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SAYNOTO0870.COM – Non-Geographical Alternative Telephone Numbers April 8, 2008

0870 numbers are a rip off. Most of the time the companies are making money off you sitting there on hold, so there’s not much incentive to shorten queues and deal with you quicker. Help put an end to this by using an alternate, regular phone number. These should come out of inclusive minutes on your mobile or landline, unlike 0870 numbers. Just do a quick search on the site to find what you need:

SAYNOTO0870.COM – Non-Geographical Alternative Telephone Numbers

Michael Jackson

TeeScott – DJ and Remixer Extraordinaire April 1, 2008

Tee Scott commented on his first nights at “Better Days”: “I went into the deejay booth, and it was real, real, crude. I had to climb up onto this thing; it was unbelievable. There was no such thing as a pre-cue. What they had was a Sony amplifier with a Phono 1 and Phono 2 button, and that’s how you switched fram turntable to turntable. No fading, nothing. It was a large dancefloor; the lights were very basic at the time. They had this automatic light panel, and lights over the whole ceiling. You could change it to, like, 6 or 8 different patterns: a red ring, a blue ring, and a green ring, like a bullseye. And there was a big board on the wall inside the deejay booth, but it wasn’t working when I first started working there.

While adding a new entry for the Whodini Magic’s Wand 12″ that I found in the States into Discogs, I looked up more info on the remixer of side B’s extended mix. Turns out Tee Scott was a pretty amazing guy who was a pioneer in the dance music scene. Read to the end to find out how he gave Frankie Knuckles his first job.

TeeScott

Extraordinaire

Sony BMG’s hypocrisy: company busted for using warez March 31, 2008

After Sony were caught ripping off other people’s software without permission a few years ago, now they’ve been caught using software illegally.

Sony BMG is no stranger to piracy. As one of the most vocal supporters of the RIAA and IFPI antipiracy efforts, the company has some experience hunting down and punishing consumers who don’t pay for its products. The company is getting some experience on the other side of the table, however, now that it’s being sued for software piracy.

Sony BMG’s hypocrisy: company busted for using warez

America Vs Britain March 29, 2008

A comparison between the opinions of Britains Vs Americans

Researchers find song recorded before Edison’s phonograph March 27, 2008

Researchers find song recorded before Edison’s phonograph – International Herald Tribune
For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison’s invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades.

Instant Disco in a Box March 26, 2008

Don’t think real DJs have anything to worry about for a while, but this is still pretty interesting.

(and that looked like a good party to them?! They should get out more)

The BigDog Quadruped Robot

The Big Dog Quadruped is being developed for the US military as a load-carrying robot that’ll handle various types of terrain.

First check out this one:
Weird: New Video of BigDog Quadruped Robot Is So Stunning It’s Spooky

Then check out the new, slightly improved version….

Think Betty January 12, 2008

The video cuts up an old Betty Boop cartoon “Rhythm On The Reservation”- a dubious story of how she teaches the savage “Indians” how to get groovy. There’s a whole list of Betty Boop cartoons that are now out of copyright and in the public domain so you can download them for free) here.

Maze Ing January 8, 2008

29 Mazes from around the world, as seen by Google Earth.

See the YouTube page for more info on each of the mazes, plus a Google Earth file you can download, so you can fly to them yourself.