Have this half-rememberance stuck in my head, maybe someone else can clue me in. Some folks got into some Game Playing of taking turns pretending to be an Alien Intelligence and answering deep questions from people. I know this was a scene in Robert Anton Wilson's Schrodingers Cat Trilogy. I think that's where my Annoying Quote it's always this way on primitive planets: the early stages of Evolution are never pretty comes from. I have this recollection that there was actually a radio show based on this theme at some point. I can't remember whether who was involved: Robert Anton Wilson, Tim Leary, maybe Paul Krassner? (more)

DJ, record producer (more)

In music, syncopation includes a variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected which make an off-beat tune or piece of music. More simply, syncopation is a general term for a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm: a placement of rhythmic stresses or accents where they wouldn't normally occur.[1] Syncopation is used in many musical styles, and is fundamental in styles such as ragtime, jazz, jump blues, funk, reggae, Rap Music, progressive electronic dance music, progressive rock, progressive metal, breakbeat, drum'n'bass, samba, baião, ska, and dubstep. "All dance music makes use of syncopation and it's often a vital element that helps tie the whole track together".[2] In the form of a back beat, syncopation is used in virtually all contemporary popular music. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncopation (more)

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop[1][2] or Rap Music,[2][3][4] is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.[2] It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, break dancing, and graffiti writing.[5][6][7] Other elements include sampling (or synthesis), and beatboxing. While often used to refer to rapping, "hip hop" more properly denotes the practice of the entire subculture.[8][9] The term hip hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music,[2][10] though rapping is not a required component of hip hop music; the genre may also incorporate other elements of hip hop culture, including DJing, turntablism, and scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental tracks.[11][12] Hip hop as music and culture formed during the 1970s when block parties became increasingly popular in New York City, particularly among African American youth residing in the Bronx.[13] At block parties DJs played percussive breaks of popular songs using two turntables to extend the breaks.[clarification needed] Hip hop's early evolution occurred as sampling technology and drum-machines became widely available and affordable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_music

Jazz rap (also jazz hop or jazz hip hop) is a fusion of jazz and hip hop music, as well as an alternative hip hop subgenre,[1] that developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. AllMusic writes that the genre "was an attempt to fuse African-American music of the past with a newly dominant form of the present, paying tribute to and reinvigorating the former while expanding the horizons of the latter." The rhythm was rooted in hip hop[1] over which were placed repetitive phrases of jazz instrumentation: trumpet, double bass, etc. Groups involved in the formation of jazz rap included A Tribe Called Quest, Digable Planets, De La Soul, Gang Starr, The Roots, Jungle Brothers, and Dream Warriors... Jazz rap's emergence can be seen as an attempt to elevate rap music's status by associating it with jazz's cultural capital, and was seen as an alternative to more dominant subgenres like gangsta and pop rap... In 1989, Gang Starr released the debut single "Words I Manifest", sampling Dizzy Gillespie's 1952 "Night in Tunisia", and Stetsasonic released "Talkin' All That Jazz", sampling Lonnie Liston Smith.... Digable Planets' 1993 release Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) was a hit jazz rap record sampling the likes of Don Cherry, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Herbie Mann, Herbie Hancock, Grant Green, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. It spawned the hit single "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)".[5] Also in 1993, Us3 released Hand on the Torch on Blue Note Records. All samples were from the Blue Note catalogue. The single "Cantaloop" was Blue Note's first gold record... Though jazz rap had achieved little mainstream success, jazz legend Miles Davis' final album (released posthumously in 1992), Doo-Bop, featured hip hop beats and collaborations with producer Easy Mo Bee... Musical jazz references became less obvious and less sustained, and lyrical references to jazz certainly more rare.[12] However, jazz had been added to the palette of hip hop producers, and its influence continued throughout the 1990s whether behind the gritty street-tales of Nas (Illmatic, Columbia, 1994), or backing the more bohemian sensibilities of acts such as The Roots, The Nonce, and Common. Since 2000 it can be detected in the work of producers such as J. Rawls, Nujabes, Fat Jon, Madlib, Kero One, and the English duo The Herbaliser. A project somewhat similar to Buckshot Le Fonque was Brooklyn Funk Essentials, a New York–based collective who also released their first LP in 1994. Prince himself contributed to the genre on some songs from 1991 to 1992, as well as with his New Power Generation album Gold Nigga, which mixed jazz, funk and hip-hop and was released very confidentially. One hip hop project which continued to maintain a direct connection to jazz was Guru's Jazzmatazz series, which used live jazz musicians in the studio.[13] Spanning from 1993 to 2007, its four volumes assembled jazz luminaries like Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd, Courtney Pine, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Garrett and Lonnie Liston Smith, and hip hop performers such as Kool Keith, MC Solaar, Common, and Guru's Gang Starr colleague DJ Premier. Madlib's 2003 release Shades of Blue paid homage to his Blue Note Records roots, where he samples from Blue Note's archives. The album also contains interpretations of Blue Note classics performed by Yesterdays New Quintet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_rap

