November 2009
52 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29) →
Kanon Wakeshima (37)
Magnificat (29)
Toby Goodshank (23)
Led Zeppelin (12)
Alireza Mashayekhi (12)
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Overbye, Dennis. Near Geneva, particles finally... →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22) →
Minikon (20)
Nudge (3)
Paul Hillier (2)
Max Roach (2)
Probspot (1)
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Music Time in Africa →
Ertug, Ahmet. Temples of Knowledge. →
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Santa Maria, Jason. On web typography. →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15) →
Kanon Wakeshima (17)
Joanna Newsom (7)
Nudge (4)
Roxy Music (3)
Led Zeppelin (2)
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Branwyn, Gareth. Holiday gift guide 2009: Toys for... →
Most every young geekling remembers building and flying Estes Rockets as a kid. If you haven’t been paying attention, you may not know that hobby rockets have been growing, in power and size, ever since. And growing, and growing, and growing. Motors are designated in nearly every letter of the alphabet now (and each lettered motor is twice as powerful as the previous-lettered motor) and...
Online Publishers Association. Consumers are... →
The lion’s share, you mean? Anyway, I’m going to go spend time with some content.
Top 50 Journalism Blogs →
Link listing of: citizen journalism, personal blogs, school-supported journalism blogs, organizations, new media focus, and other resources.
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Pinker, Steven. Malcolm Gladwell, eclectic... →
The common thread in Gladwell’s writing is a kind of populism, which seeks to undermine the ideals of talent, intelligence and analytical prowess in favor of luck, opportunity, experience and intuition. For an apolitical writer like Gladwell, this has the advantage of appealing both to the Horatio Alger right and to the egalitarian left. Unfortunately he wildly overstates his empirical case. It is...
Willens, Max. The best band you didn't go see at... →
Speaking of Abram…
The music man: Abram Morphew was an experimental... →
Abram’s a dear friend of mine! If you read down to the part about the 8088 collective, theirs is the compilation I’ll have a song on this winter.
Delahanty, Robert. Dylan Willemsa. →
I haven’t thought about Dylan’s music in a while – he’s one of my favorite musicians, although 95% of what I’ve heard by him was improvised on a subway platform in New York. I’m glad to find that the recording and stream that Robert “The Ninth Child” Delahanty did are still available. Enjoy.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8) →
Basya Schechter (81)
Kanon Wakeshima (52)
Led Zeppelin (24)
Khaled (18)
The Blow (15)
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Mohajer, Shaya Tayefe. Iranian father-son musical... →
Arment, Marco. Dear every site that paginates... →
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Disqus is back online.
I think I’ve managed to cobble Disqus comments back into this blog since breaking them with a theme change a month or two ago. Feel free, then, to use them! If it’s not working right, use this little form to let me know. Thanks!
Linus Torvalds reminds me a bit of Trent Reznor.
Er, maybe I have that backwards…
What do you get when you drop a piano down a mine shaft?
– A-flat minor
Bruce, Sarah. On first time out with his metal... →
The find was in five pieces – three intact necklets and two fragments of another torc, all gold and silver alloy with a touch of copper.
Two of the pieces are ribbon torcs, twisted carefully from sheet gold with flattened ends. These are Scottish or Irish in origin.
The fragments are from a South-west French style annular torc, which would have been an enclosed circle with a hinge and catch.
Baker, Dean. Cash for Clunkers pushes up used car... →
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Don’t wear a hat or other loose clothing near the helicopter. The rotor wash is...
– Helicopter Passenger Safety Card (via nickdouglas)
Weidenbaum, Marc. Dave Seidel’s complex silences. →
daveseidel:
A very nice review on one of my favorite music sites.
If you know me, it’s not that Dave Seidel. But I do like his stuff.
The abyss is the foundation of the possible. We’re brought to the edge of the...
– Bataille, Guilty (via no human laughter)
Gidden, Leslie. Homemade sidewalk chalk. →
Cosmologists say they have support for dark... →
“Researchers using measurements of the cosmic microwave background – a faintly glowing relic of the hot, dense, young universe…”
I’m liking this already!