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Animals matter

admin — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:29:34 +0000

The scale of suffering for animals in the world today is unprecedented. Globally, there are some 600 million dogs, and a similar number of cats, of which an estimated 80% are unwanted and suffer from hunger, disease, neglect and persecution as pests. The illegal and often inhumane trade in wildlife and wildlife parts is a soaring black market worth $10 billion a year, exceeded only by arms and drug smuggling. Millions of wild animals are killed, captured or traded inhumanely in this shady business.

Saving Fashion Victims by Design

admin — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:08:32 +0000

Graphic designers put creativity to work to help the victims of the fur trade. I found this at the Humane Society (HSUS) website. Brilliant! Vote for your favorite design.

http://multimedia.hsus.org/slideshows/daf/2007/

Baseline Rhythm Calculator

admin — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:24:46 +0000

I have been working on a template that will debut here soon. In my redesign attempts it has been frustrated trying to get the line-heights to be consistent when using em’s, which IE 5 needs in order for the user…

Some Favorite Books

admin — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:18:19 +0000

Well, i’m installing and configuring the Amazon Media Manager so here are some books I like. This is a great plugin and is very customizable.

Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Author: Bruce Lee
Rating: 5
UserComment:

Compiled from Bruce Lee’s notes and essays and originally…

Vixy You Tube conversion

admin — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:10:24 +0000

A friend turned me onto this nifty online tool to rip audio and/or video from You Tube. It has a couple of different options.

This service allows you convert a Flash Video / FLV file (YouTube’s videos,etc) to MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file online,…

SOUND SYSTEM THEORY

admin — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:49:05 +0000

Connections:

Sound: Periodic changes in air pressure. Sound requires changes from low to normal to high to be perceived as a sound wave.

Audio signal: Changes in voltage that represent sound.

Transducer: Changes one form of energy into another corresponding form.

Transducers:

Microphones convert acoustical…

MIDI THEORY

admin — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:36:36 +0000

Components of a sound wave:

Molecules at rest (normal pressure)
Compression (maximum pressure)
Rarefaction (minimum pressure)

The characteristics of a waveform:

Frequency: Number of times per second a waveform completes it’s cycle. Frequency is measured in cycles per second or hertz (HZ). Ex: Kilo- 1000,…

CONSOLE SEMINAR

admin — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:22:15 +0000

The buss is an active routing matrix. The stereo buss is the last stop for the signal. If it has to be heard, it needs to go through the stereo buss. The bussing network and stereo buss are two different things.

Things…

Hello world!

admin — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:28:15 +0000

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!