Mind-NOX

String Quintet No. 2 (Mozart)

face — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 03:26:55 +0000

The String Quintet No. 2 in C minor, K. 406/516b, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1787, a transcription of his earlier Serenade No. 12, K. 388, for wind octet. Like all of Mozart’s string quintets, it is a “viola quintet” in that it is scored for string quartet and an extra viola (two violins, two violas and cello).

via String Quintet No. 2 (Mozart) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Harvard University to become a beacon for open access

face — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:32:41 +0000

In a memorandum, the Harvard University Faculty Advisory Council has warned that the universitys library can no longer afford the subscription rates for scientific journals from major publishing houses. As a consequence, the university is encouraging its scientists to move towards the free publication of the universitys prestigious research results in line with the “open access” model.

via Harvard University to become a beacon for open access – The H Open Source: News and Features.

About the Food Deserts Locator

face — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:00:25 +0000

In a 2009 report to Congress, Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food: Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences, ERS outlined a number of ways to measure how many people have limited access to food and how many live in low-income areas with limited access. The report used 1-kilometer (km) square grids as the base geographic unit of analysis, measuring distance from the nearest source of healthy foods. Grids outside of a specified distance from a food source were designated as low access areas (separate markers for low access were used for rural and urban areas). Grids with high concentrations of low-income individuals received particular attention.

via About the Food Deserts Locator.

ZR1 Review: A Supercar in Corvette Clothing

face — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:23:24 +0000

Or you can nail the throttle, launching the tach needle into the next county. At which point the sky cracks open and your face melts, like that scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, only without the Nazis and a little more Holy Power of a Thousand Millennia raining down on upon humanity

via ZR1 Review: A Supercar in Corvette Clothing.

That’s what a Corvette should be like ;-)

Microsoft Word is cumbersome, inefficient, and obsolete. It’s time for it to die.

face — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:35:50 +0000

Stories would come in over the fax machine. If the printout was clear enough, and if our giant flatbed scanner was in the mood, someone would scan the pages in, a text-recognition program would decipher the letters, and we would comb the resulting electronic file for nonsense and typos. If the scanner wasnt in the mood, we would prop up the hard copy beside a computer and retype the whole thing. …Nowadays, I get the same feeling of dread when I open an email to see a Microsoft Word document attached. Time and effort are about to be wasted cleaning up someones archaic habits. A Word file is the story-fax of the early 21st century: cumbersome, inefficient, and a relic of obsolete assumptions about technology. Its time to give up on Word.

via Microsoft Word is cumbersome, inefficient, and obsolete. It’s time for it to die. – Slate Magazine.

An Introduction To 3D Mixing

face — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:45:05 +0000

In my next few tutorials, I will be taking an in depth look at the mixing process to help you gain a better understanding of mixing concepts and in so doing, present one possible workflow scenario to help you streamline the process. For these tutorials I will be using Logic, but the concepts can be applied across the board.

via An Introduction To 3D Mixing.

Links to the follow-on entries

Squash Coaches: What is the best way to develop quick players?

face — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:27:30 +0000

Imagine how quick your players would be around the court if they knew exactly what shot the opponent would play before the ball was struck –

via Squash Coaches: What is the best way to develop quick players? Anticipation Training! « Science of Coaching Squash.

Attribution Trail?

face — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:37:27 +0000

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Apple, E-Book Publishers Threatened With Lawsuit

face — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:47:40 +0000

The U.S. Department of Justice has warned Apple and five of the biggest publishers in the country that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of e-books.

via Apple, E-Book Publishers Threatened With Lawsuit – Yahoo! Finance.

I’m not so sure that Amazon really wants to sell e-readers. I think they want to sell e-books and are dealing with the chicken and the egg problem.

Develop Metro apps? Say no to this con

face — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:41:36 +0000

Microsoft says Windows 8 will offer exciting new opportunities for software developers. Don’t believe it.

via Develop Metro apps? Say no to this con.

2012 – eVolo Skyscraper Competition

face — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:53:14 +0000

eVolo Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2012 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design

via 2012 – eVolo | Architecture Magazine.

24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed

face — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:44:46 +0000

Just in case you can’t sleep at night, here’s an article about sound that is bound to make you hear the siren call of some zzzzzs – of course I find it interesting.

Unfortunately, there is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format. Its playback fidelity is slightly inferior to 16/44.1 or 16/48, and it takes up 6 times the space.

via 24/192 Music Downloads are Very Silly Indeed.

Apps vs The Web

face — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:44:40 +0000

An app is a specialized tool, like a wrist watch. Apps thrive on mobile because people on the go have short bursts of time to accomplish tasks. Waiting in line at a bank, you only have a few seconds to check your mail.

via Apps vs The Web.

Nascar’s Keselowski Gains More Than 100,000 Twitter Followers During Daytona 500 – NYTimes.com

face — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:29:59 +0000

It was, certainly, an unusual place to tweet from: Car No. 2 at the Daytona 500, the race suspended, part of the track ablaze with burning jet fuel.

via Nascar’s Keselowski Gains More Than 100,000 Twitter Followers During Daytona 500 – NYTimes.com.

