The ill-considered, poorly articulated though modest (in scope) opinions of Ronan gather here: a disparate aggregate of ideas, likes, dislikes, fancies, curios, diversions and procrastinations.
Keeping up with the modern world: "...building an airplane in flight."
Folks with things to say and stuff to perpetuate:
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“Forget about this,” she says, “it’s for interest only.”
So says Delia Derbyshire who composed and produced the the Dr Who theme, of a small piece of music that you can hear over at the BBC website. The piece though sounds like a contemporary piece of dance music. Really curious. Totally ahead of her time.
Sometimes it’s embarassing to be Irish. Such was when we’re one of the most expensive places to buy condoms. I think the VAT rate dropped this year on condoms. All the same…
One word: No.
Give David Chase a film, sure, give him a blank cheque for a film, but not a Sorpranos one.
HBO Talks About Sex Sequel, Sopranos Movie - TV Decoder - Media & Television - New York Times Blog
Jeff Bridges take photos, and interesting ones too, with a panoramic camera. Nice stuff. The man is cool, simply put.
A Joan Miro poster, part of an online exhibition here, of 120 posters of the century. Refreshing for being from a Mexican perspective.
Via Coudal
Y mas:
Joakim Eskildsen takes excellent photos, this one is simply amazing. From his Nordic Signs series. Via Coudal Partners.
From Pitchfork.tv: Fleet Foxes’ White Winter Hymnal
Also check out the Asobi Seksu video for Goodbye
Five Pounds!! Before there was the EU and the free movement of money and people etc. There was this. Via the ever curious WFMU blog.
I’d never really considered this too much before.
Some maths:
An SMS text message contains 160 characters, at 7 bits per character or 140 Bytes.
There are 1,048,576 Bytes in a Megabyte.
One Megabyte can hold 7,489 text messages. I pay 5 cents per message.
That means Meteor charges me €374.45 per MB for data transfer via SMS….
That… is very expensive…
If you don’t use Last.fm then this might not be so interesting. Last.fm by way of explanation is a site that builds a profile based on what you listen to. Adding a scrobbler plug in to your media player allows them to do this. Now dump your data into this music recommendation engine, it just needs your username, and it will compare you with BBC radio programme’s data and recommend a show for you.
Apparently Gideon Coe is the top recommendation for me. I’ve never listened to the show, so maybe I should.
The mash-up was put together by Dan Brickley.
