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Tue Jun 30

• YouTube - Campaigners fight noise pollution in bustling Mumbai: Great PR material!

Mon Jun 29

• WideNoise · Ever heard of sound pollution?
• Art Pollution Kit | okno.be: The Art Pollution Kit is a project geared at providing easy access to environmental data by using Arduino open source acquisition boards and specialized environmental sensors.
• What is a "Silent" Computer? | silentpcreview .com: A silent computer may be scientifically impossible... but "inaudibl e" or "audible but benign" computers are well within reach. Careful system design is necessary to ensure that all the potential pitfalls are avoided, not just "low measured loudness" :
• Quiet Your PC: Easy Ways to Cut Computer Noise: To their credit, PC makers are beginning to consider acoustics when they design systems. But too many PCs are still built with inexpensive cooling components that can create a noisy system. The main sources of noise are motors and spinning components such as the hard drive, CPU fan, case cooling fans, and power supply fan.
• Quest for a Silent Computer: I love silence - the silenter the better. If Apple can make an almost silent iMac, why can't other computer makers turn off the white noise? The everyday, tangible effect of the digital revolution is that annoying white noise generated by personal computers,&quo t; says Bryce, who observes that computer engineers have done "just about everything except make the damn things quiet."

Sun Jun 28

• Complaint Box | iPod Volume - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com

Thu Jun 25

• A City Where You Can?t Hear Yourself Scream - New York Times: I like this kind of reports... reporting people's living
• Silent Mouse EX reduces mouse-related noise pollution by 22.5db, no one cares: Oh, Thanko, fine purveyor of hidden cameras and ill-advised input devices, whenever it gives us a peripheral that looks like, well, a peripheral, it feels like a big step in the right direction. And what do we have here? The Silent Mouse EX is a bit of a misnomer. After all, it isn't totally silent -- rather, the manufacturer claims that it generates 35.5db of noise when in operation.

Mon Jun 22

• Council updates animal management plan: Council has been told barking dogs make up 97 per cent of noise complaints it receives.

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