Further to the "Ask The Extremists" thread I offer this without comment

http://brixtonite.blogspot.com/2012/02/murdoch-gove-and-toby-young.html?...

We might have had threads on this before but I am pretty sure I haven't seen this example. The user reviews are fantastic. I've seen reviews for Pter Andre/Jordan records and ladders but this is the funniest one yet and in the spirit of Friday (and to stop me reading it and get on with some work I offer the Massive this gem -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Photographic-rejecting-Science-Photo-Library/dp/...

For reason both too complex and too tedious to explain I have just re-packed a load of childhood marbles long thought to be missing, out of a disintegrating old Terry's Desert Chocolate Assortment box.

I'm not straying in Freecycle territory here, or into crap and predictable marbles jokes, my interest is in the box itself which must be four decades old.

The list of chocolates inside the lid - which would have BEEN chocolate too, rather than chocolate flavoured vegetable fat as most are now - is as follows:

Pineapple
Burnt Almond
Hazelnut Whirl
Walnut
Brazil
Ginger

They omitted three more flavours - "Shut up", "Get On With It" and "Don't You Know There's A War On (oh its over never mind)"

But I am willing to bet they would have tasted great. Except the Ginger one of course, much though gingerist attitudes pain me personally (I tell you mine is AUBURN - god it will actually be a relief to go grey....)

I've annoyed a few of you by banging on rather too much about this but now might be the time to lay in some tinned food

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14412390

Our 19 year old microwave has recently developed a noise on start up that sounds exactly like the feedback at the beginning of "I Feel Fine". It is driving the kids mad the way I go "Neownnnnnnnn - barom bom bop bom BAM bom bop-ba-boom" every time I turn it on and they're threatening to spend their pocket money on a replacement.

When I open up the iron board the catch clatters in EXACTLY the same way as a short drum break on Reverend Black Grape.

A friend at work has a wheezy cough that sounds like the start of "Close To The Edge" by Art Of Noise. Something like "HoREEEPTbollaHupHerp"

Not quite in the same vein but whenever I go to the glass recycling - which is too often - I start singing the "Green Green Glass Of Home" in my head.

Pointing these things out to friends has produced no glimmer of recognition and an edging towards the door - I would have thought you lot knew what I meant.

This has been rattling round my head for a long time. I used to work in magazine production, long enough ago to have been involved in the last knockings of the old Fleet Street, and always enjoyed the company of the sub editors. A thankless and difficult task which explains the generally high level of eccentricity among them. This gives me special pleasure to nifty headlines and captions when reading music mags.

In no order - ones which have stayed in my head - not sure if they are Q or Mojo

B/W picture of very stylish 60's style woman singer sitting in elegant chair next to a small table on which there is a coffee jug and a small cup - caption "Where the FUCK are my biscuits"

U2 live - caption "Imaginary Friend not pictured (obviously)"

Not sure if it was a caption or short news item - described Kraftwerk as cycling between gigs in Europe "in a bogglesome blur of lycrahosen"

Ages ago - possibly a year - a kind soul on here pointed me towards 'Tag & Rename' and I've now done all my LPs/singles/tapes onto computer as WMA and then on into iTunes AAC format. 17000 songs, 3000 artists.

Either I am an egregious saddo or a devout music fan - not sure.

Dilemmas - given that I am only going to do this the once, the whole of a shoddy 1972 greatest hits LP (Original Artists) or just the ones I like? Event the ones that jump? And what about Gary Glitter? (I have two young daughters).

It's always pretty kitschy putting on my wife's grandmother's People's Friend Christmas tapes while we're doing the tree etc. but is it worth the effort of recording them and chopping the recording up into individual tracks? (Too late now did it)

All B sides? And what about records that I also have on CD (the vinyl still sounds distinctively different even after all the compression/conversion malarkey). Do I oversample doing the original recording (uses up more disk space) or accept that it's going to lose some detail by the time it ends up in AAC?

Its been a lot of fun actually. Its forced me to listen to songs I hadn't heard in donkey's years, including some against which I took an irrational dislike at the time (bands which ceased to be 'cool', records people told me I 'ought' to like, unwanted gifts, sad associations etc.) The 70's was very tribal wasn't it.

It does take a while, and I do have a family so its taken even longer, but I do recommend it. Quality will vary of course - my aunts "The Price Of Love" by the Everly's sounds very ragged, but exciting - some of the others sound extremely hi-fi. And don't overlook tapes - they won't stand playback on a very expensive hi-fi but sound fine in the car.

Used - a lead from my amp to a jack plugged into an external sound card itself plugged into a laptop, Audacity to record the files, AVS Audio Editor to chop them up into individual songs, Windows Media Player or Tag/Rename to label them, then iTunes (optional but my kids have iPods). WMA is about 200 GB, iTUnes is another 140. Teh sound car made ALL the difference.

Also - am I on oath when applying the missing cover art in iTunes?

This is a frustration that somebody has probably already sorted out elsewhere but I can't find it - when I play the cover CDs using Windows Media Player (I want to rip to lossless WMA, might onwards convert to MP3) the wrong tracklisting comes up as often as not - one of them was 'Jesus Of Cool' by Nick Low, another one was apparently Bowie's 'Pinups' - and the built-in album info 'search' is as much use as a chocolate fireguard. I don't want to type everything in manually. Help!