Acid jazz (also known as club jazz, psychedelic jazz, or groove jazz) is a music genre that combines elements of funk, soul, and hip hop, as well as jazz and disco.[1][2] Acid jazz originated in clubs in London during the 1980s with the rare groove movement and spread to the United States, Japan, Eastern Europe, and Brazil. Acts included The Brand New Heavies, D'Influence, Incognito, Us3, and Jamiroquai from the UK and Buckshot LeFonque and Digable Planets from the U.S. The rise of electronic club music in the middle to late 1990s led to a decline in interest, and in the twenty-first century, the movement became indistinct as a genre. Many acts that might have been defined as acid jazz are seen as jazz-funk, neo soul, or jazz rap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_jazz (more)

music site/db, has more "content" than CDDB; https://www.allmusic.com/ (more)

I've really been enjoying the soundtrack to Get Shorty, which uses lots of John Lurie (with Dana Colley and Steven Elson on Baritone Sax). (more)

brother of John Lurie; musician/composer

founder of the Lounge Lizards, with his brother Evan Lurie

Margin Cagan on Business Strategy vs. Product Strategy. ...source of frustration in many companies. Many companies confuse or blur the two, and the result is easy to spot. The senior executives want to focus on the business strategy, but they find they are forced to make decisions at a level far below where they’re comfortable or usually even interested, such as which specific products, projects and even features to invest in, and what the interdependencies are between these features and projects, and often what is on the actual page and how to resolve conflicts. (more)

EBook reader app for Android (more)

Dave Winer meme for the importance of WebLogging for Journalism. Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. (more)

Tool/dashboard from Ash Maurya's Lean Stack going beyond the Lean Camvas to prioritize learning/validation around the biggest risks in your strategic context.

Justin Murphy: You don’t have writer’s block, you’re just being evil. If you’re not having a stroke, you are not blocked. (more)

WikiWikiWeb:AcceptanceTests Originally called Functional Test-s, each acceptance test tries to test the functionality of a user story. Acceptance Tests are different from Unit Test in that Unit Tests are modeled and written by the developer of each class, while the Acceptance Test is at least modeled and possibly even written by the customer. In Extreme Programming this is sometimes called Customer Test. (more)

The Dymaxion car was designed by American inventor Bucky Fuller during the Great Depression and featured prominently at Chicago's 1933/1934 World's Fair.[1] Fuller built three experimental prototypes with naval architect Starling Burgess – using donated money as well as a family inheritance[2][3] – to explore not an automobile per se, but the 'ground-taxiing phase' of a vehicle that might one day be designed to fly, land and drive – an "Omni-Medium Transport". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_car

There's a Bucky Fuller exhibit (Live Event) at the Whitney Museum I have to get to (with The Boys) in the next couple weeks. (more)

Photo Social Software site/service http://www.flickr.com (more)

Jonathan Lai and Andrew Chen: The Rise of Lifestyle Streamers. Historically, livestreaming has been synonymous with gaming. Twitch and Mixer. (more)