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New year, new wacky warning labels: http://www.mlaw.org/wwl/index.html HEAT GUN THAT WARNS: “DO NOT USE AS HAIRDRYER” WINS TOP PRIZE IN M-LAW’S NINTH ANNUAL WACKY WARNING LABEL CONTEST A heat gun and paint remover that produces temperatures of 1,000 degrees and warns users, “Do not use this tool as a hair dryer” has been identified as the nation’s wackiest warning label in M-LAW’s annual Wacky Warning Label Contest. OTHER WINNERS: - For those people who aren’t “the sharpest knife in the drawer.” The $250 second place award went to Jam Sardar of Grand Rapids, Michigan for a label on a kitchen knife that warns: “Never try to catch a falling knife.” - “Hurry up, bartender! I’m late for the regatta.” The $100 third place award goes to Alice Morgan of La Junta, Colorado who found a very wacky warning on a cocktail napkin. The napkin has a map of the waterways around Hilton Head, South Carolina printed on it along with this: “Caution: Not to be used for navigation.” - And don’t eat the yellow snow, either. Kirk Dunham of Seabrook, Texas gets an honorable mention for a warning label he found on a bottle of dried bobcat urine made to keep rodents and other pests away from garden plants. It says: “Not for human consumption.” - But will it get cold in the refrigerator? Another honorable mention goes to Lyne Anton of Elk, California who found the following warning label on a baking pan: “Ovenware will get hot when used in oven.”

Have you seen the "click to enlarge" message on the thumbnail?

You have to use the file attachment functions in the reply window, and then browse for the picture on your floppy drive (usually a:).

"How could she marry that smelly fish, after all I did for her?"

Be sure to download and print Couw's booklets, which add some important discographical info missing in the booklets that come with the ZYX sets.

No, but the same recording (which would have fitted on one CD) was also released by Jazz Door (without authorization I assume) on "Fat Time": http://www.plosin.com/milesAhead/Disco.aspx?id=FatTime http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/jazz/detail/-/hnum...azz/rsk/hitlist (audio clips)

The thanks go to Ellery Eskelin who posted the info on Jazz Corner http://jazzcornertalk.com/speakeasy/showth...?t=11337&page=5

From David Liebman's latest newsletter: http://www.upbeat.com/lieb/intervals/2006/

Good to see some rare MPS albums on CD.

Brilliant

Hans, you have to click "Add reply", not "New topic" http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...c=3849&st=29000

Congratulations Agustin for making Santos Inocentes an internationally celebrated day Even in Korea!

Maybe this will help (I searched for "ipod" on videohelp.com): http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=Videora_iPod_Converter (tool already mentionned by vibes) http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=778 http://www.geocities.com/jk2000_at_pa_dot_net/avi_iPod.htm

RAM is more important than CPU power. Some budget laptops with Celeron processor come with only 256MB RAM. Be sure you can get it upgraded to 512MB. How much hard drive space you need depends entirely on what you use the laptop for. Low price laptops usually come with 30-40GB drives, which should be enough unless you download lots of music (or worse, movies) or use it as a recording machine.

A WTO ruling making copyright protection extension necessary in Europe? Do you have more details about that? (Art. 14.5 of the TRIPs agreement only sets a minimum of 50 years: http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/...ips_04_e.htm#1)

I would pay $20 more per set if they were all remastered by Malcolm Addey (instead of Ron McMaster).

The strange thing with this Membran series is that they reissue original albums, but without the original covers and liner notes. The reason is that the copyright on the cover artwork and texts is still in force, as it expires 70 years after the death of the creator/author. (The compositions on the discs are also protected until 70 years after the death of the composer (and the composer is entitled to getting royalties though the national collecting societies), but the performance recording itself is protected by neighbouring rights, which last 50 years from the date of recording)

This seems to be material that is in the public domain in Europe (pre 1955). So don't expect the reissues to come from the original master tapes. The concept seems odd, with the generic faux-authentic covers. Are these reissues of original albums of the time? As far as cheap reissues go, I rather prefer the Definitive or Proper approach of putting as much music on the CD as possible.

Mine says Shipped

Frappr has now added a forum to each map. This could be useful when this forum is down and you have forgotten the official downtime forum's address. The Organissimo Forum map is not in the Frappr directory, to avoid unwanted guests. You will have to bookmark or remember it's address: www.frappr.com/organissimo

True, this doesn't make sense at all. He is offering bootlegs of material that is in print on a legit label, which is supposedly paying royalties to the Monk estate.

These seem to be 128kbs MP3s (at that bitrate, 1 minute = 1MB). For the price, they should offer 192kbs files.

Besides the risk of having entries in Wikipedia which are inaccurate or deliberately wrong, there is also the danger of users committing copyright infringements by copying text from books: Free Encyclopedia Wikipedia.de Has Copyright Issues (Deutsche Welle 29.11.2005)

Hi Tjobbe, As an administrator of the map, I can edit or delete user entries, but I cannot move the sticker by hand. So I don't think it is possible to correct the exact location of the sticker.

It's fun to go to Satellite mode, zoom in to the top third of the scale and then jump from user to user by clicking on a name on the list. The picture takes a while to load each time.