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September 03 2010
Motorola Pulls Out Another Full Page NYT Ad Aimed At Apple’s Head
Oh my, how I love some good ol’ fashion mudslinging.
“Flash Websites? There’s A Phone For That.”
To any ne’er-do-blog-read layman, the full page ad that Motorola just put in the New York Times might just seem oddly worded. To anyone who has even considered considering themselves a gadget geek — or has, at least, turned on their TV anytime in the past year and a half and seen Apple’s “There’s An ...
Concréte Sound System – autechre.bÆts
We start September in fine style with an exclusive guest mix from one of our presenters, Primus Luta under the new guise of his Concréte Sound System (CSS) live setup. The mix is a retrospective/homage to Autechre and the 90′s IDM scene (regardless of what you make of the name). It’s quite a superb mix that deserves your full attention especially if, like me, your knowledge of Autechre’s back c...
September 02 2010
Alcohol Is Healthy
My health econ students love to hear that our best data suggests moderate drinking is good for health. New better data continues that trend:
[We study] the association between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality over 20 years among 1,824 older adults…. Controlling only for age and gender, compared to moderate drinkers, abstainers had a more than 2 times increased mortality risk, heavy ...
September 01 2010
Love Vs. Conversion
A key pillar of modern morality is the sanctity of romantic love. We reel in horror at the thought that “backward” societies, and our ancestors, arranged marriages without intense emotional romantic love. While it was nice if arranged partners had such romantic feelings, if that did not happen they were not to look for it elsewhere; a life without romantic love could be a fine life.
An...
August 31 2010
Why Technology Is So Addictive, and How You Can Avoid Tech Burnout [Technology]
Get Past Your Childhood Doubts by Simply Starting [Motivation]
We are the World – Not in Death [Scripts]
Daniel Franke and Andreas Fischer recently finished the post & effects on a video for the band “We are the world” from LA. Using custom scripts for After Effects which generate a mapping of the fft-analysis of the audio data of the song, the distortion of the dancer were controlled using the slitscan technique. The higher the audio values are, the greater is the range of frames sampled for one ...
August 30 2010
Apertus, the Open Source HD Movie Camera
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MySpace Tries To Pollute Facebook’s Stream
MySpace is launching Facebook sync today, allowing MySpace users to sync their status updates with their Facebook profile or Page. The social network launched a similar functionality for Twitter last year.
Once you’ve synced your Facebook account, you can update status on MySpace and it will automatically be shared with friends on Facebook. MySpace is touting this feature as a big win for the...
August 29 2010
August 27 2010
Trace the Dollars Behind the Story with Poligraft
It seems that news pieces are rarely written from a neutral point of view these days, and political news can be especially prone to bias. But how can the average reader, who probably has no idea of the political ties between those mentioned in a news piece, see the larger picture? Sunlight labs, who are dedicated to creating tools that make government data more accessible, have a new service...
Smart Phones Helping to Move Business from the Boardroom to the Bathroom
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Smart phones have drastically changed the world, putting the power of the internet in the palm of our hand. They’ve expanded our horizons, fostering relationships through social networking, keeping us informed up to the minute, and accelerating the pace at which we do business. A recent survey conducted by Kelton Research for Samsung Mobile proves that final point. The survey...
August 26 2010
Logitech thinks creeping you out will make you buy a Google TV box
Logitech will be among the first companies to deliver a Google TV set-top box this fall, and it wants to make sure that you know. The first part of that strategy was to announce the hunt for an evangelist who will help promote the product. Great idea. The second half of that strategy? Not so much.
The theme of Logitech’s viral campaign is that your TV is lonely and misses you...
Music and Memory
Sensing the Unseen - The Elusive: Listening
Shared by wayneandwax
this is happening in october. i'm both thrilled and terrified about trying to comment on one of my fave sound scholars.
Speakers
University of New Mexico
Hillel Schwartz
Independent Scholar
October 22, 2:30 - 5:00 PM
Discussants
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Jean-Luc Godard Cannot Be Tracked Down -- Vulture
Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP
Earlier today, the Academy announced filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard would be among those receiving honorary Oscars this year. However, as of late Wednesday, the ...
this is the ableton live footage of my mashup of two versions of "galang" -- the MIA original + the vijay iyer trio version. i like the way this helps us hear how iyer's rendition departs from as it stays true to its source.
as one can see, i've maintained the integrity of the iyer track while making two cuts in the MIA recording in order to keep them in-sync. the process of making this mashup thus called my attention to how iyer skips 14 measures of the original in order to repeat the chorus (after a clean 32 bars, surprise surprise), as well as that he plays 4 fewer bars of the sing-songy coda.
grab the audio here:
wayneandwax.com/wp/audio/wayneandwax-galangs.mp3
see here for more details:
wayneandwax.com/?p=4032
Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test
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