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The Independent had an article this week on how Stockholm has become a centre of web technologies and social software , from the likes of Skype and Spotify to more ethically ambiguous ones like The Pirate2008/3/14
This looks really impressive. It seems that Celemony (the makers of pitch/time-correcting sound editor Melodyne) have cracked one of the hard problems of digital audio processing: how to extract and modify individual notes in2005/3/14
Only in Southern California would you see hipsters driving around in coffin-shaped hotrods . (from bOING bOING) UPDATE: More details on RAT-U-LA , the coffin-shaped hot rod. Apparently it's modelled on DRAG-U-LA, the hot rod from