Saturday, January 31, 2009
lasam
LaSaM
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
8:00 PM
Presented by LaSaM
Kristy Farkas (melodica, harmonium, percussion), Tina Pearson (accordion, flute, percussion) and Chris Reiche (keyboards, percussion) with guest performers Alfons Fear (trumpet), Rodney Sharman (flute), George Tzanetakis (sax), Max Murray (tuba), Mason Koenig and Corey Rae (percussion).
Friday, January 30, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
music
Velato - is an esoteric programming language by User:Rottytooth, which uses MIDI files as source code. Programs in Velato, like in Fugue, are defined by the pitch and order of notes. Velato is intended to allow for flexibility in composition, so functional programs will not necessarily sound like random notes. There is a tendency for Velato programs to have jazz-like harmonies.
Sweet.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
elephant
Elephant 2000: A Programming Language for the year 2015 Based on Speech Acts - A new language by the John McCarthy
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
param arc
Parameterization by arc length
Parameterization by Arc Length
Parametric curves and arc length
Arc Length Parameterization
Actionscript Arc Length Parameterization
glVertex
Overhauser splines
Bezier and Catmull-Rom Curve
Catmull-Rom at Wikipedia
Catmull-Rom - Sweet sweet resource
q(t) = 0.5 *( (2 * P1) +
(-P0 + P2) * t +
(2*P0 - 5*P1 + 4*P2 - P3) * t2 +
(-P0 + 3*P1- 3*P2 + P3) * t3)
Monday, January 19, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Friday, January 16, 2009
ruby filename path
irb(main):007:0> require 'pathname'
irb(main):007:0> Pathname.new('/opt/local/bin/ruby').basename
=> #<Pathname:ruby>
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
kernel
Linux 2.6.28's five best features
- ext4 - Sweet
- GEM Memory Manager for Graphics
- Disk Shock Protection
- Staging Drivers
- Network improvements
somatic
Somatic Experiencing - is a form of therapy aimed at relieving and resolving the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental and physical trauma-related health problems by focusing on the client?s perceived body sensations (or somatic experiences).
walk in the woods
PSYCHOLOGY: A Walk in the Woods
Gilbert Chin
Spending time in the outdoors is commonly regarded as a wholesome approach to coping with the cacophony of contemporary developed societies. But does immersion in a natural environment lead to more than simply a sense of feeling refreshed--that is, might the metaphorical recharging of one's batteries be real? Berman et al. find that the less obtrusive sensory stimuli provided by a walk through an arboretum enabled people to perform better on a standard working memory task (backward digit span), in comparison to the stimuli of a stroll through a downtown landscape. Subsequent testing revealed a specific effect of scenic as opposed to urban settings on the executive portions (versus the alerting or orienting components) of an attentional network task, suggesting that a brief hiatus from focused application of attention allows for the replenishment and renewal of cognitive control centers. -- GJC
Psychol. Sci. 19, 1207 (2008).
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
literate programming
A really neato wiki for Literate Programming. It shows the program source code along with an article about what the program does. Go Knuth 2009!
petra
PETRAE 2009 - The 2nd International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
noacpi
I was getting a bug where the system would hang after the message
setting system clock using the hardware clock
There is a workaround here.
The --directisa option in /etc/init.d/hwclock worked for me.
Also, if this still doesn't work, make sure that the bios clock is not wildy inaccurate, this can also cause it to hang.
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
rsync
I just found out about the handy "-L" option in rsync:
-L, --copy-links transform symlink into referent file/dir
Monday, January 05, 2009
stabil
If you get a message:
Could not detect stabilization, waiting 10 seconds.
With Fedora 10, check out this thread for a fix.
rhz
rhizomes.manifesto - Rhizomes oppose the idea that knowledge must grow in a tree structure from previously accepted ideas. New thinking need not follow established patterns.
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Thursday, January 01, 2009
flickr
Easily browse flickr images with ihardlyknowher.com.
This is so awesome and LOL, because it's just a bunch of images, just like web pages back in 1995, but it's so much better than that fancy web 2.0 nonsense for looking at images quickly.
There is something here that needs exploring. How much of the new navigation tools that we have created actually make it harder for people to get at the information they want?
Is this web 3.0 in the making? Take the data from web 2.0 sites and present it in the way that the users really want, which might be just a list of pictures on a web page, like this?
I love the mouseovers here as well, which give you more information about the picture with a javascript rollover, this also reveals a link to the original flickr page. Clicking on the image makes it bigger, and another click makes it small again.
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