The Owl & The Bear

THE OWL & THE BEAR

..is a great site/blog/live music download library. they have tons of quality live recordings from tons of great bands. some of my fav's so far are Arcade Fire, Tortoise (of course) and a Tom Waits i didn't have.

RADIOHEAD - IT WORKED!

NY TIMES - In a twist for the music industry’s digital revolution, “In Rainbows,” the new Radiohead album that attracted wide attention when it was made available three months ago as a digital download for whatever price fans chose to pay, ranked as the top-selling album in the country this week after the CD version hit record shops and other retailers.

A Christmas Gift From Bruce

from his site..
"To: Our friends visiting BruceHornsby.com, Bruuuce.com & BruceHornsbyLive.com...A holiday surprise - free live download!!!!
It has been a fun-filled, fantastic year and we appreciate your support for all of our adventures in music...
We've put together a special holiday collection of live tracks from the summer of 2007! As usual, we didn't skimp; and it's yours for the taking!

So eat, drink, be merry and most of all enjoy!

Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers"

get it here

Free Graph and Grid Paper

I've been using this site for a while now. I mostly print graph paper for landscape designs but have recently printed some of the guitar/bass fret paper also. You can change the number of lines per sheet, size of lines and all. They have a lot of specialty papers for different design formats, accounting and more. It's free and it's great.
click HERE

Breakin' Down A "Brokedown"

Google Earth adds the Sky

Now you can stargaze using Google's popular desktop mapping application Google Earth. In the latest version of Google Earth, hit the "Switch between Sky and Earth" button on the toolbar to get a map of the night sky from your current location. Several Sky layers are listed on the left-hand side, including Constellations, Backyard Astronomy, Hubble Showcase, The Moon, The Planets, User's Guide to Galaxies and Life of a Star. The Sky layers are composed of over 1 million photographs from various scientific and academic sources. Looks like an incredible educational resource for anyone who wanted to be an astronaut when they grew up. Google Earth is a free download for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Get MAYA for Mac, Free!

I'm not sure what can be accomplished with this "personal learning edition" but I am sure stoked to find out! Apple is offering it on their downlaod page, here

The Not-So-Hot Karl!

That's right. The "lost" emails are found! Where? Right here.