Conference of the Birds, 2008-09-16

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Joe

It was fun to stumble completely unawares on an old LP by jazz cellist David Eyges. I don’t know his work deeply, but he’s had a few collaborations with Arthur Blythe that I like; this one pairs him with Sunny Murray and Byard Lancaster. It appears that it was reissued to CD, but probably not for long. The Clarinet Summit album was another nice gem from the vinyl stacks, where I too infrequently prowl for new things to share. And the Ohio Penitentiary 511 Jazz Ensemble provides another great track from the “Spiritual Jazz” compilation which I’ve been dipping into for a while lately… (What is up with that group name, anyone know?)

complete program (138 MB, 2 hrs 31 min)

Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)

Reptet: “Reptet Score!” – Chicken or Beef? (Monktail Records)
Cosmologic: “Eyes in the Back of My Head” – Eyes in the Back of My Head (Cuneiform)
John Schröder: “Enibas” – Sir Lemuel’s Dance (Pirouet)
Achim Kaufman: “Dōrobō” – Kyrill (Pirouet)
The Roy Campbell Ensemble: “Pharaoh’s Revenge Part 1” – Akhenaten Suite: Live at Vision Festival XII (AUM Fidelity)
Kenny Wheeler: “Win Some Lose Some” – Other People (Cam Jazz)
Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky: “Capricho 3” – Caprichos (Leo Records)
The Third World: “Don’s Song – Cherry” – Underground (Trio Records)
Kahil El’Zabar’s The Ritual: “Pedro” – Another Kind of Groove (Sound Aspects)
David Eyges: “The Way It Is” – Crossroads (Music Unlimited)
The Clarinet Summit: “Perdido” – Southern Bells (Black Saint)
Sarah Vaughan: “Embraceable You” – The George Gershwin Songbook (EmArcy)
Baby-Face Willette: “Roll ‘em Pete” – Behind the 8 Ball (Argo)
Kenny Burrell: “Woody ‘n You” – Live at the Village Vanguard (Muse Records)
KONTRA-Trio: “Tartarelischer Tanz II” – Diligent Places (STV-ASM)
Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake: “Black Women (for Beatrice Anderson and Amelia Drake)” – Back Together Again (Thrill Jockey)
Ken McIntyre: “Turbospacey” – The Complete United Artists Sessions (Blue Note)
Ohio Penitentiary 511 Jazz Ensemble: “Psych City” – Spiritual Jazz – Esoteric, Modal And Deep Jazz From The Underground 1968-77 (Jazzman)

links for 2008-09-16

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Joe

The Whole Earth Effect — Plenty Magazine

“How did a publication with just a four-year run help shape a community so prolific that it went on to inspire Google, Craigslist, and the blogosphere; save six American rivers; and shape sustainable business practices as we know them today? Forty years after the first issue of the Whole Earth Catalog, this oral history of the publication, as told by those who made it and those who read it, tracks the long-lasting impact of a short-lived journal that altered the course of the world.”

(tags: history interview whole_earth)
YouTube – Hockey Moms Against Sarah Palin

“Hockey Moms release a swiftboat ad to air truth on Palin.”

(tags: election_2008 sarah_palin video funny)
Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive My fellow Democrats «

“This is America. When we aspire to be better than we are, we change the world.
When John Kennedy asked us to go to the moon, we did. When Martin Luther King said he has a dream we’ve made his dream happen. When Ronald Reagan told the Germans to “tear down this wall” they did.
When we try to make the world better, we often do!
It’s time, my fellow Democrats, to start living that change.
Instead of blogging about our political opponents, can you learn about one issue that you care about and blog about that?
My issue is that I’m seeing high tech jobs leaving America for a variety of reasons.”

(tags: election_2008 technology)
YouTube – The Weiner Circle

“When the Weiner’s Circle suspended the normal rules for how people should treat each other, they accidentally unleashed a lot of pent-up feelings that probably were pent-up for good reasons.”

(tags: chicago food video race)
BBC NEWS | UK | Privacy fears over car database

“Civil liberties groups have voiced concern over plans to increase the length of time police store information on millions of UK car journeys.”

