According to that discussion, the player is based on the STB225 set-top box platform designed by NXP. At the center is a chip called the Nexperia Multi Format Source decoder PNX8935, which combines a 32-bit MIPS processor and a dedicated video decoder supporting multiple codecs, including H.264. The reference STB225 boards have SATA and USB capabilities. The Wi-Fi daughtercard in the Roku box uses up the USB header, but there are several other headers that have yet to be identified. Roku engineers say that the box uses HDCP on the HDMI connection, which might limit its hackability.

On the software side, Roku has released the source code to all of the free software used inside the box, including the Linux environment and bootloader.

• via http://delicious.com/url/248ad3827d03107181bfd0b380dbe945 The Question of Global Warming - The New York Review of Books
• Why "Jump" by Van Halen is the greatest record ever made
• http://twitter.com/charlesfrith/

Young@Heart is not your ordinary singing chorus, because they sing rock, punk, disco, and the average age is 81 with the oldest being 92 year old Eileen Hall. The documentary follows the group over a six-week rigorous rehearsal schedule, plus practicing at home for an upcoming sold-out concert in their home town. The group has many songs in their repertoire, but Bob Cilman, the stern but sympathetic chorus director, has added several songs for the new concert. These are not easy for the group to learn such as "Yes We Can", "Schizophrenia" and "I Got You or (I Feel Good)". After several weeks of practice, the group is on their way to the local jail to give a performance,

Gregg Michael Gillis^[1] (born October 26, 1981 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), better known by his stage name Girl Talk, is an American DJ/Mixer. Gillis has released four LPs on the record label Illegal Art and EPs on 333 and 12 Apostles.

Daft Punk is an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (born February 8, 1974) and Thomas Bangalter (born January 3, 1975).[1] Daft Punk reached significant popularity in the late 1990s house movement in France and were met with continued success in the years following.[2]

Daft Punk is also credited with producing songs that were considered essential in the French house scene. They were managed from 1996 to 2008 by Pedro Winter (Busy P), the head of Ed Banger Records.[3]

Those of us who tend the land
set about to planting
The rest do what we can

• I may have the LP in the garage somewhere but we don't have a turntable set up.
• Google finds nothing:
• http://www.google.com/#q="those+of+us+who+tend+the+land"
• http://www.google.com/#q="set about to planting"
• http://www.google.com/#q="the rest do what we can"

This is the first in a series of articles about generating sound with an Arduino. The goals are to generate good quality sound which can be used to play simple tones, stored music, sampled sound, and even act as a MIDI synthesizer. I will cover the basic design, including code and hardware that anyone can use to add sound to Arduino microcontroller projects.

The first step is to look what has already been done. We want to explore many possible options for sound generation and resolve which is best for given situations. I hope to spark some discussion so please comment with information links, advice, suggestions and general opinions.