Just accidentally played two piano recordings together. Exactly like Conlon Nancarrow.
The film Compliance tells the hardly-believable but essentially true story of a sociopathic phone-pranker who, pretending to be a police officer, persuades a fast-food restaurant manageress to detain and strip-search a young female employee, then leave her to be sexually abused, under the direction of phoned orders, by the manageress’s middle-aged fiancé. It caused a [...]
I started automating tweeting real-time excerpts from Charles Darwin’s Beagle Diary several years ago, beginning just in time to coincide with the bicentenary in 2009. I jumped into the Beagle voyage already underway in 1833, so I missed about a year of travel. In Beagle time it’s now 1836 and Charles, Fitzroy and The Beagle are heading [...]
I thought it about time I started using the Facebook page I’d setup for The Beagle Voyage some time ago. I I created a Facebook Application which uses oAuth to post the same content as the Tweets at @cdarwin to Facebook as status updates. Why not go there and Like the page. In time I [...]
I while back I bought a Sony PRS-505 eBook reader. I’d contemplated the slowly growing eBook market for a while, I’d heard good things from the US about the Kindle, and I thought it about time I dipped a toe in the water. After reviewing the eBook landscape I plumped for the Sony. The Kindle [...]
For the past year or so the Twittering @cdarwin has been travelling up and down the coast of South America (in @cdarwin’s world it’s currently February 1834). To compile the tweets in advance I use mostly ‘The Beagle Diary‘, the subsequent book by Darwin, ‘The Voyage of the Beagle‘ and Darwin’s letters brought together in [...]