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• Post #4280818

  Made this new motivational poster. #MotivationalPoster #Microsoft #WindowsUpdate

• Post #4092215

  I previously shared a stunning live performance of Bomfunk MCs' "Freestyler" by The Dmitry Butenko #Orchestra. A Google search reveals astonishingly little about this young conductor from #Vladivostok; I guess a Russian-language query on Yandex would turn up a lot more. Here's another beauty. https://youtu.be/JaOgQQKG_Ls #EDM #crossover #Russia

• Post #4064289

  Back in 1999, Venetian producer Cristiano Spiller released an instrumental track called Groovejet, presumably so-called because it features a prominent "jet effect" at various points. The distinct sound of a close passing jet comes from the varying time delay between the waves we hear directly from the engines and those reflected off the ground, plus of course Doppler shift. Early digital decks like the classic Pioneer CDJ-100S encouraged the use of the same phase difference technique...

• Post #3897732

  17 July is the one day of the year when the calendar #emoji is correct! The word emoji combines the Japanese e (絵, picture) + moji (文字, character) and dates back to the late 80s. Its similarity to the English "emotion" is just a coincidence. Nowadays, emoji are standardised by the Unicode Consortium, a Californian non-profit that has its roots in facilitating a universal digital representation of the world's writing systems. #Unicode doesn't specify exactly how emoji should l...

• Post #3624279

  Saw a video by Wired about the little-known #AssistiveAccess feature on iPhone. Well, it was new to me, for sure. Looks excellent for some of my older customers. But the premise of the video was that Assistive Access can also be used to limit children's access to a set of allowed apps, with the parent or guardian's chosen configuration protected by a PIN. https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/welcome/ios #iPhone #iOS #accessibility #OnlineSafety #ChildSafety

• Post #3613264

  Small moth on the wall in the office. Hope it doesn't end up in the computer. It's a popular #myth that the term #bug, in the realm of software, comes from a moment in 1947 when computing pioneer Grace Hopper attributed a problem with an electromechanical computer to a moth trapped in a relay. She famously taped the moth onto a page in the machine's logbook. In fact, this meaning of bug had been around at least as early as the 1870s, when Thomas Edison used it to describe "lit...

• Post #3492525

  Scarlet tiger moth

• Post #3476947

  @bloor@bloor.tw Thought you might like this parking meter I saw today that matches the subset of your interests {solar, avians}.

• Post #3450146

  I keep seeing these depressing diagrams showing how city streets were cooler before we cut down all the trees, so I made this to show how much the AI rush has improved the climate in deserts. #ClimateCrisis #DataCenters #joke

• Post #3425780

  #Deltron 3030 is the title track from an underrated #HipHop concept album released in 2000 by Dan the Automator (producer: Cornershop, #Gorillaz, Jamie Cullum), Del the Funky Homosapien (cousin of Ice Cube, vocals in Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz), and Canadian scratch DJ Kid Koala that tells the story of a #dystopian New World Order a century from now, with #SciFi themes. https://youtu.be/s7FxVSDLonY

• Post #2811844

  The subject is no laughing matter, but this is one of the funniest article openings I've ever read.

• Post #2811843

  #ThrowbackThursday British singer-songwriter Nerina Pallot has arguably never been mainstream: this Iraq War-inspired record remains her highest-charting single to date, reaching number 14 in 2006. The official video pulls off a serious portrayal of modern conflict in a humorous setting, directed by the prolific Marc Klasfeld whose portfolio is worth viewing at marcklasfeld.com. https://youtu.be/kKTCScoUFWk

• Post #2811842

  This Italian record from 2002 has suddenly become popular because of TikTok or something like Keir Starmer apparently used it in a video or something. To be honest I don't know what to believe any more. Anyway, point being, it's a banger and has obviously stood the test of time. The guitar riff is lifted from a 1988 song called Streets of Your Town by Brisbane indie rockers The Go-Betweens, while additional unexpected writing credits are Paul and Linda McCartney because the choru...

