Life stream of Rick Blythe
This is my late Santa Xmas present, a WiNRADiO G31DDC (by ve3cnu)
Best Video of all Time
Linkin Park-In The End (WRC)
I have very fond memories of owning one of these crystal radio sets, that you build yourself. Probably explains why I became a ham radio operator much later.
Cold War Era:
Part One: “Radio Moscow and the Western Hemisphere,” 1961 Cook Labs (by 1926VictorCredenza)
While I never owned a Commodore 64 like everyone else, I did have one of these in the early Eighties.
The Tandy MC-10 micro color computer was not a commercial success. Tandy did not support this machine. In Basic you could only use 8 color and a graphic resolution of 64x32 dots. However, the MC-10 had much more capabilities: 2 color 256x192 graphics, 4 color 128x192 graphics and the sound-chip had synthesizer possibilities. If all these extra functions were mentioned in the manual, I bet that these machine would have sold many more.
MySpace link: http://www.myspace.com/theplaymatesjp
The Playmates, a Japanese trio that belt out their indelibly penetrating power-pop (with that gratifying punk edge) exclusively in English, retaining their native accent of course. “Catchy” can’t even begin to describe the Playmates dexterous, melody-drenched savvy, that consistently finds them employing more hooks into one song than a lesser band would be lucky to accumulate over the course of an entire album.
Think Buzzcocks, early Undertones, Pointed Sticks, and dare I say 39/Smooth-era Green Day, but the Playmates tact tends to go down a little smoother than the aforementioned. A quick listen to the material on their MySpace page, all recorded post-Short Wave, finds them adopting a mellower, but no less impressive tenor. The album in question though is mind shatteringly fun and addictive. You have been warned.
