From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #187 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Wednesday, August 2 2000 Volume 05 : Number 187 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: unsubscribe [theo.green@orange.co.uk] Alloy: Beatnik in the news [Robin Thurlow ] Alloy: unsubbing & new web site [Robin Thurlow ] Re: Alloy: TMDR on The List [Chris Cracknell ] Alloy: Some MP3's to (not) enjoy. [Chris Cracknell ] Alloy: Some of The List to enjoy - was MP3's to (not) enjoy. ["Keith Stan] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:13:08 +0100 From: theo.green@orange.co.uk Subject: Alloy: unsubscribe ******************************************************************************* Important. This E-mail is intended for the above named person and may be confidential and/or legally privileged. If this has come to you in error you must take no action based on it, nor must you copy or show it to anyone; please inform the sender immediately. ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 09:24:24 -0400 From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Alloy: Beatnik in the news Here's a news item featuring Beatnik! Robin T Beatnik Player Rises From Ninth Most Installed Netscape Plug-In To Fourth, According to WebSideStory's StatMarket SAN DIEGO, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- WebSideStory, Inc. (http://www.websidestory.com), a provider of real-time Internet intelligence and Web audience analysis, today reported that the installed base of the Beatnik Player plug-in among Netscape users worldwide has more than tripled in the past 18 months. It has gone from 18.16% on Jan. 7, 1999, to 63.48% on July 22, 2000, according to WebSideStory's StatMarket. The Beatnik Player is a Web browser plug-in that lets users experience interactive audio on the Internet. It was created by Beatnik, Inc., an interactive audio technology firm based in Northern California and founded by musician/composer Thomas Dolby. StatMarket (http://www.statmarket.com) is an Internet intelligence service that reports information on global Internet user trends. StatMarket's statistics are collected from millions of visitors a day to tens of thousands of Web sites worldwide using WebSideStory's HitBox Enterprise (http://www.hitboxenterprise.com) and other HitBox Web audience analysis services. StatMarket's information is gathered in real-time and reported daily. Beatnik now ranks as the fourth most installed plug-in among Netscape users behind LiveAudio, Flash and AVI. In January 1999, Beatnik ranked ninth on StatMarket's list. Installed base is defined as the percentage of Netscape users that have a particular plug-in installed on their browser. "There are a lot technologies competing for plug-in market share," said Geoff Johnston, vice president of product marketing for StatMarket. "Beatnik has displayed a remarkable growth rate in a competitive environment." Installed Base Installed Base Installed Base Plug-in on 1-7-99 on 1-1-00 on 7-22-00 Beatnik Player 18.16% 45.69% 63.48% About WebSideStory Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., WebSideStory is a provider of real-time Internet intelligence and Web audience analysis. WebSideStory sells subscription services such as HitBox Enterprise (http://www.hitboxenterprise.com), HitBox Pro (http://www.hitboxpro.com), StatMarket (http://www.statmarket.com) and HitBox Wireless (http://www.hitboxwireless.com) to customers who operate Web sites that are important to their business. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 09:39:33 -0400 From: Robin Thurlow Subject: Alloy: unsubbing & new web site I will unsubscribe the person who requested it this evening when I get home; if the subscriber would prefer it be done sooner for any reason, you can find instructions on how to do this on the Alloy FAQ page, please link through to http://www.robinthurlow.addr.com/ Which brings me to the part where I get to mention I have a new isp officially now! If anyone has linked to my site on their own pages, you might want to update your links (though I've published a forward on each of my old AOL pages) Please stay tuned for updates pertaining to Alloy and the 'Thomas Dolby: Images and Interviews' site. Also I'll be re-posting the information about the Alloy 2001 calendar project, and I'll have new lyrics up for our interpretations either tonight or tommorow for the Song of the week (notice how the weeks keep getting longer and longer...!) Sorry about all the delays, everyone. I keep getting swamped with unforseen situations. In addition to which I'm finding I have a lot of travelling to do for my training, and I'm also finding that I HATE being away from home & I'm depressed as hell about it. In a week and a half I have to be away again, this time for a two week stretch. I then do the same thing again and again, three months in a row. Aargh. Someone send chocolate. Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 21:55:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Cracknell Subject: Re: Alloy: TMDR on The List In article <4e.8ca5f9f.26af6201@aol.com>, you wrote: >However, with regards to the "winners" The Police.. I feel that they were >indeed a "New Wave" band at the time they came out.. Wish I could have seen the damn show. ;_' Been too busy lately to have likely seen it even if it was on up here in Canada. Finally getting back to playing live again after having broken my ribs (due to an accident of physics suffered in Judo class) and tonnes of home renovations have kept me seperated from my computer (which blew up a few days ago, but luckily a geek like me is well stocked with spare parts). The Police? Well, damn near everything was being called New Wave back then but I'd pick "The B-52's", "A Flock Of Seagulls", or "The Go-Go's" over The Police in the New Wave catagory anytime. Gee... wouldn't it be cool to have a show like that in Canada and we could talk about all three Canadian New Wave bands (The Spoons, Men Without Hats, Toronto) and nobody else in the world would even know who we were talking about. CRACKERS (One busy guy from hell!!!!!!!) - -- Collector of Atari 2600 carts - Accordionist - Bira Bira Devotee - Anime fan * http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html | Crackers' Arts Base * * http://www.netway.com/~hozervideo/index.html | Hozer Video Games * Nihongo ga dekimasu - 2600 programmer - Father of 2 great kids - Canadian eh ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 21:55:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Cracknell Subject: Alloy: Some MP3's to (not) enjoy. Well I've been so busy lately, but I did make some time to try my hand at this whole MP3 business. Anyone want to hear my band's newest CD... a CD so new it hasn't even been mixed down yet? Here's some crappy mono MP3's of a really rough mixdown we did just so we could listen to the songs and get ideas (made the MP3s to so a former bandmate living in PEI could hear the songs). Figured some of my friends here might like to give them a listen too... http://www.driveway.com/share?sid=75ffaa42.8ecf7&name=shih%27tzu Remember these are really crappy encoded mono MP3s of a very rough mixdown. I needed to make the files really really really small but still somewhat listenable to. Also some of you may remember me mentioning my recent experiments in the realm of Hentai artwork, erotic artworks based on characters from Japanese videogames/animation (anime)/and comics (manga). Well I've branched out a bit from just drawing H-Pics and writing lemons (erotic hentai fictions). I've created two H-Songs (don't know of any other Ecchi-Artists who have created H-Songs so this might be a first). Both "Pokemon" based H-Songs (something so wonderfully perverse about creating a sexual parody of a gajillion dollar franchise). If you want a warped listening experience here they are. Both songs are very short because at that time I didn't have a webpage for my hentai artwork so I was posting it to usenet. http://www.driveway.com/share?sid=75ffaa42.92340&name=h-songs And finally... I decided to put some out of print material from a punk band I used to be in (it was really more an excuse to get together and drink a hell of a lot) on the internet just to prove that any crap at all can have its existance validated by being on the internet. So here it is. Unlike the shih'tzu songs I can't plead the roughness of the mixdown or the compressed-within-an-inch-of-their-life factors on the general crappiness of these MP3s. The just suck because that's when happens when you leave three guys and five two-four of beer alone together in a studio for an afternoon. (Yes it was recorded in an afternoon of drunken mayhem). So sit back and listen to the worst 1986 had to offer if you must. 1986... was it really that long ago I was in OYCPI? Man I'm feeling old. Incidently, for those of you who enjoyed my "Bobby John Doe" story, the song that was inspired by that incident is here... "nbis.mp3" (Naked Bitches In Space). If you really want to try and squeaze some form of enjoyment out of listening to these songs all I can say is get pissed drunk and you might stand a fighting chance. http://www.driveway.com/share?sid=75ffaa42.9a51e&name=oycpi Well that's