(tags: privacy surveillance)
Red-Light Cameras Just Don’t Work

“According to study after study, rather than improving motorist safety, red-light cameras significantly increase crashes and therefore, raise insurance premiums. In fact, the only studies that have shown any benefit to red-light cameras were either done by the IIHS…the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, or researchers funded by them. How very strange, don’t you think? The most recent study revealing the truth about the cameras was done by researchers at the University of South Florida College of Public Health.”

(tags: traffic surveillance)
Boston Court’s Meddling With ‘Full Disclosure’ Is Unwelcome

‘The problem isn’t the researchers; it’s the products themselves. Companies will only design security as good as what their customers know to ask for. Full disclosure helps customers evaluate the security of the products they buy, and educates them in how to ask for better security. The Dutch court got it exactly right when it wrote: “Damage to NXP is not the result of the publication of the article but of the production and sale of a chip that appears to have shortcomings.”‘

(tags: security secrecy)
Schneier on Security: Contest: Cory Doctorow’s Cipher Wheel Rings

“Cory Doctorow wanted a secret decoder wedding ring, and he asked me to help design it.”

(tags: crypto bruce_schneier cory_doctorow)

links for 2008-09-15

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Joe

JoeTrippi.com » Blog Archive » Its Not Just Palin — Its The Message.

“Now the Obama campaign and its allies need to understand that in arguing that John McCain represents a third term of George Bush and the GOP agenda it is the Obama campaign that risks sounding partisan in a country that yearns for the post-partisanship of “country first” and “shaking things up in Washington”.”

(tags: election_2008 strategy)

links for 2008-09-14

Posted on September 14, 2008 by Joe

techPresident – Citizen 2008: Using the Internet for Individual Political Advocacy in the Elections and Beyond

“In today’s spirit of getting things done, let’s take a look next at how individual citizens can involve themselves in politics using the internet and do it effectively. So before we all stampede straight off to talking about specific tools like usual, let’s think instead for a minute about some basic guidelines — rules of thumb which can apply equally whether we’re working on behalf of a candidate or a cause, and that’ll stay relevant as technology evolves.”

(tags: internet politics participation)
No Laughing Matter – Judith Warner – Domestic Disturbances – Opinion – New York Times Blog

‘“Palin Power” isn’t just about making hockey moms feel important. It’s not just about giving abortion rights opponents their due. It’s also, in obscure ways, about making yearnings come true — deep, inchoate desires about respect and service, hierarchy and family that have somehow been successfully projected onto the figure of this unlikely woman and have stuck.’

(tags: election_2008 sarah_palin empathy)
John McCain: Reformed Maverick | The Daily Show | Comedy Central

(tags: election_2008 john_mccain funny video hypocrisy)

links for 2008-09-13

Posted on September 13, 2008 by Joe

A Good Old-Fashioned Thrill Ride – NYTimes.com

“THERE’S a different psychology of fear to wooden coasters. They aren’t nearly as high as the steel ones, nor do they carry the bells and whistles like loops and inversion. But some people argue that their groaning wood and disconcerting wobble (wood tracks are meant to give a little) can make them more terrifying than the steel behemoths. Not to mention the reasoning of aesthetes like Mr. Shaw, who tend to think they have more character.”

(tags: rollercoaster pennsylvania via:h3athrow)
Roger Ebert on Sarah Palin: The American Idol candidate :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Other Views

“You don’t need to be a pointy-headed elitist to travel abroad. You need curiosity and a hunger to see the world. What kind of a person (who has the money) arrives at the age of 44 and has only been out of the country once, on an official tour to Iraq? Sarah Palin’s travel record is that of a provincial, not someone who is equipped to deal with global issues.”

(tags: election_2008 sarah_palin antiintellectualism)
Owner of iconic Taylor barbecue joint had high standards

“Bobby Mueller’s restaurant, famous for its massive beef ribs and for the nubs of meat provided to customers waiting in line, grew out of a Safeway grocery store that his father, Louie, started in 1936. The Taylor restaurant, which Louie Mueller started in 1949, is considered one of the best barbecue joints in America; Texas Monthly magazine recently named it one of the top five in Texas, and it won a James Beard Foundation Award, a kind of food Oscar, in 2006.”

