Podcastings - iTunes

Do you podcast?
Podcasting is the time-shifting technology, meaning you can listen to the show whenever you like to listen.
If you have iPod with you, then you can listen to a show wherever, whenever you want!
Usually I listen to podcast while surf the net.
Download iTunes from Apple's website now, and start podcasting!

Podcasting channel I like right now is

• The Dawn and Drew Show - I love to hear them laugh. They are happy couple. I am bit jealous!
  
• Coverville - the cover of popular songs like Michael Jackson! Great song is great even it is covered!
  
• CBC Radio 3 Podcast - Vancouver radio show. Good nice music from canada.
  
• MAKE magagine (video) - vlog, or video podcasting show about making cool stuff.
  
• CommandN (video )- Canadian show.
  

Photo from Aichi Expo

Just photo to share with you. Sorry no descriptions. Descriptions in flickr only.

Birth-Controled Pills Maybe Dangerous to Baby

Let's not use them. We have condom!

Pregnant women could be unwittingly exposing their unborn children to harmful amounts of the hormone oestrogen. Researchers have demonstrated that tiny quantities of this hormone, found in birth-control pills and some plastics, can cause serious deformities in male mouse fetuses.

Earth holding onto Sun's Heat

Article from Scientific American.
Nasa Scientist made climate model that calculates 0.6 watt per square meter of energy is Earth holding right now.
This means that we must really act right now to reduce the usage of energy or find better energy source.

"The most effective actions that we could take now are strong efforts to improve energy efficiency, employ renewable energies, and reduce air pollutants, especially fugitive methane, other ozone precursors, and black carbon (soot)," Hansen remarks. "[In] the long-run we will need either carbon-free power sources or we will need to capture and sequester CO2.�

Slumbering Fruit Flies Shed Light on Genetics of Sleep Needs

Amount of sleep one needs is genetical. Potassium ion's concentration could affect sleep in humans.

From sleep hogs to early birds, people have a wide range of shut-eye needs. Now researchers report in the journal Nature that they have identified a single gene in fruit flies that determines how much rest the creatures require. Because humans carry a similar gene, the findings may shed light on the mechanisms and functions of sleep...

Read more in Scientific American

Swedish TV Interview - Billy Corgan

Watch it here.

16minutes long.

Talks about his auto biography on the web, new album, his belief of god and his way of living life.

Walking Shade Video Review

This is review for the music video of Walking Shade; the song from Billy Corgan's coming new album TheFutureEmbrace.

Walking Shade maybe my favourite one side by side with Tonight, Tonight.
The song is never-heard-before structure and complex, but I believe it is succeeding.

Zwan's "Honestly" and "Lyric" was so powerful and made me happy, but it wasn't quite billy and new. (I didn't think this way in zwan era).

Walking Shade is unlike others, there isn't really a climax and ending. I feel maybe that is why I feel this is so true to him and reality.

I am watching (Walking Shade) again and again so many times now, and that makes me wonder if he really got something this time.

Walking Shade - Billy Corgan

I just watched the video of Walking Shade.
It is so beautiful!
I have never heard song like Walking Shade.
It is like a mixture of feelings, but feelings just doesn't last long, constantly shifting from one to another. I think in this sense it is very real and true.
Video is so beautiful. My favourite video is Tonight Tonight, and it made me his fan.
But this one might become the best video for me!
It is like I am falling in love once again!

I don't know if I am allowed here, but here is the link to download.

It wasn't proper to use "feeling". Maybe "emotion" is better to be used...
I felt that the song changes its melody (or tune), and the new melody does not last long as I expected as usual songs. Some says that you are trying to do too many things at once, but I believe it is not. I felt that the song is emotionally changing and shifting, and there isn't final state of emotion and answer.
I hope this explains my feeling about the song better...

Billy Corgan talks about his first solo album

Read it here.

Aichi Expo 2005

I went to Aichi Expo 2005 for the last saturday and sunday by myself.
There are many many countries' booth and cool technologies. Where else should I go!
I'm planning to go back real soon.

Photo report coming on the way!

Billy Corgan is coming back!

Check renewedBillycorgan.com or www.myspace.com/billycorgan.

He is coming back with his album very very soon.

