Archive for the ‘Interesting Web Sites’ Category
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
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ASK GOOGLE TO PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY
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A story has a beginning, a middle, and a cleanly wrapped-up ending. Whether told around a campfire, read from a book, or played on a DVD, a story goes from point A to B and then C. It follows a trajectory, a Freytag Pyramid—perhaps the line of a human life or the stages of the hero’s journey. A story is told by one person or by a creative team to an audience that is usually quiet, even receptive. Or at least that’s what a story used to be, and that’s how a story used to be told. Today, with digital networks and social media, this pattern is changing. Stories now are open-ended, branching, hyperlinked, cross-media, participatory, exploratory, and unpredictable. And they are told in new ways: Web 2.0 storytelling picks up these new types of stories and runs with them, accelerating the pace of creation and participation while revealing new directions for narratives to flow.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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There were some really loud performances during KEXP’s live broadcast from Gibson Showroom during the 2008 CMJ Music Marathon — from bands like All The Saints, Johnny Foreigner, and Freshkills — but undoubtedly the loudest of all came from A Place to Bury Strangers, a group whose extreme decibel level had even caused the NYC police to shut down a CMJ club show earlier in the week!
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Eschewing any notions of revolution in favour of evolution, A Place To Bury Strangers have moved the scuzzed-up possibilities of 21st century rock’n’roll to where it should be – louder, brasher and with the ability to upset firmly in place. The album largely succeeds because of its honesty.
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“Screaming out of New York City at a million decibels an hour, A Place To Bury Strangers trade in unrelenting bursts of feedback, elliptical basslines and clinically brutal drum fills.” That’s how Rock Sound describes APTBS latest opus (which has finally been given a UK release through Rocket Girl) in this month’s issue and gives them 9/10 for it. Not bad, eh
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
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pasture cheese
A Place to Bury Strangers
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I grew up listening to The Jesus and Mary Chain, Slowdive, and My Bloody Valentine. That is what really inspired me to play guitar. All of their sounds and textures made their songs so mysterious. There was this beautiful feeling of not knowing exactly what was going on. You were just hanging on to a song with no instruments. It left everything up to the imagination.
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How did you get into making pedals?
Just trying to create sounds that I couldn’t get in other places. I failed miserably for years and then kindda figured out how to make things work. And then I started the company because I wanted to go to Europe for a month as a vacation, but I didn’t really have any money, and I had this idea for a pedal that no one else had ever come out with before, and I just kind of marketed that real quick and I made enough money to go. Total Sonic Annihilation. The flagship of Death by Audio.
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Suddenly the “loudest band in NYC”, were the most wanted band in London, with features in Kerrang! and NME.
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If A Place to Bury Strangers were one of the presidential candidates, the hypnotic trio would be John McCain. Politics and a namesake hinting at the Maverick’s imminent resting place aside, like the Straight Talk Express, this Brooklynite band tends to noisily echo the past more than strut into the future.
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
PHP Web Gallery
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PhpWebGallery is a free and open source software used to present photo collections on your web site.
Mimimal HTML
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I am often surprised by just how many professionally-designed sites are delivered in the form of incomplete HTML documents. To be fair, however, the amount of code required for even an empty HTML document has grown significantly over the years.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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A little oxygen and a stop for some food did the trick and it was back to the clubland of the Visitors Center for the deafening shoegaze of New York’s A Place To Bury Strangers. While the room was packed to the gills at the beginning of the set, little or no lighting except a projector that bathed the entire stage in a strange pulsing glow of light and images combined with the sheer volume was enough to drive many away and before long there was room to move and breath. With time, their ear splitting white noise gave way to a strangely hypnotic psych pop sound that couldn’t help but evoke comparisons to My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus and Mary Chain before everything blended into one and escape to the radio friendly pop of Vampire Weekend was the only cure.
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A Place To Bury Strangers have certainly made a positive and thunderous impression on the music scene. They will be taking to the stage in The Limelight on Monday 1st December.
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the guitarist sure can make his rather beat-up guitar scream. he would violently strum with the whammy bar inside his hand… never really noticed anyone do that before. while airiel were loud and intense, a place to bury strangers varied their sound and made their set much more dynamic
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Strobes and raw noise are almost all I remember from A Place to Bury Stranger’s set. Constant pulsating light and darkness messed with my camera, which if animated, would surely have seeked immediate shelter in a closet or bathroom. With a crowd packed tight in the Heart of the Rock stage, more was felt rather than heard.
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
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With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -– mathematically and scientifically — that only computers can.
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Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled “a ragtag band of volunteers,” gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia.
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In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces.
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In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous masterpieces.
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In the same way that a circle turns into a solid sphere, an ellipse can become a solid “ellipsoid”.
