Links for 28-11-2007
FOSS software list, 3D printing, radiation danger may be overhyped, computing as commodity, music reviews …
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1 – Synchronize [Wind0ze] Folders with SyncToy 2.0
“Synchronize the contents of two folders, either across your home network or on the same PC with a free utility from Microsoft, SyncToy. The 2.0 beta’s been released …”
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2 – Windows and OS X Software Alternatives | Linux App Finder
Linux equivalents of popular proprietary solutions. Nice one.
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3 – 3-D Printers Redefine Industrial Design
“The technology behind 3-D printers isn’t new. Rapid prototyping machines have existed in myriad forms since the early 1980s, but the pace at which new capabilities and printing materials are being added to the machines is astonishing…”
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4 – Nuclear Exaggeration: Is Atomic Radiation as Dangerous as We Thought?
“A mounting number of studies are coming to some surprising conclusions about the dangers of nuclear radiation. It might not be as deadly as is widely believed.” I’d be interested to know how this research was funded.
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5 – Album review: The Treat – Phonography
“The Treat might possibly be able to impress the sort of middle-aged person who owns twenty albums, most of which were released before 1986, and who still believes Oasis are a ground-breaking and innovative rock combo.”
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6 – Album review: Hands Of Hate – When Love Decays
“But seriously: “why can’t you see / that this world will let you down”? I mean, I understand the sentiment, but a little more effort on the phrasing would really pay dividends.”
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7 – Album review: Monkey Fist – Between The Lines
“Every time you think you’ve got their sound sussed out, it slips from your grip, head-butts you in the nose and heads back to the mosh pit with a cackle.”
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8 – Album review: Hyper – Rewired
“.. if you’re tired of twee bubblegum electro-retro, and you like your dance music with a bit more clenched-fist aggression, this is going to be right up your street.”
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9 – Commoditizing our future – Stross on the economics of the Asus Eee
“The Eee isn’t an order of magnitude cheaper than a normal laptop but it is close to an order of magnitude cheaper than previous ultra-lightweight subnotebooks. And I think I’m going to use it as a pointer to a future trend in the computer business, at th
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10 – Computer game review: Empire Earth III
“I mean, who wouldn’t want to rule the world, if you could do so without all the danger and tedium that would be attached to doing so in reality?”
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11 – EP review: Zonderhoof – Zonderhoof EP
“Zonderhoof have the cunning post-modernist knack of taking their music incredibly seriously, yet simultaneously realising that it is, when all’s said and done, just music … and hence worthy of having a bit of fun with.”
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12 – Album review: Sigur Rós – Hvarf / Heim
“What can a reviewer write about the music of Sigur Rós that hasn’t been written before? Given that they are one of the rare bands that are equally feted by hip music scenesters and broadsheet culture vultures alike, not a great deal.”
