#wikipedia article of the week: List of nontraditional bagpipe usage

Also relevant: Politico-Media Complex #GE2015 #bookmark

Just found out about Vicente Parrilla, a rather excellent early recorder player with a focus on improv:

Articles like this one are the reason seriouseats.com is my favourite food blog. So much good information, so many excellent recipes. Making their French Onion Soup this evening.

Drehleierwiki has a very comprehensive list of #gurdy string suggestions, and is excellent reference if you’re not sure where to get strings, what to get, or simply want to try something new.

I’m currently using a Thomastik Infeld Dominant Viola a1 medium, (synth core, aluminium wound) as my g, some unbranded roundwound violin G (turns out roundwound doesn’t sit nicely with my gurdy) and a Violin D for the D. Planning on replacing the D with another low G set up for harmony playing, and maybe trying some gut strings for my trompettes after I’ve made new chiens.

#TIL that “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” was appropriated by Pete Seeger (and then further sanitized by George Weiss) from a song written by Solomon Linda, who died in poverty. His family only received royalties for the song’s widespread Disney use after a lawsuit in 2006 — 44 years later.

There’s an archive of the in-depth three part write-up of the whole thing from Rolling Stone by Rian Malan here.

ICELANDIC WEB DESIGN: vogabakki.is

Ooh, did not know that you could pass an unevaluated #django queryset into an __in query and have subqueries automatically generated: The Django ORM and Subqueries

Hadn’t heard of Ring Theory before. An useful articulation of a good mental tool.

Found this watercolour in a book about actively listening to music:

“Pennsylvania Farmstead with Many Fences“, Unidentified Artist

Photo from MFA Boston website

Learning about C. V. Raman, first Indian winner of a Nobel Prize in science, inventor of Raman spectroscopy. He also researched musical instrument acoustics!

Do Artifacts Have Ethics — 41 questions to ask yourself about the #tech you build or use. #bookmark

Loving Twine: an in-browser nonlinear text adventure creator with HTML export. Effectively a fascinating directed graph UI view over a stateful wiki.

More required reading by @quinnnorton:

• How White People Got Made (2 parts)
• Women and the Internet (4 parts)
• Don’t Vote

There’s a lot of truth about learning techniques in Psychology 101 Chapter 0: how to study this book. I particularly like the use of red herring vocabulary in incorrect quiz answers as a way of making rote memorization an unfeasible learning method in favour of actual understanding of the topics.

Having read it, I’m now left wanting to read the entire course.

#wikipedia article of the week: Garlic “Garlic has been regarded as a force for both good and evil.”

This is rather a nice interpretation of Die Gedanken sind frei:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlbFN-Gb7Rs

Weird, but interesting.

#wikipedia article of the week: The Yule Goat #goats #bookmark

“To Siri, With Love” highlights Siri as an excellent example of respectful, responsible technology which embodies moral values, and the ambient, unexpected positive effects of doing so.

Protest songs, music, recordings from the Hong Kong protests: http://vojo.co/umbrellasongs via @OCLPHK