January 2010
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
J Dilla (60)
Britten - Robert Cohen (24)
Abdouli Sidibe (8)
Various Hawaiian Guitar Players (7)
Charles Mingus (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Carbon nanotubes for coherent spintronic devices →
“Carbon nanotubes bridge the molecular and crystalline quantum worlds, and their extraordinary electronic, mechanical and optical properties have attracted enormous attention from a broad scientific community. We review the basic principles of fabricating spin-electronic devices based on individual, electrically-gated carbon nanotubes, and present experimental efforts to understand their...
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thoughts on space battles →
“But suppose we get out there, go terraform Mars, and the Martian colonists actually revolt. Or suppose we encounter hostile aliens. How would space combat actually go?”
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Dear Musicians – Please Be Brilliant or Get Out of...
An interesting take on new/old music biz gripes by Dave Allen.
“The debate surrounding online music distribution still evokes passion from critics and supporters alike, the most vocal being musicians who believe that I am working to make music free online and therefore deny them income from CD sales. Nothing could be further from the truth, I simply argue that musicians need to monetize...
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Ah. I see.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
By Richard Hofstadter† Harper’s Magazine, November 1964, pp. 77-86.
American politics has often been an arena for angry minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among extreme right-wingers, who have now demonstrated in the Goldwater movement how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities and passions of a small...
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Earth: The (Mostly) Boob-Liking Planet
towerofsleep:
“In terms of the analysis of Melanie Klein, ‘good breast’ is the prototype of the fountain of all nourishment; the breast that Sade’s libertines take such delight in whipping, upon which they take such derisive glee in wiping their arses, is, as Freud says, ‘the place where love and hunger meet’, a moving symbol of the existence and the satisfaction of the most basic of all human...