Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Eno on Music for Airports


A brief video on the thoughts behind his legendary composition.


(Via @metanoid)

Monday, June 1, 2009

My new favorite blog


Rudy Rucker, that eminently crazed SF writer/mathematician, recently posted a great piece called Weird Science on boingboing. Among other fascinating items, he points us to the cyberhome of quantum physicist Nick Herbert:


QUANTUM TANTRA


I'll be busy for a while catching up with the archives there...


Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Dance in D Minor


There's just no end to the amazement:



Girls Rock A Giant Piano

(Via Boing Boing.)

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Twitter reaction time


Cool changes coming to Twitter Search | Webware - CNET:


"Finally, a real-time search story from Jayaram, which he used to illustrate the immediacy of Twitter Search during the panel discussion: he told of being in the Twitter offices in San Francisco on March 30, when the Twitter engineers noticed that the word 'earthquake' had suddenly started trending up. They didn't know where the earthquake was. Several seconds later, their building started to shake. The earthquake had been in Morgan Hill, 60 miles south of San Francisco, and the tweets about the shaker reached the office faster than the seismic waves themselves."


(Via @PragueBob.)