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As the computer revolution progresses there is always a major technical frontier that massive efforts and funding works to conquer. This frontier can be described as the next layer of the onion. It's wider and more expansive then the last. Each layer influences more people and causes more change. The kernel of this onion could be thought of as the transistor. Then followed the microprocessor. Then the operating system. Followed by tool and application development. The network was next.... Read more

Do a Google or YouTube search on Gamification and you will hear many people talking about how its the way of the future for products and services. The gist is that FarmVille, Groupon, Coupons, Air Miles and even capitalism itself is just a game. We should treat more products and services as a game. Use game design theory to add a carrot and stick to more products and services and then profit by better controlling consumer behavior. Recently I met someone who told me that the health care... Read more

Most desktop computers are a pile of interesting sensors, high speed processors, displays, memory. However the web is generally walled off from accessing all this in a simple way. This is generally because of security concerns and the fact that a webbrowser is an extremely large monolithic piece of software. These days with extensions process protection a webbrowser is essentially a poorly designed operation system. I'd like to see more ideas like Googles Native Client. Virtualization lik... Read more

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Bitcoin is an interesting new experiment in electronic currency. A user can send these and receive Bitcoin electronically and anonymously. Its easy to include in an email for example. Furthermore, there is no central organization that has control over it. The entire system runs p2p. The source code and all the transaction data are fully transparent. The internet is full of people talking about this thing right now. Here is a Slate article. There are a number of challenges to creating... Read more

Listened to a fun math nerdy podcast: http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2009/11/30/numbers/ The 20 minute point is where it gets interesting to me. I had never heard of Bedford's Law.

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This watch is well known for its link to terrorism. You can guess that I was truly terrified when I saw this.

I was shocked when I heard someone say in the late 1990's. "Some people think the personal computer is strictly a way to present advertisements" It was like hearing that Santa Clause isn't real. My mind feared it might be true, and fought against it. Over the past 10 years I have seen the internet fail to become the micropayment universe where people pay for what they felt was valuable. Instead the internet contributors are rewarded based on revenue from advertisements. In college th... Read more

The best tribute I got. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex30DYwQlHU

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“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” - Ghandi It doesn't always go that way. In some ways Ghandi won, then worked backwards. Now let me talk about GCC. Intel has a compiler. Microsoft has a compiler. The world has a complier. Nobody will every start from scratch again. I promise. Its over. The last compiler has been written. Python is written in C, Java is written in C, PHP is written in C, Unix is written in C. Every... Read more

http://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/17/synchronized-fireflies/

Nice interface for longer informative video. http://fora.tv/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsgvhP07BC8 I really like his rational approach to charity.

hulu just showed me an ad for googles browser chrome. First of all, its not ready yet for my mac. Second of all....Did google pay a zillion dollars for youtube? Third....

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I'm still alive. Maybe I lost my blog password for three month. Maybe I played a little bit too much Castle Crashers. Maybe I disconnected from the internet. Talk is cheap, silence is golden. Maybe I just didn't have anything to say. However something occurred to me. I thought I would share. First I have to make the argument that advertising costs the customers money. Money in extra money spent on products they don't need. Money in a higher priced product because of advertising... Read more

We shipped our iphone app! Please try it, if you like it review it. I think at 1$ its a steal. Its called 'Recorder' you will find it in the app store or on itunes. now I leave you with this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yoL8TphmB0

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/09/otoy-developing-server-side-3d-rendering-technology/

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Audio technology isn't improving. It's basically dead in the water. You can say 44.1k 16bit is good enough for anyone and be correct (not counting 'pros'). The digital audio signal has saturated our perception. The typical internet connection can easily carry it. The typical cpu can process it to death. and you can nearly store *all* recorded contect on a single harddrive (coming soon). Video will go the same way. Here is my road map to saturating human visual with digitial equipment...... Read more

google streammygame. Its a way to stream one game from one computer in HD to another computer or machine on your local network. This will eventually be possible over the internet. In my last article I mentioned that consolidation is efficiency. Streaming games has advantages that will make it the only way to play certain games in the future. -copy protection: you can't copy it if you don't have the game -more pricing control: game 'publishers' will be able to charge you per pla... Read more

