I have come across a Mother Jones article from 2008 that gives more tracks, which it is claimed were used to torture US detainees. So to update the list from my previous blog entry on this subject I have put the tracks I haven't mentioned before in bold:

-AC/DC - Shoot to Thrill
-AC/DC - Hells bells
-Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever
-Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive
-Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
-Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
-Christina Aguilera - Dirrty
-David Grey - Babylon
-Deicide…

Reddit's u/eigenlenk has posted a list of bands that were banned in 1985 in the Ukraine . The list, translated from Russian, also includes the reason for the ban.

Sex Pistols - punk, violence
B-52s - punk, violence
Madness - punk, violence
Clash - punk, violence
Stranglers - punk, violence
Kiss - neo-fascism, punk, violence
Crocus - violence, cult of personality
Styx - violence, vandalism
Iron Maiden - violence, religious obscurantism
Judas Priest - anti-communism, racism
AC/DC - neo-fascism, violence
Sparks Sparks - neo-fascism, racism
Black Sabbath - violence, religious obscurantism
Alice Cooper - violence, vandalism
Nazareth - violence, religious…

As part of my long process of restoring my home audio equipment, I have nearly finished the restoration of my 1957 Eico HF-60 monoblock tube amp. Uses a pair of push-pull EL-34 tubes, aprox 60 watts output.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLYnVILiKGw

The amp was mostly original, except for one of the electrolytics which had been replaced with this HUGE circa1963 GE military-spec capacitor:

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It had been placed on top of the amp where the one cap can would have been, with two wires running through a vent in the amp chassis to hook up below the surface.

I only stock 450v electrolytics…

Mic.com gave a new story on this subject in April 2014 that gives the names of more tracks used by the government to torture detainees. Their list of 11 tracks include the ones below in bold, the rest are taken from my previous blog entry on this subject.

-AC/DC - Shoot to Thrill
-AC/DC - Hells bells
-Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever
-Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
-Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
-Christina Aguilera - Dirrty
-David Grey - Babylon
-Deicide - Fuck Your God
-Dope…

Well, I finally got around to ripping my records to mp3. Only the ones I could not find online as mp3 files already that is.

One record I had high hopes for was Death Ride 69's Red Sea EP. I had bought it off ebay a while back, and it had come out of a college radio station , and it would be curious to know what years it saw real air time there.

I thought the A side's track, that the EP takes its name from, was alright and was not expecting to find Ethan's half laughing screams, which…

Graphic cards sold to mac users cost way more than the same card(s) do when marketed towards PC users. This is also true in the used market, where a Geforce 8800 GT for the PC tends to go for about $20-50 on eBay, while the mac one goes for twice that.

They're both the same card, both for PCI-e, so what's the difference?

TL;DR PCs use "Bios" for the hardware to communicate with each other, macs use EFI.

Mac EFI takes two forms, 32-bit EFI for 2006 & 2007 models, and 64-bit EFI for 2008 & newer models. A 64-bit…

As you'll recall I am using version 1.5.4 of the mac scrobbler because it is the most recent version I have a copy-for, that supports selecting which folders will scrobble & which will not. I explained in a previous blog entry how to edit the preference files to enable this feature on external volumes.

The mac client automatically checks for updates , and will display a nag screen telling you to update periodically if it finds a newer version.

When running the old versions of the mac client, this nag screen only works the first time it displays after launching…

I am sure some of you have seen this, a graph the RIAA prepared & distributed to news outlets a couple years ago to claim that piracy had caused a "lost decade" of music sales. You can't tell from just looking at this post, but CNN was hosting the graph at ….turner.com/money/2010/02/02/news/companies/napster_music_industry/…. napster was long since dead & buried by '10 yet Turner Broadcasting is still trying to blame napster for poor sales numbers. Turner also owns Time Warner, one of the 5 ISPs in the US that is rolling out a "6 strikes" antipiracy policy this month.…

Tonight during a bout of insomnia, I had to restart & when I reopened iTunes I was met with last.fm saying that a new version was out and asked if I wanted to update. So I did.

I was met with version 2.1.32, which takes away features; like being able to select which directories scrobble & which do not. I guess they couldn't figure out how to fix this feature, which had a major bug in the prior versions that made it impossible to select/deselect directories on other volumes. I had posted a work around for this bug a year…

For our country's special guests in the gitmo resort, these are the songs they're forced to listen to 24/7 for months (years?) at a time:

-The Barney theme song
-The Seseme Street theme song
-Nine Inch Nails's Somewhat Damaged
-Britney Spears's Baby One More Time
-Rage Against The Machine's Killing in the Name
-Pearl Jam's Don't Gimme No Lip
-Metallica's Enter Sandman
-Drowning Pool's Bodies
-AC/DC's Shoot to Thrill
-AC/DC's Hells bells
-Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA
-David Gray's…