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By philliptorrone

DNA Hack is website for Amateur Genetic Engineering. The site has tons of resources, supplies, how-tos and this interesting snippet from Michael Schrage in the June 2003 Technology Review: “Maybe bathtub biotech will be the next to capture the mindshare of the techie tinkerers. Maybe bioinformatics and the diffusion of genetic engineering technologies will inspire a new generation of bio-hackers. Certainly the technologies are there for those inclinded to genetically edit their plants or pets. Maybe a mouse or E. coli genome becomes the next operating system for hobbyists to profitably twiddle. Perhaps this decade will bring a Linus Torvalds or Bill Gates of bio-hackerdom — a hobbyist-turned-entrepreneur who can simultaneously innovate and market his or her DNA-driven ideas.” Link.

[By MAKE]

Here are some great sites to find new music, most let you download some of there singles, here you go!

• amazon.com
this may be the best music recomending sites ever, you just join and put some of your fav. bands in there recomendation service. and befor you know it theres tons of bands you may like. and you can buy there CD ussally alot cheaper here, just buy it used or new(i only buy my cds here and i havent gotten a scratched one yet)
• 15megsoffame.com
This is an online music communtiy, you join as eather a listener or artist, so you can put your music up for others to hear and rate, or you listen to new bands and rate them. theres alot of up and coming talent on here, you must check it out!
• epitonic.com
you dont need to join, and it has a great way to sample songs(@ low bit rate) and if you like a band, you can download there songs. And to the right they have other bands that are similar, and other suggestions theres alot of great indie music here.
• mp3.com
i havent used this site much, but it seems to be similar to eptonic, ecept that most of the music it has are from software like itunes, were you have to buy the song. How ever its another good site to find similar bands and such.
• musicplasma.com
the only purpose of this site is to find similar bands, with a pretty flash interface..
• music.myspace.com
Myspace is an ever expanding online communitys, they have a large music section with small bands and alot of talent. its harder to find the right band here. but once you do its well worth it.
• Search for mp3’s on google
i messed around with this, and couldnt find some mp3’s for some lesser known bands, but for the ones on teh net this is a good way to find some of there music.
• TURTLE’S “78 RPM” JUKEBOX
This is a very cool site with old songs from the 1900’s to 1920’s. i found alot of great bands here. i hope to see more cool old artist soon!
• Archive.org
Another great place to find old music/movies but it mostly has more mainstream bands, and older media. If you hunt hard enough you may just find a treasure or two.
• telltaleweekly.org
Unabridged and DRM-free MP3, AAC, and Ogg Vorbis audio books, starting at 25 cents each via PayPal or Bitpass. havent tryed there service. but it sounds like they have some intresting audio books.
• freesound.iua.upf.edu
The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative
database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, … released
under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples.

if you have any suggestions, please leave a comment. id love to add to the list. (leave your webpage, with the site and i’ll plug it*)

From this point on, there will be no rebloging. So there wont be anymore of those [Via ___ ]. The posting will slowdown, and for the next week the site will be undergoing changes. The membership is now open for all to join, so get in the action and post what you find.

David Pescovitz:

PostSecret is a mail art project where you’re invited to send in an
anonymous postcard with a “secret” written on it. The submissions are
then shared on a blog. This is even more engaging than the old classic Not Proud!
After just four months, the organizers have posted lots of heavy,
funny, creepy, interesting, and real secrets.

Post Secret

Link (via the f blog + boingboing)

This may very well be the coolest toysite ever. You know that boy on Toy Story, that played doctor to all his toys? Well theres a group (beinArt Underground Australian Art Collective) in Australian, thats doing the exact same thing.

[beinArt Underground Australian Art Collective]