I suggest this video for your side-by-side reading multitasking experience. In the mid 90s I bought a rendition verite GPU and was excited to run vquake. Quake was the first significat attempt at a true 3d first person shooter with client server networking. VQuake was the first GPU accellerated game For the next 10 or 15 years nvideo and ati have remained the two major dedicated graphics processing companies. GPUS offload graphics tasks from the CPU. However these days companies like... Read more

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Deceptively "Usage Note: When deceptively is used to modify an adjective, the meaning is often unclear. Does the sentence The pool is deceptively shallow mean that the pool is shallower or deeper than it appears? When the Usage Panel was asked to decide, 50 percent thought the pool shallower than it appears, 32 percent thought it deeper than it appears, and 18 percent said it was impossible to judge. Thus a warning notice worded in such a way would be misinterpreted by many of the people who ... Read more

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JFK Reloaded is a simulation of Oswalds view of JFK that scores you on how closely you can recreate the assassination. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqV-tNL0vbE

My friend Zach sent me this. I think its quite interesting. http://shufflebrain.com/GDC2006.htm After using the iphone for about 2 weeks, I found that its less functional (The keyboard is slower and requires more attention) then my sidekick, but more fun.

Amazon web services are cool because they let individuals do things that previously were impossible. They are working their hardest to break down the barrier of entry to many different software projects. For instance, they let you leverage their web crawlers and web searchers. Mechanical Turk is also quite cool. You can enlist the human web to complete tasks for you. here and here are good examples. Putting humans behind robotic tasks is interesting. Putting robots behind human tasks... Read more

http://www.cracked.com/article_16153_7-greatest-home-shopping-screw-ups-all-time.html

The PC has given way to the notebook. I am sure that personal computer sales are way down. Everyone wants notebooks. Will cellphones replace notebooks? The most impressive games used to be on the PC. It always lead the way in graphics and technology. These days consoles (xbox360 ps3) have lots of reliable dedicated horse power. Will consoles replace PC's as the primary leaders in games? PCS are general platforms. They can be configured to be game machines, servers, webbrowsers, dev... Read more

I was always amused that the computer kept its name. When you could first buy a home computer, there was very little software and really, the best way to describe the thing was 'computer'. Software and networks changed all that. People didn't think they were going to go 'compute' something, they were going to send an email, play a game, write a report, etc. We are constantly redefining our words in order to keep up. The cell phone is going to be the same way.

I posted a breif article at the beginning of last year about the iPhone. A year or so has past. I have been using one for about a week now (its a requirement of a small gig I found myself into). My original observations were. 1.)Consumer barriers... expensive and you have to switch carriers It is a bit pricy. However the price has dropped to 399. At this point the value of product is totally on par with the price. Its just a little frightening to have such a small expensive produc... Read more

I have always concidered melodyne to have some quite magical technology. They are one of the only software music companies that has products that are truly revolutionary. Gizmodo refers to their latest application as 'photoshop for music'. However I would consider applications like Adobe Audition and ProTools to be more analogous to photoshop. Melodyne is a level deeper then this. They have tools that allow you to decompose and reconstruct music signals in ways that are simply never see... Read more

I love this video. We are still talking about this stuff. I just wish we used the term sysop more often. here

I am not an expert on this stuff but, I am knowledgeable enough to be frustrated. Any creative person needs know about trademarks, copyrights, and patents. Here is my birds eye view of these things. Trademarks allows a company to prevent other companies from using a distintive symbol and misrepresenting it. Copyright allows creators to control when their work is copied. By default, nobody can copy something they didn't create without permission. Patents allow creators to control ... Read more