(tags: food barbecue texas obituary)
techPresident – Daily Digest: Commence Shoe Leather Phase?

“He’s dropping ten dollars a day from now until November 4th on up Google Ad Words for searches related to the Republican ticket. Chris is linking his ads to unflattering materials from FactCheck.org and Think Progress. It’s a DIY media campaign that anyone with a little spare change can wage.”

(tags: election_2008 activism)
Ballot snafu endangers votes | Cincinnati Enquirer | Cincinnati.Com

“About one-third of the absentee ballot applications received at the Hamilton County Board of Elections have been ruled invalid because Republican Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign printed a version of the form with an extra, unneeded box on it.”

(tags: election_2008 voting ohio)
FBI hunts for cross-dressing bank bandit :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Chicago Crime

“A man wearing a black and pink dress, pink hat, white gloves and white sandals robbed the MB Financial Bank Branch at 1014 Busse Highway just before 7 p.m.”

(tags: via:gapersblock chicago crime)
Eclipse, OS X, and SoyLatte – Vox

“Current revisions of Eclipse prevent the use of SoyLatte, the OpenJDK port of Java 1.6 for OS X 10.4/10.5. There is an open bug about this, and even better a patch for StandardVMType attached to the bug. I’ve applied the patch and it does indeed work. There is actually only a single jar used by Eclipse that needs to be built, and most of this can be done within Eclipse itself. The steps for doing this are outlined below.”

(tags: mac java eclipse)
Twitter / Erin McKean: wotd: polinymous: having a …

“wotd: polinymous: having a personal name that is also a place name: Ann Arbor, Alice Springs.”

(tags: language)
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation: Comparing the Candidates’ Technology and Innovation Policies (PDF)

“To be sure, both McCain’s and Obama’s core economic policies remain rooted in conservative neo-classical supply-side and liberal neo-classical (and Keynesian) theories, respectively, but their campaign platforms incorporate substantially more focus on innovation and technology policies than their predecessors’ platforms did in the 2004 election.”

(tags: election_2008 technology policy)
Alaska Department of Administration > Division of Finance > Checkbook Online

“The State of Alaska is publishing information from the statewide accounting system on the web. This is part of a national trend for governments to develop websites that allow constituents to view financial information in searchable formats. Such websites are widely considered to improve transparency into the financial operations of government.”

(tags: opengovernment alaska)

links for 2008-09-12

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Joe

¡Buen Provecho! Pilsen

“Buen Provecho! Pilsen is an exciting event new to Pilsen. Centered
along 18th Street in the heart of Pilsen’s commercial district, Buen
Provecho Pilsen will feature over 20 different restaurants sampling
their signature dishes.”

(tags: chicago food)
City Room™ – Politics – Studs Terkel’s Archive: The 1963 Train Ride to Washington

“Among hundreds of thousands who joined Martin Luther King, Jr. for a 1963 march on Washington D.C for civil rights were some 800 Chicagoans who traveled there by train. Chicago writer and now-legend Studs Terkel went with them. He brought his tape recorder and turned the sounds and voices of his fellow travelers into a documentary he called “This Train.” The journey culminated in Washington with King’s now-famous “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered 45 years ago today. From Studs Terkel’s archives, here’s the first part of that documentary, as the travelers head toward Washington on the train.”

(tags: civilRights march_on_washington 1963 audio studs_terkel)
Studio 360: Baker, Alexander, Newman

“His groundbreaking book A Pattern Language urged architects consider emotional and spiritual ideas when designing. It was the beginning of an elaborate, nuts-and-bolts philosophical system. Alexander failed to revolutionize the practice of architecture, but he inspired a movement in computer programming that affects how all of us use the Web. Studio 360′s Lu Olkowski talked to the architect and some of his disciples, including “wiki” inventor Ward Cunningham.”

