- ARCHIVE / Just Blogging
- Livecoding Xmas event at Goldsmith College
Thursday Club Xmas party [ event-site | facebook | flier | map ] 6:30pm sharp til 8:30pm, 2010/12/16 at Goldsmith Digital Studios Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video, and is starting to get somewhere interesting. Live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or […]
- Ozric Tentacles live @ Islington Academy, London
The lineup featured Ed Wynne (guitar, synths), Ed’s wife Brandi Wynne (bass, keyboards), Silas Wynne (synths, keyboards – Ed’s son) and Oliver Seagle (drums, percussion). Can’t say I haven’t missed the old line up, with “Jumping Jon” Egan, who used to dance around the stage in a trance-like manner while playing a variety of flutes… […]
- Jeff Beck live at the Royal Albert Hall
Quite an amazing evening with Beck rocking the RAH out the other night; the man is well over 60 (born 24 June 1944) but still performs with great confidence and inventiveness. I loved every minute of it!
- This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers
“This tube is the most awesome goddamn force in the whole godless world…..” I’ve never watched this 1976 classic – The Network – but after listening to the short clip below it’s now high on my priority list. It applies so well to what’s going on in Italy with the media, and some say, worldwide […]
- Gmail labels sorting order
Gmail’s labels are great for they let you organize your constantly growing mailbox in a non-final way. That is, using the ‘tagging’ concept, you can assign the same tag to multiple items, or different tags to the same items, add/remove tags etc etc. All of this is well known and documented. One thing though still […]
- Amazon’s Kindle is slowly changing my life
I’ve been very reluctant to buy the Amazon Kindle at first, but since I got it I’ve realized more and more that that was the right decision, and I’ll tell you why. The other worthy candidate of my hard sweated money was Apple’s iPad – which at first sight looks much cooler and more versatile. […]
- Mathematics and our body
“Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being” [amazon link] is a recent book by cognitive scientists George Lakoff and Rafael Nuñez, in which they argue that the origin of our mathematical ideas (even the most abstract and immaterial) is to be found in the materiality of our everyday experience. That […]
- Mapping stereotypes
Sometimes a picture is more eloquent than a thousand words. Well, a map can be too, and the maps by Yanko Tsvetkov proved the point for me. Mapping stereotypes is a project in which he plots on a european map the way we (as British, French, Italians etc…) see the ‘others’. The funny bit is […]
- Musorg : tons of classical music for free
I found out about this via o’reilly radar’s blog.. Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. We want to give the world access to music without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this music […]
- The Bad Plus – Iron Man
The Bad Plus – each time I listen to them I can’t avoid thinking they’re geniuses! Coming to London for the Jazz festival next november… UPDATE 22/11/10: I went to the London gig and it was awesome – here’s an excerpt:
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