Notebook computers come with many connectors and interfaces. Keyboards, mice, usb ports, pcmcia, phone modems, network, cellular, microphones, webcams, various doc ports, audio in, audio out, wifi, cd drives, memory card readers, finger print readers, video out, dvid, vga, on and on and on. There is one common machine interface that notebook computers do not read thats the credit card...and maybe the bar code (although, webcams are sometimes programmed to do it) Why doesn't amazon subsidi... Read more

http://audio.skeyelab.com/howtospeakhip/

One of the things I like about technology is that it creates brand new worlds to play in. Being able to do something small that you couldn't do before can sometimes open up brand new possibilities. I thought I would make a list of technologies that have become very available in the last 2 years or so. *accessible massively parallel computing at home example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA PC's might not be increasing in cycles per second, but they are making huge gains in parallel ... Read more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T2alAxyHBo its so nerdy...how did i miss it?

something is going on. gmail seems broken. it doesn't accept my passwords? Anyone have any idea?

http://www.photobasement.com/41-hilarious-science-fair-experiments/ Awesome!

here Wikipeida says 'The "oldest known song" was written in cuneiform, dating to 4,000 years ago' In 1877 - Edison made the first recording of a human voice ("Mary had a little lamb"). That means that people have enjoyed making money selling music recordings for at most 130 years. People have enjoyed making music for 30 times that long. Its possible the whole of selling music recordings to listeners is basically over. In the history of music, it basically never happened. It might b... Read more

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Lasers are quite simply fantastic. -you can use them to heat things up -you can use them to cool things down -you can use them to damage eyes -you can use them to repair eyes -write cds -read cds -surgery -warfare Here is an article about how awesome lasers and their new cousin Bose Einstein Condensation are http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec/lascool1.html

I flew 2000 miles to Ohio for the Christmas. Today I when to go try to catch up on a little work at a panera. Because I used my credit card in Ohio my bank deactivated it. I called them about this and the hold music on the phone matched the background music in panera with one and a half seconds of delay. Keep in mind my bank is in CA and the phone number was a 1800 number. They were probably both playing the classical station on some corporate music feed, still a bit shocking.viagra ciali... Read more

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Here are some links I have been sent relating to creating visual representations of things previously not visualized. Here is one on music creation http://lostgarden.com/2007/09/celestial-music.html Here is one on general data http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/10/18/charts-and-graphs-modern-solutions/ Here is one on you http://photomatt.net/2007/10/17/gravatar-sold/

check out the fantastic wiki entry.

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Musical instruments are invented now and then to allow artists to produce and sometimes control or distort sounds. Humans tend to pick things up and bang on them, pluck them, to make music. Once in awhile a great musician gets his hands on a particular pluckable or bangable object and makes memorable music with it. Other musicians replicate this memorable music on a similar object and eventually an actual musical instrument solidifies to a body of music.. These days machines help us rem... Read more

microsoft paint hasn't changed in about a decade. Here is a bunch of people (mac zellots? they sure look it) making fun of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxx2KcPWWZg

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r kelly's hip hopera is pretty fun. here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUVLNghzLtI and thankfully he is making more, check the recap. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qObl4GMcnA

Written communication was a big part of human history. As soon as a culture could write, its ability to last beyond a single generation greatly increased. This caused sophistication of a culture to sky rocket. Today people still use the written word to communicate with each other and document history. Yet the written word is often on a connected computer network capable of communicating in a more effective way. A friend turned me onto http://infosthetics.com/ This site is about communi... Read more

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I can't quite understand what is happening. Apparently its becoming increasingly popular to consider some words unsayable. Hip-hop has come out of its dope filled haze to agree with this down right attack on reason. Its like Harry Fucking Potter around here. Suddenly single words wield more power then the concepts and violence that surround them. This video contains shadowy cowards that likely have a problem with words.

a friend pointed me to: http://www.getitinwriting.biz/blog/2007/04/amazing-advertisements_678.html

Lets take a moment to think about how awesome electricity is. First we have these early rock star inventors, Edison, Tesla, Faraday. Then we have this power grid which is all about magnets. Magnets are awesome as well, but lets save that for another entry. All the plugs in your house can be traced back to some kind of generator spinning a magnet that pushes electrons in a circle through the circuit. Nuclear, wind, water, natural gas, coal, all work this way. Photo voltaic is the only power... Read more

www.snapstrip.com This is a fun project of ours. Most easily described as photobooth for Windows. Try it, Digg it. Send me some photos you take with it.

