Hugh'n Goose: An interactive comic

I couldn't resist
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Glenn Jones

in Meg Baird's home

The Most Intriguing Performance in Jazz 2011

The Most Intriguing Performance in Jazz 2011

Artificial Retina - Bionic Eye

A fundamental flaw with the design of the artificial retina system - the camera is headfixed. It should have a servo that mimics eye movements accounting for both saccades, the VOR, pursuit etc. I'm sure the subjects would have an easier time orienting - the are now learning a completely erroneous (re evolutionary normal) sensory signal that is incongruous with the active gaze.

Evolution as a Black Swan

It occurred to me that perhaps trying to explain the highly improbably case of our existence (owing to the confluence of improbable events that natural selection deals with) might be an unnecessary task. Unnecessary in the sense that the only reason we are trying to figure it out is because we exist - and we exist because we happen to be the outlier in the distribution of events in the universe. Aren't we just the lottery winner wondering "how could we be so lucky?" when in the end someone had to win the lottery...or rather - if someone won the lottery that someone would inevitably wonder about how lucky they are? I need to see if academics in the field discuss existence in this manner. I would assume Nassim Taleb does...but I haven't found it online. After all - the term "Black Swan" itself comes from an evolutionary example! People address Black Swans in evolution - but I'm not sure if they talk about it in terms of the sequence of all the evolutionary events leading to the present. Hmm - maybe I should actually see if people talk about it in terms of the primordial soup and the event of the first self-replicating substance being a Black Swan. I'm sure someone must.   

ok

then the cost of digital files should be reduced accordingly

Respect to the Faces

1985 Badasses

Early Yes

I didn't know Peter Banks had passed away recently

Hey Rosetta!

Hey Rosetta! Performing "Graceland" Live at Chicago Music Exchange from Chicago Music Exchange on Vimeo.

Figure 8

Bob Dorough

Homely wives

My addition to the definition of "homely" in the wiktionary still going strong after almost 7 years

Maybe I should have said South Asian rather than Indian....Just changed it to Southern Asia (as per UN definition)

Carole Kaye

Carole Kaye - her bass-work with the Beach Boys - directly affecting Paul's bass lines with the Beatles. But as she says below - it was still Brian Wilson's bass lines.

Elliott on Jon Brion Show

Interactive transcript on Youtube

try it
http://youtu.be/6dsXlF3c84M

One of my fav gospel songs

The who at isle of wight

I wish they would release a version with all the fake foley stuff taken out

The Beatles at the Montreal Forum

It cost $4.50 to see The Beatles at the Forum in 1964

electronic earplugs

i'd like to try these out

husker bootleg

Eric Chenaux

Eric Chenaux "Put In Music" Live from Constellation Records on Vimeo.

Elliott Smith - great for seeing chords

Deeper voice than Bill Calahan

Lehrer

Radiolab having to adjust for Lehrer misrepresentations in a story

the zombies rise

imagine seeing this setup 45 uears ago

jonah lehrer

*sigh*

My theory on dogs

people have more empathy for dogs because of their ability to move each eyebrow individually. we project emotions on them and assume their motives are transparent while thinking the cat is plotting something....

Germany bans circumcision by doctors

Dan Dennett - Dangerous Memes

Chet

fish highway

i first had this idea as a kid (using hamster highways as building blocks) - but figured i'd have to hook up a toilet like "flush" system to flush the fish into the highway - more elegant solution from the person who actually built it.

i screwed up my ankle somewhere here

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Neil Young and Rick James

Herbie and Corinne

Stevie

Emmylou for Paul

piccolo trumpet solo in front of Paul

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Jack performing before Sir Paul

The *first* First Aid Kit

None are American

and all big in Oz

trio

Nick Drake's musical inspiration - his mom

Michael Hedges covering Neil Young

off one of my favourite NY albums

 

Rush

Riffage harkening back to 35 years ago - I think it even has the Bytor guy

vinyl

googled em image record. found what i was looking for on the first hit

Functioning Turing machine

Cream of SCTV cast

Eminem and the Louvin Brothers

Some Louvin Brothers lyrics (considering the time) make Eminem look like a children's artist

Witchita Lineman

Zeus

Alden Penner - solo

Lady Leshurr

Ed Sullivan and the Beatles

Notes on first two appearances (Ed Sullivan Theatre and Miami Beach):

• really feels like John is in the background compared to other three - although he is amused
• seems like Paul sings lead on *every* song until second song (This Boy) in their second performance in Miami
• Lots of crowd reactions to Ringo closeups
• Great guitar work (and harmonizing) by George
• Never knew Davy Jones appeared as a kid on first episode
• In second show, although he pronounces it right in first show, Ed keeps referring to Miami as Miama
• Mitzi Gaynor absoutely KILLS in her appearance on the second show. She is like a 1964 Madonna (attire, dancing, appeal, etc, except with a much stronger voice).

