2002/8/16
The story of how a team of math geeks from MIT hacked Las Vegas blackjack, developing a team-based card-counting method that raked in huge profits and evaded the casinos' usual countermeasures -- for a while, anyway. (via Plastic)
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Vitaly Friedman's Notebook: 25 Best Free Quality Fonts
Interview with Jenny Block, author and polyamorist-next-door
Rebetika - I guess that's why they call it the Greek blues - Times Online
SBaGen -- Binaural Beat Brain Wave Experimenter's Lab
Piece on Akin Fernandez, compiler of the Conet Project CDs
toneshared.com - free ringtones by electronica artists
Flash site on Australian Art Deco exhibition at the NGV
Six Trains, Two Boats - blog of a journey from Cardiff to Taiwan, overland
Is American Apparel's Dov Charney a sleazebag, or is it just clever anti-marketing?
now has a Python script that converts RMIV samples to standard AIFFs; next stop: Ableton Live's Drum Rack. (9/7)
Reverse-engineering the RMIV drum machine plugin's sample format. Looks like they use a bizarre base-100 BCD format for all the integers ... (9/7)
Contemplating rail journeys in the UK (9/7)
just watched Bergman's "The Seventh Seal". (9/7)
just picked up the TimeOut Flight-Free Europe travel guide (and intends to use it) (9/7)
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2007/7/7
Apparently next Wednesday's International Pop Underground will feature an interview with Bianca Casady of CocoRosie. I wonder whether Carew will bring up the Kill Whitie racism issue .2006/7/8
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. And the latest invention is a voice changer for female video gamers , allowing them to contend in the macho culture of online games without fear of harrassment2003/7/9
Thailand is tackling the problem of massive online game addiction head on; the Communications Technology Minister (presumably their equivalent of Senator Alston) has announced a game curfew . Access to multiplayer game servers will be blocked