Had a great trip. I'll share pictures someday.

Here is a relevant comic. (Thanks Eric. ) I'll post some pictures later.

I work over in the mission right next to the oqo building, here. Today a half a block away a bunch of shots were fired, tons of high school students screamed, police came. It was nasty.

It isn't very often that the good stuff is also the popular stuff. The Love Below is the best-selling rap album of all time and is the good stuff. Although I wouldn't call it rap by any means. The Love Below is music, its a fantastic album. Every single track brings something new, lyrically or musically. The album as a whole isn't classifiable to a specific genre. Its pretty damn universal. Today would be a good day to listen to it for the first or 100th time.

http://www.dailymotion.com/idontlikewords/video/2349082 thanks for the heads up eric.

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That last post was quite large. I wouldn't read it. I generally don't read *any* writing on the web unless it is interlaced with images. So, quickly, with lots of pictures and videos. If you never met a Chinese person and they just started talking at you wouldn't really know if they were intelligent. Likewise if you ran into a gain of sand, you wouldn't know if it was intelligent. However with a translator such as someone who speaks English and Chinese or a microprocessor, you... Read more

Throughout history humans and other live forms have, over generations destroyed their environment and suffered for it. Relatively small communities of humans have starved or forced to migrate because of damage done to their environment. This generally takes generations to accomplish. We are now a global community. There isn't any place to migrate too. Over generations it is possible to ruin our global environment. In fact, our free market encourages it. "A free market is a market where ... Read more

podzinger is a search engine that allows you to search through speech in video or audio for keywords that you type in your browser. you can now search through youtube as well. which is quite amazing. podzinger also shows you where in the video the text you were searching for shows up. very very neato. here is a video with lasers. My same friend from podzinger also sent me this fantastic project.

Performing a cover or your own personal take on a piece of music is against the rules. The original artist can get made and use lawyers to liberate cash from your pockets. Recently face punch magnet Ben Folds did a cover of Dr Dre's 'Bitches Ain't Shit'. Its a modern love song about being wronged, disillusioned, but keeping a positive view of life, staying loc'ed. check it out I don't know what Ben Folds arrangement is with Dr Dre, but it seems Mr. Folds has full license to Dr. D... Read more

Bombs come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. It can be difficult to determine if something is a bomb especially while in its pre explosion mode. Its ironic that this pre explosion period of a bombs life is also the most important time to identify them. Until sometime closer to the end of civilization as we know it, conventional bombs are the most easily obtained. A conventional bomb has three main parts. 1.) An Igniter The igniter is the part of the bomb that kicks off its metamor... Read more

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What if I were to tell you that there was a drug that millions of people were addicted too. With out it, addicts of this drug turn into zombies until they get their fix. Its comforting, safe, relaxing, even euphoric for about 15 minutes, then it steals 8 hours from your life. Such a drug would be considered a massive social problem. Politicians would talk about it, the press would write about it, businesses would spend money on it, and scientists would try to solve it. Well, we are all af... Read more

Living in the techno-lust capital of the world makes it hard to ignore apples new gadget porn. Everyones eyes are dilated over this thing, and it is a beautiful. I think this thing is going to be a huge success. Apple philosophy is that everyone wants a phone lets just make the absolute uncompromising best. Let me run through some of the draw backs, it will only take a second. 1.) holy cow, $599 is really expensive when you have to sign a 2 year contract with someone who isn't your carri... Read more

seti is a interesting group that is searching the universe by listening. They are looking for radio frequencies in the universe that statistically are unlikely to occur without being caused by intelligent life. It would be like digging in the dirt, looking for something organized or structured. If you dug in the dirt and found a watch you would assume that something intelligent created it. The strength of the single caused by a radio wave never fully goes to zero. As far as I can tell it... Read more

Last night against my better judgement I watched the new Superman movie. It was quite bad. Superman had no character. No personality. The movie relied entirely on characters that were already created without developing them itself at all. For some strange reason Superman was really into Lois Lane but I could see no good reason for that at all. There were five minutes left on the movie and I turned it off. I had no interest in how they decided to end that crap pile.

