Radified Guide to Ripping CD audio & MP3 encoding [EAC + LAME]: "This guide presents what the gurus of the encoding scene consider the *best* way to rip & encode CD audio. By 'gurus' I mean the people who have taken the time to participate in blind listening tests, and compare a variety of music, encoded with a variety of encoders, at a variety of settings (also called arguments, or switches). I'm talking about people who are serious about music.
The word 'best' used here refers to audio fidelity, not ripping or encoding speed. In other words, this guide focuses on maximizing the quality of your encoded files, rather than minimizing the time it takes to produce them.
You'll be glad to know that all the requisite programs referenced here are freeware. That's because the best software in the ripping & encoding world is free. So put away your credit card and break out your CD collection.
Before we get started, you should know that this guide is available for download in a single zipped PDF file posted here (78-KB, updated 05jan2004), which allows you to store the entire guide locally, on your system, for quick & easy reference, and off-line viewing."
15.5.04
Camilla Paglia on declining interest in books
Camille Paglia Magic of Images: "The Magic of Images:
Word and Picture in a Media Age
CAMILLE PAGLIA
Education has failed to adjust to the massive transformation in Western culture since the rise of electronic media. "
Word and Picture in a Media Age
CAMILLE PAGLIA
Education has failed to adjust to the massive transformation in Western culture since the rise of electronic media. "
10.5.04
Heraclitus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Heraclitus [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]: "Heraclitus sees the great majority of human beings as lacking understanding"
7.5.04
F-Stops and Creative Focus Techniques (Free CyberCollege Interactive TV Course)
F-Stops and Focus Techniques: "F-Stops and Creative
Focus Techniques"
Focus Techniques"
21.4.04
david a. kolb on experiential learning
david a. kolb on experiential learning: "david a. kolb on experiential learning
David A. Kolb's model of experiential learning can be found in many discussions of the theory and practice of adult education, informal education and lifelong learning. We set out the model, and examine its possibilities and problems."
David A. Kolb's model of experiential learning can be found in many discussions of the theory and practice of adult education, informal education and lifelong learning. We set out the model, and examine its possibilities and problems."
Rob Galbraith DPI: Sports Illustrated's digital workflow
Rob Galbraith DPI: Sports Illustrated's digital workflow: "Sports Illustrated's digital workflow
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 | by Eamon Hickey"
Tuesday, March 16, 2004 | by Eamon Hickey"
10.4.04
Educational Psychology Interactive: Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Nice Maslow Summary: Educational Psychology Interactive: Maslow's hierarchy of needs: "Abraham Maslow (1954) attempted to synthesize a large body of research related to human motivation. "
I think you spin out from this in all directions ...
How come it ain't so simple? Intricate blog ... Daring Fireball: "Eric S. Raymond — the renowned Linux/Open Source evangelist/essayist — couldn’t figure out how to connect to a shared printer. So he wrote an essay describing the problem (the UI for printer configuration on his Linux system is horrible) and proposing a solution (open source developers should do a better job with UI design). "
waferbaby: what's the best job you've ever had?
waferbaby: what's the best job you've ever had?: "james
added 25/02/04 @ 04:59:47 pm.
mine's pretty cool - i'm a freelance writer doing rpgs. of course, the thinking is greeeeat but throwing down the wordcount is a bitch. all good though."
added 25/02/04 @ 04:59:47 pm.
mine's pretty cool - i'm a freelance writer doing rpgs. of course, the thinking is greeeeat but throwing down the wordcount is a bitch. all good though."
Lawrence Lessig's Blog
Good example of posts on his blog: Lawrence Lessig: "Oh Canada
Will the sanity ever stop?"
Perhaps I'll get accused of being a libertarian?
Will the sanity ever stop?"
Perhaps I'll get accused of being a libertarian?
3.4.04
People/Details/Time: Overview of Windows Outliners
Overview of Windows Outliners: "Overview of Windows Outlining Programs
This page documents my usage of outlining program, and a few other information-organizing program (such as free text databases, and the occasional hybrid organizer/idea-generator). "
This page documents my usage of outlining program, and a few other information-organizing program (such as free text databases, and the occasional hybrid organizer/idea-generator). "
2.4.04
Lost, or Just Lost in Translation?
CD Times - Soundtrack: "Sofia Coppola turned to a story of a relationship that blooms between Americans who feel lost, not only in Japan, where the film is set, but also in their own marriages. Lost In Translation, in using its soundtrack as effectively as Coppola's earlier film, mixes Japanese pop, chilly electronica, swirling eighties indie and drunken karaoke to reveal how foreign it's possible to feel when in Japan."
31.3.04
Effective Schools
Resource | Main Page: "This site is a knowledge base about ways of creating the conditions for effective teaching and learning in schools which has been designed to assist task managers, practitioners, program designers and decision makers in their efforts to promote the best practice in education quality improvement programs around the world."
