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Monthly Archives: February 2006

VST Mellotron

Monday, February 20, 2006

Recently, I was looking around for a mellotron simulation that I could use as a VST Instrument. It turns out there is a free one available at Tweakbench. The instrument, Tapeworm. It features flute, strings, choir and brass based on remasters of original mellotron sounds. The original sounds themselves are available from this site.

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Norton Antivirus 2005

Thursday, February 16, 2006

If you’ve been trying to update using LiveUpdate, you may have received the dreaded LU1812 errors when attempting to download Norton Antivirus and Symantec Common Client upgrades. I say dreaded as Symantec’s bogus solution to this problem is to uninstall and reinstall the software. This takes too long for my tastes (although I tried it […]

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Anti-Semitic Cartoons

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

In response to the craziness over the Danish cartoons, an Israeli artist and comic publisher has sponsored an Anti-Semitic Cartoon Contest. As a Jewish friend of mine put it “anything you can do, we can do better.” Clearly the whole thing is thoroughly tounge-in-cheek: “Sandy is now in the process of arranging sponsorships of large […]

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George Deutsch Resigns

Thursday, February 9, 2006

The New York Times reports that the 24 year-old college dropout George Deutsch has resigned from NASA. As the Scientific Activist for uncovering this story and putting an end to this.

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How it’s made

Thursday, February 9, 2006

Madehow.com has a series of excellent entries about how various  products are manufactured.

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Excellent Piece on the Cartoon Controversy

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

The Geman magazine Spiegel has an excellent piece by Ibn Warraq about why the West must not back down.

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American Night

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

Inhabitat.com has a fascinating entry on dimming the American night. The entry includes some very beautiful and almost other-worldly photographs by David Allee.

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Bush, NASA, and censorship

Wednesday, February 8, 2006

The Scientific Activist reports that George Deutsch did not graduate from Texas A&M. If you haven’t been following the story – a NASA climate scientist revealed last week in the New York Times that the Bush regime was attempting to silence him. In this case, the alleged perpetrator is George Deutsch, an 24-year old who […]

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Hitchens on the Cartoons

Tuesday, February 7, 2006

Christopher Hitchens posts a spot on response to the cartoon controversy. He 100% hits the nail on the head in my opinion.

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Spartacus?

Monday, February 6, 2006

As I mentioned in the previous post, one way to combat the Islamic fascists is to fight fire with fire, hence, the Illustrated Koran project idea. A similarly inspired post over at Infinite Monkeys suggests putting images of Mohammed all over cyberspace. Reading up on wikipedia about the controversy, I came across the following “Section […]

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