Pinchable music: Pinch-out on track waveform and it separates out into all of the tracks that make up the music. <- Apple needs to do that.—
Mike Cane (@mikecane) January 29, 2012

I listened to a music track online today and it was displayed as a waveform.

This reminded me of the early Mac days when I showed someone a sound recording program and she asked if after the music had been digitized it could have all the tracks from a cut separated out to play each one.

It has to be at least twenty-five years since then.

And we still don’t have that.

Why the hell not?

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September 15, 2010: Twitter Misses The Metadata Boat

Title typeface and its color on the second one is a bit dicey, but if I had liked the first book, that wouldn’t have mattered to me.

Both are covers that would have intrigued me enough on a bookstore shelf to pick up and thumb through.

I don’t care that we’re moving to e — you still need covers as damn good as these.

I haven’t read these. Came across them in this article passed along on Twitter by @zumayabooks: Erotic books popular with e-readers. I’ve put them in one of my Kindle lists to investigate later.

Lady Mechatronic and the Steampunked Pirates [currently Kindle-only]
Journey to Pirate’s Cove (Lady Mechatronic and the Steampunked Pirates) [currently Kindle-only]

Barnes & Noble is trying to strike at Amazon with another device. At its labs in Silicon Valley last week, engineers were putting final touches on their fifth e-reading device, a product that executives said would be released sometime this spring. (A Barnes & Noble spokeswoman declined to elaborate.)

I wonder what that could be?

eInk? Color LCD? Pixel Qi? Mirasol? (I doubt Mirasol unless they have a Top Sekrit Second-Gen screen that’s good!)

Cheaper eInk Nook? Cheaper color Nook?

I was just wondering the other day about what both Barnes & Noble and Kobo could possibly introduce later this year, so an introduction as soon as Spring is very surprising.

Probably nothing more surprising than a 9″ or 10″ tablet.

Yet I’m still waiting to see if their Nook Community Edition trademark is ever used. Also unused are Nook Smart and NookCook.

Wait!

This is a photo I took on Sunday, January 22, 2012:

So the price was retreating?

No.

This is a photo from today Saturday, January 28, 2012:

This makes me so glad I don’t own a car.

But still, I’ll feel this in food prices going up, dammit!

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I think that’s a RED camera.

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He was taking footage of the skyscrapers while pointing up. This will probably be the kind of interstitial footage that Paul Haggis pioneered. I don’t know what show this will be for.

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Changes in that front window …

… and inside:

This was Liberty Plaza:

I don’t know if these are Occupiers or homeless:

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Two Burger King Views:

There were Occupiers at 60 Wall Street:

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I know they were because one of them was talking loudly about it.

Previously in the Protest Category

Let’s look back a bit.

This is what Apple’s home page looked like that day before the introduction:

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There were a lot of naysayers at the time. I was going to do a list of them, but they don’t matter.

This is what matters:

He was right.

And so was I:

For more nostalgia:

iPad: The Portable Personal Social Computer
What tnkgrl Says!
No, Really, iPad Critics: Just STFU!
Alan Pritt: A New Angle On The iPad
Must-Read PRO-iPad Posts

Robert Hegyes, who played Juan Epstein on ’70s sitcom “Welcome Back, Kotter, died Thursday, the New Jersey Star-Ledger reports. Hegyes, who died of an apparent heart attack after suffering chest pains at his Metuchen, New Jersey home, was 60.

Hegyes had not been in good health for the past two years, his brother Mark Hegyes told the paper. The actor had suffered a previous heart attack in recent years.

Ah, Welcome Back, Kotter was a very, very strange sitcom. I loved it. And who could ever forget Juan Epstein?

Here they are, in their glory: