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

Oliver performing, 2009

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

Pear close up, dinning room table, home, Falmouth, Va
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 an interface. Hmmm… What do the folks at Usability.gov think about Gopher?

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

Oliver performing, 2009

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APTBS live on KEXP and interviews, Early November 2009

  • 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.
  • Last year a band came from pretty much nowhere top deliver one of the best albums of 2008 with their self titled debut effort, it crashed into our end of year top ten and when the chance came earlier this year to see them live I took it.
  • Interview by a DJ in Greece
  • “Tonight, at Denver’s Larimer Lounge, Ackermann’s theory pans out. It’s about midnight at the band takes the stage. Fog machine on full blast and house lights cut out, the band’s removed from the scene almost entirely. Ackermann, who was all mild-mannered awkward rock dude an hour earlier as we chatted on the patio, now plays like a man possessed. Amid the fog and the symphony of noise, he’s rapt as his audience. There’s a feeling he’s on the edge of breaking down and going over the edge in as he loses the battle against his army of guitar pedals. He never does, but, even watching him wring the sound out of his guitar, it’s tough to tell what he’s doing. That’s just how he likes it.”
  • I think you just have to do what you like to do. I like playing shows, writing songs, and recording music and I think all of this is important if you want to be in a band that people will hear about. Just do what you love and if people like it or they don’t at least you will be doing what you think is cool. I think that is the secret to success with your own personal sanity.
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TED Talks Robots

Bean vine  morning glory in early fall, Home,  Falmouth VAWe 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.

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

Bee on fennel, Home,  Falmouth VA

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

APTBS on the back porch, 2009

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

APTBS on the back porch, 2009Some more reviews from the Exploding Head North American tour.

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

Beech tree bark in rain, Home,  Falmouth VACame 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.

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APTBS photos and reviews 2009-10-25

Oliver

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