September 25, 2017
This part's a hook, this part a loop...
The sort of rooster-man dance he used to do
The making of Devo's "Satisfaction".
Topless Maid (21-30) Older Topless Maid (36-50)
Charles Bradley, you already came back strong.
The soul singer Charles Bradley died on Saturday morning, in Brooklyn. He was sixty-eight.
Obituary at the New Yorker
Trailer for the documentary Charles Bradley: Soul of America
A live set from 2011 recorded by KEXP Radio
Obituary at the New Yorker
Trailer for the documentary Charles Bradley: Soul of America
A live set from 2011 recorded by KEXP Radio
Computronium v0.1
"That's interesting," said the scientist observing a memory-like persistence in an atomic switch. Flash forward to a 2-millimeter-by-2-millimeter mesh of silver nanowires connected by artificial synapses. Unlike silicon circuitry, with its geometric precision, this device is messy, like “a highly interconnected plate of noodles,” and exhibits similar criticality to other complex, natural processes. (Bonus links to a related paper and an an earlier LA Times piece with some nice photos).
Interrupt Request: 100% synthesized, 100% dehumanized. 100% metal.
Interrupt Request (Bandcamp) is the newest release from MetaFilter's Own MASTER BOOT RECORD, with more of that very heavy synthy metal. Here's a YouTube preview (previously on MeFiMusic) of what he calls his first proper full-length album, and more ASCII mystery on Tumblr (hint hint).
“... there will be more heroes, more brawls, and more maps.”
On its Second Anniversary, Heroes of the Storm Has Finally Turned a Corner by Kat Bailey [USGamer] “You could hear the Overwatch fans moaning as they were dragged kicking and screaming into Heroes of the Storm a couple weeks ago: "Oh, I have to play this lousy game just to get a D.Va skin?" The irritation shown by a broad swath of Overwatch fans is symptomatic of the general attitude toward Heroes of the Storm. On one side, you have DotA 2 and League of Legends fans insisting that Heroes of the Storm is too basic and too casual. On the other, you have people who seem to consider the entire genre to be poison. Such attitudes have resulted in Heroes of the Storm being seen as something of a red-headed stepchild in the Blizzard family. While Overwatch has received all the criticial acclaim and success over the past year, Heroes of the Storm has been quietly motoring along in the background, building up bit by bit. Now that hard work is starting to pay off. ” [Cinematic][Gameplay] [more inside]
The Jellyfish Dream Tonight
Researchers observe sleep-like behavior in jellyfish, a brainless organism. Quote: (T)he revelations about jellyfish sleep are important, he said, because they show how basic sleep is. It appears to be a “conserved” behavior, one that arose relatively early in life’s history and has persisted for millions of years. If the behavior is conserved, then perhaps the biological mechanism is too. Understanding why jellyfish, with their simple nerve nets, need sleep could lead scientists to the function of sleep in humans.
there once was a man from New York
Bill Cassidy still is a liar / Tom Price is a luxury flier / And Kim Jong-un’s aim / He says, is to tame / The POTUS, a dotard, with fire.
“My earlier invite’s withdrawn!” / Insisted the president, Don. / “Steph wouldn’t have come; / He told you, u bum,” / Observed a 3rd-party, LeBron [more inside]
“My earlier invite’s withdrawn!” / Insisted the president, Don. / “Steph wouldn’t have come; / He told you, u bum,” / Observed a 3rd-party, LeBron [more inside]
Chopper stunting flexing snitch / Rapper shooter pimping sh*t.
The post title could be the most hip-hop lyric ever. No doubt you've all sat on your stoop on a long summer's evening and wondered... just what is the most hip-hop word? Which specific item of vocab is found more often in hip-hop lyrics than elsewhere? Your ramblings probably started to wander into questions of how the vocabulary of different hip-hop artists and groups compared. Someone obviously segued into the question of hey, how similar are all of the Wu? And of course, one nerd wondered whether Aesop Rock should be considered or if he was an outlier just because he has too many words.
He scribbles down his music, confusing all the sounds
Dmitri Shostakovich was born 111 years ago today. Later this week, the autograph score* of his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk will go on public display for the first time as part of the Victoria and Albert Museum's exhibition Opera: Passion, Power and Politics. That opera was banned after the famous denunciation in Pravda, "Muddle Instead of Music," and several of Shostakovich's friends and family members were arrested, although the composer himself was not touched (he may or may not have had a near miss). Shostakovich never completed a serious opera again, but he did attempt to write one based on Chekhov's story "The Black Monk." A new drama by Philip Setzer of the Emerson Quartet portrays his struggles with that work. [more inside]
Theft! A History of Music
From the team behind the 2006 fair use comic Bound by Law (pdf) comes a new fair use comic, Theft! A History of Music (read online, pdf). Created by James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins, two law school profs from Duke University, Theft! A History of Music is "a graphic novel laying out a 2000-year long history of musical borrowing from Plato to rap." (via Open Culture)
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