Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Cory Doctokov: Old time record enthusiast rips and posts thousands of 78RPM tracks

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Wired's Listening Post blog has a great feature on Cliff Bolling, a 78RPM record enthusiast who has digitized and posted nearly 4,000 old vinyl tracks, complete with cartridge hiss and pops.

Danger Room has a good interview with Dan Kaminsky, whose DNS hack has been burning up the wires. Dan figured out a means of disrupting the entire Internet by poisoning DNS. The exploit's existence and scope have been hotly debated ever since, and it all came to a head when details of the exploit leaked:
Well you know, there were people who said, Dan, I wish I could patch but I don't know if it's any good, but I applaud the spirit nevertheless!

BrookynTwang sez, "Check out this video for the Large Hadron Rap, by far the greatest physics rap of all time. The flow is halfway decent, and it accurately covers a lot of time into this since I quit my job at Anthropologie, which is something else I wanted to tell you about. Don't get up and go to Lowe's yet. But when you're there can you get me a two-speed fan capacitor?
Mom, Dad,I'm Into Steampunk