wheatblog

personal weblog of James "Wheatbread" Martin

Month: September, 2003

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I’ve blogged Philosophy Radio before, but I never got to enjoy much of it as most all of it is in real audio format. But, wanting to check out some of these sources, I took the plunge and installed realone player on an OS X box. And I was pleasantly suprised that it (on that [...]

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People who code for a living develop a deep attachments to their favorite text editors. I do most of my development work under Windows 2000 and have been using EditPad Pro for quite a while now. I love it. It’s a great app. You have to download it and play with it for a while [...]

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This lorem ipsum generator came in handy today. Continuing with the Carl Th. Dreyer films, I watched The Passion of Joan of Arc (or here) a few days back. Amazing for 1928. I really like Dreyer’s minimalism in set design. And he pulls off some amazing tracking shots. His Joan of Arc is more than [...]

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Happy birthday, John Coltrane. North Carolina Central University’s public radio station, WNCU (which I found on iTunes) is playing tons of Coltrane today (he was born in N.C., if you didn’t know) and lots of Bud Powell as well. Two hard-bop geniuses.

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erasing.org has launched audio.erasing.org, where your host reads selected entries (mp3s you can download, if you like, or just play them in your browser). Scott’s voice reminds me a bit of David Sedaris with a touch of William Faulkner.