I love http://www.hackaday.com, but today's entry is the dopest ever: How to use the bt878 chipset on your TV tuner card as a high-speed analog-to-digital converter. <I>Warning:</I> I haven't tried this myself, so I only pass it on as "interesting." As always when playing with the guts of an electronic device, don't mess with it if you're not technically adept. Word!
Auction of "fantastically rare original art and signed memorabilia from children's lit and entertainment giants." All proceeds will be donated to a special children's education fund for Katrina-affected students administrated by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation.
There may be dumber ideas for websites out there, but I haven't found 'em yet. Still, I get a kick out of this one.
Chris Sommovigo from Signals Super-Fi passed this one my way. A great read.
Hey, it's only streamed audio, but Public Radio Fan is easy to navigate and offers lots of variety.
Other than making you look like a dork, that is.
On November 1, Window OS expert Mark Russinovich <A HREF="http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/10/sony-rootkits-and-digital-righ…; that his root kit detection utility had uncovered the presence of some well-hidden, poorly written code that was clogging computer resources and could potentially crash his computer or, if removed, disable his CD drive.
The hits just keep on coming in fair-use land. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has proposed legislation that requires that all digital radio content be encrypted, including works that now exist in the public domain. The proposed legislation would apply to satellite radio (Sirius, XM) as well as conventional terrestrial broadcasting. As proposed by the RIAA, content could be recorded only in blocks of 30 minutes or longer, and the recorded data could not be exported from the recording device (in other words, you could only play it back on the device you had recorded it on—no more recording programs on your hi-fi to listen to on your way to work). To learn more about this legislation, go to <A HREF="http://www.publicknowledge.org/news/analysis/digital-radio-2pager">Publ… Knowledge's two-page summary</A>. While you're there, you might want to check out <A HREF="http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/why">"Why These Issues Matter."</A>
Audiophiles obviously aren't the only strange obssessives out there.
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