Musiccovery.com
Imeem.com
Last.fm
pandora.com

all good pics for internet radio.

AccuRadio.com was one of the first to pioneer, but its old and just cant keep up with the new ones.

daft punk is in the same genre of music as Gorillaz, according to pandora.

You don't have to follow people who follow you. Also, you do have the ability to block people if you need to.

I suggest checking the Tweets people post to decide. Maybe they post worthwhile article or site links. Maybe they share funny/entertaining links. Perhaps they found a cool video that is Sift worthy. It depends on what interests you. Some Twits are just interesting to follow.

Some famous people post Tweets as well. And some websites have someone post official Tweets, i.e., Twitter (naturally), Pandora, Mashable, MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog. Who knows, maybe SiftBot will start Tweeting.

Links are converted automatically to "tiny URLs." The character limit is 140.

Should you become a Twittering Twit, here is my profile in case you feel compelled to follow me. Yes, there is Twitter lingo too . . .

http://twitter.com/dotartdude

now that you mention it, swampgirl, I'm so gonna buy a pandora's box when I head out for AL from here in a couple of weeks. I mean, why not find out? I'll let you know. lol

You and me both, Crittter. I'm sooooo ready to hop in the car and drive. I'm heading south at the end of the month. Since I'll be taking the kiddies though, my pictures won't be quite so interesting

I could do w/o the wall of porn, but I must admit to having a fascination w/ what people sell in those weird vendor machines. What's in the Pandora's box I wonder?

Interesting visual stimulus for the babies at the baby hanging station

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I tell ya if you can hold out on a road trip.... Bed Bath and Beyond stores have some of the cleanest bathrooms. I'll hit the Magellan up for all their locations when I'm traveling.

Ya, it's *blocked.

If you still want to see it try getting this easy and spam-free program ( http://www.ultrareach.com/company/download.htm )
You can just place it on your desktop and run it there, then it starts IE as though you're in the US... hello hulu and pandora.

I'm glad to see there is interest in this subject including wazant's kicking the dead body of pinball generally. I've seen this documentary- I agree with its hype that its about our American economy in general. We have too much stuff. Should I buy a new Stern pinball game that doesn't seem as cool to me as Funhouse, for example- especially comparing the prices ( $4699 vs. $1300 on ebay). People didn't used to have as many choices for stuff to blow money on. Now, we also have too much information via this internet. It sections us all off in these pretend worlds where we're too obsessed about any one subject. People don't go out anymore because we have home entertainment. Also, people sound like little brats when they talk hatefully of each other on these forums because they don't risk getting their faces punched in if they talked smack in person.
Ask yourself, is music better because of mp3s? Is your enjoyment of it better? I miss hearing about new music from my friends instead of Pandora. I really am impressed by Pandora but its old music that I'm hearing. Don't we have to take seriously the gravity that forces us to consume retro fodder because this is a new option brought to us by DVR's and the internet. If I can rummage through the best music of the latter half of the past century, doesn't that make it harder for new music to move a whole nation like the Beatles did? Obviously, we have to accept that there are up and downs in cycles. Music is definitely in a down one. Hannah Montana is the biggest selling live show. Now, I'm 31 so its easy for younger people to discard my perspective as outdated. O.K. but have you condidered that if acts like Beck, The Beastie Boys and whomever from the 90's are already done compared to the Rolling Stones who performed well into their 50's, how do you think My Chemical Romance of your new metal act will fare in only 5 years? If we follow this trend music and everything else will be marketed to children in the womb and we'll all have to tolerate Barney type music "I like you, you like me...." In a similar observation, can we all celebrate Britney Spears going the way of the do do bird? Now, I'm genuinely worried about her life because she has been manufactured used and thrown away by the corporate machine that made her right after two sorority ditz's narrate her suicide on live paparazzi video. This is what I'm talking about. Half the country loves American Idol, the other want to shove a karaoke mic up the fat slob pitifully trying to seduce a girl by singing the Righteous Brother's "You lost that loving feeling". In the 80's my Dad turned me on to Boston. Everybody listened to the same music- even if you grew, evolved and quested for deeper "alternative" acts- you started out at the Beatles or something. Although, I did despise my folks popularizing Santana and that Matchbox 20 dude... Gawd! No.

