The career path of a musician can be pretty difficult. I was reminded of this last weekend when visiting a favorite hangout which serves decent food, good drinks, and the occasional band. This night, the band was rather excellent, playing cover songs like “Free Bird” from southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. What made it a [...]

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Here’s a low budget, DIY speaker project that stays true to the simple, uncomplicated design of the iPod. You can create these speakers for the iPod or your MP3 player using a recipe of 4 paper cups, 2 toothpicks, and your regular old earbuds. I haven’t actually tried these mod paper cup speakers but the [...]

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As the saying goes, imitation is the sincerest or greatest form of flattery. Here are some funny Music Video Parodies from songs like Plain White T’s “Hey There Delilah” to Staind’s “It’s Been a While.”

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Can a commercial make you buy a car? Maybe not, but it will make you notice! The new commercial for the Lincoln MKZ is very well put together with excellent visuals and a song to match. The girl singing this catchy song  is part of the band The Shiny Toy Guns. This song is a [...]

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Luigi Colani is an unconventional product designer, artist, and philosopher. He designed the ultra-sleek, futuristic looking piano called Pegasus using nature as the inspiration. Luigi believes that nature creates perfect designs: “I believe in bio-design which uses a vocabulary whose inspiration comes from organic shapes with their violence and sensuality.” The likes of Lenny Kravits, [...]

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Many people worry about their computers being hacked. Very few worry about eavesdropping used on their printers. In the May 2009 issue of Scientific American, an article talks about potential office hacks using surveillance tactics, one being recording and analyzing the sounds made by a printer. So far, the research has been done on dot-matrix [...]

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With iPods holding over 2,000 music songs, it’s quite possible that some songs have accidentally made it to your playlist without your knowledge.  Maybe your significant other had something to do with it. Also, this is simply a hypothetical list (really). That being said, here is a list of songs most people, regardless of musical [...]

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Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson has set out to defend Joel Tenenbaum, a 25-year old physics graduate student at Boston University. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is claiming Joel downloaded 7 songs using Kazaa and is seeking payment of $1,050,000 to the record labels. It is unclear whether Joel will get any sold-out [...]

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