De-Googlizing

Greets peeps. I’m moving this blog to my home server as part of my general de-Googlization. It’s new and permanent home will be

http://noncombatant.org/blog/

Comments don’t work right now, but maybe they will someday!

Grooveshark

Grooveshark seems pretty cool. Hopefully the ads, and/or the $3/month fee to get rid of the ads, get them some profit. I still don’t see why we can’t just pay $N per month for unlimited legal downloading in lossless, but hey...

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/album/Monk+Suite+Kronos+Quartet+Plays+Music+Of+Thelonious+Monk+With+Special+Guest+Artist+Ron+Carter/3092114

Ron Carter valiantly inserts some jazz into the scene, and it’s not as bad as what they did to Hendrix, so that’s something.

Multitouch Display as Music Interface

This is pretty cool (from Hack A Day): http://hackaday.com/2009/12/22/subcycles-multitouch-music-controller/. He mainly seems to manipulate timbres with it, but not so much melodies. Maybe that can come later? Anything to reduce the laptop staring phenomenon.