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Holy mother of Allah !
Look what has been found…
For those whom don’t know what a Buchla is, or what Ircam is, please skip and continue with your life.
For those who are in the knowing: please kneel before your God.

Gartner: HD DVD price cuts only prolong agony
“Price cuts by Toshiba on its HD DVD players in the U.S. earlier this month may prove to be “useless resistance” in the battle against the rival Blu-ray Disc optical disc format, according to Gartner.
The market research company expects Blu-ray Disc to win the battle against HD DVD […]

This is basically how I would want my hifi to look (and behave) like, all under my 50-year-old motto Less is More, Simple is Better.
The stereo amplifier has the following controls (left to right):
- Headphones output jack.
- Mute button.
- Micro-stepped volume button. Push to power on/off; also switches off all connected peripherals.
- Four source select […]

Faunoiphilia - An abnormal desire to watch animals copulate.
Brassirothesauriast - A person who collects brassieres or pictures of women wearing them.
Eunoterpsia - The doctrine that pursuing sexual pleasure is the goal of life.
Typhlobasia - Kissing with the eyes closed.
Amychesis - The involuntary act of scratching or clawing your partner in the heat of passion.
Mammaquatia - […]

World Architecture News presents the TOP 100 MOST VIEWED PROJECTS, a collection of some of the most amazing modern buildings in the world.
Not entirely surprising, most of these architectural artworks are of the high-rise kind, and many of the buildings serve a business- or hotel purpose, although a few private houses are presented as well.
Given […]

A LIVELY QUINTET OF FRENCH INDO-CHINA
Cambodians are passionately fond of music, and possess a variety of wind and stringed instruments. They learn a little of this and a little of that, but all without any set rule or system, and having no written music, their tunes are taught by ear. The more musical will often […]

My new 24″ iMac 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo is sooooo frikkin’ huge that I’ve got a stiff neck just from looking at it from left to right, even from the other side of the table.
It’s also sooooo fast that it loads a web page even before I’ve launched Safari.
No, seriously, this is one hell of […]

First, pick up a guitar.
Then you will need a guitar amplifier…
This one - the all new Metasonix G1000 - is apparently all good, all tubes, and all evil. ←NSWF!
 
For more tubular fun, go to Eric Barbour’s Metasonix site.

I have been looking for a very, very long time to find a resource like this. And I mean, a very, very long time (like, from as far back as I can remember (*)).
Stumbled upon this coincidentally, but that’s what the InterTubes are for: navigate with a certain purpose and goal, get sidetracked by some […]

MacBook Air. Go see… Amazing thing.
I was correct with all my predictions (*), except for the 10.5.2 update and the new iPod Touch. The latter has been updated though…
(*) That wasn’t too hard.