Tuesday, February 28, 2006
This is an excellent site I found via Metafilter. Brian Bennett has compiled a great deal of data on drug use. As he puts it on his site: “What I’ve atempted to do here is to create a level playing field in the drug war debate. As it turns out though, the data are actually [...]
Monday, February 27, 2006
Eugene Mirman is hilarious, I really enjoyed this piece on cancelling Dish Network service.
Monday, February 27, 2006
The Aphex Twin video for “Windowlicker” is perhaps the most horrifying music video I’ve ever seen - but I can’t stop watching it.
Monday, February 27, 2006
I don’t usually expect to find out something horrifying when I visit the Music Thing blog. Save for Bob Moog’s unfortunate demise from a brain tumor the news is generally positive. Today is an exception, in this post, Music Thing reports a casualty of overenthusiastic air guitar.
Monday, February 27, 2006
Thanks to MatrixSynth blog for unearthing this Nord Modular comparison chart. The chart provides a nice summary of the capabilities of the various editions of the Nord Modular (my favorite synth.) As people have moved on to the G2, the earlier editions have begun coming down in price and Micro Modulars and Classic Modulars are [...]
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Here is the Yamaha DX-7II Manual, in case you need it.
Sunday, February 26, 2006
You may recall the brouhaha a few years back over a defense program called Total Information Awareness. (Actually the real brouhaha was over the terrorist futures market, run out of the same research branch as TIA.) According to a post on Think Progress, it’s still around, albeit under a different name. It’s called Google. Just [...]
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Anybody notice that if you are logged into Google, you have an option to permanently remove results from search?
Sunday, February 26, 2006
I noticed blogsnow.com was indexing my site. It’s a real-time tracker that indexes blogs, much like blogdex.com. Although it has a few nice other features for example:
Backlinks
Most clicked
Most linked Flash
Most linked flickr
Most linked to Google Maps
Most linked to IMDB entries
Most linked to Quicktime Videos
Most linked to Wikipedia Entries
Most linked to Windows Media Files
And it’s truly real-time. [...]
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Compulsory licensing refers to a situation where a party is legally required to grant license over (intellectual) property to another party. While this notion is generally absent from United States Patent Law, it does exist in other countries. For example, the Patently-O blow points to the compulsory license clauses in French and German Patent Law.