High Five
Huckleberry definitely feels no need for eternal vigilance.
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My Hero
Edward Tufte, information pioneer.
SXSW Part 3
SXSW Part 3
So it was definitely the year of the female singer at SXSW 2007. Lily Allen was sassy and backed by a horn section. White dudes hooting on tenors, always a good time. The person I was with turned to me about halfway through and said, "I like this but I can’t tell you why." I took that to be a good sign.
Audiophile, with Occasional Music
<i>(all you ever have to know about life is that little girls are taught to dance and little boys are taught to kick it's all over from there my son is going to get <a href="http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=6193">a whole bunch of garbage</a> for his birthday and i'll say here boy play music)</i><br>
—lines from an old poem, "the green water rocks / make me cry," by me
The Peculiar Pleasure of Ear Plugs
Thomas Beller meditates on the pleasures of taking an aural time out. At Tyll Hertsens' urging, I began doing this about 10 years ago—it's amazing how much it makes you hear what you normally tune out. Of course, that's not always a good thing, as Beller points out.
Roll Over Beethoven
"Intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research."
Everything We Thought We Knew About the Sun Is Now Out of Date
The Japanese orbiting solar observatory Hinode has captured startling images of the Sun's outer limb and giant magnetic field loops crashing down into its surface. "Where astronomers expected to see a calm region called the chromosphere, they saw a seething mass of swaying spikes."
Touchstone
It's a good thing for us that Jeremy Denk got restless at a concert recently. One thought led to another, he rushed home to check out a CD he thought linked to his thoughts, and the next thing we know, he's deep into an analysis of the chorale in Beethoven's "Spring" sonata (No. 5 in F, Op. 24).
As She Climbed Across the Audiophile
"Nice blogging," says JA.
Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Especially when it comes to Nikola Tesla.