Anyway, a little more back to topic. The nintendo wii grows affection for the physical play of pinball but pinball will gain no traction unless the tykes taste it and like it. We should appreciate good design because the ancient past is full of it and we are often too ignorant or jaded to pay respect where it is due. Also, don't get too excited about throwing broken stuff away so much that what makes America good is thrown out with its formerly dominant auto industry.

Hey thanks! There is so much good music on the Sift. Some of my current favorite artists I discovered through other member's posts. I've wondered how many people have Pandora Radio accounts here. It'd be great if we could send each other our stations, if you know what I'm talking about.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
I'm gonna have to make a "Schmawy's Awesome Music Picks" playlist! Keep 'em coming.

So then you open the door to deconstruct any other freedoms because the document is "just old." First you avoided the idea of guaranteed freedoms and talked about feelings of safety without guns, or in essence needing overwatch in specific areas of life. Now you say that because the constitution is old, it's contents no longer have merit. This is just plain wrong. The US Supreme Court has defined the 2nd amendment as protecting "from infringement by the federal and state governments the right of the individual to keep and to bear a weapon which is part of the ordinary military equipment or which use could contribute to the common defense."

That is not very ambiguous. Ordinary military equipment does not include weapons of mass destruction by the way. Yes, grenade launchers are legal in the US. Yes, an AR-15 which is quite close to the weapons issued to US troops is legal. Civilian versions are no different than any other semi-automatic rifle. One round for each pull of the trigger. What does that matter? Your argument basically follows that since the constitution is old, and guns kill, it's perfectly acceptable to forcibly disarm the population of an entire country without even having actual data to backup claims that it will reduce crime. I just can't agree with that. Look for reports on the results of gun bans and see if you can find a conclusive scientific study that proves a notable increase or decrease in public saftey. What you end up with is spikes in burglaries, assaults, and home invasions. This can't positively be linked to gun bans either since crime was usually on the rise before the bans and no one can seem to agree on the how of it. Crime in the UK doubled in the years following the 1997 ban and is now only in recent years beginning to decrease. Crime continued to rise independent of the gun ban. Your own country saw a drastic rise in home invasions and assaults following the final removal of all guns. Was it related? It's very difficult to tell with many outside factors involved.

Having a decrease in shooting deaths, but an increase in stabbing deaths solves nothing. You take away a gun? No problem, get a knife. Take away knives? No problem... plenty of big rocks and sticks laying around. The idea that passing legislation to ban a weapon will make an area safer is not taking human nature into account. Someone determined to commit a crime will do so with or without the help of a gun. If there was notable scientific data to prove that gun bans created a safer society with actually less violent crime, then that might at least make it appear more justified for a country like Australia that didn't have a guaranteed right to bear arms in the first place. That data just doesn't exist. In fact, in 1996, John Lott from the University of Chicago Law School published 15 years of FBI analysis on over 3,000 countries to find a correlation, if any, between violent crime and the prevalence of concealed weapons on law-abiding citizens. The results showed a major decrease in countries where citizens were more likely to be armed.

The point I've been trying to make over and over again is that none of that even matters anyway. Removing something with good intentions doesn't make it the right decision. This goes beyond just rights to firearms. When you make it acceptable for the government to alter your fundamental rights, for whatever reason, that is like opening Pandora's box. What prevents the same logic that bans a previously guaranteed right from applying to anything else that is deemed a threat? Dramatizing everything by calling people gun nuts, or thinking in terms of extremes, like having shootouts over a fender bender with depleted uranium rounds, is just trivializing an important issue.

In regards to your example of the 3rd amendment, it still has merit today. There are still scenerios where National Guard troops could be deployed within the borders of the United States (although this is increasingly rare). Disaster relief comes to mind as a recent example. This amendment prevents the government from tossing you to the curb to use your home or forcing you to shelter a soldier. Is it likely to be used anytime soon? Probably not, but every citizen is still constitutionally guaranteed the freedom to have a say in soldiers using their property. You seem to view this issue as something almost inconsequential. As if it's just common sense that all guns should be banned regardless of prior laws and in total disregard to individual freedoms because it would secure you peace of mind. I personally consider this to be ignorant of the future consequences involved with allowing the government that kind of control. There is no possible way to enact a complete ban of all personally owned firearms in this country without violating the law.

while i think the sift would tear it up, sure why not ? it might be fun to see the response it gets.

but i think any of these would do much better

fight club (creative spoiler)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=J2EMFU3fAiY

HINDSIGHT
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=4333855

THINK ABOUT YOU
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=4332946

PANDORA'S BOX
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=4312519

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
By the way, would you mind if I posted your short film when I get a free spot in my queue? I'm sure the other sifters would enjoy seeing your work outside of the sift.

