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Before MP3’s, CD’s, tapes, and records, there was the wax cylinder, one of the coolest musical inventions of all time. Created by Edison Phonograph Company, these cylindrical records were what people listened to from 1890-1920. Now thanks to a Santa Barbara website and some scholars, collectors, and independent record labels, people today can listen to some of America’s greatest classics, like Stella Mayhew’s “I’m Looking For Something To Eat”

The site offers free MP3 downloads for your ipods. So go ahead and listen to some real old school tunes.

Introducing Google Finance, a financial information service created to compete with Microsoft and Yahoo. To separate itself from the competition, Google offers stock charts and interactive elements like its Google Maps service. Some users are reporting that the site offers wrong stock prices and symbols. If they don’t provide accurate data quick, I can see the site the financial sector looking the other way.

Hill Holiday ditched their website for a weblog. Check it out.