- The Brandeis Hoot : The music that defined ‘07 according to RigaA Place to Bury Strangers’ sound is well-defined and cool, and their collection of proto-punk firepower, 80s guitar heroics, and an industrial wall of feedback is invigorating from the first listen onwards.
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- An explosive show, at home in Brooklyn - B-SectionIt is but a rare occasion to see a band perform literally in its own backyard, but that is what A Place to Bury Strangers did on Wednesday night, performing its extreme “noise-gaze” in a packed room at their pad, called Death By Audio, in Williamsburg, Br
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Archive for January, 2008
links for 2008-01-19
Saturday, January 19th, 2008A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-18
Friday, January 18th, 2008
- IMPOSE MAGAZINE : Archive : A Place To Bury Strangers announce first national tour
A Place To Bury Strangers will embark on their first national tour, starting in mid February. Their self-titled 2007 release was a contender for one of our year-end favorites. (tags: aptbs) - SPIN.com: News Roundup: Neko Case, Josh Homme, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yelstin, Coachella
Brooklyn-based trio A Place to Bury Strangers, will hit the road this winter/spring in support of their feedback-driven self-titled debut LP, out now via Killer Pimp. (tags: aptbs) - Live: A Place to Bury Strangers’ Earplug Alert
Oliver Ackermann, the singer-guitarist for Brooklyn indie band A Place to Bury Strangers, is an entrepreneur. Whether he’s making custom guitar effects pedals for Wilco or hosting DIY gigs at his makeshift BK venue … (tags: aptbs) - Marigold - The Postman Cometh (kinda)
I do not need to go on about how great this record is…most of you already know. If you do not know about APTBS it should only take a few minutes of work here on MOG to get the low down. (tags: aptbs)
Eun-Ha Paek, Lawrence Lessig, & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-16
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
- Eun-Ha Paek. Now and Then.
Eun-Ha’s animations have screened at festivals and venues such as Comedy Central, Sundance Online Film Festival, the New York Expo of Short Film and Video, the Black Maria Film Festival, the UCLA Film and TV Archive and Sundance Channel (tags: Eun-ha) - CD Times - Jon Kane’s Top Ten Albums of 2007
This Brooklyn three-piece recorded one of the finest albums of 2007, referencing My Bloody Valentine with their nu-gazing guitar antics and Jesus and Mary Chain by way of their distorted feedback. (tags: aptbs) - The Future of Ideas is now Free (Lessig Blog)
“Larry Lessig’s magnificent book The Future of Ideas is now available as a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial licensed download. Future of Ideas is a grim and prescient look at the way that corporate interests have rigged the system so that they can …. (tags: cc creativecommons lessig)
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| U.S. Deaths Confirmed By The DoD: | 3923 |
| Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: | 3 |
| Total | 3926 |
DoD Confirmation ListLatest Coalition Fatality: Jan 16, 2008
Source: Iraqi Coalition Casualty Count
A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-15
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
- Pitchfork: A Place to Bury Strangers Recording Live LP
The band is recording its January 16 gig at its Brooklyn home studio/venue Death by Audio for a live album.
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- IMPOSE MAGAZINE » Archive » NYC: Sans Temps Morts
You probably don’t need to hear me rave about the gloriously abrasive industrial shoegaze of A Place to Bury Strangers, who manage to break their guitars and your ears while sounding completely, blissfully beautiful. Last show before their first nation-wide tour(tags: aptbs)
NetBeans Tutorials and A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-14
Monday, January 14th, 2008
First up - a link to some NetBenas tutorials
NetBeans tutorials
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And then the ever-popular links to info/discussion/raves about A Place to Bury Strangers.
- Sensory Overload: Top 5 Songs Of The Week (These Bands Are Coming to C-town!)
APTBS Are coming back to The Beachland Ballroom in the Tavern to blast us with their drenching feedback on Thursday February 14th (tags: aptbs) - Bathtub Explosion: A Place to Bury Strangers Interview, Pt. 1
Here is a brief interview with A Place To Bury Strangers’ bassist Jono MOFO. (tags: aptbs) - my current musical addictions - Vox
I am completely hooked on A Place To Bury Strangers (tags: aptbs)
Safe Passwords, Calendar Software, & Java resources links for 2008-01-13
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
- Security Awareness - Articles - Keep Safe with Strong Passwords
To protect your computer, your data and your online accounts, make a strong password . Most people know that strong passwords are a good idea … You have to change your password frequently, and stay aware of techniques hackers are using …(tags: security password) - Calendar
Software to display a calendar. Options include choosing the language used on the calendar. (tags: calendar reference) - Java Programming Resources — Java, Java, and more Java
Java programming resources collected by Marty Hall for courses in the Johns Hopkins Part-Time MS Program in Computer Science and for various industry seminars and short courses.(tags: java programming reference tutorial resources) - Howstuffworks “How Java Works”
learn about programs like Perl and Java or how relational databases and algorithms work.(tags: java programming tutorial)
Stop Junk Mail, Grocery Store Graph, NASA Internships & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-12
Saturday, January 12th, 2008
A couple of links to services that will help you stop some junk mail:
- NFN - Native Forest Network’s Guide to Stop Junk Mail
To help reduce junk mail, cut down waste, and save some trees to boot, follow the 5 easy steps below.(tags: activism junkmail environment) - DirectMail.com’s Mail Preference Registry - Get rid of junk mail
The DirectMail.com National Do Not Mail List - (Now Free!)The key to stopping all that unwanted advertising mail you receive at home is getting your name off the mailing lists.(tags: junkmail list environment green)
