And I do mean old. I will say that I had almost this exact same dot matrix printer that I used for many many years. Kudos on using the Spectrum, but the amazing thing to me is that the hard drives act as speakers.
Here it is… the remix of Radiohead’s “Nude” :
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Researchers find a French recording made in 1860 of a piece of the song “Au Clair de la Lune”. It was made utlizing a machine called a phonautograph, which scribbles audio waves onto a paper covered with soot, a phonautogram. The man that made the phonautograph, and recorded the song fragment, was [...]

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Finally, a Guitar Hero for people who actually play guitar. Not to say Guitar Hero isn’t a blast, but there was always that twinge of something missing. That feel of actually playing the music. Now a development group called Gametank is releasing details of just such a game: Guitar Rising.
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I’ve had this video favorited on YouTube for many a month and I love to go back and watch it from time to time. This is one of the least well-known gems from one of the least well-known bands of the decades that my life has spanned.
Ghostalk by Cabaret Voltaire:

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PS3 supercomputer » Dartmouth astrophysicist Dr. Gaurav Khanna has rigged up an array of eight PS3 systems to help [...]

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I’ve been lax. I haven’t posted on anything relating to the Orange Box. I guess I really couldn’t say much more than the 5 bazillion other people who are playing it. I loved TF2, Episode 2 was short but a blast, and Portal was even better than I expected.
Especially the story… and [...]

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Nuclear Dawn - Welcome » Half-Life 2 mod
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Koji Kondo, who did the original music on games such as Super Mario Bros., played a little concert at the just-ended GDC. Here’s him warming up before the show, with a song you might just recognize:

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Back in July, I made a video to illustrate how Project Reality plays, and to have a few laughs with some CoFRs I had been playing it with.
After getting a few comments on it in the last couple weeks, I just realized that I only casually linked it here on drzy, without so much as [...]

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They declare they have “contained” music piracy.
Huzzah for them! They sure have a proper bead on all the happenings on the cybertown intarweb.
Because usenet, irc, and ftps just dried up and went away, AMIRITE? of their own accord, even!!

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Apparently, he either got a really good deal on his record sales (I can see this as a record company PR move), or he got shafted on his digital media part of the the contract.
Weird Al Speaks
Tim Sloane of Ijamsville, MD asks: Al, which of these purchasing methods should I use in order to make [...]

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