Archive for November, 2005

Brain sees with more than just the eyes

Published by Yuletide on November 2, 2005 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Scientists zapped the brains of healthy volunteers and shut down the Visual Cortex. The volunteers stared at a computer screen during this moment of blindness - all nine of them said they’d seen nothing each time. When asked to guess what they’d seen, however, those who’d been shown a dot guessed its color right in 81 percent of the cases.

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Displacer: Top 25 Dark Tranquillity Riffs

Published by Yuletide on November 1, 2005 in Metal and Tablature. 2 Comments

Top 25 Dark Tranquillity Riffs

Found this in my ooooollld bookmarks when importing them into “Spurl”:http://www.spurl.net/ (an online bookmarking service like del.icio.us or furl) (which is really cool since it integrates with both Firefox, and “Del.icio.us!!”:http://del.icio.us) ANnnnyways, this is a great site (the one I’m posting about) where Richard Broadhead III analyzses what he sees as the 25 best “Dark Tranquillity”:http://www.darktranquillity.com/ riffs (Dark Tranquillity are a classic Swedish melodic death metal band).

It’s got some great technical writing about metal, as well as guitar tablature (that’s what the site is famous for), and mp3 samples of each passage. Worth a look for anyone interested in the stuff BEHIND the music.

To determine a list of favorites, or to honor musicians for the art they have created, one must ask a simple question; “do you find yourself inspired?” Not just to write in their credit or honor, but inspired musically. Like one would be inspired to paint by looking at the Mona Lisa, or to write after reading Shakespeare. Dark Tranquillity has influenced thousands of bands and people to not only play music, but to try and create something wonderful. They grow with each album, never releasing the same material, yet constantly keeping the fans impressed and in love with their music. Very few musicians and groups have ever managed to release different genres of music so successfully on each album and not only keep their fan base, but also inspire new fans and musical inventions. Every one of their songs can represent a different mood, an assortment of ideas, or an array of stories. To create this list of the best Dark Tranquillity riffs, I set out for help in this task among the many fans across the world, asking them to tell me which sections of music they hunger for the most. I received many votes from guitar fans, typical metal fans, and all out Dark Tranquillity fans, figuring this diversity of listeners would help determine an impartiality list. After sorting through nearly a thousand entries that covered every second of every song the band ever wrote(proving they have written nothing but solid music), I have narrowed it down to these top 25 favorite riffs.

Woops! Forgot “the link”:http://dsrmusic.com/metaltab/text/guitarLessons/dt_article/dt_top25_a.html!
“Here”:http://www.dsrmusic.com/metaltab/indexIE.php?page=gl&value=1&browser=ie is a link to some cool guitar lessons on the displacer tab site

Which blogware to use?

Published by Yuletide on November 1, 2005 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

A great comparison of several of the main available blogware options: Movable Type, Wordpress, and Typepad. Great for anyone interested in blogging with their own hosted setup.

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BitSpirit

Published by Yuletide on November 1, 2005 in Software and Software. 0 Comments

BitSpirit - a powerful & easy-to-use BitTorrent Client
BitSpirit, a powerful & easy-to-use BitTorrent client

BitSpirit is a powerful and easy-to-use BitTorrent client which provides not only full BitTorrent protocol implementation but also many personalized features.It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, UPNP port-maping, NAT traversal(UDP transport), select downloads from multiple files torrent package, disk cache, chatting with other peers, torrent market,ip-filter, etc. In 3.0 or above versions of BitSpirit, it also supports DHT network£¬which is based on Kademlia protocol£¬and fully compatible with Bittorrent official client.

I haven’t tried it yet, but the possibility of being able to finally use bittorrent from school with more than 5kb/s total download speed is enough to get my attention! This is a supposedly “NAT-transversable” bittorrent client that was translated from Japanese… We shall see.

Unfortunately, it is also for Windows only.
Boooo.

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