“Percussion Gun” - White Rabbits
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Oct 20
Sep 08
Autechre - Gantz Graf
Aug 23
High-Speed Robot Hand: “Ishikawa Komuro Lab’s high-speed robot hand performing impressive acts of dexterity and skillful manipulation.”
Jul 16
An illustration of the “nice bijection between the set of binary planar trees and the set of 7-tuples of such trees” from Marcelo Fiore’s paper “Isomorphisms of generic recursive polynomial types”, as discussed here.
Jul 10
“ A musician wakes from a terrible nightmare. In his dream he finds himself in a society where music education has been made mandatory. […] Educators, school systems, and the state are put in charge of this vital project. Studies are commissioned, committees are formed, and decisions are made — all without the advice or participation of a single working musician or composer. Since musicians are known to set down their ideas in the form of sheet music, these curious black dots and lines must constitute the “language of music.” It is imperative that students become fluent in this language if they are to attain any degree of musical competence […] Playing and listening to music, let alone composing an original piece, are considered very advanced topics and are generally put off until college, and more often graduate school.
— “A Mathematician’s Lament” by Paul Lockhart (PDF link)
Jun 25
Please Say Something by David OReilly
The narrow background stripes are orange and magenta. What colour are the bigger spirals? Green and blue, right? Zoom in closer and look more carefully.
Jun 23
Look Around You - Slimby (warning: scary picture)
Jun 19
Ghost in the Machine: The Clash (via iri5)
May 18
“ It’s hard to get good answers to why Young Voters are so uninterested in politics. This is probably because it’s next to impossible to get someone to think hard about why he’s not interested in something. The boredom itself preempts inquiry; the fact of the feeling’s enough.
— The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys And The Shrub by David Foster Wallace (April 2000)
