October 2008
9 posts
“Music and math are not really that far apart,” he says. “They’ve found that children that listen to music do better at math, because math and music both use the brain in similar ways. The best music is analytical and pattern-filled and mathematics has a lot of aesthetics to it. They complement each other well.”
what makes me sad lately:
stupid people
stupid ideas
stupid decisions
WatchIn RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of...
what makes me happy lately:
beautiful images
comics, comics and comics
robert hodgin
guitar hero
this and this - oh, my youth - concert
some cool projects that i can’t link here… yet
The Manga Guide to Databases
In The Manga Guide to Databases, Tico the fairy teaches the Princess how to simplify her data management. We follow along as they design a relational database, understand the entity-relationship model, perform basic database operations, and delve into more advanced topics. Once the Princess is familiar with transactions and basic SQL statements, she can keep her data timely and accurate for the...
Google Transit
Plan a trip using public transportation with Google Transit. It sucks those things won’t work in Brazil and we are stuck with sptrans
I’m in love with ffffound.
