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Archive for January, 2007

New Threshold Album Cover

Posted: Friday, January 12th, 2007 @ 9:55 pm in Music | No Comments »

I hardly look at previews of album artworks, but the announcement of the new Threshold album cover made me curious, as no other band has more beautiful artwork. And again, it is a magnificent cover, and I’m already jumping up and down in excitement waiting for the new CD!
And they had Dan Swanö for some […]

Songs You Should Know #8: Gentle Giant - Think Of Me With Kindness

Posted: Thursday, January 11th, 2007 @ 1:23 pm in Music | No Comments »

I love Gentle Giant. They are an old progressive rock band from the 70s that I like way more than somparable bands like Genesis or King Crimson. They have their own, quiet way of creative outbursts. Multi-instrumentalists, when I hear their music I somehow get the mental image of band members that all look my […]

Warm Winter; Warm Year; Weather and Climate

Posted: Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 @ 8:26 pm in Science | No Comments »

In a recent article, RealClimate discusses what we experience whenever we go outside: It’s uncharacteristically warm for wintertime.
Now, RealClimate is very careful about the words and arguments they use, so I try not to stomp too much on their meticulously chosen words. They put two possible arguments for this warm phase to the trial: Influence […]

Smallest Car Factory

Posted: Sunday, January 7th, 2007 @ 3:00 am in Fun, Movies | No Comments »

This is completely unbelievable: Someone used LEGO Mindstorms to build a small factory that builds small LEGO cars!
(Video after the jump)

Haskell

Posted: Saturday, January 6th, 2007 @ 1:41 pm in Software | 3 Comments »

I have recently read up on Haskell, a programming language. It’s rather interesting, as Haskell uses a completely different approach than the likes of C++ or Java. You mainly define functions, and you can do that in very clever ways. My interest got started by Good Math, Bad Math, but now i found this tutorial […]

Posted: Saturday, January 6th, 2007 @ 1:14 pm in Fun | No Comments »

(found here)

Interview With Lawrence Lessig, pt. 2

Posted: Thursday, January 4th, 2007 @ 11:24 pm in General, Movies, Web | No Comments »

Once again, this video interview with Lawrence Lessig is so great that I once more will embed the video after the jump, taken from the german page Elektrischer Reporter, but the interview is in english.

Songs You Should Know #7: Destiny’s End - The Obscure

Posted: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 @ 12:53 pm in Music | No Comments »

Back to US Power Metal, and to the singer in half of the bands: James Rivera. He sang in Helstar, Distant Thunder, Destiny’s End, Seven Witches, Killing Machine and whatnot. Currently in Vicious Rumors, but the band I enjoy most of these is Destiny’s End, especially their first album, Breathe Deep the Dark.
It combines a […]

Songs You Should Know #6: The Beach Boys - Sloop John B

Posted: Monday, January 1st, 2007 @ 1:37 pm in Movies, Music | No Comments »

Even for the most ardent Metal fan, there should be some CDs he should know, and “Pet Sounds” is certainly one of them. You probably will not find a list of the best albums of all times without The Beach Boys showing up. And its not surprising, Pet Sounds is so great! It’s sad and […]

Fireworks

Posted: Monday, January 1st, 2007 @ 1:35 pm in General, Movies | No Comments »

Happy new year! Here’s the fireworks we saw, blurry but it’s mine