Bach on a Moebius strip
The geometrical beauty in J.S. Bach's opus, visualized. The Moebius strip is, simply put, a surface with just one side. A canon is a musical composition based on a melody, played along with one or...
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The Wholly Family
A man came to Terry Gilliam's house in Naples with a big box of pasta and offered him to make a movie. The man worked for a pasta company, and the only conditions were that it was set in the city and nobody...
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How bad is multitasking?
Interesting connection between information overload and multitasking in an article by Derek Dean and Caroline Webb on the McKinsey Quarterly (membership required), with excellent bibliographical coverage...
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Crowsourcing!
It's not a typo... When seeing birds on a wire, I always wonder what sort of tune they'd compose. Jarbas Agnelli, musician and movie director, did the thing for good. [via Open Culture] ...
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Eurovision 2008
I have just finished watching a few minutes of the 2008 Eurovision song contest, hosted by Serbia (having won the last edition with Marija Šerifović's Molitva). As the Museum of Broadcast Communication...
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Earthquake
32 years ago I was sleeping in my parents' car, parked in my grandfather's backyard and well away from any tall buildings. A couple of hours before that, we had left our 4th floor flat because of an earthquake...
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Creative Licences
I recently wrote about the German initiative for releasing TV contents on the web with a Creative Commons licence. I also discovered a similar initiative from the BBC, which created a specific licence...
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Allegorical game
Jason Rohrer's Passage is a small example of what can be achieved with videogames, if the goal is communicating emotions instead of providing addictive gameplay. The best thing to do is to download (it's...
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Creative Commons tv shows
German NDR public television is beginning an experiment to release its shows with a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license. This basically means that you are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform...