Instant Mixtapes & New Music For Everyone!
Sarah's Pick of the Week:
What's the deal with the online speed reading application Spreeder?!
The Gist
Story #1: The Dark Knight is ruling the box office and is now the 23rd biggest film of all time! Find out more here.
Story #2: 1,000 superhero costumes are up for auction, including Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man suit! Find out more here. More details on the auction here.
Story #3: A total solar eclipse will occur on Friday, August 1st! Find out where and how you can see it here.
Top 5 List - Why Moujan & Heather thought X-Files: I Want to Believe sucked:
- Mulder & Scully Are Old & Depressing
- No Conspiracy
- Annoying Fans in the Audience
- Forced Dialogue
- Dumb Story
Sarah's On the Prowl:
Create and share instant mixtapes from your Pandora or Last.fm profiles with Favtape!
Creative Coffins with Moujan:
This week Moujan touches upon the ever-so-delightful topic of death with a segment on unusual coffins.
Learn more!
- The Ga tribe of Ghana creates colorful coffins to celebrate the dead
- British based coffin-makers, Vic Fearn & Company, showcase their unusual designs at CrazyCoffins.co.uk
- Casket Furniture: Coffins you can use before you die!
- And finally, design your own coffin while being environmentally friendly with Creative Coffins.com
Music with Heather: Frightened Rabbit
Get your very own copy of their latest album "The Midnight Organ Fight" here.
More New Music:
Primal Scream - Beautiful Future And be sure to check out their video Some Velvet Morning featuring Kate Moss.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! Also, watch the music video of the song Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! on the album, Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
Islands - Arm's Way
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- @sarahlane
- @heddaville
- Moujan = Twitter Hater
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Started discussion: July 31, 2008 @ 12:13pm GMT
Episode 20 - Instant Mixtapes & New Music For Everyone! [Discussion]
Create instant mixtapes, build a custom coffin, plus buzzworthy band Frightened Rabbit, other new music and more!
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Spreeder
I haven't seen this service until now, but am familiar with the concept. It's called Rapid Serial Visual Presentation. I had read an article a couple years back talking about how reading ebooks this way on mobile devices was the new trend in japan subways. It makes sense to read using RSVP in that context (limited screen size), but I suppose people would use it in a desktop or laptop's browser window to vary the speed to read lengthy works quickly. Audio Sync
This is the third week in a row where the audio gets out of sync half way through the show. Can you recheck it at least at the sponsor breaks. It really throws me off, man.I'm a very slow reader in normal form because I can't stop myself from checking every word and making sure I read it right. The spreeder format helps me skim and get the jist like normal people do.
I dunno if I buy the whole idea that you can learn to actually speed read with such a tool though.
Also, just thought I'd note, I use spreeder much less now that I have a text to speecher reader. :P
It's like comparing credits that scroll from top to bottom as opposed to those that scroll/crawl across the bottom of the screen right to left. Spreeder might consider actually doing that instead of flashing each individual word... make it a bit more fluid.
BTW, came across you on Vimeo (lip dub) versatile crew you work with ;)
http://digg.com/software/Read_Faster_Way_Faster_No_really_I_mean_WAY_faster
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