gwine, a present participle of go
Olympic Medal Count
I’m very interested in the aesthetics of data, i think that this is beautiful and simple.2:00 Who Is The Tunafish Man? (Deacon + Girltalk + Spankrock)
The second to last act of whartscape (or the last act, I’m not sure if Cex at “dawn” counts”) will be a super group of dan deacon, girl talk, and spank rock.
i am so incredibly excited
Search Flickr Images by Color With the Multicolr Search Lab - ReadWriteWeb
This makes me want to hug the internet.
Feist teaches counting on Sesame Street with a change up on 1234
the new kicks
only been running once with them and i like them so far
not so keen on the color though, all silver maybe?
The Take Away Shows
A french webcast that offers clips of bands performing, yeasayer on the subway, arcade fire in an elevator, final fantasy running down the streets of paris with his violin in hand, R.E.M. on a wooden bridge in Georgia.Screaming Masterpiece - Pitchfork
Pitchfork is streaming the movie Screaming Masterpiece from there website. It is a documentary about the music scene of Iceland. It features Bjork, Sigur Ros, and Mum. It is directed by Ari Alexander Ergis.Girl Talk's Feed The Animals: Get It
If you’ve been waiting for Girl Talk’s new album for as long as we have, you’ll be happy to hear that the most anticipated album in Illegal Art’s history is now available. It was revealed a while ago that he’d be adopting the pay-what-you-want model that Radiohead made popular, so go forth and pay what you want.
You’ll find it here, where it is also noted that any price will secure you 320kbps MP3s, $5 or more gives you the option of FLAC files and a one-file mix of the album, and paying more than $10 will get you a packaged CD when it becomes available.
Interestingly, if you choose to pay nothing for it, you are forwarded to a poll where you are asked for an excuse for paying nothing. I picked “part of the press”. I hope your excuse is better.
A fairly comprehensive list of the source material used is already available on the album’s Wikipedia page. As you’d expect, there’s a lot of it.
i’m in the process of downloading it right now
i’m thinking 15$, but I have to find a willing credit-card holder
Garkov: Garfield + Markov chains
Garkov is what happens when you combine Garfield comic strips and a Markov chain. The applications takes transcripts of Garfield cartoons, then generates new strips using automatically-generated text that should, in theory, be at least semi-coherent. But as with most applications of Markov models designed to produce coherent text: mostly, it is not, but it does have the potential for humorous results.
According to the blog post announcing it, it’s only using 500 transcribed scripts and nine background strips, but that number will grow (theoretically increasing the coherence of the resulting strips).
Regardless of how good or bad it is, people doing clever things with code is great.
(via hthth)