Bluegrass with chinese traditional instruments

Mr Daisey lied about his trip to Apple

Nick Lowe

djembe

Earth

Father Mdnight

Abbey Road crossing webcam

Lennon humour

Anthology version of A Day in the Life It seems it's only me who realizes he is saying "sugarbum fairy"

crazy jam recorded a few days ago streaming along with video at neil young dot com

Brilliant Matthew's Celebrity Pixies Tribute

Leonard Cohen - Darkness by leonardcohen

Nicolas Steno: The saint who undermined creationism

Learn how your iPhone is made

preseident's reunion

Big cast

cheap meatballs

is shopping at ikea good for Sven-Shui?

Nu-Mark

He played a toy drumset at the J5 show

David Comes to Life

Been meaning to get it

Saw them at Osheaga with the drummer from Death from Above 1979 and Pink Eyes crowd surfing and singing a show closer.

guitar man

jerry reed and tom jones

and baby what you want me to do which is cool when tom switches to high harmony

Elliott Smith

I was at this in store performance - C and I decided to stick around until the end even though we were late for a Buffalo Tom show at the Bowery Ballroom. When we finally got to the Bowery - we left after a few songs anyways. Still haven't found a live recording of the Dec 31, 1999 New Year's eve show we attended - Elliott rang in 2000. It exists as it is listed on trade sites.

finger stylin' dylan

some musings on who plays guitar on don't think twice. i assume same person for moonshiner

uni

sherwin has made me reconsider my own hostility towards unilingial anglophones

Major email hack?

Two people have sent emails with links ending in "com_ag_google_analytics2/www.php?html129" The first had to change their password - and spamming stopped. I just called the second to let them know. First was on hotmail - second on yahoo.

I'm Straight

I just realized in the Modern Lover's song Jonathan rhymes the word "place" over and over with itself....sometimes with "straight".

connection 1 to 9

now i understand

shakespeare baseball

nardwuar the human serviette

nardwuar is astoundingly the best interviewer i have ever seen

video mashups

i like this finger pickin' singer

just discovered and really enjoying harold budd

hotmail hack

i never knew at the time when this crazy vulnerability hapenned

Rumer - like Karen Carpenter backed by Lambchop...or maybe backed by Karen's brother....or maybe Karen herself.

beatles song by song analysis

is the theremin so close to a human voice because the freeform hand is good at being like a vocal cord?

the electric cars are heeeeeee-re.

very neat label

roots of sweetheart of the rodeo

i had this idea in 1998 - never followed through (although I saw someone making it in 2000)

Couldn't (quickly) find research on why squinting deblurs an image (theories of restricting light on the periphery of the lens as well as actually changing lens shape are proposed but I didn't see any research proving these theories) - I've always wondered if it has something to do with edge-map alignment a-la-Marr....

TAL episode on patent trollshttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
I am going on the record as saying there should be an "Intellectual Ventures" style open source equivalent. I don't know where funding would come from to pay for the patents....but people should start contributing these frivolous patents into a common pool so that the software community can't be strongarmed by the likes of these big patent trolls who own the rights to similar frivolous patents.

i was very skeptical going into last night's paul mccartney show. it turned out to be absolutely incredible. to my surprise - i was pretty much verklempt the whole night

Beats Rhymes and Fights. Documentary of A Tribe Called Quest from Drobinson on Vimeo.

Google broke its promise to me. It told me I would never need to delete another email using gmail. But over the last few months I have been constantly coming up to the limit and needing to delete emails....I finally caved and bought their first level surplus storage plan. It REALLY pains me - not because I think it's expensive or not worth it...but because Google made me change my emailing habits with a promise and now they broke that promise. I am going to start thinking of alternatives....I'm no longer exclusive Google.

aol touring this summer and live on nprhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

i thought the 1992 episode of star trek the next generation "the outcast" was groundbreaking - no idea that it had been done in 1955 in playboy magazine by charles beaumont.