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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*)

Windows XP CSS

This is may be the coolest site done completely with CSS that i’v seen, it works just like a Windows desktop, but it is done completely in CSS.
The CSS code is clean so this could make an excellent case study for any CSS developers

* If you do http://desktop.trovster.com/desktop/?name=YOURNAME — it’ll change the start-menu name to your input.
* If you do http://desktop.trovster.com/desktop/?email=email@address.com — it’ll change the user icon if the email address is associated with the Gravatar service.
* If you do http://desktop.trovster.com/desktop/?name=anything@gmail.com — it’ll add a Gmail Notifier icon to the system tray area!

By philliptorrone on DIY Projects

Is there anything LEGOs can’t do? The idea of building a working Rubik Cube has always appealed. Here the challenge is to create a mechanical device that has a number of degrees of freedom about a central point. It’s not easy! The cube consists of 12 edge pieces, 8 corner pieces and one central piece. All of these have to be interlocking, yet still be able to rotate about any axis at any time in any direction. Link.

Cory Doctorow:

This Worth1000 contest asks photoshoppers to dummy up images of modern products in antique contexts, like this digital camera shooting a fifties-style black-and-white portrait photo.

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The Khronos Projector is an interactive-art installation allowing people to explore pre-recorded movie content in an entirely new way. A classic video-tape allows a simple control of the reproducing process (stop, backward, forward, and elementary control on the reproduction speed). Modern digital players add little more than the possibility to perform random temporal jumps between image frames. The goal of the Khronos Projector is to go beyond these forms of exclusive temporal control, by giving the user an entirely new dimension to play with: by touching the projection screen, the user is able to send parts of the image forward or backwards in time. By actually touching a deformable projection screen, shaking it or curling it, separate “islands of time” as well as “temporal waves” are created within the visible frame. This is done by interactively reshaping a two-dimensional spatio-temporal surface that “cuts” the spatio-temporal volume of data generated by a movie.

Read More about the Khronos Projector (text taken from there site)

Bymerging a plain overhead projector with a more modern digital videoprojector and a computer vision system, Golan Levin and ZacharyLieberman have developed (well, in 2004) what they call Manual Input Sessions. Essentially interactive and dynamic shadow puppets, the vision system analyzes the shadows you cast over the analog project with your hands and augments the output via the digital projector, adding sounds and graphics based on the movements and forms of your hands. Even though this is the sort of thing that’s more proof-of-concept than on its way to the market (for now), if Fisher Price could produce a budget version all-in-one unit, this would make a phenomenal children’s toy—one I would quite possibly have to steal from neighborhood children in exchange for candy. Check out the video and watch through to act 2 (at least) to understand how awesome this stuff is.

Project Page [via gizmodo + WMMNA]