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Fip has a nice eclectic mix of music. Mostly classic jazz though they threw in Riders on the Storm this morning. What's the French phrase for "how very French"? [via mathowie]

I'm really enjoying the discussion of audience clapping that this old Harry Connick Jr. video spawned at MetaFilter. (HCJ somehow adds a beat around :38 so the audience is clapping on 2 & 4 instead of 1 & 3.)

25 half-hour radio programs featuring live Dixieland jazz from San Francisco in the 50s. The audio quality is outstanding and the announcer's old-timey style is fantastic. [via MetaFilter]

A rant about the problems with using social connections in advertising.

Adrian Holovaty's latest project helps guitarists learn songs via collaborative annotations. Very nice design.

Great summer mixes by Mick Boogie and DJ Jazzy Jeff. (Volume III is out there somewhere too.)

The Kleptones did some exhaustive research into the music that inspired Paul Simon's Graceland and put it all together into a fantastic mix and story.

Jay Smooth speaks the truth. Conspiracy theories often work to mask the real problems in plain sight.

There's a nerdier way to get your public IP then whatismyip.com. Skip the ads and run curl icanhazip.com.

lia put together this record of a Twitter conversation about the current state of Flickr and photo-sharing in general. Depressing: "...nobody cares about lasting value anymore. it's all about what's going on right this second."

Sharing music one track at a time. This is a fun site.

This app is a good replacement for the cumbersome iTunes podcast manager. It downloads podcasts directly, no syncing required.

Great interview with Tom Waits at the Washoe House. He laments digitization: "They have removed the struggle to find anything. And therefore there is no genuine sense of discovery. Struggle is the first thing we know getting along the birth canal, out in the world. It's pretty basic. Book store owners and record store owners used to be oracles, in that way; you'd go in this dusty old place and they might point you toward something that would change your life. All that's gone."