Congratulations to U-Turn Audio for their successful Kickstarter campaign to bring to market a low cost, high quality turntable – The Orbit. From their Kickstarter page: We love listening to music on vinyl, and we believe that everyone should have access to a quality vinyl experience. But we found that capable turntables were prohibitively expensive…. Read more »
Posts By: Paul Cutler
Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Vinyl Re-Release
Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace may be the worst of the six Star Wars movies (for a number of reasons we will not get into here), but the soundtrack is one of the best of the six. Duel of the Fates is one of the best songs written by John Williams for any… Read more »
Happy 8th Birthday 89.3 The Current!
It feels like yesterday that Minnesota Public Radio announced they would be launching their own indie rock station with a focus on local music. 89.3 The Current hired a number well known of on-air personalities who had worked in the Twin Cities for years, with experience at Rev105, RadioK and more, which just added to… Read more »
Fringe Finale
Tonight marks the end of Fringe’s five year run on Fox. Created by J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, who were the early showrunners for Alias, and would the latter two would go on to write Transformers and Star Trek, which Mr. Abrams directed as well. Fringe began as a cross between the X-Files… Read more »
Are you reading NextDraft? If not, you should be.
Are you reading NextDraft? If you’re not, you should be. Dave Pell curates the top 10 news items of the day, just for you, delivered straight to your inbox. Yup, it’s delivered via email, quite old school. Mr. Pell spends each morning for 3-4 hours browsing the web (no RSS reader for him!) and puts… Read more »
Pathfinder MMO on Kickstarter
Photo by fireflythegreat under a CC-BY 2.0 license Just before Christmas, I visited my local gaming store with the intent of buying the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set to play with the kids over the holiday break. It was time to step up from RPGKids, which I started with the kids a year or two… Read more »
Get Smart About Football
When NFL Network first launched, they once had a segment with Jim Fassell, the former head coach of the New York Giants. In the segment, he shows a standard offensive formation, with two tight ends, two wide receivers, a fullback and running back. He then shows the defensive formation and explains what each offensive player… Read more »
RIP Aaron Swartz
Photo by Sage Ross under a CC-BY-SA 2.0 license Aaron Swartz, co-creator of RSS, practically a co-founder of Reddit, and an early contributor to the Creative Commons architecture, committed suicide in New York City yesterday. If you don’t know who Aaron is, you owe it to yourself to read obituaries from Cory Doctorow and Declan… Read more »
Amazon Introduces AutoRip
Amazon made a splash this morning by announcing that they are now offering MP3s of albums you buy on CD – for free. But the even bigger surprise was that if you had purchased a CD from them going back to 1998(!), and it’s one of the 50,000 albums in their catalog that features AutoRip,… Read more »
A Stormtrooper on Vacation
My youngest son turns 7 at the end of this week. After starting a new job in early 2012 that had a lot of travel, I “borrowed” one of his Lego Stormtrooper Minifigs who needed a vacation from the daily grind of the Empire. He travels around with me and I’ve captured his adventures on… Read more »
