Government might be getting the message on open source

But Ed Parsons definitely does.

Monday Blues Cure

Was just going to use this 'Renaissance Midas Man', but the sound
quality is awful:

Better sound quality on lastfm . Also, meant to post this last week 'Arvo Part Magnificat':

Its a battlefield

The shape of things to come?

More on Wikipedia

From David Mitchell, here. Norm offers his view. Related.

Roger K Summit and Dialog

Rather long, but see here:

Roger founded Dialog

Wikipedia (Kamm vs. Geras again)

Further to this on blogging and this on wikis, see here:

http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2009/02/what-the-hell-is-gehickty-boston.html

and here:


http://timesonline.typepad.com/oliver_kamm/2009/02/anything-goes.html

I'm always very careful about using Wikipedia, largely due to vandalism, but it does have one advantage - they have history pages, which show you edits of any given page. Are these public for either news articles or peer reviewed papers? Answers on a postcard please....

Related.

Late Monday Blues Cure

But its never to late from some great music! Here's 'van halen top jimmy', some great guitar work here:

Not much of a video, but the sound quality is good! Here's something to calm you down a bit (John Taverner's Song for Athene - used at Diana's funeral) & the one I meant to post earlier this morning:

Drowning Pool

I was searching for details of a film I sort of partly remember, which I did indeed find, called 'The Drowning Pool' but I also found this video:

which rather blew me away! More on the band here.

Monday Blues Cure

Here's a bit of Tavener, Svyati - 3rd hit down on youtube:

Predicting the Internet/Web

From 1981:

Talks about newspapers, but could be any type of information.

(h/t: David Thompson).

Moonlight Sonata

Did a search on youtube for this:

sigh.

Monday Blues Cure

I found this wonderful piece of music by Arvo Part, by using the composers name and browsing related results:

First his was this - the composer talking about the piece: