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Song Structure
Here’s a very interesting article from Hometracked regarding the structure of [lastfm:Linkin Park]’s songs. A simple analysis does indeed indicate what I might call a ‘consistent’ approach to production… All…
Chevron in Ecuador
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/29/10677/ This story about Chevron is just outrageous. Even in context the “little countries” quote is just crazy. It’s a shame a man in Obama’s position can’t take more of…
Jay Electronica
http://www.last.fm/music/Jay+Electronica/_/Act+1:+Eternal+Sunshine+(the+pledge)?autostart I’m loving this. Jay is in the process of being corrupted by E. Badu, but it’s no reason to hate on him (until he turns to Kanye for beats…
John Pilger – Martha Gellhorn Prize
John made mention of this prestigious prize and its deserving winners during the Q&A session after yesterday’s showing of The War on Democracy. http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=488 “In the spirit of the great…
David Fleming – Energy & Anarchy
7pm, Room 8, Lambeth Town Hall Talk by David Fleming – Energy and Anarchy “The market is not the solution; it is part of the problem”. David proposes an alternative.…
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Excellent study into potential benefits of regular glucosamine supplementation, with broad range of confounding covariates considered. TLDR: take glucosamine!
Everybody I have spoken to with direct experience of Amazon’s corporate culture is impressed with the level of productivity it unlocks.
The author has only anecdotal support for his assertion, but I have the same experience: “Configuration bugs are a disturbingly large portion of engineering decisions which cause outages”
Disappointed to come back to SketchUp after several years to find it costs hundreds of dollars to use on my desktop?!
Reddit is awesome – check out this response to my query about the translation of some Japanese text on a garment I have
Having often intuitively leaned towards a “version control” mental paradigm for spreadsheets, documents, designs, photos, etc. this project is super interesting – version control for everything
Some important reflections on the culture of geography in the tech community from Maggie Appleton here.