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Thanks, David!

What's a decent simple audio editing program? I'm making a mix cd and want to cut out part of a song.

You want Audacity.

You want Audacity.

Apparently, you need to be more audacious. Try swearing, next time?

HMIS:

Is there a website of streaming cartoons, or did I hallucinate it?

http://www.jaroo.com/shows/

Thanks!

Along a similar theme - is there a really basic video editing bit of freeware? I just want to nail two avi files together.

Everyone will reccommend you something unintuitive like Virtuadub, but if you're just nailing files together, Windows Movie Maker or iMovie are dead easy and should be on the PC you're using.

Eoin

So I downloaded that, the first file I edited worked fine (though having to download lame off some sketchy looking site was less fun). However the second one is just not making sense to me. I edited the file, exported it, and no other programs can see it as existing (even just file browser). It shows up in the open file section of audacity, and if I right click I can open it in windows media player (but it , but I can't see it anywhere else. WTF is going on?

Are you trying to export it as an MP3? You'll need the LAME encoder.

I have the lame encoder, and it worked the first time I tried it. Then not the second time. I changed the directory and it worked. Just mystifying.

When I asked this a couple of weeks ago (keep up!) someone suggested creating a zip file with the two AVIs in it, and renaming it as .AVI rather than .ZIP, and apparently this works too. Haven't got around to trying it yet, mind you.

That was me, and remember to make the ZIP file with no compression if you want this method to work.

I'm trying this technique right now and if it doesn't work, it's off to Windows Movie Maker. WinRar makes it oh so bloody difficult, though.

What Harris said. Audacity is free, and is super-easy to pick up. Intuitive controls, allows you to export projects to whatever format you want, and you can edit the hell out of the songs with relative ease. I used it when we were recording, it will also let you tweak volume if your songs aren't at the same level.

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HMIS:

What am I supposed to use this LinkedIn shit for? I got an invite from a hot bartender with whom I swapped contact info, but I don't plan on any parties I could hire her to work. There are a few other people I know who are sending me invites as well, but they're not hot bartenders. Do I need to tweak out my page so I look like more of a professional?

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Honestly, I don't know a single person — not one — who has gotten any kind of work through LinkedIn. It seems to be one of those things that everyone thinks they should be on, but nobody has found an actual use case for.

Point being, just friend every fucker and don't worry about it.

It seems to work as a portable resume in my industry, but then a lot of people actually use the 'recommendations' function.

Yeah (and I know I'm part of the problem here) it's also just full of PR, marketing companies hunting for companies so they can get work.

Quite widely used in the tech industry. There are buckets of recruiters on there. I use to (sob) get calls at least once a month from someone who'd seen my details up there and had a position of some sort available. I know a number of people who got jobs and indeed hired people from there.

Fair enough, then. Seems odd if it's getting use in industries where headhunting is common, but not for freelancers...

...Actually, scratch that, it's not odd at all. I guess the thing about headhunters is that all they care about is your CV/stats, whereas freelancers live and die by relationships.

When I briefly worked in Headhunting they were VERY interested in LinkedIn. And and and all other kinds of dubiously ethical ways of finding possible targets. I wish i stuill had my notes on some of the crazy cyberstalking stuff they showed us at seminars.

"And and and all" should be "And any and all" obv.

HMIS:

Did U2 open for themselves, posing as some kind of country-folk band, in the late 80s? I swear I remember hearing about this at some point, but Google's being tough about it.

If you can't answer that, I've got a bonus question: Is there a term in the UK to refer to England, Wales, Scotland and Nothern Ireland as individual entities, like an equivalent of "state" or "province"?

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U2 did open for themselves once or twice, posing as another band. Bushe probably has the audio from it and no doubt he'll be along in a minute to tell the track listing and run time of the set.

As for part 2, the answer for Scotland, England and Wales is "country". I always thought NI was a country but someone told me last night that it's a principality and not a country. I've not had time to google about for it.

They opened for themselves as an all female band at least once, too. Yes, in drag.

1) The certainly did - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dalton_Brothers_%28band%29

2) That can get hugely complicated if you want to get really technical. Country is pretty widely used, constituent country is more accurate. You can, if you so wish, see many different options and reasoning here

Were they called Ho2 ?