If you are at all a fan of Benjamin Britten or have ever heard his lover, Peter Pears, singing his music, then this old video of Dudley Moore is a must-see. I crack up every time I hear it. And now I’m in the mood for some luscious Nocturne (with Peter Pears performing, natch).
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something I miss
What happened to Fafblog?
Solla Solla Enna Perumai
Via Sepia Mutiny, one of the most awesome videos I’ve ever seen — a song from the 1981 Tamil film Ellaam Inbamayam and starring the rather famous actor Kamal Haasan (or if you’re IMDB, Kamal Hassan). He was awarded the Padmashri, but I would venture to guess that this particular video is not his finest acting moment. He does, however, have what some might call “the funk.”
UPDATE : he really likes gold lame boots and vests, it seems.
LaTeX figure repository
I’m pretty picky about figures for LaTeX documents now, and I hate having to make new figures from scratch since it takes forever. So a little while ago I got this free wiki called ThousandWords to hold figures that I had made and make them (along with relevant code) available to others. At the moment it’s pretty sparse — just a few things here and there that I put up — but it would be great to have more. In particular, right now it’s all information theory, signal processing, and networking, and there’s no reason (beyond disk space) that it can’t be more diverse.
So if any readers of this blog want to put up figures of their own for public use, let me know!
a thing not to do on a Sunday morning
Play with Librarything.. Dangerous, dangerous, dangerous.
blogging is a virus, it seems
And the latest victim is Apurva. You would be hard-pressed to find a more congenial and literate individual.
spinnerty
Check out the new website of DJ Spinnerty. One of these days I’ll get to see his show…
always be cobbling
Remember folks, hot cocoa is for cobblers. (Via Adam, of the defunct Schmonkey Report).
secularmas
As Fafnir says, “Secularists don’t decorate Christmas trees. They decorate Secularmas trees, which are big holes dug in the ground to demonstrate the absence of trees.”
now that’s leveraging your base
Or fandom, in any case. Neil Gaiman announced on his blog that the following authors are auctioning “cameos,” if you will, in their forthcoming works. The proceeds will go to the First Amendment Project (which really needs a new color scheme). You can name a victim in a Stephen King novel, an utterance by Sunny in a Lemony Snicket book, a character in a Jonathan Lethem comic… and many more.
I’m sure you can write a nice little article about how postmodern a phenomenon this is, but it’s cool to see creative ways of leveraging fans for chartiable causes. It’s first amendment, internet-based, pop-culture… all we need is for some video-game designers to auction off cameos too. Then the academy would go crazy-go-nuts.
An Ergodic Walk 