 2002

I can't get to the site either, but the name iWalk appeared on rumor sites and this site a few months ago (when the iPod was released).
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 6:16 AM on January 3, 2002

skallas:

Supposedly the LCD iMac has been ready for awhile now (rumors and sightings go back over a year), but Apple has been waiting to introduce them until for the price of LCDs to dropped enough to offer them at a low enough price to fit into the bottom their product matrix.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 4:57 PM on January 2, 2002

Actually, Talk Talk was from the album The Party's Over.

What about Bad Company by Bad Company from the album Bad Company? Or maybe the lesser known Iron Maiden by Iron Maiden, from the album Iron Maiden.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 1:41 PM on December 17, 2001

Another enjoyable piece of Albini writing are his Eyewitness record reviews (Google cache). They're not as informational as the music-biz essay, but pretty damn funny.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 10:02 AM on November 30, 2001

15-Love at NetbabyWorld is another cool time waster (as are all the Netbaby games).
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 8:52 AM on November 28, 2001

I read that Salon article, and was rather annoyed that the writer was down on the Xbox due to their dislike for Microsoft. He failed to mention a few key things. In terms of console specific games, Konami will also release Metal Gear Solid for the Xbox, and Tony Hawk 3 is being developed as well (As well as Activisions other extreme sports titles). The writer also skipped over the initial disappointment surrounding the Playstation 2 launch. No one felt that there was a must have launch game for... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 7:46 AM on November 16, 2001

yerfatma:

You're right about SSX. That was the first game I picked up for the Playstation 2. I don't think it had the crossover of the Tony Hawk series, but still it had the best graphics and was the most fun launch title for the PS2.

It seems that Sony timed it so that there would be a wave of highly anticipated games coming out right around the launch of the Xbox and Gamecube. (and the holiday shopping season).

That... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 9:15 AM on November 16, 2001

The father ordered his two teenage sons to tie Laree face down to a metal futon frame...

What amazes me is that the other children were made accomplices to this. You would think that if your own sister was being beaten to death, you would try and do something. Of course, they were probably afraid of their parent's wrath, or had undergone the same punishment before and had become desensitized to the violence in the house.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 11:12 AM on November 15, 2001

Check MacMinutefor live coverage of the press event.

Apple introduces iPod, a digital audio player (MP3, MP2, more) with a 5GB hard drive (1000 songs). 20 minute skip protection. FireWire-equipped, first such music player. 10 hour battery, lithium-polymar ("most advanced battery; more advanced than laptop batteries"), takes 1 hour to charge. Size of a deck of cards: 2.4" wide, 4" tall, 3/4" thick.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 10:32 AM on October 23, 2001

Check out the pictures and videos at the new product page. Despite the price, it is still pretty damn cool.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 11:09 AM on October 23, 2001

I would recommend the entire Dark is Rising sequence: Over Sea Under Stone, The Dark is Rising, Greenwitch, The Grey King, and Silver on the Tree.

I highly recommend The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. One of my favorite books. Her other books (Figgs & Phantoms, The Mysterious Disapperance of Leon I mean Noel) are great as well.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 6:46 AM on October 8, 2001

asok: The Nose Knows is by E.W. Hildick, and was part of a series about a group of kids by who solved mysteries. I read several (The Nervous Newsboy, The Phantom Frog, the Snowbound Spy, etc.) as a kid. Not particularly earth-shattering, but still entertaining.

I wasn't exposed to Enid Blyton until I lived abroad for a year and discovered some British children's authors that I had never heard of before. One of my favorites was Helen Cresswell. I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 1:10 PM on October 8, 2001

So then they should ban everything from Great Balls of Fire

Um, they did ban Great Balls of Fire. However, Hendrix's Fire didn't make the list.

Anyway, some of the songs are credited to the wrong artists. As far as I know, Mellencamp did not record I'm on Fire, and Black Sabbath didn't do Suicide Solution (Ozzy did). Makes me doubt the authenticity....
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 3:52 PM on September 17, 2001

Maybe we could just use the late 60's Stones clones...
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 12:41 PM on September 14, 2001

I agree with what they both said. It is definitely spin, and I think the speech was delivered with a blandness that I found fairly upsetting. I still support the president, I just want to be leveled with.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 8:26 AM on September 14, 2001

Anyone ever eat pocky?

I'm eating it now. But just the regular chocolate kind. Once I hit 25, I will act my age and only eat Men's pocky.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 4:03 PM on August 2, 2001

IHT really is an elegantly designed and programmed site. I can't sing its praises enough.

I just wish they had an online crossword puzzle...
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 1:59 PM on July 31, 2001

I'm with Miss Cleo.
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 10:10 AM on July 31, 2001

A lot of new video game releases actually come with a soundtrack, much like a movie. In the Gran Turismo 3 book, the soundtrack credits (everything from Snoop Dogg to Motley Crue) take up 2 pages.

While most artists (or owners of the artists music) license songs for use in commercials, that Gran Turismo soundtrack features a song that Snoop Dogg wrote exclusively for the game. With better audio in todays video game systems, it looks like we might see... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 6:37 AM on July 26, 2001

If anyone says anything about "angular guitars" I'm going to puke...
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 11:24 AM on July 23, 2001

...rocker Alanis Morissette...

Maybe that's their problem right there...
posted to MetaFilter by ry at 7:37 AM on July 23, 2001