Also, have you seen the video Zifnab posted here: http://www.videosift.com/video/A-Scorsese-Directed-Short-Scripted-by-Hitchcock

I thought you may like it.

-bf

In reply to this comment by qruel:
wow, very cool. a feature is a helluva lot of work.

are you in post now ? if so where at ?

tell me about the film (story and techinical info) and your hopes for it when done.



In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Haha, you are so right. I just shot a feature out here, and I swore never to shoot another one in LA. It's not friendly to indie filmmakers. I decided early on to go guerilla and shoot without permits, so we were constantly ducking cops. We only got kicked out of one area, which was by a Ranger up on a canyon trail overlooking the cityscape. So, we just packed everything up, made the hike down, and a week later we went back to get the rest of the shots.

Way too expensive out here to shoot. Next feature I do, I'm taking it back to North Carolina, which is where I'm from originally.

In reply to this comment by qruel:
Hey, thanks for the compliment. we shot the film here in the midwest (along with all the other films on that site).

i've got a few friends in La nd they talk about how expensive it is and all the permits they have to get before shooting and it makes me wonder how any indie projects get done there


In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Hey, that's really well done. I wasn't expecting the spiders at the end. And, I loved the nod to Audition with her wardrobe at the end. Where did you shoot that? Out here in LA, or are you somewhere else? Great job.

-bf

In reply to this comment by qruel:
I was posting to Farhad when i saw your comment about AUDTION. It was DEFINATELY creepy as hell. so here is a short movie I thought you might dig called THE EVIL INSIDE (forgive me if I already sent this to you). I edited this film and the director was a HUGE audition fan (you'll tell from the short) This is the 10 minute version (down from 30 minutes)

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=4333376

edit: oh yea, thanks for the props on the gold !

QRUEL

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Farhad2000, I know you're a bit of the cinephile, and I've seen the video you posted of Audition in Bravo's 100 Most Scariest Movies. You may find this video I posted recently interesting: http://www.videosift.com/video/Clip-form-one-of-the-creepiest-horror-movies-ever-AUDITION

Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton
Ringworld by Larry Niven

Anyone see Sunlight? Great 2/3s of a sci-fi movie.
I can't wait for Ender's game...lets hope they do better casting on Ender than they did on Anakin, though.

This is what happens when centuries of sexual repression is abruptly lifted, and expression is released from a box from Pandora's Playland...thank god for Japan. For tube amplification, for Fender Stratocaster and Harley Davidson, for Shonen Knife, and Tamagotchi, Tamari, Toyotas, The Most Extreme Elimination Nation!!

This was a great film. Check out this video I made where I took out Brad Pitt from the scene with Ed Norton outside the bar.

http://www.archetype-productions.com/pandoras-box/media/fightclub-no-brad.mpg

or the same scene with no brad, but my friend inserted.

http://www.archetype-productions.com/pandoras-box/media/fightclub320x240-with-shadows.MPG

be kind it was my first go at rotoscoping

slint, I think that's a gross oversimplification and perpetuating a pretty silly stereotype. A lot of very brilliant people helped develop the atomic bomb, all from different backgrounds and probably all with different reasons. I suspect they devoted a great deal of time thinking about what they were doing and wrestling with tough ethical problems. No doubt many of them thought it would be used as a deterrent, others thought it would save lives that would otherwise be lost in a long drawn-out war, and likely none of them could have predicted that even while toasting their own victory they'd be marching down the road towards 40+ years of political and psychological warfare with the very nations who stood with them as allies. The whole Pandora stereotype makes for great movie fodder but I don't think reality is quite so simple.

Nice UI! Looks a lot like Pandora. There's all sorts of interesting and smart things VS could do with the metadata/voting history in place. (Users who liked BDSM kitty spanking also liked ____). Think VS meets Last.FM. There's public domain code for collaborative filtering/marketbasket analysis out there, think I sent it to Lucky a while ago.


Could make our timewasting a lot more efficient