web bits for today
Sep. 11th, 2008 11:04 am"Omeka is a web platform for publishing collections and exhibitions online. Designed for cultural institutions, enthusiasts, and educators, Omeka is easy to install and modify and facilitates community-building around collections and exhibits..." - maybe useful at work, also maybe useful for ME. Site's being hammered so it's hard to check out the samples - I need to come back to this later.
I was reading this article on the New Yorker's site about the rise of the laptop as a part of live performances, and had my interest piqued by a description of a band called "Battles" who does a lot of crazy stuff with capturing loops via delay pedals. They make the same part of my brain sit up and pay attention that King Crimson does.
edit: Bought their album and it's all broken that way. Cool. And Warp's music sales site is awesome: they sell most of their albums in both 320kbps MP3 and in FLAC, and let you set a preference for what kind of filename convention you want the tracks in. Deliciously geeky, and in sharp contrast to the painful experience I had a little later today when trying to use the net to order a copy of my birth certificate for insurance purposes - the third party who handles that for the state of Louisiana ended up saying they wanted me to fax them some ID after "verification" failed and refused to let me try again. Screw that stone-age stuff, I'll just do it all by snailmail direct to the state and save their extra charge.
I was reading this article on the New Yorker's site about the rise of the laptop as a part of live performances, and had my interest piqued by a description of a band called "Battles" who does a lot of crazy stuff with capturing loops via delay pedals. They make the same part of my brain sit up and pay attention that King Crimson does.
edit: Bought their album and it's all broken that way. Cool. And Warp's music sales site is awesome: they sell most of their albums in both 320kbps MP3 and in FLAC, and let you set a preference for what kind of filename convention you want the tracks in. Deliciously geeky, and in sharp contrast to the painful experience I had a little later today when trying to use the net to order a copy of my birth certificate for insurance purposes - the third party who handles that for the state of Louisiana ended up saying they wanted me to fax them some ID after "verification" failed and refused to let me try again. Screw that stone-age stuff, I'll just do it all by snailmail direct to the state and save their extra charge.