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Thanks, Marcelo, for sharing your chimarrão with me.
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I wanted a piece of the pie for me and my family so I made it. Big Boi, from my playlist of favorite Big Boi verses entitled, “Big Boi’s Diamonds & Pearls”. (The playlist title references a Big Boi lyric from “Ova Da Wudz”; itself a reference to a Prince song.) (Because people that listen…
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Looking forward to using one of these BookBacks by Dodocase on my iPad 3.
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Sencha: Sencha is hiring! 2011 was an incredible year for Sencha and its employees. We nearly tripled the company, and we’re not done building the team! If you’d like to come work with us in the Silicon Valley, California, be sure to check out our Careers page for open positions. It’s true, Sencha is still…
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Give me this day my daily devices.
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Photo by Tatiana Iskandar.
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Unlike conventional approaches which quantize emotions into classes, [this demo] defines emotions by two continuous variables arousal and valence and employs regression algorithms to predict them. Associated with arousal and valence values (AV values), each music sample becomes a point in the arousal-valence emotion plane, so a user can easily retrieve music samples of certain…
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Music That Makes You Dumb by Virgil Griffith
Music That Makes You Dumb by Virgil GriffithCaltech student Virgil Griffith correlated musical interests with SAT scores. The method is highly unscientific, but the grouped by genre graphic makes the most sense. People who list Outkast in their favorite music on Facebook tend to score higher than those who list Lil Wayne.
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Big Yellow Fish by Andy Davis I appreciated these long dark winter nights, but I’m ready for warm sunny days again.
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Chris Robb’s surf art notebook. (Pretty large animated gif. Click through to make it happen.)
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Back to the Woods
Nearly four years ago when I began this tumblelog I posted this quote by Columbia Professor of Music Aaron Brown, “Country music is born when the country becomes a nostalgic idea,” and it stuck with me. Partly because I have a deep appreciation for the simple songwriting of country music. Partly because when I post…
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Last Clock for iPad shows you a slice of time with live video scanned to the clock face. The visual appearance of the Last Clock is highly influenced by what the camera is looking at. The composition, the colour range as well as the focus between the circles is very different depending on the target.…
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Shipping Pallet Bookshelf and Bike Rack by Chris Meierling.
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Monthly Playlists for 2012
Last year I made monthly playlists of songs in heavy rotation. Really enjoyable to revisit at year’s end. Instant time warp. — Frank Chimero (@fchimero) January 5, 2012 Really excited to do this in 2012. (Also, embedded tweets look pretty legit on Tumblr.)
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Resizing windows in Mac OS X Lion
Today I discovered that you can resize windows in Mac OS X Lion with the aid of the Option and Shift key, a technique usually reserved for image editing software. Hold down the Option key while resizing the edge of a window to move the opposite edge the same distance. Hold down the Shift key…