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.
Kevin Kelly points out that you can get 4 by 8 feet of whiteboard for $13 at Home Depot. Pretty awesome if you want a big wall of whiteboard to mess around with. Writing things huge and on walls make ideas feel more important. And JB points me to this Krylon Chalk Board stuff. It's $4.95 a pint and claims to turn any surface into a ready-to-us chalkboard with a few coats. And there's also this page showing How to make chalkboard paint.
Beaterator - a Flash based beat creator by Rockstar Games. [via]
TheDoctorDementoShow.com - Currently 1,275 episodes of the Dr. Demento show online. I used to listen to this when I was a kid.
The Most Expensive Album Never Made - an interesting New York Times article on Guns N' Roses's missing comeback album.
Pocket Electronics - build your own MIDI controller kits for $100 US.
Versionist Riddim Community - a huge resource for reggae music and samples. And with RSS feeds!
Drum Tabs - over 7,000 of them. I had no idea these existed.
How to Sell on Amazon - good writeup on how to get your book, CD or DVD on Amazon. Looks like it's $30 a year and they take 55%.
Musictheory.net - great simple flash-based music theory lessons. Plus a staff paper generator, sweet!
Rhymer - awesome rhyming dictionary that does off rhymes (ie. rhymes 'heaven' with 'deafen' -- better for songwriting.)
Music-Critic Breakdowns - "Translating today's lyrics." In Da Club is pretty great.
Bon Jovi Lyric Analysis - He takes on "Bed of Roses" first.
TunesTracker - new song alerts for the iTunes music store. [via]
Tweakbench - Triforce - a VST instrument that emulates NES sounds. [via]