John Arroyo

Muzak filed for bankruptcy a couple of days ago. The company started in 1934 and filled elevators with, well, elevator music for 75 years. Now they are drowning in debt and going bankrupt. I can’t say they will be missed but it is sad to see them go in some wierd twisted way.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a7CiLt41ZK.w&refer=home

This Times article is great, some very clever ghetto representations of life in the city using Legos.

http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/i-lego-ny/?em

Thanks for link Bedirhan(solo)

This is another heartattack bacon dish.  It is part bacon, part burrito, & part cholesterol.  I don’t know who created it, but it looks pretty fucking ridiculously tasty.  If someone knows who created this please comment or email me.  Thanks for the pic Coffelt!

I was watching party girl earlier and was cracking up when this scene came on.  What the hell did Teddy do to the bar owner?  What ever it was, it couldn’t have been good!

This is quite possibly the most amazing bacon dish I have ever seen.  This is the state of it before it cooked.  You have to have to see the original post to get a sense of the bacon goodness.  This post is a bit off topic, but this blog isn’t exactly focused

http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/

Before the flames

Remixin.com has launched a new music website.  It’s a creative networking site for musicians, djs and composers to share their music and have other remix it.  Each remix uploaded to site can also be remixed.  Each song uploaded to the website spawns a Remix Tree that is generated as members evolve the music through interative remixing.

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The example above is Tango Vega by Mantris.  It is a second generation remix.  The original was Canons for Larry by the composer Charles Dodge.  This song was then remixed by Courtney Brown, then hers was remixed by Mantris.

The styles of the remixes range from art music to electronica to house. All styles are welcome.  Here are two more samples for you, by Scotte B and DJ Derty respectively.

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I hope that you will check out the site.  I’m not only a fan, I’m also a member.  Actually I founded the site.  I guess that would make me a bit biased.

This a cool new site that has people contribute their pictures of themselves with an album cover.  The trick is to get the album cover to become a part of your real world scene and snap a photo.  It’s a great realworld mashup of sorts.  http://www.sleeveface.com/

Sleeveface

If you are using a mac or PC and want to add Vorbis (*.ogg) and FLAC (*.flac) playback to iTunes and Quicktime then these two apps are very handy.  I just recently installed them and they work great.  Fluke is used to add FLAC playback and XiphQT is used to add Vorbis playback.  Instructions to install and use these apps are included on the Fluke and XiphQT websites.

FLAC and Vorbis are both open source compression formats.  The popular mp3 and AAC (Apple) formats both have proprietary technologies in them.  FLAC is popular with the classical music sect because it is a lossless format.  100% of the audio is preserved but less space is needed tp store it.  Some popular artists like Brian Eno and Perl Jam have began to embrace FLAC as well.  Vorbis is a lossy compression, like mp3, but it does not use propriatary technologies and some say it sounds better than mp3.  For more info on these formats check out these links: FLAC, Vorbis.

It’s time for change. Go’Bama!

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