Links of interest

But counting backwards helps! On a sidenote: zefrank for president!

This is a very nice gadget, which could become an instrument of tomorrow - today! Just remember when one day you will tell your grandchild "Dj Reactable", where you first saw his turntables: evergreenlinks.blogspot.com :) " The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic sonic topologies, with generators, filters and modulators, in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language." Part 2:

Based on an essay by Mary Schmich

This guy is amazing. 45 minutes in a helicopter and he can draw a detailled picture of the city of Rome from memory.

Normally I don't post very many videos here. I do that on my funny blog . And there, normally I would just post the video directly and give a link to the website with it. But this time I post a video as a link only, just to make sure you check out the website as well. This guy has truely earned the honor. Inspiring! Check it out: http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/ * credits for the title of this entry go to Matt , too.

Imagine the following: an experienced DJ sits down with you over his records. You name a song you like, he puts on a song he thinks you might also like. You listen, say if you like it or not, and, based on that, the DJ picks song after song closer, or in fact exactly to what you like. He even can tell you why he decided on a particular song. A brilliant service, www.pandora.com holds music for free, the best radio-ish webservice I experienced so far. I'm lazy right now and busy listening to this wonderful music, so please read here and try out here now. Just trust me, you won't regret it. If you wanna know what I listen to, check out the right side, below the "Feed Readers Digest " section. Edit: Pandora is closed for users outside the USA at the moment. I'll let you know when this sad time is over.

This program is really sweet. I will work on this post later, for now just a description from the website itself. Only so much: it is well worth exploring, I just know you WILL enjoy it. "Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go." www.stellarium.org