The Origin of Yelling ‘Freebird’ - a WSJ article on the origin of yelling ‘Freebird’ at concerts. I remember reading that when people yell ‘Freebird’ at Kid Rock he just plays it, which is somehow great to me.

Harmonica Beatboxing - this is incredibly awesome.

ODEO Podcast service - article and screenshots on the new podcast recording, hosting and publishing service.

The Beatles’ Story in Comics - fan-made comic book about the story of the Beatles, available in English and Spanish.

While reading up on Hawaii for a vacation, I stumbled across HawaiiUP, subtitled “Podcasting in Paradise”. Hawaiian podcasters? That’s pretty awesome. Turns out there’s a whole Hawaii Association of Podcasters and here’s a list of them.

Lars helps out Beatallica - Sony has agreed to drop the case and beatallica.org will be back soon.

My album’s included on the just-released Magnatune Tuneplug (the Rock Music Collection Volume One). It’s a reusable USB flash drive that comes pre-loaded with the top 10 selling rock albums on Magnatune.

Included are albums from Artemis, Arthur Yoria, Brad Sucks, Burnshee Thornside, Emmas Mini, Fluid, Jade Leary, Myles Cochran, The Kokoon and Tom Paul.

It comes in various sizes, but it’s $70 US for the 512MB model. I seem to remember that it’ll be available at some retail outlets, but you can read more about it and buy it online here.

Backwards Messages in Songs - excerpts from songs allegedly containing backwards messages in them.

Punk Rock Scrap Book - Punk rock concert photos taken in Santa Cruz and San Francisco in 1978-79.

BitTorrent 4.0 is out. Looks like interface and performance tweaks mostly. I’m using TorrentFlux & BitTornado these days.