links for 2010-04-06
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my music for controllers gets released on the blacksquare netlabel
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“Latinos are half of the population of L.A. but they still see us as an uncomfortable appendage, as if we were a tumor that grows on and invades half the body; it is occupying the space but it is not the body itself.”
Kevin Roderick: Daniel Hernandez, the former Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly staff writer now working for the LAT bureau in Mexico City, is not a fan of The Entryway.
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“schliz writes “Like in World of Warcraft, students of Indiana University’s game design classes start as Level 1 avatars with 0 XP, and progress by completing quests solo, as guilds, or in ‘pick up groups.’ Course coordinator Lee Sheldon says students are responding with ‘far greater enthusiasm,’ and many specifics of game design could also be directly applied to the workforce. These included: clearly defining goals for workers; providing incremental rewards; and balancing effort and reward.”"
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“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.”
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“Hindsight is always 1080p.
One #hashtag does not a trending topic make.
Too many hosts spoil the podcast.
That’s a hard act to unfollow…. and more” -
“Decades before last month’s tragic earthquake, Haiti was in the news because of an upheaval of an entirely different kind. The republic had been occupied by American troops for 19 years. But after a series of bloody massacres and insurrections, the U.S. Marines were withdrawn in 1934. Two years later, an American named Alan Lomax landed in Haiti not with weapons but with a portable recording device. He’d been commissioned by the Library of Congress to document Haiti’s ethnomusic traditions.”
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Exploring the work of the filmmaker who defined the term “eccentric genius.”
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“Huarache de Cabeza
A huarache, the definitive unit of Mexico City street food, is a flattish, concave trough of masa shaped like a size-12 sandal, pan-fried or deep-fried, then smeared with beans, sprinkled with meat and layered with lettuce, grated cheese and cream. Part of the fun is eating the thing — a huarache is too brawny to attack with a flimsy plastic fork, and you will either burn your fingers or wait for your lunch to cool into corn-flavored cement. Emily Post provides no guidelines for eating a huarache. You can have a huarache topped with almost anything, from the black corn fungus called huitlacoche to standard-issue steak, but I like it best with cabeza — rich, gelatinous meat pulled from a cow’s head and cooked down into an ultraconcentrated essence of beef. El Huarache Azteca #1, 5225 York Blvd., Highland Park.”
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great blog by reporters telling the “story about the story”
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the place to go for authentic fish tacos!
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“The school board turns over most of the 30 campuses targeted for reform to instructors.
In an unlikely victory, groups of teachers, rather than outside operators, will run the vast majority of 30 campuses under a controversial school reform effort, the Los Angeles Board of Education decided Tuesday.” -
interesting that this comes out the week i get a mirror-less m43 camera this. i am the zeitgeist!
“Mirrorless, interchangeable-lens cameras could change the game for the DSLR, which has been the fastest growing sector of the camera market.”
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“when i was a kid we had to write on both sides of the paper, i guess i learned not to throw things out from there”
“i really don’t think an image should be owned, how can you own words?” -
” have a particular interest in a style of tuning called just-intonation, where the notes of an instrument are tuned to pure harmonic intervals, which can be expressed mathematically as whole number fractions (2/1, 3/2, 4/3, etc…). Contemporary western musicians are almost completely ignorant of just-intonation, despite its supreme simplicity. Lou Harrison says it well: “It seems to me that children – when they come to fractions in their study of mathematics – ought to be allowed to tune these relationships; &, too, that they certainly might well learn the ratios for at least the two commonest modes of their own culture.”
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