5 Good Habits for Gigging
Dimmer Beach: What is a good habit? Easy, a beneficial acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary. Since safety is paramount on gigs and in the shop, let’s look at 5 Good Habits for Gigging.
The right’s moronic new college scheme
Salon.com: Search any news website’s archives and you’ll find dozens of articles about how post-secondary education in the United States is broken. There’s too much debt to be had from attaining a degree, and too little benefit. Conventional wisdom is right; college is a poor decision.
While pundits, parents and pupils can all see something is wrong with the system, nobody can agree on a solution. Of the many that have been proposed, the $10,000 degree has gained the most traction.Stephen Colbert Creates Royalty-Free Alternative To Happy Birthday For Happy Birthday's Happy Birthday
Techdirt: For years, we've covered the insanity of Warner Music claiming to own the copyright on the song Happy Birthday -- a claim that is finally being challenged in court because Warner's claims are almost certainly bullshit, and the song should be in the public domain. The history of the copyright claim in the song is highly questionable, as the original "copyright holders" appear to have written neither the music nor the lyrics to "Happy Birthday," and what they did write was widely used decades before any copyright claim was made. Still, Warner gets somewhere around $2 million each year licensing the song (making it the most valuable song ever) and has no intention of giving up that free revenue stream.Wood foam may be a new form of green home insulation
www.gizmag.com: Insulating your home may help the environment by lowering your energy usage, but unfortunately the petroleum-based foam that's typically used as insulation isn't all that eco-friendly itself. Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, however, have developed a reportedly greener alternative that they claim works just as well – it's foam made from wood.Janet Echelman creates beautiful net sculptures that float overhead
io9.com: This is the 1.26 Sculpture Project, that was installed in Sydney, Australia in 2011. It's just one of the many beautiful net sculptures created by Janet Echelman. Her next project will be twice the size of her previous largest, suspended 745 feet between a 24-story skyscraper and the Vancouver Convention Center. The goal is for it to be erected in conjunction with TED's 30th anniversary later this month.
Sunday, March 16, 2014
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