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And if you can’t make it out to see them in person, Funeral Party will be appearing on the Late Show with David Letterman Thursday, March 31st, 2010

The Who, Can’t Explain

The power of collage

thinksound sent us a set of rain earplug headphones to check out. You know when the music feels like it’s right inside your head? That’s what these do.

Audio quality was even overall, and I mean that in a good way – I liked that the bass was present in the midrange and strong at the lowend, but not so strong that it muddied everything up or broke apart. I cranked up some older stuff like the Beatles’ white album, early Teenage Fanclub – you know, music that is not super compressed and has more dynamic range than today’s recordings do – and it sounded good even right after stuff like Fantomas, where I was testing for that horrible ripping sound when headphone drivers just can’t keep up. Most importantly I could listen to just about anything at a normal volume on the NYC subway and feel somewhat isolated but not completely closed off from the world.

Quality construction was apparent as soon as I opened the package. 9mm drivers, silver cherry wood. Definitely nice looking, pretty “neutral” feeling in the ears, and I never felt like i had to reposition the headphones for better audio or bass response. Wiring is pretty standard stuff, but all the attachments are pretty solid. Not like Sony headphones that rip at the seams after less than a year of use. See that silver cylinder at the cable split? The left and right ear cables are split inside that – protecting against ripping the wires apart. The plug is designed to work in first-gen iPhones if that’s your thing.

Accessories included: small, medium, and extra large ear plugs (large were already on the headphones); clip for wires, and a little burlap baggie.

Not too shabby. thinksound rain headphones.

Check out these very cool light switch covers from the Curiosity Shop $9.00

Wednesday’s Muse

Just when I was thinking of upgrading some of my shared drive storage: Today, Amazon has a deal on the Western Digital 1.5 TB Caviar Green SATA Hard Drive. It’s $85 – about a 25% lower price and 50% more storage than a 1TB drive a year ago. These also go up to 2TB, but I don’t think the price is right on those yet.

These are generally highly rated, and I’ve had two (1TB models) of these running in a network shared drive for a year and a half straight – 24/7, never powered down. I run my entire music and movies library from the server, and back up all files there. I’ve had a super low number of disk errors on one drive (talking single figures) and zero errors on the other.

“Low power consumption, reduced noise, low temperatures and capable of holding 300,000 digital photos, 375,000 MP3 files, and 180 hours of video make this Western Digital 1.5 TB hard drive a great deal on massive storage.”

If you’ve got a crappy AT&T mobile phone signal in your abode, the AT&T 3G MicroCell could help. It routes your phone’s calls over your broadband internet connection. Not sure how I feel about shelling out $150 to help them extend their signal, and then essentially ‘giving’ them my internet service that I’ve already paid for – but sometimes it’s worth taking some extreme measures to make sure you’ve got a signal at home.

Via Uncrate

iPad accessories! Check out this Aluminum Viewing Stand that basically converts your iPad into a mini desktop.

Pascal Bronner flattened, Nevsky Avenue