From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #252 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, July 30 1998 Volume 04 : Number 252 Today's Subjects: ----------------- More website faults... ["Robert Lovejoy" ] Jill :D Recommends: The Brothers Creeggan [Riphug@aol.com] Car Commercial Singer [Joseph Zitt ] Terra Incognita sale is sailin' [Sharon Nichols ] I DON'T BELIEVE IN GODS BUT TORI IS PRETTY DAMN CLOSE [FAMarcus@aol.com] Re: YAAAY SAMSON!!!!! [Andrew Fries ] Re: Net Music, specifically spinner [Andrew Fries ] Re: Net Music, specifically spinner [Penta5@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 22:21:02 -0400 From: "Robert Lovejoy" Subject: More website faults... Samson was not alone in improper website design... http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_2359.html is a list of five common ecommerce blunders... Atoning Bob ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 23:29:42 EDT From: Riphug@aol.com Subject: Jill :D Recommends: The Brothers Creeggan I've been curious about them for awhile......two members of the Barenaked Ladies out on their own...... I bought their second album at the HORDE Festival....and have their first on order from Nettwerk. Anyway......if you like piano music, jazz, or Ben Folds Five kind of stuff, you should give The Brothers Creeggan II a listen! Food for thought, Jill ;D ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 00:19:54 -0400 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Car Commercial Singer I've had a car commercial stuck in my head (and of course I can't remember what kind of car it was). A female voice sings at the end "Get in my car and drive for miles and miles and miles" and I *know* that voice sounds familiar. Any clues? - -- - ---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------- |||/ Joseph Zitt ===== jzitt@humansystems.com ===== Human Systems \||| ||/ Maryland? = <*> SILENCE: The John Cage Mailing List <*> = ecto \|| |/ http://www.realtime.net/~jzitt ====== Comma: Voices of New Music \| ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 00:38:20 -0600 From: Sharon Nichols Subject: Terra Incognita sale is sailin' Hey Ec-toes, Just a final reminder: all ten back issues of Terra Incognita, The Happy Rhodes Forum (Rhodeways) are on sale until August 11. People who whine to me next year when the issues are all gone will be punched in the neck. Check it out at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/3450/backissues.html . Of course, subscriptions will not be shunned either and will help me buy an Igia home hair removal system. And maybe a better URL. New issue (#12) in the mail next week...Happy talks about "Many Worlds Are Born Tonight." I talk about "Many Worlds Are Born Tonight." Like, what other topic is there? Sharon Terra Incognita ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 00:54:28 EDT From: FAMarcus@aol.com Subject: I DON'T BELIEVE IN GODS BUT TORI IS PRETTY DAMN CLOSE I just returned from Tori's show at the Spectrum in philly. If you've ever gone to a tori show you are going to have to forget what you know and are used to. The musical arrangements have been changed drastically to incorporate the back up band. This show owes more to Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd influences than anything else. I'm still in awe of it. I was sitting 4 rows back from center stage and I think that I might have been too close. Tori and the band totally rocked the hall. Very intense. And if you are lucky enough to see her on this tour pay close attention to what she does to Cruel and Raspberry Swirl from the new album and Waitress. I'm still vibrating. The former were much more intense than the album and the latter you won't even recognize until you hear the words. I'm very curious how her hard core fans will react ( of which I am one). I think I would compare this to what Bob Dylan did when he went rock and roll way back when. She does an acoustical set in the middle by herself and the contrast is so stark. It reminds you that her voice is still the instrument it always was. Then she shifts gears into the present again. Simply put.....she kicked my ass. I want to go back for more. I've never wanted to see a live show on a CD as much as I want this one to be. Because of the difference's in every song this one is a cinch to make that transition fred ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:30:51 +1000 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Re: YAAAY SAMSON!!!!! In a message "YAAAY SAMSON!!!!!" on 29/Jul/1998 17:09:14 Xenu's Sister says: > > Six little words mean a lot, and they're there now. > > "Click Here To Enter Samson Music" > > Thank you thank you thank you! > See - they are not so bad. They are trying, and if they didn't get it right the first time around... well, we're all human. I'm relieved there is no conspiracy to make us install Shockwave after all :) __________________________________________________ Some people, you just wanna headbutt them in the hope of direct data download.... (from alt.gothic) http://www.zip.com.au/~afries/hall.html __________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:30:44 +1000 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Re: Net Music, specifically spinner > At 10:30 PM 7/28/98 -0400, Robert Lovejoy wrote: > Just curious to ask what the ecto crowd thinks of Spinner Well, I went there and when I tried to play something I was promptly rewarded with a bomb - for non-Mac users, that's a crash that takes down not only the offending application but the whole system with it thus requiring the complete system reboot. What do I think of Spinner? I'll spare you the details! And you think Samson site is bad? I'd say a system crash is worse than getting a blank page... __________________________________________________ Some people, you just wanna headbutt them in the hope of direct data download.... (from alt.gothic) http://www.zip.com.au/~afries/hall.html __________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 01:44:48 EDT From: Penta5@aol.com Subject: Re: Net Music, specifically spinner Well, I to switched over to a Mac and could see the front page. However, when I attempted to delve into the artists page the picture of Happy came out with the top of her head a couple of inches above her face ! Then, I tried Happy_home and was rewarded with a blank screen. So, I don't know what you folks who are seing everything fine are doing, but I cannot access anything under the top page. I've never had a problem with the Mac on any other page so this must be an omen of web pages to come. Good luck to you fortunate ones. I'll stick to the tribute pages, thank you very much !!! Regards, Anna ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #252 **************************