Heavy Metal History/Evolution Chart

Whoa! When googling for more information on Blue Cheer after seeing Mudhoney the other night, I found this crazy heavy metal history/evolution chart on this Turkish? message board site. Hmm….I wonder who made this? It’s sort of like the world history timeline posters but for heavy metal! Oh, I just found out, [...]

Lil’ Wayne, Jay-Z, Just Blaze: Mr. Carter

Another new Just Blaze track! Mr. Carter - Lil’ Wayne featuring Jay-Z, that’s pretty big.
Big album too–Tha Carter III is the first album to sell a million copies the first week in three years!
MP3 courtesy of Passion of the Weiss
Lil Wayne etch a sketch by etchasketchist

Making Change from a Dollar

I was trying to figure out this problem, “How many different ways can we make change of $ 1.00, given half-dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies?” This problem is featured in this Ramblings of a Geek blog post and is also in section 1.2.2 of the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (PDF [...]

Mudhoney Live

Just saw Mudhoney live. Saw them with FiestaRed back in 97 too, great show as usual. They have so many hits you probably don’t even realize from all time periods of their career, including some immediate classics from their newest albums. There were segments where just Steve Turner plays guitar, and [...]

Best New New Wave Band Ever: Cut Copy…or Sebastien Tellier?

Ah…sort of like For Against meets Depeche Mode etc, this is great.
HOWEVER maybe the great Sebastien Tellier has edged out Cut Copy, which impressed me initially, but seem to lack a certain depth…maybe they sound too much like Depeche Mode? Sebastien Tellier in contrast is much more of a songwriter, has more depth, his [...]

Madvillainy Original Samples

Yeah, there are some samples floating around out there. BUT THIS DOESN’T ANSWER THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION, WHAT IS THE SAMPLE FOR MADVILLAIN’S SICKFIT??? THAT’S SUCH A GREAT PROG ROCK SONG!
Also see: The Best Hip-hop Samples Ever

Logarithms Explained, and the Associative Property of Multiplication

So much advanced math relies on a firm grasp of basic Algebra and Algebra II.
Today, lets take a look at logarithms!
So what are logarithms? Well, first let’s look at exponential equations, such as where the 2 is a base. We all know that for example, . A general form is where b is [...]

Bumrocks and Wooooomag

Bumrocks
Home of many prog, new wave, disco, italo, psychadelic, electro delights.

Woooomag (NSFW)
Young and fringey forever!

Scott McClellan and Self Preservation

Scott McClellan probably just didn’t want to be the Danny Zorn to the administration’s Ward Abbott (Bourne Supremacy).
Bloomberg:
Ex-Bush Aide McClellan Says Public Was Misled on Iraq (Update3)
Former White House officials who worked with McClellan said today he should have expressed his concerns about the Bush administration’s handling of major issues, including the war in [...]

Nanotubes and Asbestos; Nutrition and the Nintendo Wii

C’mon people…yeah, we can have nanotubes and neat technology, and the lung cancer won’t matter because we’ll have bionic lungs…but air probably tastes sweeter through natural human lungs. That’s the problem with all of this new fangled technology…we wouldn’t have half the health problems if we just ate balanced, organic meals made with fewer [...]