Date: October 2012
Two more reviews from me are up now on Thumped: Year Naught Doom from Mayo quartet On Pain of Death, and the new Converge record All We Love We Leave Behind. I’m also hoping to have an interview with Converge ready to go before their Dublin gig next month.
Elsewhere, my second contribution to Burning Ambulance is my review of the first record from Nazoranai, a ‘free music’ trio comprising Stephen O’Malley of Sunn O))), Oren Ambarchi and improvised rock legend Keiji Haino.
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An illustrated report on Amazon's evolution from online bookstore to a whole new way of structuring, well, nearly anything: information, production, whathaveyou. #link
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Basically a much easier way to get going with Arduino. Filing this for future reference. See also: Google Blocky: an easy, visual way to learn to code #link
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Orange aid: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s carrot recipes
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MIT develops ketchup bottle that lets you use every drop
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I knew a little about the tunnels and such (and LA Noire, of course) but had never read the full story till now. #link
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Check out my recent pieces on Old Man Gloom’s NO, Effigies of Evil by Finnish death-doom duo Hooded Menace, and my live review of Voivod at The Village on 6 October.
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Biology never ceases to amaze me. #link
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Just stick with King Crimson and you're golden. #link
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Interesting thoughts on the nature of time from Paul Ford. #link
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You learn something new every day. #link
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A critique written before some improvements were made, but the main point still stands: Codecademy is rubbish for learning to code, because it presumes too much rote knowledge on the part of the learner. Give me an O'Reilly book anyday (in fact, I just took delivery of Learning Javacript). #link
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A documentary on the noise rock label Amphetamine Reptile that will hopefully soon see the light of day after reaching its funding target on Kickstarter. Looking forward to it. #link
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