What's New is Old

Mark and Wes in Orinda, CA at the Serika Japanese Restaurant.Sites of Interest:Compact Disc turns 30.Remember the first CD Burners?The longevity of optical media.Audacity - an open source cross-platform audio editor.Wavosaur - a free audio editor for Windows that supports VST plugins.The Mentalists use iPhones as instruments; and another cellphone orchastra based at Stanford University.The latest iTouch models can now be jailbroken.History of WYSWYG.The LOGO programming Language.The Forth programming language.The Pentium Chronicles.We have mentioned the Will It Blend site before, but now there's Will it Fart?Pastor Gas.Kid uses a fart machine during a City Council meeting.Google will shortly have free phone services, so sign up for the waiting list. (If you have a Grand Central number, you can keep it and Google has probably already converted it to the new system.)Tellme has free voice phone services for the public.Wes' iPhone Applications of the week:TextFree Unlimited - Buy this app and then send and receiv