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Although these stories are reports about medical research, they are really about computing – in the sense that neither would have been possible without the application of serious computer power to masses of data. In that way they reflect a new – but so far unacknowledged – reality; that in many important fields leading-edge scientific research cannot be done without access to vast computational and data-handling facilities, with sophisticated software for analysing huge data-sets.
- Steven Poole: Working for the Man stevenpoole.net
What would videogaming look like if it rejected the machine as a model for play, if more games incorporated gratuitous moments of relaxation from their constant, accelerated striving? Or if more games did not treat us as employees but as autonomous co-creators?
- Aleatoric music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
Aleatoric music (also aleatory music or chance music; from the Latin word alea, meaning "dice") is music in which some element of the composition is left to chance, and/or some primary element of a composed work's realization is left to the determination of its performer(s). The term is most often associated with procedures in which the chance element involves a relatively limited number of possibilities."
- Generative Music - Brian Eno - In Motion Magazine inmotionmagazine.com
A talk delivered in San Francisco, June 8, 1996
- BENGE: Twenty Systems (Expanding Records) | themilkfactory themilkfactory.co.uk
With Twenty Systems, Edwards creates twenty tracks, one for each of the years between 1968 and 1987, and each built using just one synthesizer. The list of makes, Moog, ARP, Roland, Serge, Korg, Yamaha, Oberheim, and models used is likely to send shivers down the spines of many aficionados, and the accompanying liner notes provide much needed information on each machine.
The procession of technological discoveries is inevitable. When the conditions are right — when the necessary web of supporting technology needed for every invention is established — then the next adjacent technological step will emerge as if on cue. If inventor X does not produce it, inventor Y will.
"How about you make something that would take away that hassle, but still let us send postcards to the people we love - printed objects that would arrive through the letterbox and make those people smile? Hmm?" Please do this, Royal Mail. Or someone else?
- Stephen Bayley's opinion on the battle for Chelsea Barracks | Art and design | The Observer guardian.co.uk
"The fabulous absurdity of the media "debate" between Prince Charles and Richard Rogers is that each is a historical relic. The prince is a throwback to the 18th century and beyond, the architect is a suntanned survivor of the 20th. We are now in the 21st, a century with priorities of its own. Charles's unreflective and ludicrous enthusiasm for anachronism in architecture has its equivalent in Rogers' dogmatic and doctrinaire insistence on aesthetic conflict with metal and glass."
- One & Other oneandother.co.uk
Antony Gormley, the man behind Britain's best-loved sculpture The Angel of the North, is inviting the people of the UK to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London. Every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days without a break beginning on 6th July, a different person will make the Plinth their own.
"Mr Foster says that what must be done is to teach organisations to "expand their talent management agenda from a narrow and tactical focus on human resources activities around the employee life cycle, to a broad and strategic focus on highly integrated systems of capabilities fundamental to business strategies and operations". This is shameful, outrageous bilge."
- BLEEP - Special 5th Birthday feature beta.bleep.com
To celebrate Bleep’s 5th birthday, we asked a select cast of people working in music to pick their 5 favourite releases or tracks from the entire Bleep catalogue.
- Made By Many » Blog Archive » “What Is a Social-Media Agency?” madebymany.co.uk
The old digital agency model is not helpful today. Instead, the industry can learn a lot from social start-ups (like Vimeo - who I am in love with, or SoundCloud) and work as fast as possible, being entrepreneurial, pragmatic, and nimble [...] People in traditional agencies - ‘old new media’ and our cousins in advertising - say they find all of the above quite challenging - which is weird because these agencies are stuffed with really smart people.
- CR Blog » Blog Archive » The Designers Republic Is Dead; Long Live The Designers Republic creativereview.co.uk
Designers Republic goes under. "I’ve never liked that agency model - it’s not where creativity lies. DR accidentally ended up there in order to service bigger clients. I’m not being ungrateful to the people who ran the business side at DR – it wasn’t their fault. I’m glad we did it - it took getting there to make me realise that it wasn’t where I wanted to be."
- Avant Garde Project - 20th Century Classical, Electroacoustic, Avant Garde Music Downloads avantgardeproject.org
A series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today.
- Minotaur Shock minotaurshock.com
New Minotaur Shock album on 4AD: "Instead of doing a Radiohead and asking you to pay what you think the music is worth, I have decided to try and explain what I feel the music is worth, and explain my reasoning. Of course, in an ideal world I would charge you £20.00 per track, but I’m a realist."
- Apple's design process - BusinessWeek businessweek.com
Interesting presentation at SXSW from Michael Lopp, senior engineering manager at Apple, who tried to assess how Apple can ‘get’ design when so many other companies try and fail.
- The Rise of The Ad Man 2.0 : iain tait | crackunit.com crackunit.com
So assuming that the time is right (and it might not be), what would you do to create a brand new agency, like what they did in the 60s?
