Audible - Brendan McKenna

You didn’t ask but here they are iTunes users can click on the show name to get more info and subscribe.

Maccast - http://maccast.com (Ultra geeky and Mac focused)

The Merlin Show http://themerlinshow.com (New and actually not TOO geeky, the latest episode is a chat with an indie rocker)

NPR Wait Wait Don’t tell me http://www.npr.org

BBC Nightly News Video Podcast - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news Unbiased news from the BBC

Correct me if I’m wrong by the San Francisco Chronicle - http://www.sfgate.com Relatively New two minute podcasts of Irate readers who call up and leave bizarre messages.

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I had an awesome cycle in Oakland today, so in honor of that part of the bay area, here’s an appropriate song, listen for the guy whispering in the background at 2 minutes, it could be the producer dying to have his voice on the track!

 Kenny Loggins plays the Danger Zone [3:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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More great music from Amadou and Miriam, Enjoy!

 Senegal Fast Food - Amadou & Miriam [4:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Produced by the famous Manu Chao who made that awesome CD Proxima Estacion: Esperanza. Amadou & Miriams Cd is also awesome!

 Amadou & Miriam - Artistya [3:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Hi Beautiful,
iTunes has lots of good movies to buy and legally download but until they have all the movies we have to use bittorrent to download our movies.

Here’s a little intro:

a torrent file is a small file called something like greatmovie.torrent and its about 20k in size and downloads in an instant. it contains locations around the interweb where copies of another file, usually greatmovie.avi, exist.

Once you grab greatmovie.torrent and save it to your desktop, you open the torrentfile with a program that can go to these remote parts of the interwweb and grab that movie file greatmovie.avi

Bittorrent users account for less than 15% of users (geeks like me) but they use 50% of the total bandwidth of the internet, thats how many movies are zipping around the web!

sites that have torrent files are usually seedy places with lots of ads for hot girls, vicodin and free ipods but if you ignore all these ads, you can find torrent files for anything of your choosing, legal downloads like bands who choose to use bittorrent to distribute their songs (e.g.  Kleptones) and grey area downloads like movies that aren’t available in stores (Star Wars 3 was on bittorrent a week before it hit movie theaters)

The best program to manage your torrents on Mac OS X is Transmission, and μtorrent (or utorrent but pronounced mew-torrent). μtorrent is free, has no spyware or ads, doesn’t use up your computers resources like Azureus(the most popular bittorent client) but is really skinny and has no extra features, I still recommend it as the only torrent client for windows

The very best torrent site (as in philosophy and less advertising) is http://piratebay.org but the best torrent site(for amount of content and nice search features like sort by seeders(seeders are bittorrent sources with the full file) as opposed to leechers(users with only a piece of the file)) is http://torrentportal.com

With this guide you can now go and find the torrentfile you need, download it to your desktop, get your bittorrent client installed and then drop that torrent file into your bittorrent client program, wait anything from an hour to overnight and you’ll have the movie or album you’re looking for.

Don’t forget to send a check to the director or producer of whatever you downloaded to keep your karma in check!

Update: μtorrent now has a Web User Interface! allowing you to queue up downloads while at the office to download to your Mac or Pc at home!

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This ad gets me excited about using a phone again!

Oscars last night (which I missed because (a)they go on forever,snooze and (b)the directv was down) came with a nice surprise Apple’s new iPhone ad I loved it when I saw it this morning, and I think my favorite part is “how you doin” and maybe Mr Incredible, but John Gruber pointed out that ‘Boogie Nights’ is in there too!

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Darling,

Continuing a tradition on this blog of fromagerie, I’ve picked out this great live version of ‘Two Step’ for todays soundtrack

 Two Step (Live) - Dave Matthews Band [9:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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For Nisha

 Sniff [4:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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45 minutes in Garageband has taught me a few things, some of which I should’ve known already. Namely, as Nisha speculated earlier, the song ‘Today’ by Smashing Pumpkins is a buzzkill and doesn’t mash well with ‘Escape‘ by Enrique.

Also, that ‘Escape‘ by Enrique is a really catchy and well produced song, I’ve been going through it one beat at a time and have noticed lots of cool techniques in it. Its perfect Bubble Gum music, perfectly produced with the right amount of percussion, vocoder, timing to make it a surefire hit. While ‘Escape‘ is not excessively stylized, it is meticulously styled in the way great songs are, where surprises are hidden in every corner.

I’ve ended up putting the heavy guitar riff intro from ‘Today’ into the beginning of ‘Escape’ in my mashup, doing a few loops and echo’s at the beginning and then letting Enrique’s wonderful song play out uniterrupted for the remaining three minutes.

It may have been an essentially fruitless project, but now this post will be the number one hit for anyone googling “Enrique Smashing Pumpkins Mashup” and I learnt a whole lot about (a) Enriques production skills and (2) Garageband’s Awesome Audio Editing features.

 Escape Today [3:45m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Baby, you might not be next to me, but I dream of you next to me every night.

This song is cheesy but right on the money. It’ll be on our soundtrack.(with your permission )

 Escape [3:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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