Posts Tagged ‘aptbs’

Yet another review of A Place to Bury Strangers CD

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

winter beech in woods, Falmouth, Virginia, US

  • This is the greatest achievement in the art of visceral noise sculpture since Loveless. If you like your shoegaze swathed in crushing, pummeling, mind-erasing distortion, then you will love this album. If you ever wanted to know what a combination of the Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division, and Ministry sounded like, then you will love this album.
    (tags: aptbs review)

Applets, Audio w Java, & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-02-04

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

beaver pond in woods, Falmouth, Virginia, US

  • Demonstration applets and source code are included below. To run the applets, click on a link below with your web browser, or use AppletViewer to open the file named example1.html in the the applet’s subdirectory.
  • When you put an applet on your page you will need to save the applet on your server as well as the HTML page the applet is embedded in. When the page is loaded by a visitor the applet will be loaded and inserted on the page where you embedded it.
    (tags: applet html java)
  • This tutorial will take you step by step through the process of building applets. I have chosen for a Learn-By-Example method, the fastest way to learn.
    You will not learn the “Why” but the “How”. Throughout the java tutorial all new lines of code are explained, the ones you have already seen aren’t commented anymore.
  • This site is meant to be a quick-and-dirty introduction to writing Java applets. A set of example applets are given to be used as exercises. Feel free to download the source code herein, try it out on your own machine, and modify it.
  • (tags: java mp3 audio)
  • The JavaSound API adds audio capabilities to the Java platform. It’s been part of J2SE since version 1.3 and it supports the WAV, AU, and AIFF audio formats, and provides MIDI support. It doesn’t support some other audio formats, such as MP3, but it provides a flexible plugin architecture allowing any third-party vendor to add custom audio format support through the JavaSound Service Provider Interfaces (SPIs). This article deals with this plugin architecture and API, how to write and use a custom SPI implementation, how metadata such as title, artist, and copyright are exposed, and how multiple SPI implementations could be integrated in an application such as player or a game.
  • Here is the official web page of the JLayer project:
    MP3 decoder/player/converter library for Java™ platform.
  • Director Dylan Mulick envisions A Place to Bury Strangers’ lo-fi sonic assault with an over-saturated, grainy fuzz-bomb of a video, interspersing some Smokey and the Bandit-era roadster film with live footage of the band. It’s a psychedelic roadtrip whose chopped cuts and strobe-light shutter effects manage to match the song’s intensity.
  • There are some really epic bands, but they are sprinkled over 3 days instead of the traditional 2, which really leaves me hard pressed to find the “winner” show date. Friday boasts such bands as Leonard Cohen, Beirut, Crystal Castles, and A Place to Bury Strangers.

A Place to Bury Strangers appearing at Coachella

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

sign on abandoned swimming pool wall, Stafford, Virginia, US

A Place to Bury Strangers in Aspen, Colorado

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Fountain, Montreal, Canada

5 Minutes with Python & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-01-23

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Fountain, Montreal, Canada

About the Clapp Remix for I Know I’ll See You Again

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Fountain, Montreal, Canada

  • A Place to Bury Strangers’ “I Know I’ll See You (The Clapp Remix)” was used in Sunday’s The L Word season premier.
    (tags: aptbs)

Getting rid of adverbs, the differences between active and passive voice and A Place to Bury Strangerslinks for 2009-01-19

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Self portrait. Montreal, Canada

  • But here’s the truth: The overuse of adverbs is taboo in these days of “I’m in a hurry and don’t waste my time.” If you use too many unnecessary words, your words won’t get read.
  • A passive verb and adverb flagger for Mozilla-derived browsers, Safari, and Opera 7.5, with caveats. NOTE! NOTE! FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY–DOES NOT REPLACE REAL GRAMMAR KNOWLEDGE
  • differentiates active and passive voice
  • If Tom Waits’ burbony voice doesn’t do it for you, there’s also the new kids, A Place To Bury Strangers, who’s song “I Know I’ll See You” is astonishingly similar to early stuff from The Cure. FreeIndie writes, “These guys create psychedelic surf music by playing clean guitars over loud feedback and drums. Warning to the close minded: this is unlike anything you’ve ever heard.” He’s right, it’s serious stuff and falls a bit into the experimental but, it’s definately worth a listen.
    (tags: aptbs)

A Place to Bury Strangers in Aspen

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Black Eyed Susan's and statue in front garden at home, Falmouth,  VA, USA

A Place ot Bury Strangers & some neat Web 2.0 tools for 2009-01-05

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Woods off the screen porch at home, Falmouth, VA, USA

  • Fortunately, a year and a half later, Eric noted A Place to Bury Strangers playing on Sirius Radio and referenced an old Pitchfork review he had read about them and today I am very happily reunited with the sounds of Ackermann. Kismet!
    (tags: aptbs oliver)
  • Resolver One blends a familiar spreadsheet-like interface with the powerful Python programming language to give you a tool to analyse and present your data.
  • It’s noteworthy that from the description given in the article, even running your own DNS server won’t stop this, unless said DNS server is either running custom software to never service unknown names, or it’s completely inaccessible from the outside. Any DNS server that both sender and recipient can talk to will work for what he has, though it can almost certainly be detected via audit logs.
    All this reminds me of a friend who used to talk about IP tunneling over DNS, because DNS was usually a deliberately open port in any firewall. This would allow him to run programs talking to non-standard ports by going through the IP-over-DNS gateway, then having another end of the tunnel on his home machine to send packets out. No idea whether or not he ever actually did it, but there is software out there to do this…
    Posted by: Bryan Feir at December 17, 2008 5:44 PM
  • Most Web Polling software are free, intuitive and require no technical knowledge but the only problem is that there are just too many polling services available and picking the one that best fits your requirement may not be that easy. The following guide therefore highlights the unique features of all the popular web polling software around and this should help you make the right choice quickly.

Some neat Web 2.0 tools, ECAR study of IT & Undergraduates, & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-01-04

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

Roots in the creek at home, Falmouth, VA, USA