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Labanotation is a standartizied system for analysing and recording any human motion.
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The Intel Mac mini’s case is just like that on the PPC model and can be opened by prying upward with a sharp putty knife while working your way around the bottom of the case
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links for 2008-04-07
April 07, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: alphabet, apple, body, diagram, gesture, hardware, howto, language, macmini, memory, motion, movement, music, notation, performance, tutorial, upgrade
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links for 2008-03-08
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Pineapples contains Bromelain and have had a long tradition as a medicinal plant among the natives of South and Central America. (Eating the fruit isn’t a solution though :)
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Marmite has a great deal of Vitamin B complex – which means it contains all the B vitamins.
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Very nice dynamic layout, using javascript to fuidify the columns when resizing the page.
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todo.sh use plain text: Since it’s been around since the dawn of computing, it’s safe to say it’s completely future-proof
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show system logs, unix commands output, or images (i.e. from the internet) on your desktop or even in front of all windows.
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Bash outputs
March 08, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, apple, automation, background, collection, commandline, desktop, discussion, fluid, food, gallery, gtd, GUI, hack, health, image, interface, javascript, layout, lifehack, linux, organization, pipe, pipes, process, productivity, reference, shell, system, terminal, txt, unix, wound
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links for 2008-02-08
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Spotlight can receive plugin. This article describes how to actually develop one which will index the content of Stickies.
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this article describes a bit of the troubles along the way for Google if Microsoft grasp the Yahoo business
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This an area I never really searched into: Spotlight plugins – it seems like there are a lot of gems; this one for example brings the top ten Google results.
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This one is another Spotlight plugin: Delicious Indexer – it will index your online bookmarks and lets you retrieve them from the desktop.
From LSO’s Chronicle
Russian 20th-century music is inseparable from history. As film composers, Shostakovich and Prokofiev both got used to the idea of providing accompaniments to images of great moments from their country’s past. But few have chronicled their own times as relentlessly as Shostakovich.
Variously fêted and reviled by the Soviet authorities, and constantly treading a fine line between triumph and disaster – sometimes even between life and death – his desire to compose never wavered, and thus it is that the late symphonies featured in this series offer an image of the postwar decades in music of unfailingly intense expression, from the ‘optimistic tragedy’ of the Tenth to the descriptive power of the Eleventh, and the dark contemplations of the Fourteenth to the quirky irony of the Fifteenth. Yet out of necessity Shostakovich’s is also an art rich in ambiguity, its surface messages often seemingly undermined by steely irony and double meaning.
Three decades after his death these great works still have the power both to fascinate and to reach deep into our hearts and minds.
From Wikipedia: Shostakovich’s page:
After a period influenced by Prokofiev and Stravinsky (Symphony No. 1), Shostakovich switched to modernism (Symphony No. 2 and The Nose) before developing a hybrid of styles with Lady Macbeth and the state-suppressed Fourth Symphony. This hybrid style ranged from the neo-classical (with Stravinskian influences) to the post-romantic music (with Mahlerian influences). His tonality involved much use of modality and some astringent neo-classical harmonies à la Hindemith and Prokofiev. His music frequently includes sharp contrasts and elements of the grotesque.
February 08, 2008
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Tags: accessibility, apple, application, archive, browser, code, delicious, desktop, google, london, metadata, microsoft, music, orchestra, osx, plugin, Plugins, search, software, spotlight, yahoo
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The Way Things Go: art, zen & hardware crash
Yesterday, I was wondering about Process in my early morning readings, today I’m looking at cause & consequences…
The magic number: 7.01 and how to get prepared for the worst…Yesterday, I was wondering about Process in my early morning readings – in the flow I came to speak about Fischli & Weiss, 2 swiss artists who did the ‘How To Work Better’ a kind of process manifesto.
They also did a film most of you have certainly heard about: ‘Der Lauf Der Dinge’ (aka The Way Things Go). The video – which I loved so much since I first saw it in the Marc Bretillot’s course back in the days when I was in fine art in ESAD in Reims – is described as follow:
Film stills from Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s The Way Things Go (1987); on Youtube there’s a short extract and a link where to buy your own copy.Inside a warehouse, a precarious structure 70-100 feet long was constructed from various items. If this is set in motion, a chain reaction ensues fire, water, gravity and chemistry determine the life-cycle of objects and things. So begins a story about cause and effect, mechanism and art, improbability and precision.
Well … yesterday, my beloved MacBook suddenly died. I mean it freezed, and then refused to boot, displaying a folder with a question mark. That seems to be a very well known issue with a certain type of Seagate hard drive with a firmware revision 7.01 – if you are the happy owner of a MacBook, I encourage you to check your serial numbers.
3 screenshots on how to retrieve your serial number. In the background a nice trick from lifehacker: Keep A Scratch Pad Of The Day, I am also a moleskine-geek which I think is a good way of envisionning vital data backupMyself, I have been lucky enough to see the early reports about this Seagate harddrive issue and I had luckily time to backup the faulty drive. I nonetheless lost a few files and a few precious hours of rest, I also stressed a bit but I can’t help but think there‘s definitely some sort of zen to practice: learn to (better) let go and let’s things go the way things go… but as I deeply appreciate the precepts from the chinese tactician Sun Tzu (see KD01k The Art Of war), I also like to keep things ready for the worst: all I have to do now is to replace the dead and faulty seagate harddrive (there’s a PDF from Apple documenting the procedure to remove and replace a hard drive from a macbook – nothing too scary once you know how it used to be in the recent past) by a spare new Samsung, taken from a mini Porsche LaCie drive I bought in November (just in case) and re install everything back in its order.
KD01k – ‘The Art Of War’ the original text written in 3000 BC by Sun Tzu and his disciples is designed according to its own structure; a generative design principle is applied with a set of rules based on statistics and ponctuation.
* Marc Bretillot website Cullinaire Design et autres façons.
January 14, 2008
Categories: electronest, generative, memory, offline, thinking loud
Tags: apple, art, hardware, process, work, zen
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