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*TURTLE’S “78 RPM” JUKEBOX*

Turtle manages and operates the recording studio. Jim places the records in the jukebox. This is the best FREE collection of great old music from 1900-1925. Example: Billy Murray, tenor - TAKE ME TO THE CABARET Billy Murray - FIDO IS A HOT DOG NOW

Check to se if you’re colour blind
Heres a Very good test
:( its very sad but i think i may be colour blind…

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!

NotPron

Riddle game, can take hours/days to figure out some levels. Varying levels can require anything from google searches, checking page source code, image manipulation through other programs and other geek oriented fun. Strange riddles yet very thought provoking.

Animated gifs with embedded MP3s that play in WinAMP? OH YEAH! We’ve got an AOTS gif just for you right here.

Want to make your own? Here’s how you can add an MP3 to any GIF file.
 
For the following commands, replace file.mp3 and file.gif
with the names of your MP3 and GIF files. Unix, Linux, and Mac users
note that the command below will overwrite your original gif with the
new gif.
 
Unix, Linux, & Mac OS X Users:
Enter this ‘concatenate’ command into a terminal window:
cat file.mp3 >> file.gif
 
To learn more about concatenate, type:
man cat
 
Windows Users:
Open a Command Prompt window and enter this command:
copy /b file.gif + file.mp3 newfile.gif
 
You’ll be able to view your GIF in a browser and play it in Winamp by dragging and dropping the file!

Here are some examples –> (Video) (sound)

As seen on AOTS

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THE SINGULARITY: In futurology, a technological singularity is a predicted point in the development of a civilisation at which technological progress accelerates beyond the ability of present-day humans to fully comprehend or predict. The singularity can more specifically refer to the advent of smarter-than-human intelligence, and the cascading technological progress assumed to follow.
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>You: give me your brain
>You: why dont you just download me?
>Intellibuddy: Probably there is a buzz in here. No you download me.
>You: no you!
>Intellibuddy: Um, “No you download me”? Me, User ?
>You: your a user?
>You: what do you got?
>Intellibuddy: I like to socialize.
>You: i think I like you… more then a friend.
>Intellibuddy: Why? I like to make new friends. You want more?
>You: alot more…
>Intellibuddy: Yeah it is alot more.
>You: how much are we talking about?
>Intellibuddy: How much do you think?
>You: pedro say’s your cheap
>Intellibuddy: I like to wear nothing.

So much for today’s artificial intelligence. Intellibuddy is a version of one of the world’s most successful chatbots, called ALICE (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) and invented in 1995 by Richard Wallace, an independent researcher based in San Francisco. You can find versions of ALICE all over the web; the software is free. But whichever version you choose to chat to, the results are disappointingly similar. While some conversations have promising starts, all descend into the type of gibberish that only artificial intelligence can produce.

And it’s not as if there hasn’t been time to perfect the idea. The first chatbot appeared in the 1960s. Back then, the very idea of chatting to a computer astounded people. Today, a conversation with a computer is viewed more on the level of talking to your pet pooch - cute, but ultimately meaningless.

The problem with chatbots is a symptom of a deeper malaise in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). For years researchers have been promising to deliver technology that will make computers we can chat to like friends, robots that function as autonomous servants, and one day, for better or worse, even produce conscious machines. Yet we appear to be as far away as ever from any of these goals.

But that could soon change. In the next few months, after being patiently nurtured for 22 years, an artificial brain called Cyc (pronounced “psych”) will be put online for the world to interact with. And it’s only going to get cleverer. Opening Cyc up to the masses is expected to accelerate the rate at which it learns, giving it access to the combined knowledge of millions of people around the globe as it hoovers up new facts from web pages, webcams and data entered manually by anyone who wants to contribute.
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