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Ha ha. And true. Thanks Asi

….of digital creative work over on Crackunit

Not talking about the flooding, talking about this ^
Thanks to Mr Rafael Rozendaal

CDs are now engineered to be extremely loud. Sound quality suffers. This brief video shows the “before and after” effects of industry standard post-recording processing. It’s extremely disturbing what it does to your music.
The general term for this is “Dynamic Range Compression” and actually it has nothing to do with MP3 or AAC data compression. [...]

and this just rolled in from core77

Phorm, Springfield, USA – A Warning to Designers
This is a warning to all designers or companies to think twice before working with Trent Schaible of Phorm in Springfield, USA. Phorm Fit Living or PhormFitLiving is their site. It’s a nice site, just a shame they don’t seem to want to pay for what they sell.
Having [...]

Unpopular virtual advertising world Second Life stages desperate PR stunt to stem outflowing tide of interest. When you’ve done, sex, violence, commerce and politics, all you’ve got left is terrorism.

Do you remember the moment when adverts got better than the TV shows between them? Perhaps one day spam will be better than the stuff on the web. Here’s a nice one I got this morning from Russia trying to sell me screws through the persuasive use of a painted naked lady. Needless to [...]

I love ebay, mainly because more than any recycling wheelybin, it has created a sustainable and enjoyable cycle of re-use. But it is responsible for these ubiquitous, dumb ads. Type anything in to google and ebay will apparently have it for sale. They even have a “What is a haiku” for sale. Please comment if [...]

Following the I hate viral(s) posting on Crackunit I have decided to stick the boot in too…..

Web 2.0 means over-exuberance 2.0, means a lot of fools crawling out of the woodwork and the rhetoric tap spinning up to 11. Track 2.0 developments on the aptly named Bubble 2.0

Is this some kind of sick joke? Can’t some things be left in peace?