Links for 17-10-2007
Microsoft wants to read your mind, the SETI silence dilemma, combating brain ageing, yet more music reviews …
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“… the company has come up with a method for filtering EEG data in such a way that it separates useful cognitive information from the not-so-useful non-cognitive stuff.” Insert your own punchline.
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2 – SETI’s Dilemma: Break the Great Silence?
“As an onlooker in this debate for some time now, I keep running into a crucial problem. Again, it is the size of the participating audience.” Food for thought.
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3 – Doctors Discuss Theories on Aging Brains
“When ageing hampers memory, some people’s brains compensate to stay sharp. Now scientists want to know how those brains make do – in hopes of developing treatments to help everyone else keep up.”
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4 – Suspect health products debunked
“Would you buy a compact disc that claims to channel 34,000 homeopathic waves from your computer into your body? Or a skin patch that draws toxins out of your body while you sleep?” A (desperate) fool and his money …
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Good round-up of the basic bits, including code excerpts. Cheers, Jeremy!
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6 – Will Hollywood kill the web-only stars?
“Back in the day, videos created for the internet had a punk rock edge. Video on the net was to be the “new indie”, a reinvention of television the way we want it.” Not sure I buy this argument, TBH.
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7 – EP review: This Dying Hour – Longest Memory From The Shortest Life EP
“It’s a hard piece of work to classify, but that’s more due to a bankruptcy of usefulness of sub-genre definitions in an environment when the things breed like flies; file under ‘metal’ and be done with it — let the music speak for itself.”
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8 – Album review: The Bones – Burnout Boulevard
“… perhaps you’re unable to abandon your preconceptions; perhaps to you Burnout Boulevard sounds simplistic, old-fashioned, and not your cup of tea. And that’s fair enough — but it’s also your loss.”
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9 – Album review: Nine Black Alps – Love/Hate
“If Everything Is was the sound of a hunch-shouldered sulk, then Love/Hate is the sound of someone standing up straight and explaining exactly what it is that has pissed them off.”
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10 – Album review: Serj Tankian – Elect The Dead
“Ladies and gentlemen, here’s Serj Tankian on holiday from his day-job: Elect The Dead contains twelve songs penned by the System Of A Down frontman as a solo project …”
October 17th, 2007 at 6:03 am
New Nine Black Alps album? One for the wish-list. Only
October 17th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Yeah, they were splogs; I usually delete them each morning, but for some bizarre reason the only DNS on the planet that hasn’t yet recognised Velcro City’s recent migration is the one my home machine is connected to – so I’ve had to wait until I got to work before I could see this post to reply to your comment! The magic of the internet … *sigh*