This site has a 3-d representation of where the calories are in your grocery store:
Infoporn: Ground Zero of the Obesity Epidemic? The Center of Your Grocery Store
- Want to find something healthy in the grocery store? Stick to the periphery: Most chain supermarkets arrange produce, dairy, and meat along the perimeter of the store, leaving the more processed foods and impulse buys in the middle. (tags: graphic health shopping food nutrition)
NASA Internships:
- NASA - Higher Education - Students and Post Doctoral Higher Education - Students and Post Doctoral (tags: nasa internships)
A Place to Bury Strangers links:
- Brooklyn Rocks With Yeasayer, MGMT, Dirty Projectors, Others - News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News
“I think people are just trying to do their own thing and make it unique,” said frontman Oliver Ackermann of garage/shoegaze outfit A Place to Bury Strangers. (tags: aptbs) - Reverb: Finding A Place To Bury Strangers (Seattle Weekly)
Nothing beats hearing a song that totally captures the spirit of the moment. Last night, while tuned into KEXP just after 1 a.m., silvery guitar noise, frantic industrial drum machines and terribly dark bass lines beat down on me like the stormy weather (tags: aptbs) - Zeroskilz - Bad Week… Work Weekend
“I’ve been turning to A Place to Bury Strangers more and more often. I’ve grown to really like this band, and I think they are great to listen to while working. They give me something to channel my frustrations into while not being overly distracting.”(tags: aptbs) - brooklynvegan: Yeasayer, Todd P, Grizzly Bear, Dirty Projectors, Muggabears on MTV News + a special Place To Bury Strangers show
A Place to Bury Strangers will play live at Death by Audio on Wednesday January 16 at 11 PM with the Muggabears and Famous Amos(tags: aptbs) - Subterranean Blog » Brooklyn: The New Sound
MTV News turns in a piece on a bunch bands with dudes in them who are clearly our future slacker ex-boyfriends. … At any rate, we’re very into Brooklyn’s MGMT…jury’s still out on Yeasayer and A Place to Bury Strangers. (tags: aptbs)
Diagnostic quizzes, Python, & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-11
Friday, January 11th, 2008
Diagnostic Quizzes. I was looking for something to use with my students in “Intro to Computer Science” and “Computer Science I” to see where they are.
- 6.01 Programming self-diagnostic
Programming Self-Diagnostic (tags: prgramming diagnostic) - COMM260 Diagnostic quiz
Diagnostic Quiz: How much do you know about web design? (tags: diagnostic web design) - Computer Science Diagnostic Quiz — Fall 2004
This is a computer science diagnostic quiz to be taken on the first day of class. I ended up using a variation of this one. Actually, I’m going to split it over two class meetings. I chose it because it contained some algorithm development as well as arithmetic. (tags: diagnostic programming)
Python. This is billed as an introductory video.I think it was produced by high school students, and so I think it might be useful in “Introduction to Computer Science.”
- Introducing Python (tags: programming python video)
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Profiling, BZA links, Programming, and A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-10
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Schneier on Security: Airport Behavioral Profiling Leads to an Arrest
‘I’m generally a fan of behavioral profiling. While it sounds weird and creepy and has been likened to Orwell’s “facecrime”, there’s no doubt that — when done properly — it works at catching common criminals:’ (tags: airport behavioral profilling security schneier)
Montgomery County, VA: Planning: Board of Zoning Appeals: By-Laws
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City of Richmond Board of Zoning Appeals bylaws (tags: bza)
South Boston Planning Office- Planning Commission and Board of Zoning Appeals (tags: bza)
Washington County, VA: (tags: bza)
The most ignored programming story of 2007 | Programming and Development | TechRepublic.com
‘Most programmers are writing applications that perform “data processing” as opposed to applications that perform “computations.” The difference is quite important.’ (tags: programming)
Programming industry forecast for 2008: Get ready for a bumpy ride | Programming and Development | TechRepublic.com
“We are in the middle of intense change within the programming industry even though most of us can’t see or participate in it. We will just be stuck cleaning up the aftermath five - fifteen years down the road.” (tags: programming forecast)
sndndvsn: The Top Albums of 2007: #40 - 36
“The best new release this year you HAVEN’T heard, and the one most likely to blow your head off.” (tags: aptbs)
Varsity.co.nz - Best And Worst Of 2007: What The Critics Liked
“With such cheery titles as To Fix The Gash In Your Head and She Dies, A Place To Bury Strangers lay down a distortion filled set of tracks that runs from raw riffy rock (Breathe) to epic, aching waves of sound (The Falling Sun).” (tags: aptbs)
Translated version of http://radiofreehengelo.blogspot.com/2008/01/place-to-bury-strangers.html
“Erg leuk om te zien en te horen. Very fun to see and hear. ” (tags: aptbs)
The Fertile Crescent: The 20 Best Albums of 2007 - A Place to Bury Strangers: “A Place to Bury Strangers”
‘In the typical parlance of our time it is easy to describe APTBS’s music as “shoegaze”, since much of it owes a great debt to the Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, but such an arbitrary label would miss the entire picture.’ (tags: aptbs)
Eun-Ha’s Calendar, Felten on Data Ownership, and A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-01-17
Thursday, January 17th, 2008“We are super excited to bring you a long-awaited new Milky Elephant calendar from Eun-Ha Paek!” (tags: eun-ha)
“Where did we get this idea that facts about the world must be owned by somebody? Stop and consider that question for a minute, and you’ll see that ownership is a lousy way to think about this issue. “(tags: data facebook socialnetworking privacy)
A Place to Bury Strangers Links
‘A Place to Bury Strangers “self-titled” Some songs I just love, but the album is uneven. Definitely a band worth watching though.’ (tags: aptbs)
“They got serious raves at CMJ and the bartender at my neighborhood dive bar has been wearing their t-shirt for days.” (tags: aptbs)
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