(tags: radio architecture christopher_alexander pattern_language wiki)
Private Sector Makes Census Bureau’s TIGER Roar – Geospatial Solutions

A fairly technical and “inside” article, but it makes a good case for what can be enabled by opening government data.

(tags: opengovernment opendata mapping census)

links for 2008-09-11

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Joe

Judge Rejects Fair Use Defense in Harry Potter Lexicon Case, J.K. Rowling Recovers Her Plums | Citizen Media Law Project

“So what are we to make of the court’s lengthy exposition on fair use? As I already noted, Judge Patterson’s framing of the facts seems to have dictated how his fair use analysis would come out. Nevertheless, there is some good news in the opinion for fair use advocates.”

(tags: copyright fairuse)
As Campaign Heats Up, Untruths Can Become Facts Before They’re Undone – washingtonpost.com

“The more the New York Times and The Washington Post go after Sarah Palin, the better off she is, because there’s a bigger truth out there and the bigger truths are she’s new, she’s popular in Alaska and she is an insurgent,” Feehery said. “As long as those are out there, these little facts don’t really matter.”

(tags: election_2008 reality_based_community politricks)
Arianna Huffington: Sarah Palin: A Trojan Moose Concealing Four More Years of George Bush

The point is that Palin, and the circus she’s brought to town, are simply a bountiful collection of small lies deliberately designed to distract the country from one big truth: the havoc that George Bush and the Republican Party have wrought, and that John McCain is committed to continuing.

Every second of this campaign not spent talking about the Republican Party’s record, and John McCain’s role in that record, is a victory for John McCain.

(tags: election_2008 john_mccain sarah_palin)
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Photoshop for Democracy Revisited: The Sarah Palin File

Henry Jenkins reviews grassroots photoshop jobs and humorous art created in the wake of Palin’s nomination for VP.

(tags: election_2008 photoshop sarah_palin henry_jenkins)

links for 2008-09-10

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Joe

SSRN-Government Data and the Invisible Hand by David Robinson, Harlan Yu, William Zeller, Edward Felten

“If the next Presidential administration really wants to embrace the potential of Internet-enabled government transparency, it should follow a counter-intuitive but ultimately compelling strategy: reduce the federal role in presenting important government information to citizens. Today, government bodies consider their own websites to be a higher priority than technical infrastructures that open up their data for others to use. We argue that this understanding is a mistake. It would be preferable for government to understand providing reusable data, rather than providing websites, as the core of its online publishing responsibility.”

(tags: opengovernment opendata economics)
Fear review—By Luis Sancho (Harper’s Magazine)

“The exact probability of a runaway reaction that converts Earth into dark matter is unknown. The minimal risk as calculated by CERN allows for a 1 to 10 percent chance of extinguishing Earth.”

(tags: physics apocalypse)
I know sexy librarians. You, Governor, are no sexy librarian « The Tragic Optimist

“No. A sexy librarian is someone who wants people to be able to find the information they need, when they need it. Who thinks that information should be available and easy to locate. Who doesn’t withhold information from people because they’re afraid of what people might learn.”

(tags: election_2008 sarah_palin libraries)
World Bank – Welcome to the World Bank Developer Network!

“The World Bank’s first API offers 114 indicators from key data sources and 12,000 development photos (see all sources). We are releasing this API because we believe this information can be mapped, visualized and mashed up in an unlimited number of ways that will help develop a better understanding of trends and patterns around key development issues.”

(tags: opendata api worldbank)
McCain Speechwriter Trying To Write Lines That Don’t Lead To Creepy Smile | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

“Dreading a repeat of last month’s speech to a group of businesswomen in Ohio, during which McCain followed a mention of his wife with an awkward and eerie smirk, Chappel has avoided personal anecdotes for the new speech, omitted any mention of “God” or “this great nation,” and cut several phrases that had the potential to draw the 72-year-old candidate’s mouth open in a horrifying display of teeth and gums.”