Some people consider democracy as an ultimate decision making system for government. However it allows unreasonable policy to be put into place by a powerful majority. Democracy maybe the best tool we have now, however there must be a better way. Public attacks on reason are tantamount to racial and religious attacks. When large groups of people who have strong beliefs that are not backed by reason make public policy in government or in society it infringes on other peoples freedoms. Re... Read more

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Joel is ranting about the 7 ways to turn off Windows Vista. I agree this is a user interface nightmare (there are about 7 ways to control the volume of an application as well, equally frustrating...potentially deafening) However, I think that programmers subconsciously add ways to turn off computers. After all, we all have a fear that someone will design a computer that cannot be turned off, we know that this is the beginning of the end.

Time Magazine named 'You' the person of the year, officially jumped the shark, and became obsolete all at the same time. Alright that might have been a bit harsh. Google patent search is a hot topic right now. Now its easy discover that someone has thought of everything you have, and they have patented it too. Google also released an sdk. I haven't looked at it yet, but I will speculate wildly and carelessly. These days a webbrowser is a complex thing. It has a million little p... Read more

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Here is a video of someone making music. I decided to make one too.

Rob Hubbard wrote all his music by programming. Here he is reading his source code which was the score for his orchestra which was a small peice of silicon that had 3 oscillators. His songs and their players would sometimes have to fit in 512 bytes which is smaller then many emails. This paragraph fills over 300 bytes. Here is a real orchestra playing more music from the above hampster adaptation of the game 'Monty on the Run' Here they are playing Commando. I don't li... Read more

m-w, my favorite dictionary has improved their site. For instance to find the definition of the word ‘set’ you would simply goto: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/set There are 35 entries. From hair to sports the word set is very widely used. In math(s) and computer science a set is a collection or container of unique items. Its a bag that contains no duplicates. You could have a set of integers, tv remotes, an empty set, or a set of some other sets. If you are a musici... Read more

Because spam exists, it must work in some way. One of the new products being spammed are stock symbols. Sharp critical thinkers might say, "That can't work. Nobody is dumb enough to by stock based on a spam message." Slightly less sharp creative people might say, "Well, if it exists and thrives, then it must work in some way." Others might do the actual research because both stock activity and spam are some of the most accesssable kinds of information in the world. Are people making mon... Read more

My brother turned me onto the indy game defcon. It minimal and stylish. It really pulls you in. I play the cabal video game across the street from my office in a laundromat. I am a big fan of laundromats partially because of my facination with the characters that surrounded the dawn of the electric age (Tesla, Edison, Westinghouse) I also wanted to drop Westinghouses logo here cause its awesome and they owned the term laundromat. its a paul rand. For the past 6 months I played a si... Read more

http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html A couple little interesting facts. -The world has 6.5 billion people in it. -The US has the 3 largest population by country. -China is #1 with 1.3 billion people. -Asian accounts for about 5 billion total. -1 billion people use the internet. That last one is especially interesting. In my life time 1 billion people started using the internet. It used to be a geeky thing. 6 years ago I spent hours in a car being told that the i... Read more

A friend turned me onto Last.fm Its worth your time if you like music, or like liking things. If you like not liking things then you are probably with me in enjoying the horriable new Apple ads. "I'm a mac" "I'm a PC" The PC guy is much more likable then the hipster Mac user. He is also a talented hobo namer. I will stay on topic by linking his one take contribution to the world. As you would hope, he reads his collection of 700 hobo names over hobo guitar. Listen to the whole t... Read more

I am a huge fan of both Edison and Tesla. These guys were two forward thinking electrical madmen. Edison was a workaholic (hated sleep,booze) inventor (made stuff) tinkerer, business man (owned factories) and general psyco (keep reading) who was obsessed with robot dolls. Tesla seemed to be more interested in truth and alternating current. I am really really excited to find that David Bowie will play Nikola Tesla in a Christopher Nolan flick.

