December 2009
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“In the 1970s and 1980s, Klaus Schulze often recorded string ensembles and...”
– Organic ambient music - Wikipedia
Love “moog synthesizer workouts”
“How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of...”
– Charles de Gaulle
November 2009
69 posts
Synthesia, Piano for Everyone
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Guitar Hero for piano, free.
Oppositional Architecture: Resisting the... →
The transformation of the urban landscape within the last decades has increasingly been dominated by the demands of capitalist utilization. Due to the current crisis, however, which goes far beyond a mere crisis of the real estate and financial market, these neoliberal politics and attendant forms of production of space have been subject to a loss of legitimation. For this reason, not only do the...
Howtopedia →
a collaborative platform for practical knowledge and simple technologies, i.e. technologies that require no complex machine, that are easily explainable and usable by individuals or small communities for a sustainable and ecological future.
Arquitectura Arkinetia - Wingårdh - Suecia | The... →
Looks as though my problems might be solved
Butterfly gardening - Wikipedia, the free... →
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Human Touch
I checked out an old library book recently, and inside was the old checkout card. It’s neat to see the history of a book. I want to google all the names and see if any of the people who checked out Hyams’ “A History of Gardens & Gardening” back in the 70s-80s are now successful gardeners. I wish there was a way for modern libraries to bring this idea back....
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Lamest edit wars on Wikipedia... →
steamterfly:
Hilarious. I can’t decide which is my favorite, but I am partial to the one about the Cloverfield monster and the one about using the term “conceit” when discussing Jeopardy!
Too many to pick!
“Father Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory near Rome, is a respected...”
– BBC NEWS | Europe | Vatican says aliens could exist
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Wikipedia
I can tell you with certainty that Wikipedia is wonderful and changes lives. The university takes all my money (or used to these days it’s transportation, but I still manage to gather some to support Wikipedia. If you use it, it’d be great if you could support it as well.
Support Wikipedia →
Do it!
Camels In The Outback →
As I watched this, I imagined the word Human replacing Camel.
Male Club-winged Manikins Vibrate Wings →
Twice as fast as a hummingbird to produce sound.
“Near the end of 2005, Mikhail Matz, a professor of marine biology at the...”
– The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sarah, Where Are You?
Are there any Sarah Connors in the world anymore?
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“All you people with your augmented reality unlocking the digital city outernet...”
– Warren Ellis, Moving Away From The Digital City (via n1s)
User joeyjoseph has warned you. You are now at 5%.
I want a show of hands. How many of us want the old AIM warning system back? An open chat standard protocol for warning. Some of us never really abused it, and now that we’re a little older, I think the rest of the net is ready for it. Don’t you?
CO2 emissions, birth & death rates by country,... →
10 Neat Facts About Carl Sagan - Neatorama →
Happy birthday Carl!
A man who was trying to save us, simply by describing the world. The first 2 minutes of his last interview with Charlie Rose nail it.