While searching for some egyptian music/artists I found something else – damn good fusion of world music and electronica. Two french guys playing oud mixing it with synth beats – Duoud. Sample it bellow …
If programming languages were religions
StandardCheck your favorite programming language and the related religion here. I’m glad my favorite “has abandoned whole concept of goto hell“.
Evil track of the week
StandardSkynet – Geometrix
OpenOffice.org user survey
StandardIf you are the user of OpenOffice.org office suite, there is a survey you might participate and help the development team to improve the software in the future. So don’t wait, take your part and answer following 38 questions.
You weary giants of flesh and steel
StandardMore and more news about new regulations of Internet appear such as Berlusconi and G8 or filtering in Australia. Some of them are more amusing some of them more threatening. Anyway they remind me of J. P. Barlow’s Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace. It is from 1996, but still applies …
The wall
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Urine Passes NASA Taste Test
StandardA new water regeneration system is going to be delivered to ISS by Endeavour shuttle by the end of this week. The brand new technology by NASA is able to recycle human urine as well as the other garbage water. As the blind test have shown – the quality of recycled water is about the same as tap water.
Seems the end of urine therapy in space :) Have you ever tried?
What they were talking about?
StandardYesterday U.S. vice-president candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin clashed in first debate. See the comments in a BBC article. The more interesting outcome of the article than the results of the debate it self (the analysts and polls show Mr. Biden did better by the way) is there are results of service which makes so called “word cloud” from a buch of text. It calculates the count of each word used in text and displays it in size regarding the count.
See for yourself what the candidates talked about … pretty self explanatory.
… or create your own word cloud at Wordle.net (Java plug-in required).
Another LHC coverage
StandardFound another media coverage of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in recent Newsweek article. Well written, understandable, but insightful and funny. By the way … did you know: “When the force of gravity is tested carefully against the electrical force, it is found to be weaker by a factor of one followed by 40 zeros.
Headlines
StandardI was told by the PR guys it is common in the newspapers that the article gets different headline than created by the journalist. And that’s because there is a special person just for making the headlines who has the ultimate word on it.
It came to my mind when browsing through two days old The Guardian. And it seems as a good work done as following headlines definitely got my attention and made me laugh.
Click to get the excerpt from the article …
