National Health, “The Apocalypso”

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Kevin

Love this song. Keyboardist Dave Stewart programmed the drum parts manually. Insane.

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Fast, slow, or zombie-like — just run

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Kevin

Running brings out divide between fit and fat Americas – Opinion – The Boston Globe

Here’s the truth: The reason American kids run a mile slowly is because so many adults can’t run one at all. The 15.5 million runners who competed in road races last year cast an oversized shadow that hides the 300 million who didn’t. Proportionally, few adults run; by comparison, our sluggish kids are speed demons.

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The Beauty of Mathematics

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Kevin

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This Is Why You Shouldn’t Interrupt a Programmer

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Kevin

This guy gets it.

This Is Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer

 

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Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Kevin

This is insanely scary and cool at the same time.  From arstechnica:

“We had an air-gapped computer that just had its [firmware] BIOS reflashed, a fresh disk drive installed, and zero data on it, installed from a Windows system CD,” Ruiu said. “At one point, we were editing some of the components and our registry editor got disabled. It was like: wait a minute, how can that happen? How can the machine react and attack the software that we’re using to attack it? This is an air-gapped machine and all of the sudden the search function in the registry editor stopped working when we were using it to search for their keys.”

But the story gets stranger still. In posts here, here, and here, Ruiu posited another theory that sounds like something from the screenplay of a post-apocalyptic movie: “badBIOS,” as Ruiu dubbed the malware, has the ability to use high-frequency transmissions passed between computer speakers and microphones to bridge airgaps.

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Late for Meeting

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Kevin

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Pokédex on Wolfram Alpha

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Kevin

This makes the greatest online reference even better. The full Pokédex is available for your data mining needs.

WA Pokédex

To access it via Siri on iOS7, simply ask “Search Wolfram for Snorelax” (or whatever Pokémon you care about).

My (now teenage) sons would have loved this if only it had been released 5 years ago.

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Steve Albini’s letter to Nirvana on producing In Utero

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Kevin

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New King Crimson lineup!

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Kevin

 KALOO CALLAY!  There’s a new version of King Crimson heading our way!  From DGM Live:

The 8th incarnation of King Crimson will be Gavin Harrison, Bill Rieflin, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Mel Collins, Jakko Jakszyk and Robert Fripp.

Writing on his (not yet published) diary for September 24th Fripp notes “The Point Of Crim-Seeing was of a conventional Back Line – Gavin Harrison, Bill Rieflin, Tony Levin and Pat Matstelotto – reconfigured as the Front Line, with Mel Collins, Jakko Jakszyk and myself as Back Line.”

Robert goes on “All the Crims have expressed great excitement at the return to Go! mode. Given the considerable commitments of all members, it will take a year before Crimson is able to perform.”

 

Bill Rieflin mentioned to me that he told Jacknife Lee (REM and Robbie Williams’ producer) of the triple drumming, and Jacknife’s reply: Of course. We know what two drummers sound like! I’m hoping we’ll find out, and have a pile of fun doing so.”

In his (not yet published) diary for September 7th Fripp begins “dear brother crims, we have one year to prepare for action of the savage variety, and be in Go! mode for september 2014… but essentially, King Crimson is in motion.”

Robert expects that they’ll be rehearsing, in full and small group formations over that period.

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Greatest auction item ever?

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Kevin

Walter White’s Briefs – Current price: $250








These may be the most iconic tighty-whiteys in television.

Breaking Bad begins its run with Walter White wearing this pair of briefs. Throughout the series, Bryan Cranston’s character appears in tighty-whiteys. This underwear, now on display at the Museum of Moving Images, is the pair Walt wore on the first episode of the Emmy-winning show.

Walt’s tighty-whiteys are an iconic, key part of Breaking Bad. They will remain at the museum until the exhibit is over, and will be shipped after Oct. 27, when the exhibit ends.

They are important enough to be in a museum, and will be a treasured addition to any collection.

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