The Revenge Of Hot Monday Linkage
March 24th, 2008 Posted in music
Musical tidbits from the internet which I almost, but didn’t quite, miss due to being a frantic traveler:
- $300 audiophile-quality power cable turns out to be about $15 of shoddily put together components, after a music fans cat disemboweled his overpriced purchase. Hopefully you aren’t terribly surprised by this. The audiophile industry is one of the ripest categories of consumer goods for veblenification. (via Gizmodo and Audiojunkies)
- The Yellow Drum Machine, a robot which you can build for $120 in parts which drives around finding objects to tap out a rhythm on, it records itself playing a beat and then plays along with the recording. You can even clap out a rhythm and it will play along at the tempo you’ve set. Videos included, natch. (via reddit and LetsMakeRobots)
- The Scala Girls Choir (who apparently won the Belgian choir-of-the-year contest in 2000. Quite an accolade, that) covering “I Touch Myself” (via reddit)
March 25th, 2008 at 9:14 am
I just got a speaker cable at RadioShack; I got the ultracheap, low-gauge cable because it had the right connector on it for the speaker. I asked the salesperson if it would be as good as the high-gauge cable, and he replied that if the wattage of my system was not too high, it would be fine. And it was. Once in a while you run into an honest salesperson!