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it’s all a bunch of ones and zeros by Betatester.
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Dead TV by Betatester.
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Literary monkey by Betatester.
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a lot of emotions I want to share, but I’m not very good with english language. but music is universal, huh? so I decided to share some of the songs I’m most into, five at a time.
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click on the banner below, and you can listen to it. courtesy of soundblox (which I used in zona visser, another project of mine)

800.03, Gab.Gato

this song is so obscure I don’t even have it’s actual name… just 800.03.mp3, and that’s it.
how I feel: a cyborg rechecking its peripherals before a procedure. a subroutine. grey, cold, and monotone. detached and snobby.
also check: the “automatuch”, or something like that. the different voices for different subroutines.
grab it: there’s no way iTMS has it (even google shows meager pages about). and since some other sites offer the mp3, you can download from me too. (control-click on windows, alt-click on a mac)

Aéro Dynamik, Kraftwerk

how I feel: in a happy airport. optimistic. it’s a mantra, you know.
also check: the starry bleeps. the chorus, sinalizing the way.
grab it: iTMS has it, fellas. buy it there, and deDRM it later with jhymn.

In The Future With Machines, FPU

how I feel: a good song for a drag queen to perform. vfull of drama.
also check: the egiptian bg. the lyrics, in fact.
grab it: no digital store around, but cds, still. sorry, folks

Konpyuta, Plastique de Réve

how I feel: archeologists find an ancient document detailing the purposes of computers. historic revisionism, reifying the digital experience. technognosis.
also check: the german/japanese voice. the attention to spell kon-pyu-ta right. like if the desitiny of mankind depends on it.
grab it: nowhere around, so grab it from me. (control-click on windows, alt-click on a mac)

Scorpio, The Fever

how I feel: powerful, but headed to a fall. doomed. scorpio people are short-sighted, you know. feel like placing a bet you can’t cover. pokerface all around.
also check: egyptian bg also. guitars, a thing I don’t usually like, but worked right on it.
grab it: on iTMS. (did I say about jhymn already?)

julio is here, he draws nicely and is enticing me to return to paper…
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i draw this illustration on paper, but colored on the computer. i NEVER learned to color on paper…

promethea DVD
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I’m used to read comics on my computer (all I have to do is to turn my notebook to the side, and view the pages as a slideshow) and since I installed iDVD, i was dying to try it out.
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so, I decided to make a comics DVD, which means, a slideshow DVD with an entire comic collection. I wanted to make sure the navigation was the same or better than the paper version, so I decided for a comic I didn’t read it yet and I would surely love. alan moore’s promethea seemed like a good bet.
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below are some screenshots of my progress. sadly, I realized I had no more blank DVDs to spare, so I have to wait till I’ll buy a new batch.
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click on each image to view it bigger, with technical notes (another nice feature of flickr). then, roll the mouse over each square to read them.
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DVD cover menu: this one is default from iDVD. since you can’t use more than 12 chapters and I had 31 issues, I organized each 3 issues on one.
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chapter detail: iDVD shows the exact same folders and organization from iPhoto (pictures) and iTunes (music). it’s no good at refreshing, tho, so the best move is to organize all folders & pictures on iPhoto, and then start on iDVD.
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project map: iDVD has a limit of 99 images on each slideshow, so a manga has to be chopped down, for example. it worked fine with american comics, tho.
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disclaimer: I made it for my own consumption, and although I downloaded the entire collection from bittorrent (bad boy) I also own the editions. i guess I don’t have to bother about it, since ABC comics is a small company, and instead of think “ohmygod, those little rascals found another way to rip us off” they’ll probably think “hey, another source of revenue for our collections, and look: it’s cheaper to produce than our trade paperbacks!” (sadly, it only works good on dvd notebooks - you have to rotate the monitor to read it)
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update:sadly, ABC comics is a branch of wildstorm comics, which is an offshot of DC comics, owned by warner. shoud I wait the media conglomerate unleash its minion of ferocious lawyers upon my (literaly) poor soul, or is the plutocratic police state of amerika not done yet?

the attack of the zombie friends
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it seems that finally my brazilian friends are realizing the piece of shit orkut is, so they’re flying in droves to multiply. sadly becaus of it, i’m receiving dozen of personal mails inviting me for the system.
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so I reached a gray zone: technically it’s not a spam (it’s directed to me, and from known people) but it feels like one. so I can’t throw my rules on them like I do with spam, because it’s a legitimate measure: after all the’re transplanting their contacts from orkut. but receiving a lot of different mails with a “personal message from {insert friend’s name here}”, telling you the same exact sentence all of them is just creepy!
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I don’t want to go there now (let’s see if it reaches critical mass, so I’ll have no choice than comply to gravity), so i created a “multiply” mail folder, with the sole purpose of putting them out of my view. i have a policy against mail folders, because it clutters the app (it’s fairly easy to create, but also to forget - so what’s the use of having it?), it’s not automatic (i have to create a rule for it to be smart), and it will have smart folders feature - like itunes - on tiger, anyway, so why bother?
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i believe everything in the digital world have to be automated, just because it simplifies your life and hell, that’s the ultimate purpose of a computer. so he’d better be good on it.

no internet at home yet, only (maybe) at tue… so i’m at the bryant park… lovely palce, you can see the nature looking down, and the buildings looking up. bathrooms for our needs (don’t laugh, bathrooms are kinda sparse here in NYC, and you CAN’T pee on the street - well, maybe at night)
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but no power lines, which means that when the computer dies, it dies. go home and sleep.

vonage and usb headsets
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i tried a bluetooth headset, bur hey, the sound was choppy (both in and out), you always need to re-pair, and if you moved away a lil bit from the computer, it gets impossible to hear anything. what’s the use of a wireless connection if you can’t move?
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so right now i’m searching for USB Microphones, to try.
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technically the vonage works well in any connection, i can hear well, but people can’t hear me.
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time to time.