Link: EULAlyzer - Reviews and free downloads at Download.com.
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Link: Joy Division to record new material.
Joy Division to record new material
New Order have revealed they are working on songs for the film about their late Joy Division bandmate Ian Curtis.
The new film, currently named, Control is based on Touching From a Distance, the book by Curtis's widow Deborah. Casting for the role of Curtis - who committed suicided in 1980 - will take place in the spring of 2006.
The film is being made by director and rock photographer Anton Corbijn, who has worked with U2 and Depeche Mode.
Peter Hook, bass player for New Order and Joy Division, told NME they wanted to record new songs for the film as Joy Division. He went on to say about the impending soundtrack, "It may include new stuff. Anton wants to use songs by Joy Division so that each song becomes a video. Like the way the Atmosphere video was filmed, he wants to write videos that appear in the film."
The Manchester band are also considering playing all Joy Division sets at future gigs.They played such a set at the October tribute concert for John Peel in London, including a rare outing for Warsaw.
Hook has also stated: "We have actually talked about doing Joy Division sets and gigs, but we haven't found our footing yet."
A few people have recommended this and it seems too good to be true, but apparently it is the "real deal". I am downloading this tonight and giving it a whirl. If it does half of what it says it does it earns a permanent place in the Queen of Freeware's 5 Star Freeware Files Hall of Fame. From the developer's site:
The Scoop:
You’re on the Web looking for information. Your web research turns up the information you need, scattered in several sites, a couple of articles, a few lines in a web forum. Now what?
If you have Net Snippets Free Edition, our free research software - now is when you treat yourself to a coffee. You’ve already snipped the stuff you really need out of those pages/articles/forums. A line here, a paragraph there, perhaps a picture. It’s all already organized into folders with source information attached. You did it on-the-fly while reading the text. It was that quick and easy.
If you don’t have the Net Snippets free research tool, now is when life gets complicated.
You link all those sources to your Favorites and lose the information when its address changes. Or you save them to your computer and worry later about how to find them again, and what it was in them that two days ago you thought was relevant. Or you start cutting-and-pasting text and links into your favorite word processor. When does Computer Rage overtake you? Is it the fifth time you have to tell Word to convert a web table to text? When that picture ends up in the top left corner of the document? Or only the day after, when you see you forgot to copy over a vital link and can’t remember where the information came from?
Net Snippets Free Edition is a totally free research tool designed for anyone looking for a quick, easy way to conduct web research and collect, organize and share online information. School students who need free research software for homework assignments and projects. Individual investors managing their portfolios through the Web. Public library users to collect the information they’ve found, and take or email it home. Patients and their families looking for information about a medical condition. Family history searchers, recipe collectors, E-bay and Amazon aficionados. Net Snippets is the best tool for comparison-shopping! In short, it’s the must-have free research tool for everyone searching the web. We guarantee you’ll ask yourself how you managed without it. (If you’re a business user or professional researcher, and "lite" research software doesn’t meet your needs, check out the fuller features of our Professional Edition).
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(This site in NO WAY advocates downloading of illegal music or other files. Since this site is related to my fully licensed 80s internet radio stream, I bring stories of interest related to music and pop culture, as p2p is a pervasive part of the music scene.)
Link: Grokster Calls It Quits on Sharing Music Files - New York Times.
By JEFF LEEDS Published: November 8, 2005
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7 - Grokster, a developer of file-swapping software used to trade copyrighted music and movie files, said Monday that it would halt distribution of the software and cut off support for its associated network as part of a landmark settlement with the recording industry and Hollywood studios.
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I
wrote (if I do say so myself) a brilliant little essay about my
"Stalker Fly" (of which this short, "Mr. Fly's 15 Frames of Fame",
reminded me) this AM to entertain you all. When I hit the "publish"
button, it said "we can't find a record of this image" (which I tried
to post with this essay) and I lost the whole thing. Ugh. Just one more nail
in my coffin. I need to go get some coffee. Dang, I know this was just
part of the curse of the sTaLker fLy.
Second Attempt: "Curse of the sTaLker fLy"
Since last night I have been unmercifully haunted by a fly. I guess "Stalker Flies" are not so uncommon, as when I searched for an image to depict my latest travails, "voila" I come upon Eric Erbes "Mr. Fly's 15 Frames of Fame" which roughly depicts my current plight.
It all started yesterday, when here I am, minding my own business (as usual), hunched in front of my computer (as usual), deep in the recesses of my cave (as usual), stumbling around the web or some such (as usual), when my nemesis appears, announcing his presence by dive bombing me loudly. I shoo it away but it's a persistant little bugger. I get the fly swatter. Far be it from me to let this some freakin' fly kick my behind. It's a good thing there is no hidden video camera (or is there? Eh, hem...) in my dwelling as it would have looked like "Dance of the Contortionist with Fly Swatter".
