Parker’s advanced improvisations explore the infinite possibilities of free music, with circular breathing, harmonics and sometimes unbroken rhythmic note patterns, all gradually metamorphosising into seamless streams of improvised music, tonight featur

roughly 6,000 individuals who have “the ability to regularly influence the lives of millions of people in multiple countries worldwide.” They are the “superclass” of the 21st century, spreading across borders in an ever thickening web, with a growing all

the experiences (and results) were so different that it’s clear to me that the very familiarity and comfort with the Google experience has a major effect on users — even me. This is beyond “network effect.”

By treating the debate on alternatives to maintaining organised crime’s monopoly as a no-go area, this report helps entrench the view that the basic tenets of prohibition cannot be challenged. In doing so it actually helps perpetuate the policy whose fail

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes

“‘Yeah it’s like funky dubby ofbeat techno with nuff sub-bass, guv.’ Erm, no, if anyone asks I usually start mumbling something including the words dub, techno and garage and then give up realising those signifiers mean nothing to them either.”

From 9th August 2008, you will be able to gather your own impression of Orwell’s face from reading his most strongly individual piece of writing: his diaries.

Face swapping software finds faces in a photograph and swaps the features in the target face from a library of faces. This can be used to “de-identify” faces that appear in public, such as the faces of people caught by the cameras of Google Street View.

The scientists have gone home, but the ideas remain, manifested in experiments, moving autonomously in the darkness toward a revelation.

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Another use for the Taxonomy is in finding a fallacy whose name you do not know, but you do know what general type of mistake you are looking for. Start with a general fallacy, and “drill down” into the Taxonomy until you find it.

Britain has “the lowest level of social mobility in the developed world”, with poor children less likely to escape their backgrounds than they were in the 1950s.

He’s trying to track down the fruits of the ’70s African funk boom, before all the vinyl decays or gets lost, and meeting the people who made the records along the way.

It’s like the audio equivalent of a moving spiral. It always seems to be moving up but you realise after a while it can’t possibly be going anywhere. It’s remarkably compelling though.

The bands are finally poised to release their debut album, which promises to be a joyous jumping bean of a record, oozing with hillbilly, blues, and old-fashioned R&B.

a research fellow at Harvard Medical School, is developing a computer program that translates protein and gene expression into music: harmony represents good health, and discord indicates disease

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In its most basic form it can send velocity information to trigger percussion, or modulate instrument parameters like cutoff and resonance. With a few simple changes it becomes a pitch sequencer

The super-stealth search project was founded by highly respected search experts. Husband and wife team Tom Costello (CEO) and Anna Patterson (VP Engineering) were joined by Russell Power. Patterson and Power are also ex-Google employees, and the company h

Our pledge states we do not want or need a corporate chain restaurant like Nando’s in Stoke Newington Church Street.

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Working from home is a balancing act, to be sure. But pre-planning, negotiation, flexibility, perseverance—and, of course, quiet time—are all you need to successfully walk the blurry line between work and home

A representative for the artist said Fernandez did not wish to comment.

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The human race has only 23 years left, and it’s up to you to save us! The countdown begins in 2019.

The battle for computer science rap domination between MC Plus+ and Monzy alone makes the film worth its weight in iPhones, if for no other reason than to watch the two reconcile Jay-Z and Nas-style at and CES event in 2007.

When you want to make a private picture or note available only to your friends, why do you hand it over to a multi-national corporation first?

So here’s the question: how much of our life that we share with the Web 2.0 giants do we really *need* to share? How much of these services can and should we be running from the comfort of our own homes?

This Saturday, about 35 people, some with giant fake cameras on their heads, will take photographs around Cal Anderson Park from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. to protest the city’s video surveillance program.

Illegal downloaders can be detected easily by an enforcement team set up by the BPI, the music trade body. Its monitors log on to websites where music is available to copy, such as LimeWire and BitTorrent, and note the IP addresses of those who use these

Photographer Phillip Todelano has put up “Days With My Father,” a haunting and beautiful photo-essay about his relationship with his elderly father, who has no short-term memory

In the above clip, a completely shitfaced woman really, really wants to know just when the internet started. What’s amazing is how polite the 999 operator was. Awesome stuff

He suggests that there isn’t a single thing that is consciousness, just a collection of mental components, but the fact we’ve named it as a single thing fools us.

This is what most impresses me about professional magicians. The slight of hand and the perceptual tricks are cool, but its the cognitive magic, the shaping of expectancies through narrative, that makes them seem so wondrous.

My weekly “keep local systems in line” reminder just popped up on my iPhone. Bringing order to the galaxy can be such a chore sometimes

Ingenious hackers and productivity thinkers, however, have taken paper to the next level in a huge variety of ways, creating templates for pocket organizers, super-handy calendars, thoughtful gifts, and even makeshift tools.

Designers of digital experiences should rejoice when an articulate critic comes along, because that’s a crucial step in making digital stuff better.

After ruminating negatively on the state of the scene, he posts responses from various musicians, producers as follows:

Ack! The computer ate my term paper!

“Boot sector corrupt. Config.sys missing. Disk cannot be read.”

In other words, “You’re screwed.”

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Do other cities use classical music in this way, in the UK or around the world? Is this insidious social brainwashing or just a part of music in everyday life? And what’s the strangest place you’ve encountered your favourite music playing in public?

she adequately develops a pretty solid interactionist theory of music, mapping out music’s social role as a “technology of identity” that in turn facilitates the construction of the self.

an intellectual revolution is under way that will change the way we think about public policy just as the free market economists did in the 1980s.

The idea that we are entering a new era in which policy is created by politicians who have an empirical understanding of human nature is a compelling one.

The average 14-year-old can hear more music in a month than someone would have heard in an entire lifetime just 300 years ago,” says psychologist Dan Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain on Music.

As part of his alleged sabotage, Childs engineered a tracing system to monitor what other administrators were saying and doing related to his personnel case, law enforcement officials said.

By showing that the world could be described mathematically, Pythagoras not only provided an important inspiration for physics, but he also discovered a particular affinity between mathematics and music

And far from being a radical tearaway from an inner-city council estate, the man we have identified as Banksy is, perhaps all too predictably, a former public schoolboy brought up in middle-class suburbia.

lo-fi instant playback looping sampler designed to achieve the classic glitching / stuttering/ skipping effect by pushing a single button. This version is a limited run of 15 designed bearing the audiobulb logo and trademark orange and black.

The French Jesuit monk’s invention was initiated by his interest in Newton’s theory of optics resulting in a musical instrument that advocated a direct relationship between light and sound.

Watch the making-of video to learn about how the video was made and the various technologies that were used to capture and render 3D data.

The report explores the trend of loosely organized clusters of hackers trading stolen data online being replaced by hierarchical cybercrime organizations