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I am sitting in a Pan(t)era coffee shop somewhere in Columbus. It’s a great place to sit with a notebook. Large, fairly comfy, free samples, etc. Rowdy group of 65 year olds sat down next to me and basically p0wn3d the joint like a bunch of pool stick wielding hells angles. Their chatter was forced into my head and bounced around for awhile until I could get some ear phones on as quickly as a gas mask in a chemical attack. I was able to drown it all out with some De_Stijl. Youngs a... Read more

This thing is really quite amazing. See if you can spot: Candles Slow motion doves Dudes that have an direct interpretation of 'bright eyes' Chairs with wings Ballerina ninjas Swimmers splashed in the eye Mysterous doors that open with silk curtins More silk curtins Strange gay dinner parties Dancing mummies Fencers Dancers from thriller Interpretive football proms. Mega 80's hair Mega 80's hair (hands in) Dancers from fame. ... Read more

Allergies have always fascinated me. One of my earliest memories is running around the house and the yard, sticking my noise in everything to detect if I was allergic. Swing set, no. TV no. I was almost disappointed that I was allergic to nothing. \ I stumbled across an article that mentions links between cleanliness and sneezyness. For some time I have noticed the same connection. When I was in grade school I specifically remember that kids of overprotective parents always had allergies... Read more

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Spacy, catchy, light and hard all at the same time. This album is good from beginning to end. Give it a listen now or in another 15 years. It will still be good then too.

Today’s educational system is the major framework that keeps the rich rich, and the poor poor. In general poor neighborhoods have poor schools. They have less college placement. Connected wealthy people have little trouble getting into college provided they show up. Many jobs won't read your resume if you don't have a college education. There are exceptions and people are able to break free of these barriers. The good news is that the rate at which quality essential course inform... Read more

I am interested in creative communication. The idea is that everyones email looks the same. Its boring text. I personally have hard time detecting personality in raw text. In person, everyone has they own style of getting ideas across. Being a good writer is less common then a good communicator. Right now attaching multimedia to the web and to emails is extremely difficult. There are filters, patents, copyrights, costs, etc. This is going to go away. Lets get to the point. I spent... Read more

Some people think machines will robots will take over our planet. Other people think machines are a part of the natural evolution of life. Some people write music about robot human battles. Technology is an extension to humans. It changes the way we think, the way we communicate and the way we live. Communciations networks are one of the things that have been rapidly changing over the past 60 years. Nearly every American has a chunk of technology in arms reach containing batteries,a s... Read more

A friend of mine pointed me to this. I love it. http://www.desktopblues.lichtlabor.ch/ Another friend showed me this http://www.guitarshredshow.com/

http://www.quylob.net/archives/treat_your_mother_right.php This one goes out to Brian L. provided by my friend Eric.

In high school I would sit next to this guy named Drew Calendar. We spent most of our time talking about Mr. Belvedere . As far as we could tell the lyrics from the theme song went something like this… Streaks on the china, never been there before, who cares? Drop kick your jacket, as you came though the door, no one there. Lives more then mere survival, gunna make a new arrival, and we may just live the good life yet. (If you have a take on the lyrics, it would be great if... Read more

My brother pointed me to http://www.pandora.com. Apparently a bunch of people collected high level descriptors for thousands of musicians and their songs. One of the things they can do with this information is suggest music to listeners. Collecting lots of metadata deliberately from humans is hard. Yet it can provide some very useful applications. Amazons "Users who bought this also bought" system which rarely tells you something new, or purely software analysis that only tell AI nerds wh... Read more