Here’s another beautiful secret feature of the amazing Amarok music player: flexible “recently added” search.
There’s a “Recently Added Albums” widget that shows five albums, but I usually add more than that in a batch (I only synchronise between my two computers every now and then) so it’s not so useful for me. But a KDE [...]
Anyone else using emacs 23 yet? Here’s something awesome I stumbled on by accident: try to open a pdf from inside emacs. Go on, go and try, I’ll wait.
Neato, huh?
Olga pointed me to this fantastic rendition of Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters, on electric guitar and saz. Aman aman.
Via Waxy.org, Radiohead’s 15 Step plus Dave Brubeck’s Take Five: Five Step on youtube.
This isn’t just “hur hur they’re both 5/4″, the melody of Take Five gets a subtle reinterpretation over the chord changes of 15 Step. My only complaint is that Take Five was trimmed to fit 15 Step, meaning we lost some fantastic [...]
At last! The Mardi Gras.bb have appeared on eMusic.
That is, they’ve shown up on the European site (they’re German, although you wouldn’t guess it from listening), with slightly different punctuation and case (I’m taking the regrettable .bb from their site — apparently it stands for “big band”) but the same glorious sound. The new album, [...]
… Explained in Words of One Syllable, by George Boolos (not Boole).
If it could be proved that two plus two is five, then it could be proved that five is not five, and then there would be no claim that could not be proved, and math would be a lot of bunk.
If you’ve got access [...]
Ok, it’s via BoingBoing, but it’s too cool not to share. A stop-motion Mario Brothers sequence in lego, with music by recorder and sound effects by voice. Delightful.
Wow. I finally got around to watching The Blues Brothers on my laptop (yes, it’s downloaded, yes, I’m ashamed). It’s the DVD edition. Meaning … new dialogue in the opening scene, shots of Elwood parking the Bluesmobile behind “Danger, High Voltage” doors at the end of an alleyway and climbing out the window because there’s [...]
So I caught Fat Freddy’s Drop on Saturday, through a nice wee chain of coincidences. Thursday night we celebrated ending the Dutch course, and an American girl from the course (thanks Heather!) told me sometime in the evening that “Some band from New Zealand, Fat Freakies or something, are coming here in June or maybe [...]