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Hear archived concerts and see photos from George Wein’s annual showcase of the best in folk music from beautiful Newport, R.I.
via Newport Folk Festival Live From NPR Music : NPR.
Lots of performers. Looks like I will be spending the weekend listening to the festival.
There are set lists along with photos for each act.
short snippet from an email I received today
Vuvuzela Filter EyeTV 3.4 Special Edition For a limited time only A special edition of EyeTV 3.4 software is available during the 2010 FIFA World Cup that offers a new feature called the “Vuvuzela Filter”. This filter gives you the option to dampen the buzz of vuvuzela horns in the stadium during live TV broadcasts; it can be quickly switched on and off at any time during the game. To use the filter, control click to bring up the contextual menu in EyeTV. Click here for a quick demonstration of the Vuvuzela Filter in action. http://downloads2.elgato.com/elgatonews/EyeTVWithVuvuzelaFilter.mov
They need to add a second bandpass filter to kill the harmonics. The video only gets rid of the lower frequencies (to my ears).
From the internets ;-)
Use the EQ as a bandpass filter to get rid of the annoying frequency around 233 Hz and the corresponding harmonics (466Hz, 932Hz, and 1864 Hz)
In a practice room on the Stanford campus last week, an ensemble of more than a dozen performing musicians gathered to rehearse for an upcoming chamber concert of student work. One young composer after another stepped to the front of the room, distributed scores, and started cueing entrances and ironing out details of coordination.
Most modern programming languages do not consider white space characters (spaces, tabs and newlines) syntax, ignoring them, as if they weren’t there. We consider this to be a gross injustice to these perfectly friendly members of the character set. Should they be ignored, just because they are invisible? Whitespace is a language that seeks to redress the balance. Any non whitespace characters are ignored; only spaces, tabs and newlines are considered syntax.
via Whitespace.
The vision will be carried on as Arizona will host the 4th Annual “Copper on Dirt”. USAC Silver Crown, USAC National/CRA Sprint Cars and USAC National/Western States Midgets will all take part in a sensational racing spectacle at Tucsons USA Raceways for two nights on February 19th and 20th marking USA Raceway as one of only two dirt track venues to host USACs Triple Crown all in one event.
via The 4th Annual “Copper on Dirt” – Auto Racing Forum | Big West Racing Forum.
What is the hottest thing in music right now? A pair of video games ? Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Anyone can play. The games allow you to become a member of the band. Each game offers a range of pop music hits on game controllers that look and feel like guitars and drums. What makes these video games so much more impressive than “air guitar” is that through the use of something called the instrument game controller the player actually experiences the visceral feeling of performing music. You can even improve if you practice.
xkcd – A Webcomic – Tech Support Cheat Sheet.
This is the flowchart you should use after reading about technology ;-)
daily wisdom
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