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In the same way that a circle turns into a solid sphere, an ellipse can become a solid “ellipsoid”.
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And the U.K. is A Place To Bury Strangers as the band tours the islands come late November / December. November 29 is Birmingham at Barfly, November 30 is Glasgow at Nice ‘N’ Sleazy and December 1 is Belfast at The Limelight. Other cities include Manchester, Cardiff, Leeds and London.
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Tags: death by audio
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
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How much electricity do computers use?
Python
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While my feeling for Python is not exactly love, it is pretty close. I am not a professional developer. So I dabble in Python a lot. It allows me to do a few nifty things with very little learning.
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Bruce Eckel talks with Bill Venners about how Python’s minimal finger typing allows programmers to focus on the task, not the tool, generating a productivity that makes more projects feasible.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
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Wondering how to evaluate a newly found website for trustworthiness and credibility? Is there a pragmatic and reliable way to do it?
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How do you organize the content of a new web site or blog? Do you really need to spend specific time ahead of launching to organize the content sections and hierarchy of your web site? Can’t one simply identify the key content categories of his future site and be done with it?
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Subtle changes in driving habits can produce significant benefits, such
as saving money at the gas pump and reducing CO2 emissions. Here are best practices for green driving:
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Cholesterol is a soft, waxy substance found in all parts of the body. Your body makes some cholesterol, and some cholesterol comes from the food you eat.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Travel Tools
A Place to Bury Strangers
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Oliver Ackerman is an absolute genius, by the way. If they come to your town go see them, and don’t sit somewhere with a beer: stand up, put in your earplugs and watch him nurse what will probably be the most diverse group of tones out of his instruments you’ll hear in quite some time.
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Lead singer Oliver Ackermann’s stand-in-place shoegazing was in stark contrast to the breathless stage-traveling Reznor would later exhibit.
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Ackerman took a few minutes before the set on Sunday night, to answer 7 questions, for my continuing series Get to Know In 7.
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Though A Place to Bury Strangers’ albums receive much praise, the best way to experience them is live. Guitarist and vocalist Oliver Ackerman is a tremendous performer; urging an unbelievable range of tones from his instrument, sometimes using nothing but feedback and broken strings against pickups.
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Is pain-punk a genre? If not, APTBS may have just created it. Frontman/guitarist Oliver Ackermann concluded with an exclamation point: ripping the strings out of his guitar and slinging it around before exiting the stage.
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I really digged the whole flashing lights thing toward the end of the set and Oliver taking the strings out of his guitar. (It looked like was what he was doing. I may be wrong.)
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Anyways the lead guitarist was manic on his guitar and combined with the flashing lights made the whole performance awesome. The guitarist and drummer were nice enough to sign a shirt one of their only fan’s in the crowd threw to them.
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
George Dyson
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Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer — from its 16th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early computer engineers.
A Place to Bury Strangers
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Then I had perhaps the biggest revelation of the festival; New York trio A Place to Bury Strangers. Noisy but melodic music in the vein of Jesus & Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine, they blew me away completely at skull crunching volume. Great songs, great performance.
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Brooklyn noise-rockers A Place To Bury Strangers have announced that they will release their debut, self-titled album in the UK on November 2 on the Rocket Girl label.
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Post-election Editorials, Services for Nonprofits, & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-11-09
Sunday, November 9th, 2008Election-
Op-Ed Columnist - Obama and the War on Brains - NYTimes.com
Barack Obama’s election is a milestone in more than his pigmentation. The second most remarkable thing about his election is that American voters have just picked a president who is an open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual.
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Op-Ed Columnist - It Still Felt Good the Morning After - NYTimes.com
ON the morning after a black man won the White House, America’s tears of catharsis gave way to unadulterated joy.
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Message in-a-Box
Message in-a-box: Tools and tactics for communicating your cause is a new web resources that includes tactical guides to using a wide range communications tools for social change, packaged with some open source tools for creating media. This resource is for small to midsized nonprofit organizations.
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JustGive.org - Nonprofit Resources | FAQs
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Google Checkout
Do you already accept donations through Google Checkout?
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Free Web Services for Nonprofits - Grassroots.org
The mission of Grassroots.org is to serve as a catalyst for positive social change by leveraging modern technologies and best business practices.
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Daily Express | Printer
A Place to Bury Strangers’ self-titled debut LP sets tinnitus-inducing noise-pop against atmospheric echo chambers and sweet, tear-jerking melodies. The mix of blown-out guitar, reverberating basslines and beautiful chord sequences creates a heady treat from New York’s supposedly “loudest” three-piece. From the majestic opening track Missing You to the haunting, romantic Don’t Think Lover, this is ear-shattering bleakness wrapped round slender, gentle indie-pop tunefulness. An astounding first album.
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Resources for NonProfits
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