Nick Cave - Good good day

MGMT - This Must be the Place (Talking Heads)

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Santa María da Feira

My new favorite song of the day!

La silla de Homer en internet!!

La silla de Homer Simpson pronto disponible cerca de ti :P
Deger Cengiz supongo que se salva, porque un plagio de un plagio no es un plagio!


alt: homer simpson's chair soon available for purchase

Who Tall Are You??

via grn8

"Another clever, tongue-in-cheek design from London studio Suck UK.

"One problem though: they tell us that this item can't be sold because - get this - Tom Cruise didn't give his permission. Seems that, to avoid legal problems, Suck UK sought out permission from anyone mentioned on the Mirror, and only Tom Cruise refused.

"Get over it little man."

Ready for the Floor

Can't get enough of this songa. Keep hearing it all day. When I get to the end I hit replay and I hear it again. And again, and again.

I keep picturing parties and friends and people laughing hitting it off like it's the first day of october.

Why the first of october you say? Who cares? I say. Listen to it.

Discover Hot Chip!

Why Bob Marley Should Not Have Acted As His Own Attorney

This is hilarious...

yatta!

Zombie Disco Squad!

Can't stop listening to the house mix tape from zds. literally. I highly recommend the "i wish i was black and gay in 1985" as well. Those are the ones i enjoy most for the moment, but have a look-see for yourself right here:

http://www.zombiediscosquad.com/mixtapes.htm
http://www.myspace.com/zombiediscosquad

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MUTO a wall-painted animation

Blu is the Italian artist who has created MUTO, a wall-painted stop-motion animation that seems perversely psychedelic and painstakingly methodical.

It was filmed in the streets of Buenos Aires and Baden mixed with music by Andrea Martignoni. Enjoy!

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.


blublu.org
blublu.org/sito/video/muto.htm

Office Orchestra

Wow! This is absolutely amazing! They are able to produce music from ordinary office equipment (...in the 60s?).

Big Ideas (Don't get any) from 1030 on Vimeo.

What's wrong with what we eat

This could well be the most interesting and informative 20 minutes of your day.

from www.ted.com

In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it's putting the entire planet at risk.

see Mark Bittman's bio on ted

Re-enactements

not bad at all!

What does this mean?

I was reading this article which compares the nutritional value of different drinks, when I read this quote (with no apparent references):

Australian researchers found that mixing liquor with diet drinks can intensify the alcoholic effect by 50%

Is this true? I immediately started searching for said study, but haven't yet found it. Is anybody else bugged by the lack of references on Men's Health articles?

And anyways, what does it mean when something "intensifies the alcoholic effect"? Does it magically increase the congener count of the beverage? Is less water absorbed thus making you thirstier, thus making you drink more? And the real question, will I get drunk faster? I want to know!

I wish I could find those mysterious Australian researchers.

Computer-Generated Music

(from radiolab)
Musical DNA

Which came first: Language or Music? We're still not sure, but now we'll ponder what comes next. Producer Jonathan Mitchell brings us a piece about David Cope, the composer and professor at UC Santa Cruz, who cured his artist’s block by writing a computer program to do the dirty work for him. His program, named EMI (Experiments in Musical Intelligence), deconstructs the works of great composers, finding patterns within the voice leading of their compositions, and then creates brand new compositions based on the patterns she finds. But it's not just copy and paste. She brings something new to the pieces. Drift along to the eerily enchanting music of EMI Mahler and ask yourself this: What would Mahler think of an EMI Mahler score? Brilliant music? A forgery?

Download computer-generated music

Rube Goldberg Machines

Something fun for a Friday afternoon...

A Rube Goldberg machine is an incredibly overengineered apparatus that performs a very simple task in very indirect and convoluted fashion.

Cup Of Brown Joy - Elemental

Bloody brilliant!

Le mot du jour

comment se cultiver avec des mots impossibles à placer dans une conversation normale

Le mot du jour - One "weird" French word per day. Although it is not currently being updated, you will find archives dating back to 2003, and thus an extensive list of cool words to amuse friends and family.

Search and enjoy

Glowing cats - where is the line drawn?

Korea is making glow in the dark cats! Should we be excited, scared or both? Is genetic manipulation going too far?

Modifying E. coli to smell like mint or bananas seems harmless, even useful. The economist claims that increasing field yields through genetic manipulation is the key to ending the food crisis.

Yet, where is the line? IS there a line? Will we be soon making birds that can sing for real or monkeys that talk or fish that can live out of the water? Will we design human beings or even new life forms?

Why am I surprised, aren't we already doing that? After all, cats that glow or e. coli that smells like banana have never before existed in nature...

Some claim the line is drawn on a physical term (like, when you make a pig with a human arm sticking out). I think that's just a temporary line. Once we get used to the idea, the line will be pushed further and further.

In my opinion, the real line will be drawn by nature coming back and chasing us for playing with something we have no idea about. The potential side effects of playing with the code of nature will be line.

http://www.korea.net/news/news/newsView.asp?serial_no=20071212009
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/12/13/514602.aspx