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The Conet Project

Ok, so my previous post was a little cryptic and not at all informative. Simply put, I am a fan of “numbers stations”. Numbers Stations are widely believed to be communications to spies around the world delivered over shortwave radio.

The Conet Project is a collection of recordings from these broadcasts. It is a 4 CD collection from Irdial. Unfortunately, the CDs are not currently available but because of Irdial’s belief in free music you can download and enjoy the tracks. If you are interested, check out each of the CDs below.

• Disc 1

• Disk 2

• Disk 3

• Disk 4

Notational Velocity

Merlin Mann was on the most recent episode of MacBreak Weekly and recommended a great Mac OS X app called Notational Velocity. Given that I carry my MacBook Air around with me everywhere I go, I find it is a nice machine to take notes with or get some writing done. I think Notational Velocity does an excellent job of getting your notes and ideas recorded quickly and easily. It isn’t an app with fancy looks and it doesn’t go crazy with features which is what makes it so great.

If you take notes with your notebook computer, give this app a try. All the commands you need can be done with keyboard shortcuts making the experience fast and easy. All of the data is held in a database by default. If you’d prefer to have your notes as individual files (making them searchable with Spotlight), you certain can. If you decide to keep it all in one database file you have the additional option of using encryption. It’s very accommodating.

You can sync the notes to “the cloud” and your iPhone with its built-in integration with Simple Note. I haven’t tried this yet but it seems like a great way to keep everything in sync. I intend to look into this synchronization soon.

If you like to take notes and would like to do it in a fast and simple manner, definitely try out Notational Velocity.

• Notational Velocity

Engadget Turns Off Comments

merlin:

tj:

Most major tech sites would be a lot better off with comments disabled. Engadget finally did it:

Hey guys, we know you like to have your fun, voice your opinions, and argue over your favorite gear, but over the past few days the tone in comments has really gotten out of hand. What is normally a charged — but fun — environment for our users and editors has become mean, ugly, pointless, and frankly threatening in some situations… and that’s just not acceptable. Some of you out there in the world of anonymous grandstanding have gotten the impression that you run the place, but that’s simply not the case.

Luckily, our commenting community makes up only a small percentage of our readership (and the bad eggs an even smaller part of that number), so while they may be loud, they don’t speak for most people who come to Engadget looking for tech news. Regardless, we’re going to crank things down for a little bit to let everyone just cool off, and we’ll switch them back on when we feel like we’ve shaken some of the trolls and spammers loose from the branches (AKA swung the banhammer in our downtime). See you on the other side!

source (via Gruber.)