The Goat Rodeo Sessions (yo-yo ma et. al)
Betty Wright: The Movie (Betty Wright and the Roots)
Twist Again (Bodies of Water)
Metals (Feist)
Audio, Video, Disco (Justice)
The Girl with the dragon Tattoo (Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross)
Undun (The Roots)
Circuital (My Morning Jacket)
The King of Limbs (Radiohead)
Camp (Childish Gambino)
My top 10, in no order.
I recently proclaimed that I know at least ten different ways to make rice. Proof: 1. Steamed rice place 1 cup of rice with two cups of water in a saucepan. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and cover. Wait 10-12 minutes. Rice is done when tender. 2. Toasted rice Put two cups …
I’ve been working on this for a while, and it is far from complete. If you are interested in the history of corrosion science, or metallurgy in general, then you may wish to enjoy this timeline. I am planning on producing a 3d narrated version of this timeline once sufficient gaps in the narrative have …
My dad started ripping his vinyl collection to digital using audacity and a macbook pro. He has a nice Sony turntable and his first effort turned out pretty well. I put together a short, quick, dirty (11:50) video describing how to fix pops, noise, eq and panning using a combination of audacity and garageband. I …
Lion has dropped support for powerpc applications by discontinuing rosetta. This means that Jmicrovison’s mac package stopped working on my mac setup. However, Jmicrovision is a java application, which should be immune to architecture changes! The solution is simple: replace the java applications stub within the application bundle located here: /Applications/JMicroVision\ 1.2.7.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub with this one: …
I was doing a big transcoding job with handbrake this week. I like to watch the FPS reported as videos are transcoded, which gives me a feeling for how fast the program is working. On my old Core-2 duo based laptop, I could handbrake my DVDs using the ‘normal’ preset at about triple real-time, that …
Spotlight Exclusions I recently started using Backblaze to backup my filesystem. Rather quickly, I realized that my CPU usage was out of control, but it wasn’t back blaze; it was mds reindexing backblaze’s log file continuously. Adding an exclusion to spotlight saved me a lot of system resources (hard drive wear, cpu heat, fan spin, …
Launch Bookmarks and history items from the help menu. This is the second os X hint I’ve published on macworld’s site.