Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

Creative Commons Works!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Links, Music

Boing Boing recently pointed out a music video cre­ated by Jonathan Coul­ton. Mr. Coul­ton went to Flickr and found a bunch of images with Cre­ative Com­mon licenses. He then cre­ated a touch­ing music video based on those images. This is the sort of thing that could not have been done with­out Cre­ative Com­mons as Mr. […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Dec 24, 2005

amaroK & Magnatune

Posted by Mark | Filed under Music, Software

As has been noted on this blog mul­ti­ple times, I use Linux. Specif­i­cally, I use SuSE Linux. For my desk­top envi­ron­ment, I use KDE. There are sev­eral music play­ers avail­able for KDE but the one that is far & away the best is amaroK. It’s got some great orga­ni­za­tional tools, a cover man­ager and can […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 22, 2005

Quick Update

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Links, Music

Apolo­gies to all my faith­ful read­ers, I’ve been busy work­ing on some new fea­tures for the ICON 30 web­site (with some mas­sive help from Aizuchi. For extra pain, we’re into our next beta cycle at work; so I’m con­sid­er­ably busier there. And if that wasn’t enough, I’ve had a bit of a cold that just […]

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Read more | Comments (3) | Sep 16, 2005

Review: Carbon Leaf

Posted by Mark | Filed under Music, Reviews

Not that long ago, I noticed that Amazon.com has free MP3s for down­load. These MP3s aren’t from any bands that I’d heard of before but free is free, right? So I started down­load­ing song after song look­ing for some­thing new to lis­ten to and while brows­ing around I ran across a band called Car­bon Leaf. […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Dec 4, 2004