Links for 03-03-09

Haven't done this for a while so this is a somewhat random selection of recent interesting links...

Flickr: stolenstrategies
A Flickr group for photos of "things that have been translated into code. images must be split into inspiration and outcome. real thing on the left, coded thing on the right."

melka » Soundscapes
An ambitious series of visualisations of music from Messiaen to Pink Floyd using the EchoNest API to analyse the MP3 and then translating the results into a PCR/DNA-like diagram

In search of the click track « Music Machinery
Also using the Echo Next, but this time using the remix Python library to work out which drummers use a click track (or can keep time)

Good Radio Club
From Jem and Steve - "Its like, social listening. ie: its a bunch of fellow radio4 fans tweeting along in real time listening to a 30 minute radio show chosen in advance. Its live. We thought about doing Listen Again but went for an old fashioned scheduled broadcast. Its 8.30pm. This Thursday February 26th on BBC Radio 4."

S3 Radio
"You make a bucket on Amazon S3, filled with MP3s. When someone visits your S3 Radio station, it builds a playlist from the contents of the bucket and starts streaming it to the listener, in a random order." - easy internet radio from Tom Taylor.

The Curious Cook - Do You Need All That Water to Boil Pasta? - NYTimes.com
"My rough figuring indicates an energy savings at the stove top of several trillion B.T.U.s. At the power plant, that would mean saving 250,000 to 500,000 barrels of oil, or $10 million to $20 million at current prices"

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