Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
13aug2008
pHash, the open source perceptual hash library. “A perceptual hash is a fingerprint of an audio, video or image file that is mathematically based on the audio or visual content contained within.”
Plz Send Me The Code, a blog devoted to the study of commentary on blogs.
I’ve played cards in England
I’ve played cards in Spain
I’ll bet you ten dollars
I’ll beat you next game
— Clarence Ashley, Coo Coo Bird
How to use Zorn’s lemma, “At some point in the intervening years, I “got” Zorn’s lemma and now find it straightforward to see where it is needed. This article is intended to speed up that process for other people.”
UseitAmp, what if Jakob Nielsen designed a WinAmp skin. Classic.
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + · · · is -1/2. (The linked paper on Cosmology is worth a read as well.)
Robot Faces of Argentna, Maggie Mason: “One of the very best things about Buenos Aires is the robots in the architecture. These are some photos I took while I was there because I wanted to show you guys the robots.”
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And Mama hollered out the back door “y’all remember to wipe your feet”
And then she said “I got some news this mornin’ from Choctaw Ridge”
“Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge”
— Bobbie Gentry, Ode To Billie Joe
The Anthology of American Folk Music, was the brainchild of the avant-garde filmmaker, folklorist and anthropologist Harry Smith, the anthology comprised three boxed two-LP sets that contained 84 performances recorded between 1926 and 1933. Included were early black blues and white country music, Cajun recordings, hymns and sacred music, and more, thrown together under a loose framework that almost single-handedly redefined folk music. This is a must have.
Newport Folk Festival Live, NPR has streams of this year’s concerts of Jakob Dylan and others.
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