this is my first threadless submission anyway so im not going to be too shocked if it doesnt get that far, supposedly you have to be on threadless 24/7 to be in with a chance of getting a high score, and even then its the threadless people who have the last saw in what is printed.

sure there’s no harm in trying anyway

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I found this recording of Bushwacker on a “Guitarist” magazine CD i bought a long long long time ago that Eric Used to write for, i was fairly sure i threw it out along with all the other guitar magazines i got rid of a few years ago but luckily enough this one slipped by me.

its such an excellent version of bushwacker too.

I was pretty shocked to find out only a few weeks ago that Eric had passed away, back in 2005… and that he was Irish… and a such brilliant guitarist…
all i really knew about him was that he used to always have some good songs tabbed out in the “guitarist” and “guitarist techniques” magazines now and again… im certain i learned the finger picking for Nick Drake’s “Things Behind the Sun” from one of Eric’s columns…

and anyway we didnt have youtube back in 2003 or 2004 or whenever it was i bought those magazines so it wasnt as easy to just do a search for some ones music as it is these days.

Shame he had to leave so soon anyway. There is a good radio documentary on RTE that is narrated by his brother, just some interesting things about Eric’s life and how they grew up together (with a bit of background music by Eric). He actually gives a fairly positive account of the last few months of Eric’s life, check it out for yourself, you’ll know what i mean:
http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/with_these_hands.html

RIP Eric Roche

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I figured they would sound pretty neat together so i took the audio from the left SRB intertank and panned it to the left audio channel and panned the right SRB to the right channel and this is what it sounds like: (sounds best with headphones on!)

As somebody on youtube mentioned, they sound like “robotic space whales calling out to each other”, which is a fairly accurate description of what it sounds like!

I think John Cage would have liked it

Update: Just found this video, weird sounds from Jupiter this time

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WordPress wouldnt let me upload the photoshop file that i used to make the images so i added it to my dropbox instead, so feel free to download it and go to town on your google profile image

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/838463/files/googleplus_about_template.psd

I left the guides and slices set up so all you have to do is just paste in the image you want between the two layers and bobs your uncle!

If your not used to working with slices in photoshop here is what you have to do; once your happy with your image go to: file, ”save for web&devices”, then click save down the bottom of the window… on the next screen go to the drop down menu for slices and select “all user slices” then save again, and thats it, it will save the five images to separate files for you, its much quicker than having to copy each image to a new window and then saving it.

Your welcome

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Update: 22/07/2011: The layout of the google+ profile has changed around since i posted this, the thumbnail pictures have moved above the profile links and they now also line up with the bottom of the profile picture. (the photoshop file has been updated)

I still havnt been tempted to do anything too creative myself but there are some great examples on mashable.com of what other google plus users are doing with their profiles. (Matthew Stone‘s one is really clever)

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a photo i took while i was walking down to the tall ships:

…and after all that hard work editing it never even got accepted! Partly my fault because i left it so late finishing it off and only sent the video response 10 minutes before the closing time. The deadline was 12am PDT so i had it worked out that it had to be sent in before 8am Ireland time… so its either pogo’s fault or timeanddate.com’s fault for converting the time wrong, or my fault for converting the times wrong… one of those 3!

Oh well, i suppose i got to learn a bit more about using adobe premier than i would have if i hadnt done the video. I also learned that i need a new video card, really really badly, it only plays a few seconds of video and then starts stuttering so i had to keep rendering every few minutes, which took ages… so it was a great learning experience all round :/

Anyway, check out the other 46 entries here, theres a few gems in there. And heres a screenshot from the video that i made into a 1600×1200 wallpaper.

Over and out.

click for full size

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Since google was doing such a bad job of making the subtitles for James Joyce’s recording of Finnegans Wake i said to myself it was about time somebody went and made a version with proper subtitles and animated some photos of him so it would look like he was talking at the same time…

But nobody ever did, so i had to go and do it myself…. just in time for bloomsday this Thursday too (wrong book i know, but maybe ill do an animation of a Ulysses recording for next year)

Enjoy!

