farewell great lady
We celebrate Maya Angelou’s life, cherish her wisdom, and learn from her words. But we will do so without her now. “Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God,” she wrote in the most recent post on her @DrMayaAngelou Twitter account on May 23. from a previous post… […]
The sounds of Medieval Sephardic Music
A Performance Jewish Medieval music of Spain. Beautiful. This link is to a playlist featuring many more of these performances by the same ensemble: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW78hDmR0us&feature=share&list=RDVW78hDmR0us The Music Sephardic music has its roots in the musical traditions of the Jewish communities in medieval Spain. Since then, it has picked up influences from Morocco, Argentina, Turkey, Greece, and the […]
sounds of tree rings on a record player
YEARS from Bartholomäus Traubeck on Vimeo. He uses a modified record player that plays slices of wood. What [Traubeck] had to do was engineer a record player with a Playstation Eye camera strapped to the end of the arm — simple image recognition software creates a signal based on the pattern of the rings, […]
Moses Suing Apple and Samsung Over Tablet Patent
I just watched the Ten Commandments, yet again. A favorite. This is a satirical article. Potentially offensive. That said, just the title and photo together alone make my laugh. I am very fond of this. I think it is an inspired comment of the patent battles of the time. I had to keep a copy […]
יום השואה Yom Ha’Shoa
Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG’vurah יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה; “Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day” Today the world remembers an atrocity we would not like to remember, so painful and horrid beyond imagination. The Shoa: The Holocaust. We also remember the perpetrators and those who worked against them. We have seen the photos, films, heard the […]
