I bought The Knife’s Silent Shout on CD last week. I’ve been enjoying the MP3s for a while but hearing it on CD lifts the album to a whole other level of black shiny brilliance. It’s easy to forget how good things can sound on CD when most stuff we get is compressed to hell and back. Note to record companies: If you want people to buy CDs rather than copy MP3s you should try and make a proper difference exist between the formats.
Also: Nick Southall sums up the “loudness war” and the importance of good mastering without coming across like an irrational audiophile wierdo, which is quite easy to do (come accross like an irrational audiophile that is).

This is where I live …

courtesy of ascii maps (via er… delicious I think)

Also, seeing we’re talking about maps on computers (for a change) you should check out the amazing hi-res imagary and data at the Hawaii Data Clearinghouse.

PS colossal cave adventure

I had been involved in a non-computer role-playing game called Dungeons and Dragons at the time, and also I had been actively exploring in caves

Who would have guessed?

I’ve made a wiki page for music genres. That was the link to it just there. If you missed it here it is again… LINK!

The idea is to make a list of all the genres of music you can think of, and ones you’ve just made up, in no particular order, and eventually to have a page describing each and every one. It’s just like wikipedia. Except some of the genres will be imaginary (c.f. Kettle Core). Anyway, get stuck in, and don’t worry about accuracy or anything. After all, it’s a wiki!