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Dmitry detains the speed record for shipping a CD from the US to me, by regular airmail - less than one week

The map legend is on the left side of the page.

On the film trailer, some music can be heard, but it doesn't sound like Miles http://www.williamgreaves.com/symbio_takeone.htm

Which concerts does it include?

I've heard all of Kraftwerk's output, but as far as german electronic music goes I've always preferred the darker sounds and more complex compositions of Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream (70's only for the latter). I think a large part of Kraftwerk's success is due to excellent marketing (the human robot image). Since the mid 80's, they've been recycling their earlier work for the most part (remixes, live album, etc). Surprisingly, fans still have to wait for CD reissues of the very early albums and remasters of their most successful recordings.

I admire the level of detail on Wikipedia

http://www.warr.org/hancock.html#LiteMeUp

I tried Skype with the phone modem built into my laptop, it worked fine. Only when I browsed the web at the same time over that slow connection there were communication lags.

The Belgium concert was released on VHS: WES MONTGOMERY QUARTET Wes Montgomery(g) Harold Mabern(p) Arthur Harper(b) Jimmy Lovelace(dr) TV'Cast, "JAZZ PRISMA", Universal Studio, Brussels, Belgium; Mar.1965 Impressions [3:30] Twisted Blues [5:25] There's That Rainy Day Here's That Rainy Day [7:10] Jingles [3:56] The Boy Next Door The Girl Next Door [3:50] http://www.ne.jp/asahi/wes.fan/club/right/verve/verve_b1.htm http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...944744?v=glance

French-german culture TV station ARTE will be showing "Les liaisons dangereuses", the 1959 film by Roger Vadim, with Jeanne Moreau, Gerard Philippe, Boris Vian and others. http://www.arte-tv.com/fr/semaine/244,broa...,year=2006.html On Sunday 19th february 00:30 (the night from sunday to monday that is). It was also shown this week already at prime time, but I missed it. NY Times review Allmovie entry The film is known among jazz fans for it's soundtrack composed by Duke Jordan and played by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with guest Barney Wilen. A different band appears in the film itself (Kenny Dorham, Barney Wilen, Duke Jordan, Paul Rovère, Kenny Clarke). http://www.discogs.com/release/496255

Thanks Flurin.

I agree. When I ordered the second Organissimo album from CD Baby, the CD hadn't arrived after 6 weeks (usually it takes 1-2 weeks). I emailed them and they send a new shipping immediately, which arrived after one week. Two weeks later the first order arrived too. I sent it back at my charges, because of the excellent service. Generally US companies have a higher level of customer support than european firms.

A package of CDs I sent to a board member in Brazil took almost 3 months.

None of my overseas orders (more than 50 in the last 5 years) has ever been lost, but 3 shippings took unusually long (6-8 weeks). So I suggest that you wait a bit longer before concluding that it has been lost.