• Post #2811841

  #ThrowbackThursday 25 years ago this week, Guillaume Atlan released Starlight under his stage name The Supermen Lovers. In case you've ever wondered if the main riff was his own creation: of course not! This is French house! It's from a 1978 record called The Rock by American disco project East Coast. Vocals on Starlight come from fellow Frenchman Mani Hoffman and Israeli singer Onili, who was living in Paris at the time. What you've probably not heard is this 2025 versio...

• Post #2811840

  Keep forgetting to cancel my #Labour Party membership from when Corbyn was leader. It's worse than that time I joined a gym and went once but kept paying for twelve months.

• Post #2811839

  #ThrowbackThursday Future Islands hail from Maryland but released their breakthrough fourth album on British label 4AD in 2014. Frontman Samuel T. Herring stunned US talk show host David Letterman with his emotive physical as well as vocal performance of the lead single, Seasons (Waiting on You), in March that year. https://youtu.be/upPl9mZW_zw

• Post #2811838

  I'm pretty offended nowadays each time I finish putting together the village newsletter – the product of dozens of hours of work by dozens of people – open the final PDF for a quick check, and have #Acrobat suggest "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using #AI Assistant." I think humankind needs to have some pretty serious conversations about where we're headed with this technology.

• Post #2811837

  @bloor I thought you might be just the sort to appreciate reminiscing about the Netscape days with this Abingdon furniture restorer.

• Post #2811836

  #ThrowbackThursday A January release with a smooth summer feeling, Lancashire trio LMC combined instantly-recognisable samples from U2's With or Without You with the opening lyrics to How Will I Know by Whitney Houston – and some excellent new arpeggios – to create their 2004 number one Take Me to the Clouds Above. The vocalist is Rachel McFarlane, who'd previously sung with N-Trance on the same Blackburn record label All Around the World. An especially warm remix here, which int...

• Post #2811835

  Recent connotations aside, I could totally get behind the idea of such annual celebrations of civil engineering as Bridge Day and Power Plant Day.

• Post #2811834

  #ThrowbackThursday Formed in Melbourne in the late nineties, Electronic duo Madison Avenue released their only album in 2000, this lead single from which topped the chart in New Zealand and the UK. The main riff is sampled from an Italo disco record from 1981 called Ma quale idea: youtu.be/hg9gvz5n614 which itself sampled American R&B duo McFadden & Whitehead's 1979 hit Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now: youtu.be/i2FW1WJc0lg. https://youtu.be/M1kEjj3Ej68

• Post #2811833

  @drdrmc @neil Oh it's maddening. If anyone reading this knows a good way to keep using a spreadsheet while complying with #MakingTaxDigital I'd love to know.

• Post #2811832

  #ThrowbackThursday Orville Burrell, better known as Shaggy, was born in Jamaica but moved aged 18 to New York, where he soon joined the US marines and went on to serve in Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf War. He then turned his attention to music, releasing this international hit – along with It Wasn't Me – from his fifth album, Hot Shot, at the turn of the century. Sharing the vocals is Rayvon, who was born in Barbados but raised in Brooklyn. Angel is said to sample The Joker by Steve...

• Post #2811831

  #ThrowbackThursday Indian icon Asha Bhosle died this month at the grand age of 92, having performed more than 12,000 songs over eight decades as what Bollywood calls a playback singer — a vocalist whose pre-recorded singing is lip-synced by the actor. The Leicester band Cornershop had, of course, paid a great tribute to her in 1997 with Brimful of Asha. Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) loved the record and requested to remix it; released the following year, his version became an international hit and U...

• Post #2811830

  Managed to avoid a #ReformUK flyer through the door because I was out front trimming the bush.

• Post #2811829

  #ThrowbackThursday Should I apologise for this? Maybe. Is it exactly 25 years since Don't Stop Movin' entered the chart at number 1? Definitely. https://youtu.be/vm262cXxRrU

• Post #2811828

  Trying hard to recall the source of the lyric "I see a fish in the garden." Finally got Blue Monday by New Order — and it's actually "I see a ship in the harbour." Not bad.

• Post #2811827

  These #GenAI posters for local events are a massive turn-off. Right now I think I'd be more receptive to something in Comic Sans with disproportionately-resized 1990s clipart, screenshotted from Word complete with red wavy underlines.