Ami Banglay Gaan Gai by Pratul Mukhopadhyay
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music, language, computers, random stuff culled from the internet by Ryaan Ahmed.
email: mail {AT} ryaanahmed.com
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2012-03-17
Source: youtube.com
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2012-03-16
Nonesuch Records releases an album of works by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki and composer/Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood on March 13, 2012. The artists’ work was presented side-by-side in two concerts in September 2011, highlighting Penderecki’s influence on younger composers, at the European Congress of Culture in Wrocław. In its report on the Congress, which celebrated Poland’s presidency of the European Union, London’s Independent called Penderecki “Poland’s godfather of the musical avant-garde” and Greenwood “the doyen of English art-pop,” describing their concert as “rapturously received.” The composers went to Kraków’s Alvernia Studios immediately after the performances to oversee the recording of the same music, along with one other piece by Greenwood.
Source: nonesuch.com
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Sesamstrasse - Ernie will Kekse zählen
keine Kekse!
Source: youtube.com
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2012-03-15
166. Leche frys in lentoun. Drawe a thik almaunde mylke wiþ water. Take dates and pyke hem clene with apples and peeres, & mynce hem with prunes damysyns; take out þe stones out of þe prunes, & kerue the prunes a two. Do þerto raisouns, coraunce, sugur, flour of canel, hoole macys and clowes, gode powdours & salt; colour hem vp with saundres. Meng þise with oile. Make a coffyn as þou didest bifore & do þis fars þerin, & bake it wel, and serue it forth.
— Why celebrate Π Day, when you can celebrate Cake Month instead? — Got Medieval
Source: gotmedieval.com
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Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists.
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Monteverdi - Lamento della Ninfa
Strange scene from Le Pont des Arts. Apparently it’s actually Le Poème Harmonique doing the music.
Source: youtube.com
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2012-03-14
I don’t know when I first read that the “official” edge of space was at an altitude of 62 miles, but I know I immediately took it to be an arbitrary definition. Sixty-two miles is 100 kilometers, and that’s just too round of a number to be based on some real physical phenomenon.
Wrong. It turns out to have a real meaning as a dividing line between aeronautics and astronautics. Back in the 50s, Theodore von Kármán reasoned that the fundamental difference between aircraft and spacecraft was that aircraft fly and spacecraft orbit. (It’s possible that he came to this conclusion before there were, in fact, any spacecraft.) And there’s a way to distinguish between the two.
— Jason Kottke and Theodore von Kármán - And now it’s all this
Source: leancrew.com
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2012-03-12
Michael, John, Tanya and Robert are putting together a synth-based indie band. They need a singer, a keyboard player, another keyboard player and someone to operate the drum machine. Tanya can play the keyboard and sing, Michael can sing and hit buttons, Robert can also hit buttons and play the keyboard, and John can kinda play keyboards. How do you arrange everyone for this to make any sense?
— McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: Hipster Logic Problems.
Source: mcsweeneys.net
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2012-03-11
Renowned nonfiction director Werner Herzog chronicles the tragic and untimely death of outdoorsman Timothy Treadwell, who devoted his life to studying grizzly bears living in the Alaskan wilderness — only to have one of them maul him to death.
Source: movies.netflix.com
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2012-03-09
