Archive for October, 2007
Vinyl To Signal the End for CDs?
Comments(0)Portability is no longer any reason to stick with CDs, and neither is audio quality. Although vinyl purists are ripe for parody, they’re right about one thing: Records can sound better than CDs. Although CDs have a wider dynamic range, mastering houses are often encouraged to compress the audio on CDs to make it as loud as possible: It’s the so-called loudness war. Since the audio on vinyl can’t be compressed to such extremes, records generally offer a more nuanced sound. Another reason for vinyl’s sonic superiority is that no matter how high a sampling rate is, it can never contain all of the data present in an analog groove, Nyquist’s theorem to the contrary.
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Comments(0)“Miracle in Mississippi”: SCAC Title Game Between Trinity & Millsaps
Comments(0)Unbelievable! Last play. 0:02 left on the clock. 15 laterals over 61 yards for a game-winning touchdown!
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South Korean Subway Goes Extreme
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Ex-Weekly World News “Reporter” Tells All
Stan Sinberg fondly reminisces about his three years working at the folded tabloid rag Weekly World News.
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The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries
I got these pictures from the great blog Your Daily Awesome. Post Link.
Abbey Library St. Gallen, Switzerland
Biblioteca Geral University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Biblioteca do Palacio Nacional da Ajuda Lisboa III, Lisbon, Portugal
Melk Monastery Library, Melk, Austria
George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Osaka Police To Use Bunny-Shaped Police Lights, Send Fugitives Into Cute Overload
The Osaka Police Purchased 800 of these lights for use on special patrol cars that cruise through school zones. Pink Tentacle says these are made to win the hearts of school kids as the police chase bad guys. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think the NYPD would have the same luck rolling through a neighborhood like Bed-Stuy. [Pink Tentacle] [Gizmodo.com]
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Folding Keyboard
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Modern Plastic Surgery: The Faun Look
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Rod Stewart’s Train Set Dream Comes True
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Mr. Methane: The King of Farts
I’m sure his children are proud.
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James Lipton Takes Us Inside Inside His Home
I can’t believe he’s 81. He looks 20 years younger.
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