- you thought we wouldn’t notice » Blog Archive » Ad agency steals entire ad from University of Illinois youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com
UK advertising agency WCRS has just unveiled its new TV ad for “Think!” - the government campaign for safer driving. The ad is ripped entirely from a copyrighted video produced by Daniel J. Simons at the University of Illinois.
- Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | Charlie Brooker: Supposing ... Sandi Thom is the musical antichrist guardian.co.uk
"There's a word for this sort of thing. It's not "art", it's "content". And it's everywhere, measured out by unseen hands, mechanically dangled over the replicants' flapping gobholes; flavourless worms for android hatchlings."
Great Sherburne article on the past, present and future of electronic music. "Scenes and sounds that were once strictly local affairs now have no problem connecting with niche publics anywhere on earth."
- Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD's Coffin wired.com
As counterintuitive as it may seem in this age of iPods and digital downloads, vinyl -- the favorite physical format of indie music collectors and audiophiles -- is poised to re-enter the mainstream, or at least become a major tributary.
- London Design Festival 2007 londondesignfestival.com
"There is an amazing amount to see and do at this year's London Design Festival." Perhaps too much...! Takes place between 15 and 25 September.
- IEEE Spectrum: The Future of Music spectrum.ieee.org
"The loudness war, what many audiophiles refer to as an assault on music (and ears), has been an open secret of the recording industry for nearly the past two decades and has garnered more attention in recent years as CDs have pushed the limits of loudnes
"Pagulayan runs a testing lab for Bungie that looks more like a psychological research institute than a game studio. The room we're monitoring is wired with video cameras that Pagulayan can swivel around to record the player's expressions or see which but
- DeskLickr - Flickrize your Mac desktop! desklickr.isnot.tv
Grabs all its Desktop images from Flickr, while giving you all the options to grab photos from your profile, tag searches or even the DeskLickr group filled with hand selected Desktop goodness.
The design firm DIY Kyoto (as in Kyoto Protocol) recently began selling a device called the Wattson, which not only shows your energy usage but can also transmit the data to a Web site, letting you compare yourself with other Wattson users worldwide.
- How to Grow a Tea Garden - wikiHow wikihow.com
A tea garden is a delightful hobby that can complement your herb garden and will provide you with the joy of fresh tea at a moment's notice.
- Are there any 'famous' last.fm users? | Ask MetaFilter ask.metafilter.com
Good question but from the responses it would seem not.
- 101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed codesqueeze.com
50. Your manager spends his lunch hour crying in his car (another true story)
- gelato cms - di molti sapori gelatocms.com
gelato is a tumblelog CMS built on AJAX, PHP and MySQL.
- The Penguin Blog: In Cyberspace everyone can hear you scream thepenguinblog.typepad.com
When we first started dabbling in Second Life we quickly realized that something interesting Penguin could do would be to bring William Gibson into this strange new place, a place he seemed to have predicted and described years ago...
- stereogum presents...OK X: A Tribute to OK Computer stereogum.com
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Radiohead's OK Computer we've asked some of our favorite musicians to participate in a song-by-song covers compilation.
- LastGraph: Welcome lastgraph.aeracode.org
LastGraph is a wavegraph generator for Last.fm. Give us a username and some dates, and our highly-trained rendering servers will crunch away and produce a lovely graph of your listening habits.
- Last.fm-Mainstream-O-Meter mainstream.vincentahrend.com
The Mainstream-O-Meter calculates your mainstreamness by comparing the listener count of your favorite bands to the average listener count of the five bands who have the most listeners among Last.fm-users.
- Pixelmator pixelmator.com
OS X image editor (Photoshop alternative?) Due soon. Looks pretty natty.
- Zerofootprint zerofootprint.net
"a not-for-profit that combines the best financial engineering, environmental engineering, social networking tools and business intelligence to create products and services that help large corporations, organizations and individuals significantly reduce t
- Change Your World changeyourworld.org.uk
Change Your World is asking you to swap just one car trip from 1-7 July and choose something that's better for the planet instead.
- correlate.us/ correlate.us
TwittyTunes is a FoxyTunes companion Firefox extension - it allows you to post your currently playing songs to Twitter with a click.
- PasswordMaker. One Password To Rule Them All.™ passwordmaker.org
A small, lightweight, free, extension for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Flock, and Yahoo! Widgets which creates unique, secure passwords that are very easy for you to retrieve but no one else.
- Caution: Some soft drinks may seriously harm your health - Independent Online Edition > Health news.independent.co.uk
"A new health scare erupted over soft drinks last night amid evidence they may cause serious cell damage." Great timing.
- Hacking Tumblr - Add FeedBurner Stats to your Tumblelog juxtanews.com
- Interview with Ze Frank on creativity | MetaFilter metafilter.com
Ze Frank discusses some techniques he learned himself to harness his creativity.
- Has thirteen years of WWW ruined my brain? | Ask MetaFilter ask.metafilter.com
Probably.