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The update has been out since Friday but i only noticed it yesterday morning when i was checking the android marketplace for updates. (28-05-2011: officially released on Windows v4.4 today)

They should look something like this when you make them:

just right click on a note thumbnail, then copy&paste into a note. simple

What is good to see is that you can use the links in exactly the same way you would use hyperlinks in Evernote, so instead of a list like the one above, you can put the links in with the text you are writing like this (that link doesn’t go anywhere).

For those of you that don’t know how to add a hyperlink just highlight the word you want to put a link into and press Ctrl+k then copy and paste the link.

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Visual Note Links

More importantly you can still use the same hyperlink method to insert note links into images as well as adding normal web links, which opens up a lot of new ways of navigating through Evernote. You could do anything from placing small icons in certain parts of a note that link to related notes, to full blown note launcher/dashboard/directory/ type notes that could link to all your most used notes like this:

i just made this yesterday testing it out using the Evernote clipper to make the images, putting them inside a grid (using table width in pixels) and then adding the hyperlinks/note links into the images, this one is a bit messy but you get the idea, your only limited by your imagination yada yada yada…

something like this with no text and the same size squares would look even better:

and yes, that is a grid within a grid with in a grid! woah! (and those tiny clipped images that you're squinting to see actually still work as links too, just so you know)

i made up this neater example using my flickr photo icons but when i get the time to do one up properly the right place to go would probably be somewhere like the noun project or anywhere that has some good icons/images that would suit what you’re linking to, then just let loose with the Evernote clipper and paste them all into the grid.

Or not. You don’t have to go to all this bother at all really, just plain text note links would do the job either, im just more of a visual type, i find that it’s a lot easier to find notes if they have images in them rather than having to scan through screens of text. Thats why i started adding images to the tops of some notes once i began storing more and more of my junk in Evernote:

Using a grid would still be useful though even if your just using the text links on their own since it allows you place links horizontally across the note as well as vertically.

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Command Line Switches

So anyway, the next logical step would be to go here (how-to geek) and figure out how to set up an ENScript, assign it to a keyboard shortcut so it will open up the note with all your note links in it when you type in the shortcut.  Then you can just keep that note open in its own window and whenever you want to open any note links you just have to Shift+click on a link to open it in a second window, (just clicking on a note link normally would open it in the same note, much like clicking a link in a web browser would)

but i havnt got around to trying that bit myself yet, something for another day…

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Update: Note links in your web browser or windows shortcuts

Enscript is handy if want to search for notes that have specific words or tags but if you just want to open a single note you can do that now by creating a shortcut in windows (right click anywhere/new/create shortcut) and paste in the note link then add a name for it.

With your web brower you do much the same, bookmark a blank page (or anypage) then go and edit the bookmark and add in the note link where the url should be then change the name of the bookmark to suit.

If you want these note links to open in their own separate windows go to tools menu in evernote on the desktop: options/note/ and tick “open note links from other applications in a new window“.

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7 artists who covered Bob Dylan, one for each decade  (which is good because i only know 7)   Happy 70th Birthday Bob.

1.Fourth Time Around – Yo La Tengo

2.It Ain’t Me Babe – Robin Pecknold (White Antelope/Fleetfoxes) or cash’s version

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3.Maggie’s Farm – Rage Against the Machine

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4.You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go – Madeleine Peyroux

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5.Boots of Spanish Leather – Dervish

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6.All Along The Watch Tower – Jimi Hendrix

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7.The Times they are a changing – Tracy Chapman (40 years ago at the Bob Dylan 30th anniversary concert)

here on grooveshark

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uploaded to soundcloud for your listening pleasure, yiii haaaa!

Grab your partner, do-si-do! 

just click the arrow on the right of the player to download. here is the original Smiths song if you dont already know it:

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