KS sends along this NYT obit for cassette tapes.
“While the cassette was dumped long ago by the music industry, it has lived on among publishers of audio books. Many people prefer cassettes because they make it easy to pick up in the same place where the listener left off, or to rewind in case a [...]
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50 Beautiful and Creative Feminine Illustrations
Tremendous collection from Smashing Magazine of links to women (and some male) artists. The initial post is supposed to be artists providing an image of a girl and a second image of a woman. (As someone who believes these words have two very different meanings and should not be used interchangeably, I thought this was [...]
Veggie Burger Challenge
Over at Eating Tampa JBisMe begins The Great Tampa Bay 2008 Veggie Burger Blog Challenge.
She lays out the rules of the challenge then reviews the burger at Evo’s. If you have a favorite veggie burger in Tampa, let her know!
Draper Labs Opening New R&D Centers in Tampa/St. Pete
Tampa Bay Business Journal is reporting that “Charles Stark Draper Laboratory to set up shop in Tampa Bay.”
Here’s some high level cooperation to bring a high-tech business to the Tampa area.
“Hillsborough County and USF are collaborating to provide a site, construction and equipment for the Tampa center, while funding to design and build the St. [...]
Music Monday
Tampastica is a blog about Tampa music. If you know of any others, point me to them!
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St. Petersblog notes that Audio Labs Rehearsal Space was robbed including the band Petrograd in Transit, who cancelled their next show.
“WE’RE NOT PLAYING, DUE TO EQUIPMENT THEFT. Go see King of Spain and New Lands, though. Seriously.”
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Here’s is Bogus [...]
Director of National Ignorance
In a recent USA Today editorial the Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell speaks for himself and other directors of US intelligence agencies against a reporter’s shield bill being considered in Congress. While there are serious criticisms that can be made of this bill, McConnell hits none of them. Instead we get gems like this [...]
Re/Creating Week in Review
For those of you only hitting the R/CT page, or reading this page in a feed, here’s what happened in the rest of the re/creating universe this week.
Eating Tampa found some new restaurants to check out. Here. Here. Here. And Here.
JB is looking for some encouragement to do a best veggie burger search. Leave a [...]
Spam King Update
Yikes. What seemed like a semi-humorous post yesterday has taken a tragic turn.
After the spam king escaped he killed his family, then himself.
GaYbor Boosterism
Robin “Roblimo” Miller shot this short video promoting the GaYbor Coalition.
“In the summer of 2007, 10 gay and gay-friendly business owners in Ybor City got together to combat the area’s high commercial vacancy rate, reputation for thuggish behavior, and general aura of depression. By the summer of 2008, the GaYbor Coalition had 103 member businesses [...]
DRM Is a Bad Idea
For those of you who don’t know, DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. DRM is a type of software “lock” put onto electronic media so that it cannot be copied. Unless you have a key. Some DRM allows minimal copying, so that you can copy one time, or onto a particular type or brand of [...]
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