Twin Suns of Tatooine

Importing iTunes Ratings into Guayadeque

Guayadeque is a nice lightweight music player for linux that supports smart playlists. I wrote a little ruby script to gather all of my ratings from my iTunes database and import them into Guayadeque, so that I can use some of my advanced filters on songs. At some point I’ll probably extend it to import other metadata (last played, date added, etc), but this is a functional first stab at it.

You can download it on Github: iTunes-to-Guayadeque

MegaMan remixed

mp3 link

I can’t get this hook out of my head. Who knew video game hip-hop could be so catchy? Random is giving away 80% of the album online for free. If it’s all as good as this song, though, it’ll be worth paying for.

Happiness in pixellated form

Hiphopopotamus

Knights of Cydonia

I knew the song from GH3, but I hadn’t seen the video until just now. Epic, I tell you.

Origin of Species

While My Youtube Gently Weeps

Today’s Youtube find: two fantastic covers of George Harrison’s ‘My Guitar Gently Weeps’. The first is by Jake Shimabukuro, on ukelele:

The second is by Tom Petty, Prince, and company. Don’t miss Prince’s lengthy solo towards the end.

Catchy song, clever video.

Gotta Have My Orange Juice

Richard Fenyman, world-class physicist:

Feynman remade quantum electrodynamics–the theory of the interaction between light and matter–and thus altered the way science understands the nature of waves and particles. He was co-awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965 for this work, which tied together in an experimentally perfect package all the varied phenomena at work in light, radio, electricity, and magnetism

Richard Fenyman, world-class orange-juice lover:

From the YouTube comments:
Proving once again that the Eagles ruin everything.