Saturday, January 28, 2006
Du-chompin at the bit - WWMD? 'Urinal work' = art.
RTE.ie Entertainment - Lifetime Achievement Award for The Pogues
Word is that Shane MacGowan will tour again with Pogues. Jake and I bought tickets at no small mark up. Pray to the Lord of the church of the Holy Spook that Sean paces hisself.
FILM ROTATION: SIN CITY Comparisons
Compares stills to comics. Sin City is a very dark movie. But not without trace of redemptive elixir.
Beat Museum Doings - Reuters.com
Inside the Beat Museum infinity goes up on trial. I am going to San Francisco but I dont think I will make it to Beat Museum.
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Deaths: Wilson Pickett, 64
When Otis Redding died [in Madison] I didnt know what was going on. When Wilson Pickett, died I cried. He was the first soul singer I heard, and the most direct, and the guy who got me into the thing. Wilson Pickett. I died in front of 40 people 0nce trying to replicate Mustang Sally. It isnt possible. His is irreproducible art. Midnight Hour was an oldie. But it was totally different than any other. The time and the place become one with the feel. The scream of anticipation and fruition that anybody could get. Everybody Needs Somebody. Huzzah beyond Solomon! Acing Eddie Floyd: 634-5789! [A Racine Exchange!] Windows into depths was Wilson. Even with Sugar, Sugar, he could find the reality that was otherwise apparently completely dormant. It is he who could take Hey Jude and turn it into screaming pathos beyond the pale. In the dark limousine in The Commitments. Wilson Pickett!
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Hue Miscellany
Smoking links: How do we look to the rest of the world and what should that cost? What algorithm breakthrough will make machine men - and has Google already discovered it? The latest from the Edge of the Sea of Rains. All this and more I must ponder.
News
Victoria De Grazia, "The Selling of America, Bush Style," NYT, 2002
Quote of the day "When our neighbors call us vermin/We send out Woody Herman/That's what we call cultural exchange." - Dave Brubeck (on Cultural Exchange)
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bush/grazia.htm
AI
The Impact of Emerging Technologies: Newer Math?
My read on Brooks: Google algorithms in search of the best answers on an adaptive network are being seen as a template for the type of math that might improve dramatically machine learning.
http://www.technologyreview.com//wtr_16010,1,p1.html
Computing
The Impact of Emerging Technologies: Nano Antenna
Gold nanospheres show a path to all-optical computing.
http://www.technologyreview.com/NanoTech/wtr_16024,303,p1.html
Technology
The Impact of Emerging Technologies: CCD Developer, Learning Factory Recognized
Maybe it is outside of the realm of this award, and there is not an attempt here to make their efforts less than primary, but it might be worth noting the Gil Amelio had an important role in making CCDs manufacturable. CCDs were so different that they were used halfassedly for a lot of things before the imaging application stuck Ive heard.
http://www.technologyreview.com/TR/wtr_16125,323,p1.html
Web 2.0
The Impact of Emerging Technologies: Click "Oh yeah?"
Berners-Lee on Links circa 1996 - "You don't go down the street, after all, picking up every piece of paper blowing in the breeze." - Not unless you are Mike Dukakis.
http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/wtr_15999,258,p1.html
Moon
Nasa team sees explosion on Moon
News from the Edge of the Sea of Rains
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4570730.stm
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Headlines snake
and she is the top preener in 50 years. It's the beginning of a New Age.
And the headlines snake on the marquee.