Packets, packets, got your packets here!
Going way back into the ‘what is the internet?’ file, here’s a great article about the actual first pitch and live demo of the internet (then called by it’s acronym ARPANET).
Yes, it did … Read the rest
Author: ezzy
Clash of the Titans
Had to double post this — a total powerhouse performance. Just wow.
If this doesn’t inspire you to get off your ass and do something what possibly could?
… Who Says Opera Can’t Be Funky?
Wow. Legendary.
… Read the restJust Some Funky Fun From 1984
Creator of the WWW Credits Steve
Internet old timers know the story, but with Steve Jobs’ passing I thought it important to bring it up again.
The guy who developed/invented the world wide web, HTML, and the http protocol back in 1990 claims he couldn’t have … Read the rest
Look At That Pit.
F.U.N.K. 2.0
Are You With Me?
This is one of the most interesting bands from Ohio, especially when they keep their clothes on.
Most nights they get naked and loaded so you just gotta go with it… it’s unbelievable.
To everyone in the world outside of … Read the rest
Free Art (with Feathers)
Beautiful visual art done to one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands. Happy sunday!
A Junie Bit of Pure Funk
Some consider this one of Junie Morrison’s best and worst jams, and I actually don’t have the original LP so I had never heard this mix before stumbling on it on Youtube.
This is the fuller extended mix, plus, the … Read the rest
Thank You For All Of It
Steve Jobs: 1955-2011.
Where would the tech world, perhaps the world as a whole, be without Steven P. Jobs? The concepts he developed in his teens and twenties regarding if/how/when/why we interact with computers built entire industries. Appleholics like myself … Read the rest
My Hat Tipping Unto Itself
[Is it too early to declare my first album that no one bought the most underrated album no one bought in the last 7 years?]… Read the rest
Witness The Power
of a Fully Operational Fishbone (tip of the hat to GC… haaa)
Turn it way up and hide the children…
… Data Mining Your Past, Present, & Future
Lots of privacy-politics news lately: First off our good buddies at Facebook want even more information, and will happily put it on a timeline and sell it to the highest bidder for you.
If you find this a little … Read the rest
You’ve Been Slade
‘coz I luv you 🙂
This band almost hired Robert Plant as lead singer a few months before Led Zeppelin formed.
The guys thought he would steal all the women and decided to sing themselves!
Still doing it ya old … Read the rest
Enough Already, Let’s Play Tetherball!
The Microsoft Copy Machine
I’ve been following the Windows8/Metro debut online and it struck me that this is one of the largest examples of Microsoft being a “me-too” type of company I’ve seen in a while, complete with a fatal flaw in their copied … Read the rest
My First Laptop
I’ve been more or less living on a laptop since about 2002. I had a desktop machine as my only rig from ’87-’96 (Atari, Apple, Tandy, Gateway, Dell, IBM, white boxes, you name it…) and around 1996 I was finally … Read the rest