Nov 25, 2007

A few quick hits before I jet off to Chicago:

• Target Crime Lab Helps Police Crack Cases: The video & audio forensics experts at Target (yes, that Target) have been putting their considerable skills to work for law enforcement. [via Sound and Light Reflections]
• Damn Interesting has published an article about people “hearing” auroras, possibly through direct manipulation of the auditory nerves by electromagnetic fields. Makes you wonder if maybe there is something to all those various “hums” that people complain about. [again, via Sound and Light Reflections]
• A New York Times article discusses (yet again) the idea of being an audiophile in an iPod world. Two notes: First, it is possible have high quality music in an iPod. They’re called WAV and high-bit-rate MP3/AAC files. Second, this article (like many others) once again derides digital sampling as “little slices” and even asserts that the “[analog vs. digital] debate has never been settled.” Yes it has. Digital is better. End of story.

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