This is an amazing java applet that analyzes your iTunes music collection and creates a short audio “signature” file from snippets of your favorite songs. Pretty clever.
The only downside seems to be it’s not able to use songs you’ve bought in the iTunes Music Store, due to the DRM.
I encourage you to check it out— here’s mine, and a list of the contents.
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The last.fm personal chart embed image service seems to be defunct, but you can see see some of my recent listens.
Superbowling, originally uploaded by DreadPirateBob.
Very silly Superman Bowling Club brochure from AMF.
As one of the fifty kajillion projects I’m constantly working on, I’ve been slowly correcting the titles of my iTunes library. Sure, when I ripped my CDs, iTunes looks them up in the CDDB/Gracenote database, but they’re not often formatted the way I like them (and neither are the ones I’ve downloaded through various other […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about money lately. How to get out of debt. How to get us into a house. All that rubbish. Since I found a few really excellent resources, I thought I’d share:
I realize that I’ve become a collector, which I never really wanted to be. It shocked me, a few years ago, seeing the result of both my Grandpa’s and his brother’s pack-rat tendencies throughout their lives, and my parents taking months to clear out their basements full of crap, maybe 2-3% of which was worthwhile family memorobilia— I need to remember that, and press myself toward a life that won’t end with making work for my kids to have to clean out my useless crap, much less spending good money on said useless crap.
As we move to everything being digital, I’m also realizing maybe I don’t need to own everything I want to experience. Netflix gets me movies I want to watch faster than I can watch them. I don’t need to own every movie I’ve ever liked— ditto books and CDs. Unless I’m going to be using it a lot (e.g. something I need for reference, or just something I really love enough to listen/watch over and over again), it really doesn’t need to be in the house on a permanent basis. Being able to rent it or borrow it from the library (it’s free!) really should be enough. One less thing to spend money on, and just clutter up the house with down the road.
Carry On Wayward Son, by Kansas.
Bob: When does [Superman Returns] come out— Wednesday? (checking…) Ah, yep. the 28th.
AAl: Maybe I’ll go see it like Thursday afternoon. Although with school out, that tactic isn’t as sound as it was a month ago.
Bob: Ja. I have to avoid the roving bands of teenage thugs around our apartment now.
AAl: Thuggee […]
