How to play piano like Philip Glass
I so love this guy.
Yup, that’s Philip Glass alright.
Via kung fu grippe
kottke: “10/GUI is a new proposal for a way of interacting with personal computers using all ten fingers in a multitouch scheme. Very Minority Report.” I’d really like to play with it.
Carl Sagan feat. Stephen Hawking, “A Glorious Dawn” If you’re of the generation whose concept of the universe was in large part shaped by Carl Sagan, you’ll appreciate this auto-tuned tribute. Sublime.
I’m going to skip right to the heart of what I want to say about this city: if you’ve never lived in a major city before, you’ll probably like San Francisco. However, if you’re coming from another notable city, you may be disappointed.
– Twitter’s Alex Payne (@al3x) nails why San Francisco just ain’t what it’s cracked up to be.
if i ever got the urge to be in a relationship with a 42 year old man
he would be THE one
I second that. Well, AC would be the one after John King, oh, and maybe Joe Solmonese.
Opps.repete is so hot
Now cut that out!
Austin didn’t know what to wear to his first gay dance last spring. It was bad enough that the gangly 13-year-old from Sand Springs, Okla., had to go without his boyfriend at the time, a 14-year-old star athlete at another middle school, but there were also laundry issues. “I don’t have any clean clothes!” he complained to me by text message, his favored method of communication.
– I love this story. Coming Out in Middle School (NYTimes.com)Seen in that light, what’s needed for a non-profit news plan to work isn’t an institutional conversion, it’s a rescue operation. There are dozen or so reporters and editors in Columbia, Missouri, whose daily and public work is critical to the orderly functioning of that town, and those people are trapped inside a burning business model.
– Rescuing The Reporters: Clay Shirky on the necessity of turning newspapers into nonprofit news-gathering organizations.
