EasyWakeup Plus for 3.x
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Tagi: sleep phases, smart alarm, alarm clock, senses, sleep
Boing Boing: Musiques Traditionelles du Burundi
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This album from the legenday Ocora label is really one of my favorites on the planet. When I first heard these two girls sing I had to be actively convinced it wasn't just pieces of a tape recording that had been spliced together! (Ocora co-founder Pierre Schaeffer also pioneered the early tape-splicing music movement known as Musique Concrete, so I wasn't totally nuts): Akaheze par deux jeune filles I just wrote about the amazing ability of some birds to sing multiple notes at once. This woman's ability to switch rapidly between her head and chest voice is totally daring anyone to say humans couldn't defy all odds and learn to do it too: Akazehe par une jeune fille The liner notes for these songs say that this woman is using her lips as a reed. If you listen carefully, you can hear the switch over to her normal voice. It's a traditional kind of song for mourning: Ubuhuha 1 Ubuhuha 2 Unfortunately, like many on Ocora, this album is exceedingly rare. Let this be another call for re-issues! The cover of the Musiques du Cameroun album is worth tracking down all on its own... This post is part of a series about music that disorients the senses. I've found that some of the most amazing and jarring auditory illusions are not the usual scientifically distilled or synthesized ones, they're often found in folk music and made by people's voices. Of course, in a way, it makes perfect sense - the vocal chords are some of the most complex and advanced musical instruments in existence. They are ubiquitously available, and we've been experimenting with them for longer than any other sound-making implement....Tagi: boing boing, pierre schaeffer, th album, extence, lger, chest voice, vocal chords, anet, comex, tape recording, perfect sense, sgs, two girls, cameroun, co founder, musiques, peoe, senses, sg, lips
Digg: Surprising Pro-Marijuana Legalization Debate On Fox News?!??
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Surprisingly Awesome one hour pro-marijuana legalization piece from Fox News. Traditionally Fox News is not known for being liberal on any topics but maybe they are coming to their senses on this one. They share great facts and make prohibition look foolish. Well worth watching for the full hour.
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Techcrunch: WITN: Extraordinary Chickpeas and the Madness of Crowdsourcing
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"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." Not our words, but those of Charles Mackay, author of the 1841 classic Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Still, it would be safe to say that we’ve always been a little skeptical of the benefits of crowd sourcing, whether for science, art or literature. On the other side of the fence, sits Peter LaMotte. Peter is president of GeniusRocket, a platform that allows brands to crowdsource commercial and (they hope) viral videos from a closed (but vast) community of filmakers, animators and other similarly creative folks. We like Peter - for reasons outlined here and here - and so we figured if anyone could convince us that the future of creative endeavor lies with monkeys and typewriters it would be him. Did he succeed? The video is below. (And do watch to the end - there’s a bit with a naked chickpea puppet.)
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