Many Cool Things!

[oneirophrenia]

First: The Freesound Project is the coolest goddamned thing I've discovered in months. It's a Creative-Commons-licensed collection of...well, sounds--all kinds of sounds. Twenty thousand of them! And all downloadable! Expect a lot of these to show up on Malpractice.

Second: I don't give a flying fuck if Wal-Mart is destroying America or responsible for third-world sweatshops (after all, what good is the third-world for, otherwise?). Why? Because you can get the new Aeon Flux DeeVamaDee collection (all episodes, shorts, and other stuff in completely remastered and redone editions) for $28. And, you can also get the unrated edition of The Devil's Rejects for $19 (FYE has it for $27), and if you pick up the new Spielberg remake of War of the Worlds there (it was just released today), you also get a free bonus DeeVamaDee with the HBO Special on the making of the film and a collection of "pre-visualisation" FX and filming specials.

Third: Monket-Calendar is an awesome, iCal-based, FREE and open-source web-based calendar project that lets you install a PHP/MySQL-based calendar on any webserver. I'm going to put this up on Pegritz.com as a means of planning my classes for next semester AND thereby making those calendars conveniently accessible to my students as well! Glory be to PHP and MySQL, and people who write software for them so I don't have to, since I can just barely find my way around PHP and MySQL.

Thank you, drive through.

Comments

[beeporama.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to debate the flaws and merits of Wal-Mart in your journal, but you should note that you can get all of those DVDs at equal or better prices from Amazon.

[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes--I completely agree. In fact, you can get BETTER deals at Amazon! But Amazon only works when you have a credit card that works, and mine's been dead for months now due to some really weird bullshit that has YET to be resolved, oddly enough....Anyway, I should've appended the above statement to read that Wal-Mart is one of the best *retail outlets* for DeeVamaDee prices.