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Songza: The music search engine & internet jukebox. Listen. Now.
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3:41pm
390 reviews
music
•http://songza.com/
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Having a lot of fun with this online search engine/music player. The playlist feature is nice, and the interface is very user-friendly.
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Surchur - the latest. the greatest. -
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1:22pm
2 reviews
search, politics, internet-tools
•http://surchur.com/
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I like the concept a lot. It would be perfect if you could choose from more sources and add/remove/arrange them - sort of like a combination between this and popurls.
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Meteorites Delivered The Seeds Of Earths Left-hand Life, Experts Argue
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Apr 6, 10:51am
4 reviews
science
•http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/...
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"All earthbound meteors catch an excess of one of the two polarized rays..."
Fascinating explanation of how left-handed amino acids from space may have given rise to life on earth.
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Dads Hidden Influence: Science News Online, March 29, 2008
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Apr 3, 9:38am
2 reviews
science
•http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/2...
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How a father's age and exposure to environmental toxins can affect his sperm - and his offspring.
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Seed: Out of the Blue
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Apr 2, 1:50am
5 reviews
neuroscience
•http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008...
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Great article about Blue Brain, a simulation of a .5mm x 2mm baby rat's neocortical column. It's an attempt to model a brain from the bottom up, starting with data obtained from lab experiments about the basic functions of the ion channels in neurons.
Ghost in the machine?
It didn't take long before the model reacted. After only a few electrical jolts, the artificial neural circuit began to act just like a real neural circuit. Clusters of connected neurons began to fire in close synchrony: the cells were wiring themselves together. Different cell types obeyed their genetic instructions. The scientists could see the cellular looms flash and then fade as the cells wove themselves into meaningful patterns. Dendrites reached out to each other, like branches looking for light. "This all happened on its own," Markram says. "It was entirely spontaneous." For the Blue Brain team, it was a thrilling breakthrough. After years of hard work, they were finally able to watch their make-believe brain develop, synapse by synapse. The microchips were turning themselves into a mind.
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John Mark Harriss Evryali Graph Scroller
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Mar 23, 8:58pm
2 reviews
music-composition
•http://johnmarkpiano.com/evryali/evry...
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Hand-made graphical interpretation of Evryali, a bizarre piano composition by Marie-Françoise Bucquet. Not my favorite music, but I liked scrolling along the graph while imagining the performer having to use his toes to hit all the notes.
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aria2 project
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Mar 21, 9:32pm
2 reviews
linux
•http://aria2.sourceforge.net/
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My favorite downloader. I run it from the command line in Linux, but there's a version for Windows with a graphical front end, too. Features segmented downloading and can use multiple connections to one source or several sources for the same file. Very fast, and highly recommended.
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Iron Leg
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Mar 9, 12:00pm
3 reviews
music
•http://ironleg.wordpress.com/
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Another classic music blog from Larry Grogan (as in "Mr. Funky16Corners"). This is pretty much my favorite kind of stuff on the internet.
Case in point: the lead track on his latest podcast is a UK psyche beauty from 1967, I See The Rain by Marmalade. Highly praised by Jimi Hendrix - and me. :)
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BBC - Radio - Podcasts - Global News
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Feb 29, 11:26pm
1 review
news
•http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/g...
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The BBC has many great podcasts; this is their 30 minute recap of the global news. The shows are produced twice a day and have their main topics listed here, so I can decide between an episode featuring Turkey/Iraq tensions and one featuring ballet-dancing police.
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Using the apostrophe 1.
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Feb 18, 4:19pm
47 reviews
writing
•http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/skills/...
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Forget all those other political affiliation tests...;)
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