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A Truly Unique YouTube Video…

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

This video of Joan Baez’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” is played from a scratched 45, and the damage on the record gives it an AM radio sound at the same time! “Embedding disabled by request”, so click here to watch. It’s amazing!

Get Off The “#1 Most Deranged” Blog, Dan, Ya Big Dope!

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

LewRockwell.com, a popular anarcho-capitalist/paleolibertarian blog run by successors of Austrian School economist Murray Rothbard (and one of my favorite blogs) is the #1 Most Deranged Blog according to talk radio personality Mark Levin. LewRockwell.com is currently blocked out on military bases, likely due to years of criticism of the US military (and the US everything [...]

Is Obama Satan?

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

I was tuning the dial and found a radio preacher arguing with a caller. The caller argues that using the Bible to judge people is wrong as the host claimed that Jesus specifically condemned Barack Obama in the Bible. Then after the caller hangs up, the preacher condemns the caller and claims she’s a sinner [...]

After 20 years it better not die!

Monday, August 24th, 2009

All of a sudden I turn my head and left side of my ham radio transceiver’s LCD display has just gone dim! The frequency and mode are still visible, and everything else seems to work fine (though I haven’t tested transmit since my semi-homemade Morse key broke last week). But the radio being from the [...]

Back to the Future

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Lately I’ve been getting into all the stuff I used to do before college and all that came along. I put on Coast to Coast AM the other day, now with George Noory after Art Bell retired. I also got BOINC up. I run SETI@Home, Enigma@Home, yoyo@home’s OGR wrapper, and SHA-1 collision search (currently dormant). [...]