A good bit of my motivation for interviewing Steve Lawson was the amazing good use he makes of looping technology. I’m into looping as well, but what Steve does with it is sublime. Recently, I discovered KT Tunstall (who says VH1 never did anything good for me). This live clip from her site shows her [...]

Here’s a nice graphic of the population of the entire world, represented in pixels–you among all the rest. This should be in a textbook on using visual aids. For you non-designer and/or non-geeks, there are (on most monitors at least) 72 pixels in an inch. No someone go do one that represents our sun among [...]

My second interview for bassplaying.com went live today. This one is with phenomenal UK solo bassist Steve Lawson.

An EFF press release reports that a new proposed bill from Senator Arlen Specter would be “a rubber stamp for any future spying program dreamed up by the executive.” This is our lap-dog legislative branch in action. Rather than hold the president responsible for ignoring the law, they’ll just bend the law around his action [...]

I’m not sure if plagiarism is on the rise across the board, but I know I see it more regularly in my classes these days. I can count on at least one blatant rip-off paper per semester. I only teach two classes, so that’s a fairly high ratio. I doubt most of my students read [...]