How I stalked my girlfriend Ben Goldacre Wednesday February 1, 2006 The Guardian For the past week I've been tracking my girlfriend through her mobile phone. I can see exactly where she is, at any time of day or night, within 150 yards, as long as her phone is on. It has been very interesting to find out about her day. Now I'm going to tell you how I did it. First, though, I ought to point out, that my girlfriend is a journalist, that I had her permission ("in principle ...") and that this was all in the name of science, bagging a Pulitzer and paying the school fees. You have nothing to worry about, or at least not from me. But back to business. First I had to get hold of her phone. It wasn't difficult. We live together and she has no reason not to trust me, so she often leaves it lying around. And, after all, I only needed it for five minutes. I unplugged her phone and took it upstairs to register it on a website I had been told about. It looks as if the service is mainly for tracking stock and staff movements: the Guardian, rather sensibly, doesn't want me to tell you any more than that. I ticked the website's terms and conditions without reading them, put in my debit card details, and bought 25 GSM Credits for £5 plus vat. Almost immediately, my girlfriend's phone vibrated with a new text message. "Ben Goldacre has requested to add you to their Buddy List! To accept, simply reply to this message with 'LOCATE'". I sent the requested reply. The phone vibrated again. A second text arrived: "WARNING: [this service] allows other people to know where you are. For your own safety make sure that you know who is locating you." I deleted both these text messages. On the website, I see the familiar number in my list of "GSM devices" and I click "locate". A map appears of the area in which we live, with a person-shaped blob in the middle, roughly 100 yards from our home. The phone doesn't go off at all. There is no trace of what I'm doing on her phone. I can't quite believe my eyes: I knew that the police could do this, and telecommunications companies, but not any old random person with five minutes access to someone else's phone. I can't find anything in her mobile that could possibly let her know that I'm checking her location. As devious systems go, it's foolproof. I set up the website to track her at regular intervals, take a snapshot of her whereabouts automatically, every half hour, and plot her path on the map, so that I can view it at my leisure. It felt, I have to say, exceedingly wrong. By the time my better half got home, I was so childishly over-excited that I managed to keep all of this secret for precisely 30 seconds. And to my disappointment, she wasn't even slightly freaked out. I don't know if that says good or bad things about our relationship and I wouldn't want you to come away thinking it's all a bit "Mr & Mrs Smith" around here. Having said that, we came up with at least five new uses for this technology between us in a few minutes, all far more sinister than anything I had managed to concoct on my own. And that, for me, was the clincher. Your mobile phone company could make money from selling information about your location to the companies that offer this service. If you have any reason to suspect that your phone might have been out of your sight, even for five minutes, and there is anyone who might want to track you: call your phone company and ask it to find out if there is a trace on your phone. Anybody could be watching you. It could be me. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/stor...1699156,00.html http://www.world-tracker.com Mobile phone tracking, girlfriend stalking and the law (The Register)

What do you mean exactly? NTSC is the US video signal standard. TV, VHS and DVD signals are all NTSC.

I'm a huge Woody Allen fan, and I think Matchpoint is a milesone in his career. Many of his comedies from the past ten years were rather predictable (still much better than the average Hollywood comedy), but this movie is much more untypical for him. It's the most captivating film I've seen last year. I'm looking forward to the next film, which he plan to shoot in Spain.

It seems to be from 1958: http://www.uni-duisburg.de/AVMZ/frohne/marsh/disco.htm

Today I received the "Lee Konitz quartet at the Village Vanguard" DVD from CD Universe http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=6661491 It is supposed to contain 60 minutes from a 1989 concert at the Village Vanguard (with Roland Hanna, George Mraz, Mel Lewis). But in the middle of the DVD there are two tracks "Geneva's move" and "Subconcious-Lee", which come from a 1954 TV show hosted by Gilbert Seldes (who makes a brief interview with Lee). The whole sequence lasts 8 minutes. Lee Konitz, alto sax Warne Marsh, tenor sax (Hell ya ) Don Elliott, french horn Mundell Lowe, guitar Billy Taylor, piano unidentified bassist Ed Thigpen, drums (all info according to the subtitles) Picture and sound quality are state of the art for the era. There is no information on the 1954 material on the DVD cover, the two tracks are listed as if they belong to the Village Vanguard material. Can 1954 be correct? I would have guessed this was from the late 50's or early 60's. The Vanguard concert itself is good, but picture quality is so-so, and the sound is mono except on some tracks where there is artificial stereo with some phasing problem. But for $10, this DVD is highly recommended. (thread title corrected, see below)

No, seriously, I haven't heard Helge on guitar yet, but he has recorded a jazz album where he plays all the instruments, on which some saxophone solos sound close to that fake Wes solo. http://jazz.discogs.com/release/395241 But the fact that his name is in the properties of the movie file doesn't mean he must have something to do with it. It could he been made by a Helge fan.

Helge's style is easily recognized

Blasphemy!

I have only used a USB headset so far. The idea of these USB devices is to bypass the soundchip of laptops, which are often of low quality (hiss, distortion). An analog/digital converter is built into the USB device and the digitized sound transmitted via the USB port to the laptop. Compared to a regular microphone connected to the MIC IN plug of the laptop, the sound quality of a USB microphone is better if the A/D converter of the microphone has a higher quality than the A/D converter of the soundcard. But I don't think this product is as revolutionary as the FAQ claim. In fact it looks more like a lifestyle product than a serious device for recording music. How much does it cost?

Wow, that must be one of the highest bids ever on a Mosaic set (price per disc)

It's an internet classic http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&h...ill&btnG=Search