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Music, Evolved
I have been talking about the evolution of content distribution in my last couple of posts, and I’ve pulled together some thoughts about how this has affected the music industry specifically. Robert Heinlein said it best in his 1939 novel, Life-Line: “There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea…
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The Genre Debacle
Ever since I started digitizing my music library, I’ve struggled with the pronunciation of the word “genre.” I started out saying John Ree, perhaps imagining him as a pioneer in the field of music classification; sort of a spiritual ancestor to the Music Genome Project. Later, I adopted the slurred buzzing intonation that inhabits a…
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World of Goo
I just beat World of Goo, an excellent, award-winning independent game from 2D Boy, a studio that from the credits consists of about four people. I’ve only more recently gotten into puzzle games after being introduced to Auditorium. I paid $10 for that game (which I still haven’t beaten), so when World of Goo went…
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Bachelors of Science
Ars Technica recently ran a post on how the scientific method that is taught during early education differs vastly from the actual way science is practiced. This is something I’ve had personal experience with as I worked in a real lab over the past year. Rather than the rather linear progression of observation → hypothesis…
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Playlist Victory
I have established a bit of a policy that when I get new music I have to listen to it at least once. This was working well until my music collection increased 50% in nearly one go last fall. My “New Music” playlist became huge, and coupled with various new additions it has taken a…
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Today’s Playlist
A while back I got a whole bunch of new music, and I’ve been trying to make sure that I listen to each new song at least once before I go back to my regular routine. As a result, I’ve set up a playlist with all of these new songs and have been serially listening…
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Topping the Charts
I just want to say that about 75% of the songs I have been hearing when I turn on the radio (especially MIX 106.5) are one of the following: Womanizer – Britney Spears Let It Rock – Kevin Rudolf featuring Lil’ Wayne Single Ladies – Beyoncé Live Your Life – T.I. featuring Rhianna Seriously, I…
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Auditorium
I was looking back through my Google Reader starred items and I rediscovered what has to be the greatest flash game since Grid 16. It’s called Auditorium, and it’s a puzzle game that blends the logic of puzzle solving with multi-part musical harmony and smooth visuals. I only made partway through the second act before…
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