GOP Gods Own Party…..keeping the theo in theocracy…. " Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry on Wednesday released a new campaign advertisement, "Strong," highlighting the Texas governor's faith and asking why gays can serve openly in the U.S. armed forces but "our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school." " http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/12/rick-perrys-viral-video-fail/249663/
Musings on one of my fave denizens of Middle Earth http://km-515.livejournal.com/1042.html
Go grab Minecraft for your Android device for the price of 10 cents. Srsly, 10 cent Minecraft…run do not walk.
Thanks to our friends over at Android Central, it was brought to our attention this morning that a handful of applications are only priced at 10 cents a piece. With a price tag like that, how can you …
"MinecraftEdu is the collaboration of a small team of educators and programmers from the United States and Finland. We are working with Mojang AB of Sweden, the creators of Minecraft, to make the game affordable and accessible to schools everywhere. We have also created a suite of tools that make it easy to unlock the power of Minecraft in YOUR classroom."
http://minecraftedu.com/index.php
Kragensan never ceases to amaze with the dinkum thinkum.
" The interesting thing is that Crowd, like bytebeat music in general, is a piece of rhythmic and somewhat melodic music with no score, no instruments, and no real oscillators. It's simply a formula that defines a waveform as a function of time, measured here in 1/8000 of a second:
((t<<1)^((t<<1)+(t>>7)&t>>12))|t>>(4-(1^7&(t>>19)))|t>>7 "
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Bytebeat only dates from September 2011, so there's still a limited amount of information out there about it.
The easiest way to experiment with bytebeat is with the in-web-page bytebeat experimentation tools"
http://canonical.org/~kragen/bytebeat/
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