Enterprise. Don’t just read the news, predict it! - Predictify. The Reincarnation Station: Find out what you'll be in your next life! The News Business: Out of Print: Reporting & Essays. The American newspaper has been around for approximately three hundred years. Benjamin Harris’s spirited Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick managed just one issue, in 1690, before the Massachusetts authorities closed it down. Harris had suggested a politically incorrect hard line on Indian removal and shocked local sensibilities by reporting that the King of France had been taking liberties with the Prince’s wife. It really was not until 1721, when the printer James Franklin launched the New England Courant, that any of Britain’s North American colonies saw what we might recognize today as a real newspaper. Franklin, Benjamin’s older brother, refused to adhere to customary licensing arrangements and constantly attacked the ruling powers of New England, thereby achieving both editorial independence and commercial success.
Until recently, newspapers were accustomed to operating as high-margin monopolies. Additional oddities abound. Digital Needle - A Virtual Gramophone. Digital Needle - A Virtual Gramophone Remember those flat round things you may have found lying around the house? Those that never really worked well as flying saucers. Well, the other day I happenned to have a good look at one through a magnifying glass. I was able to discern something waveform'esqe in the shape of the groove. I then recalled an old legend I once heard concerning these objects. This legend, being of technological nature, entaled a diamond needle that would vibrate when placed atop the revolving flat things.
These vibrations, when amplified, would produce music. When scanned, some records seemed much denser than others. Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" was fine When illuminated in parallel with the groove's direction some sort of depth-modulation became visible. This made me guess that one of the stereo channels might be encoded in the depth/angle plane while the other was encoded in the radius/angle plane, the later being the one I initially noticed. Reference recording - Past Life Analysis.