Alright, you win this round. I retreat to another chamber in the recesses of the cave. The thing follows me like some well trained pet. (How come none of my pets are this well trained? Maybe Stalker Fly can give them lessons while he's around.) Buzz, buzz, buzz. Although I am generally a terminal insomniac, I figure I'll just retire to my lair. Buzz, buzz. Buzz. I fall asleep, which is highly irregular. Aaah, maybe the Stalker Fly isn't my worst nightmare, maybe it's a blessing in disguise. I actually sleep. WOW.
I am usually not up this early on a Saturday morning, save an awkward tickle on my nose and buzzzZZZZZ, buzzzZZZZZ in my ear. I'm not giving in. I refuse. Sleep is hard to come by. I pull the lid of my resting place just a bit tighter. Still that familiar buzz, buzz is in my ear and the tickle is now somewhere else. I jump out of my resting place into the uneasy morning light and grab my flyswatter again. Dag nabit, no food for nearly a day and that thing is still too spry. Buzz, buzz. (Makes this javajane want to cue up Wire's "Eardrum Buzz".)
Well, I resigned myself to unwelcomed co-existance with my newest nuisance. Best I can figure is Stalker Fly is someone I used to know, reincarnated, paying me a friendly visit or he's a sign, telling me I've been a pretty big piece of sh*t lately. It's probably scenario B. Oh, man, why can't they just stick to the old Voodoo Doll? I like that a lot better than "Lord of the Flies" (jj cues up "King of the Flies" by Fad Gadget). Well I let you all know when I finally crush my bug. Until then, consider me, altrockdj, one grumpy bug.
A last parting word to the wise: "Beware of STaLkeR fLiEs..."
||This second rendition pales in comparison to my first deleted version. Sorry, I lost my writing "mojo" after awakening. Don't you hate it when you lose your "mojo"? (or perhaps, you've never been so unlucky...) Hmm, I wonder if Stalker Fly is really Dr. Evil??? Perhaps?
Flamboyant fallen Idol Maroulis to seek new fame with comedy skills.
Former American Idol contestant Constantine Maroulis is ready to return to television, this
time in a sitcom that's being developed for him by ABC and Kelsey
Grammer's production company.
The project is in the very early stages of development, with the
details still being hammered out and no writer yet attached, said Steve
Stark, president of Grammer's Grammnet Prods.
Grammnet brought Maroulis to ABC, which then signed a talent-holding deal with him, said Stark, who called Maroulis a "showman" with a "bigger-than-life personality" who stood apart from the rest of the season four contestants. We saw something in him that was very unique, as did ABC," Stark said. "Collectively, we are trying to figure out the best way to showcase him in a half-hour series. Maroulis' pact with ABC also gives the network the option of casting him in another project, comedy or drama. Stark also noted that Maroulis has a background in theater, having trained at the Boston Conservatory. Maroulis came in sixth place during the most recent season of Fox's singing competition IdolIdol.
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You know, it took me forever to look into browsing with Firefox. i don't know why. I guess it's the sheer laziness of the human condition, even for a computer geek like me. yes, most of us, if we don't downright hate IE have our gripes from security to speed to not being open source and easy to customize. I really missed tabbed browsing (I tried a few other tabbed browsers over the years, but a lot of them were on an IE shell, so I was never happy), so I decided to motivate and jump on the Firefox bandwagon - finally.
now that i have done so, i feel like a schmoe. Firefox is gaining in browser share (now up to over 20%) on IE, and several of my Generation 80s listeners mentioned the site was not completely tweaked for Firefox. well since i was too engrossed in all my over committed life, i never even bothered to download Firefox and make sure my site was cross browser compliant since, i, "Queenie", wasn't using it. how do you like them rotten apples? well now i know how much my slacker attitude affected others, as now that i am browsing exclusively in Firefox it irks me to no end if a sight isn't cross platform compliant. d'oh! (aAnd, yes, I've since laboriously tweaked my sight for Firefox and IE, among others!)
Anyway, I must say, I can't believe I waited so long to get Firefox. I think the first couple days I didn't quite "get it" and was slow on the uptake, so I didn't realize the many virtues of this browser, save it seemed quicker and it was known for better security against all sorts of malicious attacks on one's computer from the world wide web. Well after I found all the lovely extensions and Greasemonkey to put the finishing tweaks on, all I can say is this thing ROCKS! I love the ability to customize things, and making my browser (which is open 70% of my waking hours) in to a lean, mean, (safe) surfing machine is like having Christmas come early. So if you haven't downloaded Firefox, I think I've made it very simple for you to do so ;). Once you do, you'll be kicking yourself (like me) for not having done it sooner.
Some really helpful Firefox extensions I use are:
may sound like "overkill", but it's not and I use all these functions routinely. that's not even including the 5 or 6 Greasemonkey scripts i use as well. if you really have no other option at work and must use IE, there is Turnabout for IE, which is similar (but barebones as compared)to Greasemonkey available to make some small mods. i hope, along with others, i've convinced you to stop the procrastination, drop the chalupa and go download the best browser since sliced bread. one you get it, love it, SPREAD THE WORD!
java jane
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