(tags: election_2008 john_mccain funny)

Conference of the Birds, 2008-09-09

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Joe

complete program (136 MB, 2 hrs 29 min)

Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)

Paul Bley Trio: “Cartoon” – Closer (ESP Disk)
Gyldene Trion: “Stuffy Turkey” – Live at Glenn Miller Café (Ayler)
Joe Harriott Quintet: “Parallel” – Free Form (Redial)
Paul Smoker/Bob Magnuson/Ken Filiano/Lou Grassi: “Coast West” – Large Music I (CIMP)
Dexter Gordon: “The Backbone” – A Swingin’ Affair (Blue Note)
New Fracture Quartet: “Streetband” – 1,000 Lights (Multikulti)
Rich Halley: “Rattlesnake and Spider” – Umatilla Variations (9 Winds)
Ted Sirota’s Rebel Souls: “Knife” – Breeding Resistance (Delmark)
Sun Ra and the Arkestra: “Two Tones” – Sound of Joy (Delmark)
Lisle Ellis: “For Blues and Other Spells” – Sucker Punch Requiem: An Homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat (Henceforth)
Ab Baars Trio & Ken Vandermark: “Then He Whirled About” – Goofy June Bug (Stichting Wig)
Queen Mab Trio: “Drums and Trumpets” – Thin Air (Stichting Wig)
Thomas K.J. Mejer & Peter A. Schmid: “(S)watch Watching” – Nautilus (Ear Up)
The Gerry Mulligan Quartet: “Utter Chaos” – What Is There to Say? (Columbia/Legacy)
Eight Bold Souls: “Third One Smiles” – Last Option (Thrill Jockey)
Diedre Murray/Fred Hopkins: “Doo Wop” – Stringology (Black Saint)
Barry Altschul: “You Can’t Name Your Own Tune” – You Can’t Name Your Own Tune (32 Jazz)
Jason Adasiewicz: “Creep” – Rolldown (482 Music)
Eric Dolphy: “Mandrake” – Iron Man (Metrotone)
Myra Melford: “Yellow Are Crowds of Flowers, ii” – Assemblage 1998-2008 (Cryptogramophone)

links for 2008-09-09

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Joe

Nicole Mitchell: Many Paths to the Sea: A Tribute to Alice Coltrane at Made in Chicago in Millennium Park, 2007 | Jazz Institute of Chicago

13 minute interview – “Teamed with Chicago-born pianist Myra Melford and long-time cohorts Harrision Bankhead on bass, Matana Roberts on sax, and Maia on harp, Mitchell expanded her Black Earth Ensemble for this tribute to the kindred spirit of Alice Coltrane.”

(tags: interview music chicago nicole_mitchell)
The naughts—By Roger D. Hodge (Harper’s Magazine)

“The 2000s—perhaps we should call them the Naughts, since they will be remembered chiefly for their wants—were a decade in which the American Republic finally succumbed to a kind of autoimmune disorder, in which the social and political systems normally responsible for maintaining the healthy functioning of the body politic have instead turned against it with particular savagery, as if our very Constitution were an invasive foreign organism.”

(tags: media commentary harpers)
A Sweet So Sour: Kool-Aid Dills – New York Times

“It’s a candy pickle.” And “I like it the same as dipping hot Cheetos in ice cream.” And “Have you ever tried one with a watermelon Blow Pop?”

(tags: food kool-aid 2007 mississippi)
YouTube – John McCain Gets BarackRoll’d

(tags: video funny john_mccain barack_obama)
Op-Ed Contributor – Party Guy – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com

“I’m convinced that the immediate mass flip-out over the Palin nomination can’t be entirely explained by sexism, elitism or partisan animosity. It was a symptom of just how much the presidential future is a suspense movie scored by Bernard Herrmann.”

(tags: election_2008)
Op-Ed Columnist – Georgia on My Mind – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com

“If we were serious about weakening both Putin and Putinism, we would be investing $1 billion in Georgia Tech to invent alternatives to oil — the high price of which is the only reason the Kremlin is strong enough today to bully its neighbors and its own people.”

(tags: election_2008 innovation politics)

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