Being a fan of pizza and a loyal adherent to America’s Test Kitchen, I will be curious to read up more on this article. Always look for some tips and tricks that will cost my game a bit.
Author: carpetbomberz
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The 33 1/3 New Author Q&A: Kembrew McLeod
Kembrew McCleod on Blondie’s album Parallel Lines.
Today, we’re happy to bring you a Q&A with Kembrew McLeod, who will be writing the upcoming 33 1/3 on Blondie’s Parallel Lines !
Tell us a bit about yourself in an extended author biography.I’m a writer, documentary filmmaker, university professor, media prankster, spazz dancer, children’s music producer, and all around man of many hats. I began writing about music over two decades ago in old-school paper ’zines, and then made the transition in 1995 to online music writing in outlets like Addicted To Noise, SonicNet, and MTV.com. It was a new frontier, and I distinctly remember having to explain to label publicists what the Interweb was. Since then, I have published five books on popular music, copyright law, and—most recently—pranks. My writing has also has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Village Voice, Slate, Salon, SPIN and Rolling Stone. Additionally, I’ve…
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Moving to Tokyo? Real estate agent picks five best neighborhoods for single residents
I’m happy to see at the end of the article mention is made of Koiwa. Love that neighborhood.
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Starting from the students to build engaging computing courses for non-CS majors: Response to Goldweber and Walker
Prof. Mark Guzdial on the topic of designing courses and what is pedagogy vs. what is curricula. They’re not the same.
Computing Ed Research – Guzdial's Take
Michael Goldweber and Henry Walker responded to my blog posts (here in Blog@CACM and here in this blog) in the Inroad blog (see article here). My thanks to them for taking the time to respond to me. I found their comments especially valuable in helping to see where I was making assumptions about common values, goals, and understanding. It’s too easy in a blog to only get responses from people who share a common understanding (even if we violently disagree about values and goals). I found it helpful to get feedback from Dr. Goldweber and Dr. Walker with whom I don’t correspond regularly.
“Pedagogy” isn’t just “how to teach” for me. They argue that their articles are not about pedagogy but about what should be taught in a course that students might take to explore computer science. The page I linked to at the US Department of…
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Internet privacy, funded by spooks: A brief history of the BBG
Voice of America and all those propagandist triumphalist government programs are funded by us to the tune of $725M/year. That’s a lot of money.
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Links from Rune Madsen’s article: ON META-DESIGN AND ALGORITHMIC DESIGN SYSTEMS
ON META-DESIGN AND ALGORITHMIC DESIGN SYSTEMS
I extracted the links of Rune’s weblog in order to catalog his sources and read them at my leisure. He’s assembled quite a library of references on the topic of Meta-design. So to further his cause I wanted to see each one of these websites myself and draw my own conclusions, but more than anything else, get the word out. This is a thing, and it’s worth paying attention to.
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WD-40 Should Read Its Own Label Before Suggesting Bartenders Use A Toxic Substance On Beer Tap Handles
I dare say there is a large quantity of lubricants on the market. Including “food safe” lubricants made out of mineral oil (which is safe) or silicone (which is also safe). But always, always go by the label. If it says it can be used in food handling equipment you’re good to go. If it doesn’t say explicitly that it’s safe for food handling equipment, DO NOT use it.
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MIT researchers claim they have a way to make faster chips
Oddly this reminds me of another MIT technology incubator spin-off called Tilera. I wonder if some off the principals involved overlap with Tilera and Co?
A team of MIT researchers have discovered a possible way to make multicore chips a whole lot faster than they currently are, according to a recently published research paper.
The researchers’ work involves the creation of a scheduling technique called CDCS, which refers to computation and data co-scheduling. This technique can distribute both data and computations throughout a chip in such a way that the researchers claim that in a 64-core chip, computational speeds saw a 46 percent increase while power consumption decreased by 36 percent. This boost in speed is important because multicore chips are becoming more prevalent in data centers and supercomputers as a way to increase performance.
The basic premise behind the new scheduling technique is that data has to be near the computation that uses it, and the best way to do so is with a combination of hardware and software that distributes both the…
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