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After about two years and several iterative incarnations, the time had come to bid farewell to the beard.

LivingRoom.color = “Woven Flax”

One room down… Five-ish to go…

• Top 10 Foods for a Good Night’s Sleep

  via Beauty Eats on Yahoo! Food (via LifeHack.org)

  (tags: sleep food health lifehacks)

• Flickr Leech

  via LifeHacker: a way to (ab)use the Flickr API to view up to 200 photos at once…

  (tags: Flickr hack)

• Introduction to Scripting iCal

  (tags: applescript ical tutorial todo)

• Search Free Fonts

  “over 13,000 free fonts available for download” (Windows-centric site but there are plenty of Mac-compatible TrueType fonts available for download)

  (tags: fonts typography freeware)

• MacFUSE

  The project homepage @ Google Code

  (tags: MacFUSE Mac OSX FUSE filesystem Google)

At an after-party, I meet this DJ/producer that’s built his career out of pornographic movie soundtracks.  He started out as a DJ in California (he explains) spinning mostly house and breaks; he always wanted to get into the production scene though, to have his discs become the ones that were rocking the floor.  As his tale unfolds, he explains that the porno from the 60s and 70s was fringe enough that the production houses did not spend a lot of energy, effort, or money on securing the copyrights to the music.  Those classic grooves (he continues) that everyone instantly associates with vintage skin flicks are not protected works; the films are protected but the scores from them are not.  So he started to sample them, building house tracks on top of the definitive bassline from “Debutante’s Handbook”, the timeless recurring drum loop of “Theme from Double Delights”, the twangy guitar section in the final scene of “The Good, The Bad, and The Naughty”…  Eventually the modern porn industry started to ask him to produce new material for him but it just wasn’t the same.