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"…retail outlets where quality, used and surplus building materials are sold at a fraction of normal prices. Proceeds from ReStores help local affiliates fund the construction of Habitat houses within the community"
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probably THE most important Resource in my own long-term development, and the paper backfiles are shelved in the barn. Hope this presentation will give the riches within a whole new lease on life
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"…an open source visualization program for exploring high-dimensional data. It provides highly dynamic and interactive graphics such as tours, as well as familiar graphics such as the scatterplot, barchart and parallel coordinates plots"
Author Archives: oook
links for 2008-12-17
links for 2008-12-15
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a test of the MP3 possibilities in Delicious, this one by P.T. Foo & his Jolly Band of Nigeria …OMG it works it works!
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DON'T miss the story via the NYTimes link!
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via Shorpy. Who's ridin' bitch?
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from Swapatorium2, truly spectral
brief but not uncharacteristic diversion
It’s both a curse and a blessing that I’m so easily diverted… this morning, mention of Alan Lomax’s Cantometrics (in Ned Sublette’s Cuba and Its Music) got me hunting for the various resources I already have and could find to augment what I have. Alas, Lomax’s Cantometrics: An approach to the anthropology of music (1978, audiocassettes and a handbook) is long out of print and seemingly unavailable via the usual sources (though WorldCat tells me that Colby and University of Maine at Orono have it). A Google search led to Tim O’Brien’s posting of a talk by Armand Leroi A New Science of Music: Digital Cantometrics and the Evolution of Music, a 30+-minute YouTube video which I want to listen to (but don’t want to take the time to watch at the moment –though O’Brien provides a transcript). I remembered that Rob Kehler had found a conversion utility that (among other things) extracts YouTube audio to an mp3, so I found his reference in an email message and tried out vixy.net on that video. It stalled at 74% of the conversion, so I tried VidtoMP3.com, but its conversion dead-ended with no MP3 file. So I fired up Audacity to capture the sound in real time, for listening as I walk or drive. Meanwhile, a trip to the file drawers in the barn did locate the Cantometrics folder, with some photocopies and course handout materials from 20-odd years ago, so I added a few more bits of paper, and more than an hour later I’m ready to go on to something else. So it goes.
Finding Onitcani
What a tale! A continuation of the Dumneazu saga noted yesterday, with (1) a food tidbit and (2) a video. Whatever will happen NEXT?
On the Nacirema
James Lileks (author of some ESSENTIAL books) is always entertaining and sometimes downright percipient in fingering the squirmiest aspects of American culture. In a recent posting he unreels Peter Lorre’s Mr. Moto’s Last Warning (1939 –and available via Amazon) and includes some wonderful stills:
of which he notes
Augh! It’s like a blow-up love toy for a planet of mimes
You might also enjoy his Coffee and Chrome: restaurants from the days before the chains among other things on the Menu at his site, like Fargo 1950 and The Institute of Official Cheer.
links for 2008-12-12
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what a wonderful tale and memoir
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from MAKE: Blog, and pretty clear even for those as electronically underendowed as I am…
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from MAKE: Blog, and gives a pretty good rundown on starting points for the hardware. A technology I think I need to understand better…
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from Wondermark and I'll remind you that Hatikva is I'm A Little Teapot (Ionian) in another mode (the Dorian, I think, but perhaps Aeolian would also work since the tune has no seventh degree)… See, "informing people against their will since 1943"
links for 2008-12-10
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Pride and Prejudice reduced
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for finding birds of a feather… I searched for occurrences of one of MY tags [argybargy] and found a few others who use the same, and was able to explore their tagging idiosyncrasies further, and so round and round we go…
my my my
New Google Maps stuff:
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Antipodean excess
Not everybody shares my interest in the further fringes of cultural expression, so not everybody will be diverted by today’s WFMU vinyl finds posting, on stuff from the ummm woolier side of Oz. It did lead me to one of the more magnificent intersections of band-name/album-title/cover-art:
I can state pretty authoritatively that you shouldn’t play any of the items on offer, and be warned that travel to Sydney would be a baaaad idea…