Here’s a reprint of a review I wrote for a Sonic Heart, a new music magazine: Autechre is always ahead of their time. On the surface, Autechre’s latest release, Untilted, is the next chapter of their trademark sound – pseudo-chaotic uber-synthetic instrumental beats, glitchy abstract rhythmic compositions, dense compositional arrangements, dentist-drill aggression, and the absence [...]
When flickr announced it had been purchased by yahoo, there was some talk about bonuses being given to Pro account holders. Today I got an email detailing the bonus: You may have heard on the grapevine that we planned to reward our dear Flickr members who bought a Pro Account in the early days. Well, [...]
Mesothelioma: it’s all over the internet, showing up in spam and in google search results. But do you have any idea what it is? From Wikipedia: Mesothelioma is an uncommon form of cancer, usually associated with previous exposure to asbestos, which affects the pleura, a sac which surrounds the lungs, the peritoneum, the lining of [...]
Marcelo sent me a link to this cool little flash thingy at symmetrylab.com. [SymmetryLab's Machine] enables you to use a variety of components, each with different simple functions, and put them together to construct a potentially complex machine which can operate in unpredictable ways. See also: SymmetryLab’s other projects
So I needed to look something up, but am unable to access the CVS Website because they apparently only support Internet Explorer and Netscape, and I am a big Opera user. From their site, after some browser-sniffing: We recently upgraded the architecture on our Web site to make it easier for you to use and [...]
I just finished reading a book called The Math Instinct: Why You’re a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs) by Keith Devlin. Keith Devlin is NPR’s “Math guy,” and so the book reads a lot like NPR in the sense that it doesn’t insult your intelligence, but is very accessible to anyone [...]
Last night my family and I went out for dinner at Gargoyles on the Square in Davis Square, Somerville. The food was excellent. For apps we shared the homemade gnocchi & wild mushrooms served with shaved parmesan cheese & truffle oil ($9) , as well as a serving of oysters on the half shell w/blood [...]
Fellow Bostonians, do you remember: When you weren’t embarrassed to pick up a copy of the Weekly Dig? When the cover didn’t show a bunch of shithead eurotrash clubbers drinking martinis? When they actually reviewed music you hadn’t already heard of? When covers had things like of a picture of dead Rodney Dangerfield and Superman [...]
On March 31st I attended a day-long course by Edward Tufte at the Copley Fairmont Hotel in Boston, as mentioned a few weeks back. Here I’ll jot down some followup thoughts.
