Metafilter is awash right now in links to musical toys. Yesterday’s entry no doubt had you living out your Aphex Twin fantasies. Today, get your jangle rock mojo working with Chord Studio.
Month: June, 2007
Flash-based minimalist music goodness
Fun for hours: Tinydrum 4.0. Via MeFi. Feel free to share your compositions in the comments. Here’s one of mine: 16385-32768-129-80-10282-4101 Even more fun: load it up in more than one tab of Firefox and get some “Time becomes…“-type goodness going. Note: fixed the link.
Day of Silence
Today is SaveNetRadio.org‘s Day of Silence event to raise awareness about the negative effects of the proposed increase in royalties that must be paid by internet-based radio stations. Lots of people are participating, including Pandoara (my favorite), Live365, Rhapsody, and many public broadcasting and commercial radio stations across the country. The point? To get you [...]
On Richard Rorty
I just found out that philosopher Richard Rorty died earlier this month. I entirely missed hearing about that somehow. His work has had a very profound influence on me, so I’m sad to hear it. Here’s Stanford’s mention of it. If you’re interested in a very accessible introduction to his work, I recommend Philosophy and [...]
On Online Teaching, Part I
Starting in January of this year, I’ve been teaching online English composition classes for a technical college (this is my part-time, evenings-and-weekends job. My full-time gig is still software training and consulting, also at a technical college). I have quite a bit of face-to-face teaching experience, in both academic and training environments, including experience using [...]