A Unified Field Theory of Design
A Unified Field Theory of Design: "Organizing Things
The first step in transforming data into information is to explore its organization."
The first step in transforming data into information is to explore its organization."
Frye, Northrop
Frye, Northrop: "'I am often described as someone who is now in the past and whose reputation has collapsed. But I don't think I'm any further down skid row than the deconstructionists'"
Northrop Frye - Culture: It is of the essence of imaginative
Northrop Frye - Culture: It is of the essence of imaginative: "Northrop Frye
Culture
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable."
Culture
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable."
30.3.04
enchant
enchant: "
We didn't see the seven mountains ahead of us. We didn't see how they are always ahead, always calling us, always reminding us that there are more things to be done, dreams to be realised, joys to be rediscovered, promises made before birth to be fulfilled, beauty to be incarnated, and love embodied.
'Songs of Enchantment'
by Okri
We didn't notice how they hinted that nothing is ever finished, that struggles are never truly concluded, that sometimes we have to re-dream our lives, and that life can always create new light.
This is the song of a circling spirit. This is a story for all of us who never see the seven mountains of our secret destiny, who never see that beyond the chaos there can always be a new sunlight. "
We didn't see the seven mountains ahead of us. We didn't see how they are always ahead, always calling us, always reminding us that there are more things to be done, dreams to be realised, joys to be rediscovered, promises made before birth to be fulfilled, beauty to be incarnated, and love embodied.
'Songs of Enchantment'
by Okri
We didn't notice how they hinted that nothing is ever finished, that struggles are never truly concluded, that sometimes we have to re-dream our lives, and that life can always create new light.
This is the song of a circling spirit. This is a story for all of us who never see the seven mountains of our secret destiny, who never see that beyond the chaos there can always be a new sunlight. "
29.3.04
Anti Patterns
Anti Patterns: "An AntiPattern is a pattern that tells how to go from a problem to a bad solution. A good AntiPattern also tells you why the bad solution looks attractive (e.g. it actually works in some narrow context), why it turns out to be bad, and what positive patterns are applicable in its stead. "
Reviewing Satre in The Nation
Accidental Friends: "Aronson is surely right to remind us that both Sartre and Camus fastened on part of the truth--the need, on the one hand, for real, if unpretty choices and, on the other, for moral verities. "
Noam starts Blogging
Turning the Tide: "Welcome to Turning The Tide
This blog will include brief comments on diverse topics of concern in our time. They will sometimes come from the ZNet Sustainer Forum System where Noam interacts through a forum of his own, sometimes from direct submissions, sometimes culled from mail and other outlets -- always from Noam Chomsky."
This blog will include brief comments on diverse topics of concern in our time. They will sometimes come from the ZNet Sustainer Forum System where Noam interacts through a forum of his own, sometimes from direct submissions, sometimes culled from mail and other outlets -- always from Noam Chomsky."
28.3.04
The Brain?
The Brain? It’s a Jungle in There: "These theories are part of what Dr. Edelman hopes will become 'sciences of recognition,' studying how biological processes recognize other biological processes. It is an enterprise, he argues, that spurs amazement, because if it succeeds, it will show that out of accident and diversity, something as miraculous as human consciousness can be born. But this vision can also spur discomfort, because it implies that there is no supervising soul or self — nobody is standing behind the curtain. This, for Dr. Edelman, is Darwin's final burden. "
China Moves Toward Another West: Central Asia
China Moves Toward Another West: Central Asia: "China's western ambitions do not end with the purchase of huge amounts of energy, the main products that Central Asia has to offer, international political analysts, Chinese and regional officials agree. Beijing's bid to secure vital fuel supplies is part of a bold but little noticed push to increase its influence vastly in a part of the world long dominated by its historic rival in the region, Russia."
China Moves Toward Another West: Central Asia
China Moves Toward Another West: Central Asia: "'It is not Kipling's `Great Game' yet,' Dr. Blank said, 'but it is a hell of a contest in its own right: military and economic and everything else.'"
Quentin's Eurides Days
A Passion for the Classics and, Well, Passion: "Ms. Carson, 53, described the play in her typically elliptical way, 'Euripides had his Quentin Tarantino days.'"
20.3.04
JAlbum - free web photo album software
Great software, with a tad complex set of tweaking optionsJAlbum
Age/wisdom
I recall a Canada World Youth group leader saying that as a result of their experiences overseas the participants started reading the New Internationalist and the group leaders started reading the Economist. I think the naiveté of youth is fine - I'm still in favour of cheap cheap university tuition and generous funding and strong government regulation of the environment, etc - its just you also acquire these contrary experiences like seeing universities as institutions seeking corporate funding and the individual profs focusing on their pensions. And somehow you have to make sense of it. I don't think I allowed for enough self-interest or systemic absurdity in my youthful thinking.
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