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APTBS Song of the Month, reviews, remix of In Your Heart – links for 2009-11-12

Songs of the Month- NOVEMBER/DECEMBER – WTSR 91.3FM “Hey guys, could you turn the guitar sludge down just a bit? There’s an awesome indie rock hook buried beneath layers of Crystal Stilts and Jesus & Mary Chain… though it shouldn’t be too hard for the listener to latch onto it. On second thought, don’t turn […]

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Usability Guide and Gopher(!) – links for 2009-11-07

We are discussing prototypes in the Advanced Web Techniques, CPSC 448, class. To help students understand prototypes a little better I showed them the section on prototyping at the excellent site Usability.gov. The second item below is a pretty good article on Gopher and how it never died and still may be useful today as […]

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APTBS interview, reviews – links for 2009-11-05

A Place To Bury Strangers a Downlow’d via Gigbot resonating from their latest studio release “Exploding Head”, this trio has earned their reputation as one of the most sonically expansive bands performing today. (tags: aptbs interview) Music: A Place to Bury Strangers: Exploding Head, Hexfix93’s take. | “This stuff rocks out pretty hard and sometimes […]

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APTBS live on KEXP and interviews, Early November 2009

Live Video: A Place to Bury Strangers We’ve featured A Place to Bury Strangers’s excellent new album, Exploding Head (Mute) here before and before that, but nothing can prepare you for witnessing the sonic attack that APTBS’s live performance, as during their recent performance in the KEXP studio. (tags: aptbs kexp seattle washington) A Place […]

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TED Talks Robots

We are talking about robots in my Intro to CS class, so I found a few TED talks on the subject. We look at one or two each class period hoping ot get some discussion going. It does occasionally happen. Hod Lipson builds “self-aware” robots | Video on TED.com (tags: ted robot 6:05) Rodney Brooks […]

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PHP & JSON, Style guides, Internet laws links for 2009-10-29

PHP: json_encode – Manual (tags: development json php) The Ultimate Resource Guide List for MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE “Here you will find resource pages for each different style, university tutorials, and free work cited generators. By viewing examples of research papers and using programs that are designed to facilitate your style accuracy, you can […]

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A Place to Bury Strangers reviews for 2009-10-28

Rocksellout.com – Home – Interview: Oliver Ackermann Of A Place To Bury Strangers “The album is a touch more user friendly than the last album, but it most definitely as interesting. We, at Rocksellout, highly recommed you pick up a copy of this if you haven’t already.” (tags: aptbs explodinghead interview oliver) Rave Magazine – […]

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APTBS on the Road – Los Angeles, Denver, St. Louis, Toronto, Brooklyn October 2009

Some more reviews from the Exploding Head North American tour. A PLACE TO BURY STRAN GERS @ THE ECHOPLEX pictures from LA Record (tags: aptbs echoplex losangeles california) A Place To Bury Strangers at the Larimer Lounge | Features | | A.V. Denver/Boulder “A Place To Bury Strangers came to overwhelm Denver, and it did […]

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Interesting tools – editing images, generating text and phrases, power guide to Chrome

Came across a nice collection of tools the other day. Also an interesting article in reporting on a study that reinforces the notion of learning by discovery. Actually the article was about learning by making mistakes, but as you learn by discovery you’re likely to make a few mistakes along the way. Splashup “Splashup, formerly […]

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APTBS photos and reviews 2009-10-25

Review of: A Place To Bury Strangers : Exploding Head “This album is very extreme indeed and incredibly noisy. What a beautiful noise though! My joint album of the year! “ (tags: aptbs, explodinghead, review) what it all looks like: 17.5 Revisited good photo of APTBS (tags: aptbs photo oliver) a place to bury strangers […]

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