I'm an MP3 Wimp

Open iTunes/iPod or Windows Media Player to answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how embarrassing it is.

How many songs?
6200, 18 days, 31 gig

Sort by artist
First Artist: 'Weird Al' Yankovic'
First Artist not sorted to top by reason of punctuation or numbers in title: Adiemus
Last artist: Yes

Sort by song title
First Song: '39 (Queen)
First Song not sorted to top by reason of punctuation or numbers in title: A-Train by Was (Not Was)
Last Song: Zydeko from Cirque Du Soleil's Quidam soundtrack

Sort by time
Shortest Song: 0:00:05: Theme Song (Interrupted), Monday Python. The first six shortest songs, all under 30 seconds, are by Python with one Weird Al.
Longest Song: 0:28:56: Presto by Leonard Bernstein. Next longest comes in at 28:07, The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, by Firesign Theatre.

Sort by album
First Album: "O", soundtrack by Cirque Du Soleil.
First Album not sorted to top by reason of punctuation or numbers in title: A Canadian Brass Christmas by The Canadian Brass.
Last Album: Zoot Suit Riot by Cherry Poppin' Daddy's.

First song that comes up on shuffle
Shine a Little Love by Electric Light Orchestra

How many songs come up when you search for "sex"?
7, but two probably don't count in context: The Sussex Carol and Dowland_ Earl of Essex Galliard. I don't know if the latter was written by the Earl of Essex or if that is part of the title.

How many songs come up when you search for "death"?
27, including all of the Roger Waters' album Amused To Death.

How many songs come up when you search for "love"?
246, again, heavily influenced by album names such as Images of Love, Lawyers in Love, Love Immortal, Love Over Gold, Negotiations and Love Songs, etc.


This represents approximately 530 albums, a number that iTunes will not readily reveal. That's about the number that I thought, but that doesn't include all of Russet's collection added in.

Paramount buying Dreamworks

I don't think it's a bad thing, but I really hate seeing consolidation. As far as I know, Dreamworks doesn't have any financial problems, but there's always the machinations behind the scene that you never know about.

http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1129776

Live Air Traffic Controller Feeds!

Amongst the many things that I geek out over/in is aviation. Also amateur radio, which nicely dovetails with this post. This site has links to MANY airports around the world and lets you listen in on the tower controller's chatter!

http://www.liveatc.net/

Free (Public Domain) Movies via Bit Torrent!

This site has collected A LOT of movies that are in the public domain for whatever reason, coded them into DivX format, and released them as torrents. They only ask that you leave your torrent software running to help the performance of other people as they download these.

This might get me interested in watching movies on my laptop! I'm sure a lot of this is junk, but there should be plenty of cool stuff.

And it has information on what torrents are and how to install and work with them.

http://www.publicdomaintorrents.com/

The end of this semester's photography class

Kinda long, so it's under a cut.
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