Dec 23
2013
Nerdcore Hip-hop: an Introduction
C/O Midnight Giggler
Nerdcore Hip-hop: Making it ok to use cleverness, large words, and technical jargon with flow to talk about life.
All of these tracks are awesome, and there’s so much more… Please note that this is by absolutely no means a complete list of good nerdcore hip-hop songs, simply a selection to get you started on your way toward exploration. artists and songs are in no particular order, please feel free to slide around and find something you like.
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Oct 13
2011
One of the fathers of the C programming language, after a life of huge contribution to the computer science world dies at age 70. The second death of a hugely important person in technology in the last couple of weeks…
Boingboing coverage of the event
Oct 9
2011
I found this on hackaday – these hackers are awesome! – built / modified their own instruments for use in playing sweet electronic music. Please see the original source for more… it’s amazing…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuunY8BTqNs
Oct 6
2011
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
-Apple Inc.
Sep 28
2011
Firefox 4 was just released, and what it lacks for feature and ui upgrades, it MORE than makes up for in optimization. Firefox has notoriously been a major memory hog, especially when loading up many tabs containing various media types and javascript and such. this just changed.
with huge performance improvements, and in my (not very scientific) test, which included looking at how much memory was being taken up by the previous version on my desktop with my 40 some tabs that I already had open (was about 5gb), killed firefox, upgraded to 7, and restored the preveous sessions, waited a a minute for the tabs to load, and took another look… this time it was only using up about 1.5gb o_O
I’m particularly impressed with this new version… looks the same, works so much faster.
