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Gulp. It’s official. Russell has announced the Interesting 2009 lineup, and what a line-up it is.  It’s going to be quite difficult to measure up to “Everything You Know About Nuclear Power is Wrong”. My name’s up there, so there’s no going back now.

35 days to come up with something erudite and witty.   Gulp.   Anybody got an Aldis lamp and a smoke machine I can borrow?

• Morse Code Music by Phil and David Tulga
  Welcome to my Morse Code Music page! It includes: 1) an explanation on how to translate Morse Code into music; 2) an online Morse Code Music generator you can play right now on your computer; and 3) multimedia activities that integrate Morse Code with other areas of the curriculum! So, take a couple of minutes and learn more about Morse Code and the wonderful connections we can make between language and music.
  (tags: morse interesting2009)
• Kempa.com » Morse Music
  While researching hidden code in commercially released music, I ended up turning up tons of references to albums containing morse code. For some reason, this didn’t seem ridiculous enough for me – it seemed too obvious. I’ve since looked into it a bit more and found a few examples that officially surpass my threshold of ridiculousness.
  (tags: morse interesting2009)
• Ham Radio Online – Morse Code in Music
  While listening to your favorite music, don't be suprised if you hear those strange and annoying sounds of that terrible Morse code!

  Case in point, on Joe Walsh's latest solo album "Songs for a Dying Planet" is a song titled "Vote For Me". The song is preceded with Morse code which pounds out "REGISTER AND VOTE FOR ME AR". Brian, KF2HC, states that the same message appears on Joe's first album "Barnstorm" in a song titled "Mother". Joe holds an Advanced class Amateur license.

  (tags: morse interesting2009)
• The original Morse Code Music- The Rhythm of the Code. Learn Morse Code with the World Fastest method! Kawa Music Company
  The Rhythm of the Code is a revolutionary new method of learning Morse code. We've combined our famous Version 1 and Version 2 to create this interactive and catchy musical rhythm with 43 Characters often used in ham radio broadcasts that will enable you to have loads of fun while learning. This is a lively musical CD and it will keep your brain energized and excited! You can learn code while doing aerobics, jogging or just sitting around enjoying yourself. Each Compact Disc jewel case includes simple instructions!
  (tags: morse interesting2009)
• iTunes: Who's connected – juretta.com
  "Ever wondering who those "n users connected" are when you look at the Sharing part of the Preferences of your iTunes? Well wonder no more – it turns out fairly easy to figure out in Terminal.app; just type this line:

  lsof -r 2 -n -P -F n -c iTunes -a -i TCP@`hostname`:3689"

  (tags: itunes howto unix)
• Run Internet Explorer 6 (or IE7, or IE8) images in VMware Fusion on Mac OS X – Ryan Parman
  "By now, most front-end web developers have heard of the Standalone Internet Explorers (Wikipedia article). Although these are incredibly useful, they’ve always been hacky at best.

  Because of that, we need to go the long way. We’ll download the “officially sanctioned” VirtualPC images containing a time-limited version of Windows XP SP3 and Internet Explorer 6.0, and then we’ll convert these images to the kind that work with VMware Fusion (which works on Mac OS X). This should only need to be done every 3 or 4 months when the images expire.

  These instructions are loosely based on the ones found at Running IE6, IE7 and IE8 on your Mac."

  (tags: ie6 ie7 ie8 testing windoze vmware images webdevelopment web)