If PHP Were British

face — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:26:12 +0000

When Rasmus Lerdorf first put PHP together, he – quite sensibly, despite his heritage – chose not to write it in Greenlandic or Danish. Good job too – that would have been rather unpleasant to work with. He opted instead, being in Canada at the time, for the local tongue. No, not French – that bastard dialect of the Queen’s English commonly referred to as “US English”1.

via If PHP Were British – Added Bytes – Brighton Web Application Development.

Q&A: What are the Most Overrated Exercises?

face — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:34:43 +0000

Q:�It seems like most people I see in the gym use the same exercises. Which moves work and which ones are overrated?

via Q&A: What are the Most Overrated Exercises? | Movement | Core Daily | Core Performance.

Graphic designers are ruining the web

face — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:14:53 +0000

Well, the process was indeed like that once � a very long time ago. In the beginning, webpages were simple pages of text marked up with some tags that would enable a browser to display them correctly. But that meant that the browser, not the designer, controlled how a page would look to the user, and there’s nothing that infuriates designers more than having someone (or something) determine the appearance of their work.

via Graphic designers are ruining the web | Technology | The Observer.

face — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:02:02 +0000

Say what you may about Midwesterners, but one thing is for certain: they love to eat. With that in mind, I proudly unveil the first in a series of zooms of the McDistance Map � the Midwest United States as visualized by the distance to the nearest McDonald�s:

via The Hungry Midwest � Americas Heartland And McDonalds.

This is a wonderful use of data. Click on the picture to enlarge it. Think of the lights as “cells”.

10 Tips on Writing from David Ogilvy

face — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:36:12 +0000

Read the Roman-Raphaelson book on writing. Read it three times.
Write the way you talk. Naturally.
Use short words, short sentences and short paragraphs.
Never use jargon words like reconceptualize, demassification, attitudinally, judgmentally. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.
Never write more than two pages on any subject.
Check your quotations.
Never send a letter or a memo on the day you write it. Read it aloud the next morning � and then edit it.
If it is something important, get a colleague to improve it.
Before you send your letter or your memo, make sure it is crystal clear what you want the recipient to do.
If you want ACTION, don�t write. Go and tell the guy what you want.

via 10 Tips on Writing from David Ogilvy | Brain Pickings.

Reverse Lunge – with Lateral Flexion

face — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:05:03 +0000

You Should Feel It

Stretching the hip flexor of your back leg, in the glute and groin area of your front leg, and in the lateral muscles of your torso

via Reverse Lunge – with Lateral Flexion | Movements | Core Knowledge | Core Performance.

Getting to Know Altered Chords Part 6: Altered IV

face — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:30:35 +0000

This is the sixth article in a seven part series on altered chords. In the first part I explained that by lowering or raising a tone of a chord by a half step you can change the color and function of a chord.

via Getting to Know Altered Chords Part 6: Altered IV.

Can a Few Years’ Data Reveal Bad Teachers? – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com

face — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:04:56 +0000

With years of data, it seems possible to distinguish good teachers from poor ones. Does that indicate that, after collecting two or three years� data on each new hire, districts should be using test scores for decisions about firings, tenure and pay?

via Can a Few Years’ Data Reveal Bad Teachers? – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com.

The debate (a loose use of the word) certainly points to two sides of an argument. I’m not sure that it has enlightened me, or pointed me toward and acceptable solution to the problem.

Making Love to WebKit

face — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:02:46 +0000

This idea started with an accidental discovery: if you put a CSS perspective on a scrollable
, then 3D elements inside that
will retain their perspective while you scroll. This results in smooth, native parallax effects, and makes objects jump out of the page, particularly when using an analog input device with inertial�scrolling.

via Making Love to WebKit � Acko.net.

The web, early 2012. Scroll s-l-o-w-l-y.

face — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:09:00 +0000

Hunter raised the issue of filtering again with [head librarian] Wofford and stated that she thought the filtering of the websites she sought to view was improper and the classification of Native American cultural and religious history and practices as the �occult� and �criminal skills� was misleading and derogatory. Wofford responded that it was up to the filtering system which websites library patrons could view and that she only allows people to view blocked websites if it pertains to their job, if they are writing a paper, or if she determined that they otherwise have a legitimate reason to view the content.

via Library computers can block porn�but Wicca? ACLU says no.

I am glad that’s not my head librarian.

Piatelli Vineyards

face — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:43:38 +0000

Calle Cobos 13710, Agrelo, Lujan de Cuyo 5509, Mendoza, Argentina�Tours, Tastings, and Dining require reservations� Visitas; degustaci�n y almuerzos con reserva previa Monday�- Saturday� 9:30am-5:00pm Lunes a S�bados de 9.30 am a 5:00 pmTelephone: 054-261 � 153535506 / 054-261 � 4790123 � 4790122Radio ID: 6864111

Malbec 2009 Grand Reserve – 14.4% – 12,603/33,478

Christmas rib roast dinner!