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w00t: New Release for Free Download
w00t is now released for free download. Last year I put all my recordings to which I own the rights online for free. w00t is my first release to skip the CD-for-sale stage and go directly to free Internet download.
Obviously, the "promotion" budget for this release is zero. Please help us get this around the Internet virally by sending a link to whoever you think might be interested.
There is both a 4.5 minute "trailer" and the full 50-minute piece.
w00t was composed entirely from fragments of music from computer games. The names of the games are listed on the download page. The w00t art work is a collage of images from these same games, made by artist John Cooney.
To download, click above on [Music] [Recordings]
Obviously, the "promotion" budget for this release is zero. Please help us get this around the Internet virally by sending a link to whoever you think might be interested.
There is both a 4.5 minute "trailer" and the full 50-minute piece.
w00t was composed entirely from fragments of music from computer games. The names of the games are listed on the download page. The w00t art work is a collage of images from these same games, made by artist John Cooney.
To download, click above on [Music] [Recordings]
Posted on 14 Oct 2007
Predicitng the present – and failing
The point has been made before here that the belief that scientists can predict the future course of global warming based on computer models of climate change is fallacious. These models represent a particular sort of intellectual arrogance, and they play in to the idea that “once we really get the numbers” we can figure out what to do. But environmental processes n the surface of the earth are too complex to be modeled this way. And models that promise to predict the state of the world decades and even hundreds of years into the future routine fail to “predict” even the present when direct observational data is finally collected.
Thus, in an article to day about the rapidly disappearing arctic ice, the New York Times wrote:
Scientists are also unnerved by the summer’s implications for the future, and their ability to predict it.... The pace of change has far exceeded what had been estimated by almost all the simulations used to envision how the Arctic will respond to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
See: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/science/earth/02arct.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin
Thus, in an article to day about the rapidly disappearing arctic ice, the New York Times wrote:
Scientists are also unnerved by the summer’s implications for the future, and their ability to predict it.... The pace of change has far exceeded what had been estimated by almost all the simulations used to envision how the Arctic will respond to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
See: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/science/earth/02arct.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin
Posted on 02 Oct 2007
Petition on Repression in Burma
Normally I am not a big fan of Internet petitions, because I don't think they accomplish much, and they make people feel as if they had "done something" when in fact they have done nothing. But with the situation in Burma so dire, and with the eyes of so much of the world on them, this may be one moment when signing an Internet petition actually may produce some sort of result.
Stand with the People of Burma.
Stand with the People of Burma.
Posted on 02 Oct 2007
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