Half Stars in iTunes

For those of you who need more control over your music in iTunes, here's a quick 'hack' to enable half-star ratings (thus doubling the number of possible ratings ---- that's 5 times 2 kids!). Click on the image below to see the larger, readable version. Enjoy:



From Wired.com - Cheat Codes for Real Life

Classical

Just because someone is playing a classical instrument (in this case, a cello) does not mean they are playing classical music. An album a few years back featured songs from Metallica played on cello. The video below was posted on Wired.com today and shows an amazing performance by Zoe Keating on her traditional french cello and looping peddle and software. She plays one clip, recording it on her computer, then loops it back using the foot peddle. Enjoy:

That PC Guy

The guy from the PC commercials, John Hodgman, has written another book. His first book, Areas of My Expertise, an attempt to compile all world knowledge (minus sports) into a single 264 page book, was great (it was a free download on iTunes a while back). His new book is an extension on this idea (containing history, because we keep getting more of it, and the future, because we still have some left). He reads his own book on the audiobook and is accompanied by Jonathan Coulton, his friend from college who enjoys an underground/cult music following in the nerd/computer programmer/comic book reading world.

Here's their recent appearance at Wired promoting the new book: