Archive for March, 2008

City Council passes congestion pricing

Roll call on today's City Council vote to approve congestion pricing in the city of New York. My councilman, Bill deBlasio, who is running for borough president, voted "No", which seems to be a politically questionable move. He's probably lost my vote.
 

Spaceweather audio

Two directories with some space-related audio clips, the first from NASA's INSPIRE project (very low frequency radio waves) and the second a recording of a radio burst caused by a solar flare on 4/9/2001.
 

List of fictional United States Presidents

"Due to the length of this list, it has been divided into the following sections..."
 

A picture of our torn up praise

"i don't have a home it's not a chain it's not a throne / it's just a picture of a picture tossed and torn away / of anger on your face still not as strange and not as brave / as when you turned away"
 

Transmitting live from the Ocean below the Antarctic Ice

"Additionally, sounds may be very faint. The amplifier settings are a compromise between picking up distant animal voices and not overcharging the system by nearby calving icebergs. So please beware of sudden extreamely loud events."
 

FontForge

Open source alternative to Fontlab. Looks like it only runs under X11 on the Mac though, which: poop.
 

Touch Radio

Homepage for the Touch Radio blog and podcast. from Touch Music, the legendary English avant-garde, ambient and experimental label. A lot of the episodes are field recordings, some are interviews, and I think a lot of them are exclusive.
 

Jacob Kirkegaard’s Works

A wide sample of the geological recording and installation work of Jacob Kirkegaard. Edfjall is a personal favorite.
 

Ice Record

Related to the last post, and also via wfmu. The sound of a record made of ice being played on a turntable.
 

Vatnajokul

Kio and I share an interest in field recordings, it seems. Very cool (pun!), very rhythmic recording of a glacier melting. via wfmu.
 

Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison

"The recordings were not intended for listening; the idea of audio playback had not been conceived. Rather, Scott sought to create a paper record of human speech that could later be deciphered."
 

A series of flight postcards

It's a book of postcards the Leah made and she asked me to contribute and I totally did!
 

Eat, this is my body

Eat, this is my body

It's a moriahsterpiece. For those keping score: Chocolate cake with cinnamon butter-cream frosting. The turtles and the book (signifying, I would imagine, my enthusiasm for turtles and books) are made of marzipan, as is the little candelabrum.

 

Making a wish

Making a wish

Almost the entire birthday host committee is represented here, including Ben, official cake-bearer, Mumbles, and in the very back, Cheek, who was the official head of the host committee.

 

The hearts signify taht even when you are the most grumpy, people still care about you

The hearts signify taht even when you are the most grumpy, people still care about you

Ellie made me these birthday cupcakes, with my future belly-tattoo emblem, just in case I got drunk enough to get a belly tatoo and needed reference material.

 

In situ

In situ

Cheek's brand new tatoo, half-length.

 

I still think it’s a not very detailed drawing of Mt. Rushmore

I still think it's a not very detailed drawing of Mt. Rushmore

Carrie's new tattoo!

 

We Tell Stories

Interesting, sort of clumsy, but I guess it was inevitable for someone to try something like this. It's great that Google Maps is set up in such a way that implementing this at least looks like it would be easy.
 

A More Perfect Union

I haven't had a chance to sit down and watch this in it's entirety yet. I sort of want to devote 40 minutes of undivided attention to it, because I'm pretty sure it's going to make me want to punch the air in an upward motion.
 

Love Love Love

"and sonny liston rubbed some tiger balm into his glove. / some things you do for money and some you do for love love love." I have more than one favorite Mt. Goats song, but right now, right now I think this is maybe the best one they've ever done.