Jack Johnson's New Album on iTunes Music Store comes with 21pages of Digital Booklet (PDF)

Jack Johnson's New Album on iTunes Music Store comes with Digital Booklet, which is PDF file. Album was only $9.99 and comes with 15 songs + 21 pages of nice Digital Booklet.

I am using iMac, and the OS is Panther. It comes with the software called Preview, which is PDF reader. This PDF reader has Full Screen Mode.

So I am reading nice Digital Booklet in Full Screen Mode in Preview while listening to very nice Jack Johnson's new album called, "In Between Dreams."

This is by far the best digital music experience.

Week 9: Mar 1 - Mar 7

Week in Review:

• Bought iPod Shuffle for PianoBall
  
• Designing for DVD/VHS Jacket
  
• DVD Post Rental (Livedoor)
  
• GoF Software Patterns
  
• Yellow Stone on TV.
  
• Kilimanjalo and the river. Hippos.
  
• Shanghai Convenience Stores.
  
• Coffee Store in Takashimadaira.
  

Week 8: Feb 22 - Feb 28

Week in Review:

• Lost in real world.
  
• Lost my purpose on writing blog.
  
• Keep reading Anthropology book in Japanese.
  
• Keep buying songs related to morning
  

Coffee: Kenya AA (GIN-NO-MAME)

• Type: Kenya AA


• Roast: Full City Roast (3/5)


• Aroma: Fruity. Calm.


• Acidity: Strong


• Body: Light, easy


• Flavor: Morning, yellow


• Price:


• Note: Great coffee. I was told that this coffee would be very sour with weak roast cause this is one of the strongest in acidity. I found I am liking sourness of coffee.

Week 7: Feb 15 - Feb 21

Week in Review;
This week was a week of Speaker and Sound.
Listening in the car and at home with harman / kardon speaker system is bliss.

• stenographic records. (writing down in shorthand.)
  
• two kinds of spagetti. Natto Spagetti, Gorgonzola Spagetti.
  
• Morning with morning songs.
  
• Contact lens
  
• Rust prevent stainless work on our entrance door.
  
• Learning new language.
  
• Bikkuri Donki Humberg
  

iTunes Music Store - Cat Stevens, Louis Armstrong, Living Language

This weekend I purchased three.
Two songs are really great for listening in the morning.
Another one is for learning Chinese.

Morning Has Broken
What a Wonderful World (single)
In-Flight Mandarin Chinese: Learn Before You Land

I am really glad I boght Cat Stevens' "Morning Has Broken". So wonderful piece of music! I think I am gonna wake up every Sunday moring with this song!

I am going to bed and listen to "In-Flight Mandarin Chinese" tonight.

Goodnite!

Oldest Homo Sapiens is from Ethiopia, Africa.

190,000 years ago in Ethiopia, our ancestor was born. Probably it looked very much like us, had brain as big as ours'.
So we then splead to all the places, and killed off another Homo Sapiens, Neanderthal and possibly more apes, which are extinct now. Anthropology is fun, cause it let us imagine things that really happened.

The article on Nature.

This skull, called Omo II, is from the earliest known member of our species.
© Michael Day
Two Ethiopian fossils have been crowned as the oldest known members of our species. An estimated 195,000 years old, the pair were witness to the earliest days of Homo sapiens.

The discovery adds yet more weight to the argument that Africa, and Ethiopia in particular, was the birthplace of humans. The dating sits well with genetic analyses of modern populations, which suggest that H. sapiens first appeared in Africa around 200,000 years ago.

Rent CDs - John Mayer, Alicia Keys

Rented two CDs from Tsutaya

Heavier Things - John Mayer
the diary of alicia keys - Alicia Keys

Listening pleasure for coming weekend.

Week 6: Feb 7 - Feb 14

Week in Review:
This week was about iTunes Music Store.
Bought total of 9 songs.
It was an exciting week, because now I can buy a song, not whole album!

• PianoBall's two trips.
  
• TalkativeSnow went to see marathon.
  
• Bad decisiion on buying sub woofer.
  
• Home Alone
  
• Alone in Nagasaki Chanpon
  
• Sleep too much
  
• Billy Corgan's Poem - Blinking with Fists - from Amazon
  
• Jimmy Chamberlin's first album - Jimmy Chamberlin Complex - from Amazon