mvalente.eu/mv.* Heavy Mental Stuff

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
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Subject: Best Cover(s) Ever
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 07 00:35:21 GMT

This was supposed to be a simple small post
about the “Best Cover Ever”:

Devo – Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvcuaJy9OwI

But since I’m a sucker for covers, it quickly
got into the top 10 + 1 covers:

Alanis Morissette – “My Humps” (Black Eyed Peas)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W91sqAs-_-g

Obadiah Parker – Hey Ya (Outkast )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-8nkkOA_AM

Ether&Aether – Crazy (Gnarls Barkley)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW0B1sipLBI

The Mike Flowers Pops – Wonderwall (Oasis)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy1ueZf1WMQ

Living Colour – Should I stay or should I go (Clash)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46UbH6D1K5w

Tom Jones & EMF – “Unbelieveable” (EMF)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ioT2WUbf_g

Tom Jones & Cardigans – Burnin’ Down The House (Talking Heads)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vh3SmpAcVg

Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal (Michael Jackson)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxeNZOLNh4c

OZZY OSBORNE & DWEEZEL ZAPPA – Staying Alive (Bee Gees)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xxJLPMpobw

I wanted to put in Skin and their cover of Madonna’s
“Express Yourself” but didnt find any reference. And
that wasnt the +1…. *This* is the +1; I couldnt
resist listing it:

The Gauchos – The Trooper (Iron Maiden)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_4aGXTHo7w

— MV

PS – One of these days I’ll post here the unreleased
cover of “No Teu Poema” by Taboo, a portuguese
unreleased band, which would actually top all of
the above. I just have to find where the MP3 is…

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Weekly Link Selection
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 07 14:59:21 GMT

Or should we say weakly link selection? Its a slow week…

We Worship MD5, the GOD of HASH
http://www.skrenta.com/2007/08/md5_tutorial.html

Hashes (and hash tables and distributed hash tables)
are unfortunately not well known and misunderstood by
a lot of techies…

And yet there are people building amazing stuff using
them…

Using S3 as an infinitely large disk device (that never breaks)
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=10271

Taking on a simpler view of technology, this might be of
use to simpler non-enterprisey projects:

KirbyBase For Python
http://www.netpromi.com/kirbybase_python.html

“KirbyBase is a simple database management system, written in
pure-Python, that stores its data in plain-text files.”

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: One Hit Wonder Ladies From the 80s
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 07 02:09:21 GMT

The choice of music for this evening/dawn is totally
made out one hit wonders from the 80s (the best there
are), but all sung by women.

Kim Carnes – Bette Davis Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-RdAzkKlXY

Kim Wilde – Kids in America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hWZqllm3mQ

Toyah Wilcox – Echo Beach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rh2o_uTxFA

Laura Branigan – Self Control
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtUpvJa9FmY

Propaganda (Claudia Brucken) – Duel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w_q58CFfAo

This last one is actually one of my favorite songs.

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: We’re Stars
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 07 02:09:21 GMT

The heavy metal/hard rock version of Hear n Aid is
truly a who’s who of 80s rock/metal and a guitar player
solo feast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9AGHguQ_oM

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Weird Games Part 2
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 07 21:35:21 GMT

Did I mention I *really* like weird games?…

http://www.plasmapong.com/
http://www.plasmapong.com/screenshots/

…ahm.. yes I did…

— MV