Or perhaps I should say "the gaze of people who find a variety of men wiggling in tiny briefs attractive ( Read more... )

Soundation.com is a web app that's kind of like GarageBand. There are several account tiers. The free account lets you use around 600 recorded loops and MIDI instruments, but you can't record anything of your own into it. I have the free account ( Read more... )

The free MOOC I'm taking through Coursera ( Read more... )

Passing along some linkspam I got from the OH ( Read more... )

Tonight's web surfing subjects ( Read more... )

I'm not going to post the whole meme. It was a fairly quiet year for me and most of my loved ones, although some folks I cared about had things much harder than they deserved. The sad parts for me were when my two cats got sick and died. The happy parts were when I went to Wiscon and got my knitting mojo back. I'm happier than I was at the ( Read more... )

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1007.blake.html
Small medical tech companies have a hard time selling their products because of loopholes in Medicare laws. Shaw’s retractable syringe hit just as these trends were converging. In fact, the ( Read more... )

I'm going to save this for when I want to smile a whole lot.

100 Riffs (A Brief History of Rock N' Roll)
by Chicago Music Exchange

https://vimeo.com/43426940

This entry was originally posted at http://firecat. ( Read more... )

A professional musician writes about why free music on the Internet isn't really free, debunks some myths about how and where pro musicians get paid (e.g., most don't make much money on touring; Spotify pays musicians almost nothing), and describes some charities you can support if you end up deciding that you did a wrong thing by downloading free ( Read more... )

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