Alexi Murdoch's new album

Second time in a few months I've got an out of space warning on gmail. The first time I dealt with it by deleting all forwards from my parents....
So much for the "never need to delete your emails" promise. I guess that means if you are willing to pay.

harry demoing his first song for the monkees

Alex brought up the point that if when thinking we "hear a voice" in our head - what is the experience for someone who is deaf from birth.
This episode of Radiolab is completely relevant and mentions the possibility in schizophrenia research that that type of hearing voices might have to do with the symptom of not recognizing your internal voice.
My feeling (without diong any investigation into the matter) is that we can't confine the internal voice to a passive auditory like modality (perhaps there is FMRI research on thinking and parts of the auditory cortex lighting up); there must be an active/motor component as well of forming the words (must check FMRI stuff again). So I wonder if the whole experience for someone deaf from birth is akin to whatever sensory/motor experience that that same someone feels when talking normally (eg. motor/tactile act of signing). I will have to check if there is any literature on this.
Final thought - I wonder if there is reduced incidence of "hearing voices" type psychosis for the deaf population compared to the rest of the population. Must check.

i love the inernets. suffering from some intermittent but severe vertigo these past couple of days - used this site to diagnose and it seems successfully treat it.
benign positional vertigo affecting the left posterior semi-circular canal diagnosed using the hallpike test and treated using the modified epley manoeuvre. So far so good. i am still astonsihed at how simple it was...and apparently the inventor was ridiculed for years.

it ocurred to me that i would like to hear the zombies record a full version of the beach boys' pet sounds....which is weird because i've never listened to pet sounds.
i'm not a fan of the beach boys although i know that technically i *should* be. i think it has something to do with the quality of their voices (not in the sense of good and bad but in the sense ot timbre etc) - it just doesn't do it for me. also something about the songwriting has always seemed "technical" to me rather than "organic"...if that makes any sense. just my impressions, while i know hordes of music enthusiasts (including many i agree with otherwise) will think i am just plain wrong. e.g - paul mccartney is a big fan of the album and describes it as having influenced him to write melodic bass lines. i have always told aspiring bassists to listen to the beatles to get an idea of how interesting, melodic bass lines should be written. so there you go - i *have* to check out the album. but then recently i thought (while listening to the zombies) that i would like THEM to play it for me. so...i guess...get on it zombies.

frontal cortex

jonah lehrer

how come Sacha Baron Cohen gets accolades for fooling the ususpecting little man but Joaquin Phoenix gets vilifed for fooling all of Hollywood?

The Original of Laura and Michael (as well as the ones to come)...shouldn't they have burned? Two perfectionists rolling in their....

Why good copy-editing is important:
from: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20110119/bastarache-report-due-today-110119/

Former Supreme Court of Canada justice Michel Bastarache has held hearings and collected evidence and testimony (on blah blah blah) over the past year and will be handing his report to the provincial government.

Notice the newsworthy use of the terms "blah blah blah". The item has only been posted for 20 min or so - yet to be corrected

first tiny desk concert

Now that I busted my Studio Projects B1 during transport - I think I want to get a Blue Microphones Spark rather than a Rode Microphones NT1-A but it is so new I can't find any in-depth reviews....

daytrotter sessions

Discovering Jeremy Messersmith a little late in the game.

Neil Young - Old Laughing Lady (1976)
envoyé par Julos77. - Clip, interview et concert.

are goh nakamura and mike viola the same person?
wikipedia says mike viola is a lot more famous than i realized.

if this was an individual rather than google - would it be illegal?
i guess so - i guess it is like listening in on cell phones....
hmmm

bachmann

what a crock

compare these moments on letterman

andy kaufman confession

david letterman confession

in some sense they are both like the rodney dangerfield sitcom in natural born killers - people confused about when they should laugh....

favourite station these days

sex.com sold hours ago

patents

futureshop makes all its money from LYING to customers.
the salesman lied to someone i was with today just as below.
http://futureshopsucks.com/2010/01/future-shop-wants-to-charge-100-to-install-windows/he implied there is no OS on the machines and that the $100 charge is for purchasing and installation.
i is why i personally try to shop at tigerdirect

lady gaga = marilyn manson.
both media-brilliant.
they even kind of look the same.

i chatted with vm about this

Consciousness at about min 47 in this podcast

i am really curious about what is going on with the major mistakes i make when writing emails. ie. what part of my "automatic pilot" is screwing up so badly. i do not make the same mistakes when writing something by hand - and the email mistakes are mostly, truly heinous. e.g. i will write "by" instead of "pie". such a broken telephone between different centres of my brain is perplexing - and i want to read up on what type of neurological disorders correspond to such mistakes.

is france taking cues from hérouxville

isn't unsupervised machine learning essentially trying to mimic evolution (or more precisely natural selection of some sorts)?

i know people raved about invictus. i was underwhelmed. sorry clint. maybe my expectations were too high having watched most of that world cup live and seen the final many times. beyond the expected hollywood clichés - i found it REALLY didn't do the rugby justice. i don't understand how movies can make american football look more exciting and rugby look less so. especially the football style interjections of scuffles. it also really didn't do lomu justice - maybe he wasn't the uncanny force he was in the rest of the matches...but he wasn't as lame as they make him. at least it makes me want to watch that final again 15 years later. i can verify if my claim about lomu is true. still - that world cup was an excellent one.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy_2010.html

why does this not happen in china?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10567761

the craziest thing done with a browser to date
absolutely crazy
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

i like dave barbour's guitaring....

Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Autism

Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Autism

media spin

Imaginary Larry from Erika Lindhome on Vimeo.

george harrison sounds like don everly

$37 and 3 demerit points for crossing a red light on a bixi (a couple of days ago). my only other "moving" violation (with demerit points as well) in 25 years of driving was for not wearing a seat belt in the BACK seat many years ago.
some day i will actually get a ticket while driving a car....

a nice review of HV

what is with this swedish indie folk rock explosion. do they think they are in montreal?

"star wars kid" is studying law at mcgill (great comeback) AND jishnu got a mention in this article

these kids (5th grade) do a good version of my favourite school house rock song

good interview with ravi shankar

silophone

I don't understand why the ghosts are not totally pissed that the ghost whisperer always changes what they say when speaking to their families.
"Tell him he gave me my freedom"
"She says she is happy now"
"That's not what I said"
"She says she never wanted to be a dancer"
"You're not even trying"
"Do you see the light?"
"I'll show you a $%^&^* light"

the farside cartoon is true. the oldest living tree and hence the oldest living organism was cut down to inspect its age rings. 4900 - 5100 years old. the guy who did it.

book entertainment for a private gig

justin timberlake composing

i always waited for miss diane to see me through the magic mirror but she never said "i see prasun"....

Band to watch http://www.myspace.com/coralred

after seeing this last night i am starting to think socalled is the most brilliant (and least pretentious) artist in montreal these days

want to make it into a recording device and tuner - so i will have to solder together my own adaptor

went to see the buzzcocks last night - excellent show. as mike pointed out with a smile - once again they are "relevant". the punk rock kids were emphatic in their texting and cell-phone picture taking. i noticed one girl even had a punk blackberry (it had a shatterred screen)

israeli human rights organization

an instrument invented 10 years ago that i've just discovered

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ok go nicking bob marley element's from mr. brown? that's what i thought the first time i heard the song and i guess i am not alone
anyways - all the interviews with the lead singer about the state of the recording label model are very interesting

heard in this context - the theme from taxi sounds like a lyle mayes composition - with the guitarist owing a bit to pat metheny hisself.

Pat Metheny with his orchestrion

Better explained by WIRED

The builder Eric Singer

i just realized lonely island ripped off flight of the conchords

Photos by Kirk Wight - Divan Orange Feb 28, 2010

enjoy it while it is still available for free streaming

robot chicken's take on if frank miller did american history

this is actually what i have been thinking about doing with music. sita sings the blues....question copyright

This lightbulb has been on since 1901 (I think it's only been off for 22 minutes).

The phase when people thought I was half-Black (it really happenned all the time)....

আপনিকি আমাকে বাসতে পার্চেয়্ন?

mel gibson asking "you have a dog in the fight?"

i got a fedex attampted delivery notice - tracking shows this is the current voyage the package has completed (montreal to sun valley back to montreal):

Jan 8, 2010 12:07 PMAt local FedEx facilityST LAURENT, PQ

Jan 8, 2010 11:00 AMDelivery exceptionST LAURENT, PQCustomer not available or business closed

Jan 8, 2010 10:35 AMOn FedEx vehicle for deliveryST LAURENT, PQ

Jan 8, 2010 9:34 AMAt local FedEx facilityST LAURENT, PQ

Jan 8, 2010 8:21 AMAt dest sort facilityMIRABEL, PQ

Jan 8, 2010 7:53 AMInt'l shipment releaseMIRABEL, PQ

Jan 8, 2010 3:45 AMDeparted FedEx locationINDIANAPOLIS, IN

Jan 8, 2010 2:02 AMArrived at FedEx locationINDIANAPOLIS, IN

Jan 7, 2010 8:23 PMLeft FedEx origin facilitySUN VALLEY, CA

Jan 7, 2010 3:57 PMPicked upSUN VALLEY, CA

Jan 6, 2010 12:04 AMIn transitMIRABEL, PQPackage to be cleared by FedEx broker

mj talking about why pigeons bob their heads while walking (on quirks and quarks)
as always - amazing ability to explain things understandably (and with humour)

when bus fare was 8 cents you knew it was going to be a good week when donny and marie switched roles. he became a little bit country and she became a little bit rock'n roll - and wore black leather.

SUCH a good show on stochasticity

more blasts from the past

ck one

the gmail spell checker was making me second-guess myself until i realized it was americanizing my english. i've changed the setting to uk english.

this clip is always amusing
i just noticed jian's screen says "if this really goes sideways, i have new neil, new metric standing by" - obviously a message from his producer.

Apparently I am still in the top 25 without the error. I estimate I did about 1000km on BIXI (pronounced bike-sie in English according to Kevin). This was all done in 8 min trips.

I just got the below email. There was an administrative error that said I had a bike out for 3 months - I asked them to verify that I am still in the running when discounting this mistake. If so - since I am a HUGE fan of BIXI - I think I'll do it...
Letter:
Hello Mr.

For the end of our first year, our team is analyzing the possibility to do year-end review in the media and on our website. We would love to present to top 25 BIXI BIGGEST USERS, the members that most frequently used our system.

By getting this email, you can guest…that you are part of the TOP 25 most frequent Bixi users. We would like to know if you would accept to collaborate with us so that we can present you on our website, at www.bixi.com.

glad i'm not alone in my feelings about 300

Jingoist Frank Miller should listen to this episode of This American Life.
300 pissed me off.