Has anyone else seen the date “July 23th” anywhere? I saw it on a certificate that my friend got at XC camp, and I also saw it on asofterworld and now am seeing it all over the place! What is the deal?
Archive for July, 2004
July 23th
Friday, July 30th, 2004New Ipod?
Saturday, July 17th, 2004While searching for ways to increase the range of my new iTrip, I ran across an interesting post that claims that Apple will be unveiling a new breed of iPod on Monday. Sounds exciting.
I am leaving for cross country camp tomorrow morning until Friday afternoon. I am looking forward to running myself to death. It will be loads of fun.
On another note, I saw Anchorman today. I thought that it was an extremely funny movie. Has anyone else that has seen Will Ferrel screaming in a phone booth with a fake moustache thought that he looks a lot like Scott Sanders? If I am able to get a picture of that part in the movie I will try and show everyone the comparison.
Korea: The last refuge of free internet
Friday, July 16th, 2004It’s a couple days before I leave for the grand U S of A, and I figured I would share a gem of the internet I discovered while I was here. Well, discovered lends me too much credit. I shamelessly stole this addy from my Korean host’s bookmark list when he wasn’t looking.
The site is www.bugs.co.kr
I obviously haven’t had the chance to try it out from the states, so I don’t know if it’s banned or restricted. But I have to say it’s quite incredible. The site is similar to Amazon.com. You can search for artists and look up their songs, discography, album pics, ect. Unlike Amazon, which will allow you to preview perhaps 10s of select tracks, you can usually listen to the whole album. For free. In a winamp-ish minibrowser window. If you have an account with the site you can even save tracks to a custom playlist. What it boils down to is that you don’t need to own a single CD, just an internet connection and IE (it won’t work in mozilla). I can’t vouch for the audio quality; I’ve been listening with cheapy headphones on my laptop.
So provided you can connect to the site, you will see a smattering of Korean. Actually, you’ll probably see a bunch of “???” or ASCII characters since I doubt you’ll even have Korean installed on your computer. No matter though, simply click “Music” at the top menu, then fill in the band or track name you want to search for in the (only) text box. I’ll not insult your intelligence any further; you should be able to get the band playing in your ears in no time from there. If the audio icons next to the tracks are greyed out, then they’ve been told to stop offering those songs. Some of the most popular bands (U2) will have all of their albums greyed out, but other, more obscure bands may be fully available for listening. Don’t try to download the music, that option isn’t offered. Though I suspect that the tracks are placed on the computer somewhere…
There’s a rumor that this site will start requiring a paid membership in the near future (2-3 months) so get your headphones on now. I’ve found this is a great way to preview bands you’d never have had the monetary guts to risk earlier. But of course, if you like something, buy the CD. Artists get paid too little as it is…
I’m done here.