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Recipes from the Web, 12- 05-2009

I love reading recipes on the Web. The Squash, shrimp & beans is for later this week, the pancakes for breakfast tomorrow,and the lamb shanks for tomorrow’s dinner. Dinner Tonight: Acorn Squash, Shrimp, and Green Bean Stew (Ginataan Sitawa Kalabasa) | Serious Eats : Recipes We made this one Monday for dinner. it was wonderful! […]

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Similar image search; Search Royal Society publications 1665 – present

Two links to some outstanding searching and researching resources. The first is an image search engine that finds images similar to one you submit. It seems to work fairly well. the second is an easy-to-use tool for searching the publications of the Royal Soceity! Read works by Newton, Franklin, and others. Find Similar Images with […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers – Feature at laut.de, Reviews of Exploding Head & Keep Slipping Away; 2009-12-04

A Place to Bury Strangers biographie at laut.de Auf die Frage nach der Inspirationsquelle verrät Ackermann der Welt sein Geheimnis: ” Well, I just thought, what we are doing is cool. ” When asked about the source of inspiration Ackermann tells the world his secret: “Well, I just thought, what we are doing is cool.” […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers – announce Australian tour & reviews for 2009-12-03

A Place to Bury Strangers (NYC) ‘Exploding Head’ Australian Tour February 2010 – A Place to Bury Strangers at Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst, NSW on 11 Feb 10 “aving run levels into the red on sound desks across the world A Place to Bury Strangers finally bring their mesmerizing mix of pain and pleasure to Australia for […]

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Political Cartoons, Obama’s Afghanistan decision

Obama’s announcement of his  unfortunate decision to send troops to Afghanistan received some note-worthy political cartoons.

links for 2009-12-01

Theory of Computation overview of theory of computation (tags: theoretical computation computerscience theory overview) Computational Complexity and the Anthropic Principle “What I want to do today is step back from the details of the string-theory Landscape, and tell you what’s known about the general problem of searching a landscape for a point with specified properties. […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-11-27

The Top 40 songs from Brooklyn / MUD. Made-Up Disease “New York Magazine released a Top 40 list of songs and bands that could define what the productive Brooklyn scene is all about. From the amazing A Place to Bury Strangers to internationally popular TV on the Radio, Grizzly Bear, MGMT, LCD Soundsystem and Animal […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers interview, photos, and article in EQ Magazine links for 2009-11-26

TLOBF Interview :: A Place To Bury Strangers | The Line Of Best Fit “With a broad smile, A Place to Bury Strangers’ singer Oliver Ackermann meets us outside, and seems genuinely happy to see us. After a little negotiation with the doormen, he gets us inside and offers us a beer whilst asking us […]

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A Place to Biry Strangers review, interview, video links for 2009-11-25

Insound.com: Stuff We Like The trio’s latest album is a tortured and manic valentine that ought to be played at maximum volume for its virtues to truly be appreciated. And Exploding Head is a perfect title for this collection of seething, hypnotic and anxiety-inducing jams that are all things tension, distortion, feedback and reverb. Perfect […]

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Algorithmic Authority, Aprostrophes, & Web Science links for 2009-11-23

A Speculative Post on the Idea of Algorithmic Authority « Clay Shirky ” I noted that people trust new classes of aggregators and filters, whether Google or Twitter or Wikipedia (in its ‘breaking news’ mode.) I called this tendency algorithmic authority. “ (tags: authority clayshirky algorithmic crowdsourcing authenticity journalism trust) How To Use An Apostrophe […]

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