Odds and Ends

January 25, 2005

Odds and ends of stories, tools and links for today’s posting pleasure — the result of surfing my wireless laptop while laying lifeless in bed after a rough night of food poisoning (i think) and an hour or two of restless sleep…

:: Google Video Beta - A very cool tool. The SearchEngineWatch blog is featuring a breakdown of other video-related search tools to keep in mind. Lots of interesting advancements to read about.

:: The Experts Survey/The Future of the Internet - Something all librarians should be paying attention to. Will try to read through this today if I can keep my eyes open long enough.

:: CC Mixter - “…a community music sharing site featuring songs licensed under Creative Commons, where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.”

:: aqLMA: Live Music Archive - Some great high-quality live music MP3s dowloadable for free. Rufus Wainwright and Ben Folds version of Careless Whisper is worth a listen.

:: Oscar nominees - Feb 27th is the big day. I can’t believe how many I haven’t seen this year.

:: THINGS I’D PROBABLY SAY IF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WERE JUST A WEEKLY TV SHOW AND I WERE A REGULAR VIEWER. - By Eric Maierson at McSweeney’s. “Come on, in real life you’d never get away with something like that.”

:: The Interactive Inaugural Map: Your Roadmap to Fun - yet another great flash carton by Mark Fiore

:: Slimserver and Softsqueeze - the easiest way to enjoy 50 gigs of mp3 music stored on my desktop computer from the comfort of my wireless laptop or home stereo. Best of all, it is free (although I am lusting after the Squezebox which would cut my laptop out of the “desktop networked to stereo” equation).

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