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Yeah, What They Said, pointers to interesting stories. Some people call it "link sharing." Webomatica chronicles the hoopla as the launch of the iPhone approaches. Antics include people paying other people to stand in line, christening June 29 as "iDay," and links to major newspaper reviews. T-minus 5, 4, 3, 2... A number of audiobooks were sold at the iTunes Store recently that didn't work on the iPod. That problem has ...

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Recently, I've taken to re-encoding some of my favorite CDs, mostly ones that I originally encoded long ago, some as far back as 1999. Hard drive space was at a premium at the time, so I traded acceptable losses in quality for a smaller storage footprint. When the music is coming from a beige G3's internal speaker, 112 kbps and 320 kbps mp3s sound basically the same. But as I've ...

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From the album Sarah Shannon (2002) It's been more than a decade since the rock band Velocity Girl broke up, putting an end to one of my favorite high school-era ensembles and effectively ending my exposure to the group's vocalist, Sarah Shannon. Her post-VG work, a band called Starry Eyes, was short-lived and VG's online fan base wasn't large or cohesive enough to adequately maintain updates of band members' whereabouts. ...

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Well, not that new. It's from 2002/2003. but it is new to me and that is exciting. I was comfortable with the notion that the band was gone and its member had moved on to other projects and lives. Sarah has her solo project; Archie's doing the producer thing; etc. but when researching for my previous velocity girl post, I discovered the wonderful news and it rocks my world. There is ...

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Free Download: Anatomy of a Gutless Wonder Anatomy of a Gutless Wonder was one of the last songs released by Velocity Girl before the group's break up in late 1996. It's only available as the b-side to the 7" single Nothing from the group's final album gilded stars and zealous hearts. I picked it up (along with the Your Smiling Face single) directly from subpop.com in my early college days ...

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I had a short day at the office, so i only managed to work in about 2 hours of music. no albums today, just handful of singles. highlights include stayin' alive [bee gees], a couple tracks from velocity girl's¡simpatico! and the hand that feed [nine inch nails] (i'm kinda bummed that i won't get to hear it again for the rest of the year. oh well, on with the ...

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