Nov
14th
Fri
14th
Oct
31st
Fri
31st
“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.”
Oct
25th
Sat
25th
Sue Teller mashes it up
Oct
21st
Tue
21st
In 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 piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride.
Oct
19th
Sun
19th
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
Oct
9th
Thu
9th
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 entire kingdom. Finally, Tico explains ways to make the database more efficient and secure, and they discuss methods for concurrency and replication.
Buy it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593271905
(via Renato)
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
Sep
26th
Fri
26th
“I love music. I believe that for people who love music, the desire to share it is innate and crucial for music itself. When we find a song we love, we beckon our friends over to the turntable, we loan them the CD, we turn up the car stereo, we put it on a mixtape. We do this because music makes us feel and we want someone else to feel it, too.”
For the rest: www.muxtape.com
(by walkandre)
Sep
11th
Thu
11th
The Simpsons opening in Lego