my bad deed for the day. ~_^ CRACKERS (off I go now from hell!!!!) - -- Collector of Atari 2600 carts - Accordionist - Bira Bira Devotee - Anime fan * http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html | Crackers' Arts Base * * http://www.netway.com/~hozervideo/index.html | Hozer Video Games * Nihongo ga dekimasu - 2600 programmer - Father of 2 great kids - Canadian eh ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 22:53:39 -0600 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Alloy: Some of The List to enjoy - was MP3's to (not) enjoy. Crackers, I downloaded all your files to (not) enjoy during my morning workout and commute tomorrow. I'm going to take a chance and just put them in my Rio and take off with them without listening to them first at home. Now, since you introduced me to Driveway, I'll introduce you and the rest of Alloy to a 4M file that is TMDR on The List. I hope you have the Real player. Here is the link: http://www.driveway.com/share?sid=ad4f361c.9c142&name=TheList Download the file first, and then open it using the Real player. The video is about 17 minutes long - I took out all the non talking bits. Shhh - don't tell VH1 about this. - -Keith - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Cracknell" To: Cc: Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 7:55 PM Subject: Alloy: Some MP3's to (not) enjoy. > > > Well I've been so busy lately, but I did make some time to try my hand > at this whole MP3 business. > > Anyone want to hear my band's newest CD... a CD so new it hasn't even been > mixed down yet? Here's some crappy mono MP3's of a really rough mixdown we > did just so we could listen to the songs and get ideas (made the MP3s to > so a former bandmate living in PEI could hear the songs). Figured some of > my friends here might like to give them a listen too... > > http://www.driveway.com/share?sid=75ffaa42.8ecf7&name=shih%27tzu > > Remember these are really crappy encoded mono MP3s of a very rough mixdown. > I needed to make the files really really really small but still somewhat > listenable to. > > Also some of you may remember me mentioning my recent experiments in the > realm of Hentai artwork, erotic artworks based on characters from Japanese > videogames/animation (anime)/and comics (manga). Well I've branched out > a bit from just drawing H-Pics and writing lemons (erotic hentai fictions). > I've created two H-Songs (don't know of any other Ecchi-Artists who have > created H-Songs so this might be a first). Both "Pokemon" based H-Songs > (something so wonderfully perverse about creating a sexual parody of a > gajillion dollar franchise). If you want a warped listening experience > here they are. Both songs are very short because at that time I didn't > have a webpage for my hentai artwork so I was posting it to usenet. > > http://www.driveway.com/share?sid=75ffaa42.92340&name=h-songs > > And finally... I decided to put some out of print material from a punk band > I used to be in (it was really more an excuse to get together and drink a > hell of a lot) on the internet just to prove that any crap at all can have > its existance validated by being on the internet. So here it is. Unlike the > shih'tzu songs I can't plead the roughness of the mixdown or the > compressed-within-an-inch-of-their-life factors on the general crappiness of > these MP3s. The just suck because that's when happens when you leave three > guys and five two-four of beer alone together in a studio for an afternoon. > (Yes it was recorded in an afternoon of drunken mayhem). So sit back and > listen to the worst 1986 had to offer if you must. 1986... was it really that > long ago I was in OYCPI? Man I'm feeling old. > > Incidently, for those of you who enjoyed my "Bobby John Doe" story, the song > that was inspired by that incident is here... "nbis.mp3" (Naked Bitches In > Space). > > If you really want to try and squeaze some form of enjoyment out of listening > to these songs all I can say is get pissed drunk and you might stand a fighting > chance. > > http://www.driveway.com/share?sid=75ffaa42.9a51e&name=oycpi > > > Well that's my bad deed for the day. ~_^ > > CRACKERS > (off I go now from hell!!!!) > > > > > > > -- > Collector of Atari 2600 carts - Accordionist - Bira Bira Devotee - Anime fan > * http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html | Crackers' Arts Base * > * http://www.netway.com/~hozervideo/index.html | Hozer Video Games * > Nihongo ga dekimasu - 2600 programmer - Father of 2 great kids - Canadian eh > > > > ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #187 ***************************