April 2009
43 posts
Jalopy, Mister. $upport independent business and... →
“I wonder how different pop music would be if Kurt Cobain was photographed...”
– Dan Deacon
Ara Dymond at Ritter/Zamet Gallery in London. →
Good friend of mine, so check it out if you’ll be in London this Spring. Some decent photos of his work, too.
Logos Foundation. Aphex Twin orders instrument... →
But what in the world is that Dutch codename!? Still, check out this guy’s oeuvre.
“I experience a sort of terror when, at the moment of setting to work and finding...”
– Igor Stravinsky
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. →
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: The free public... →
Associated Press. Make that e-Hobbit: digital... →
I wonder if they’ll be adding Beowulf and the critics… Somehow I’m not terribly optimistic.
Milian, Ray. Trent Reznor interview on Digg. →
Zimmerman, Matt. Boston College campus police:... →
Angier, Natalie. Taxing, a ritual to save the... →
“On [this] taxing [day], when we become a defiantly bipartisan nation of whiners convinced that we are handing over to the Internal Revenue Service our blood and sweat and mother’s milk, our pound of flesh and firstborn young, maybe it’s time for a little perspective.”
Hari, Johann. You are being lied to about pirates. →
This doesn’t make hostage-taking justifiable, and yes, some are clearly just gangsters—especially those who have held up World Food Programme supplies. But the “pirates” have the overwhelming support of the local population for a reason. The independent Somalian news-site WardherNews conducted the best research we have into what ordinary Somalis are thinking—and it found 70...
Webley, Jason. Music that tears itself apart. →
I just got home from seeing this fellow perform. It was quite something—try to catch him on his way through your area!
Crecente, Brian. EA ships illegal weapons to... →
“Electronic Arts today contacted game writers around the country asking them to return the brass knuckles they were sent as part of a promotion for Godfather II.”
Praccit, praccit, praccit.
I found out about the project a little too late to audition myself (though I did have fun playing Tan Dun’s flute part!), but those chosen for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra will be performing this week at Carnegie Hall.
Morozov, Evgeny. Texting toward utopia. →
via Alex:
Evgeny Morozov critiques the view that the internet will inevitably democratize autocratic regimes like China, Russia and Iran. He argues that the Net’s democratic effects are not inherent, and that autocratic regimes have been successful in controlling electronic media to disseminate their ideology. Will the net ultimately spread American democracy, or just American...
Vainio, Jari (OH6DC). Handmade CW & QRP. →
Look at the “Strange CW keys” in particular. This ham is a nut.
Miner, Laura Brunow. Supporting photographers on... →
We obviously aren’t paying photographers for use of their images on our blogs, so isn’t direct attribution with the photographer’s name (in addition to linking to the source) the least we could do?
I wonder if part of this has to do with the way the content submission boxes are set up.
As you may have noticed, I’ve given some thought to the sources of material I post, and always try to...
WatchDavid, Priya. Knitting For Your Health.
Javers, Eamon. Pentagon preps for economic... →
Baron-Cohen, Simon. Media distortion damages both... →
Kroszer, Kassia. Enough with the smell of books,... →
“If there is one thing we can agree on, in the discussion surrounding digital books, it is that the issue is not ‘if ebooks ever take off’ but ‘how ebooks will assimilate’. To my mind, too much energy is wasted on the idea that digital books are not the same as physical books. Focusing on the tactile, the kinesthetic, the heft of books and comparing that experience to...
Kenyon, Chris. Microsoft, FUD and the netbook... →
That’s Chris Kenyon of Canonical accusing Microsoft of using fear, uncertainty, and doubt to marginalize sales of Ubuntu-loaded netbook PCs. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is talking about it, too.
McCurry, Justin. Japanese underworld boss quits... →
“Tadamasa Goto, one of Japan’s most notorious underworld bosses, is to enter the Buddhist priesthood less than a year after his volatile behaviour caused a rift in the country’s biggest crime syndicate.
“As leader of a yakuza – or Japanese mafia – gang, Goto amassed a fortune from prostitution, protection rackets and white-collar crime, while cultivating a reputation for...
Madea, Jeanette. Hurley Smith's pocket shield. →
The IEEE History Center’s history of the pocket protector. Thanks (again) to KB6NU.
German AMSAT first to bounce signals off Venus. →
“On March 25, a group from AMSAT-DL bounced radio signals off the surface of Venus, marking the first time Amateur Radio operators have bounced radio signals off another planet.”
From The ARRL Letter, via the KB6NU blog.
“I walked by [old Yankee Stadium] coming here and had some very pleasant...”
– Lou Piniella
I'm an Amateur Extra!
A what?
Phillips, Tony. Deep solar minimum. →
“The sunspot cycle is behaving a little like the stock market. Just when you think it has hit bottom, it goes even lower. “
Evers, Derek. Out of touch: a true story of how... →
Not sure why or whether they might have expected different treatment from a dinosaur like MTV, but my friend did direct the video, and you should still go vote for Team Robespierre!