b3ta.com links
You are not logged in. Login or Signup
Home » Links » Archive 3831 (Older | Newer)

This is a link post Velvet Underground, 1966...Part1...
Are you down with the underground? :)
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 9:58, Reply)
This is a normal post Shweet
Buying the box set http://www.amazon.com/Peel-Back-Slowly-Velvet-Underground/dp/B000002GM5box was the best musical investment I ever made.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 10:30, Reply)
This is a link post Pokemon acapella.
I've never watched the TV show ('cos it's just too f*****g childish for
me).... but I thought this guy did a brilliant job with the theme music.
Apols if GC.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 9:52, Reply)
This is a normal post I like your new name :-)

(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 12:14, Reply)
This is a link post "Video Games - The Latest Craze"
ABC News on Video Games from 1982 (part 1)
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 9:49, Reply)
This is a normal post Meh
It's just a fad, it'll never last
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 9:56, Reply)
This is a normal post These people lived without the internet.
How? HOW???
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 10:17, Reply)
This is a normal post Ah.
A simpler time when plying a computer game for 2 and half hours was considered astonishing!
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 10:55, Reply)
This is a normal post Looking at the game he was playing, I'd say it was a feat of endurence.
Seriously, playing some of those first gen games makes me wonder how they stayed alive :-s
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 11:40, Reply)
This is a normal post or you'd spend 2 and half hours typing it in from a magazine.
only to find the bloody thing didn't work!!

110 data 23,44,66,11,45,76,201,11
112 data 12,32,123,44,11,22,33,3.......
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 12:50, Reply)
This is a normal post RIP Midway

(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 11:01, Reply)
This is a link post who wants to buy a stuffed dog from an office in the Netherlands?
they are `re-modelling` their offices and for some reason no longer have any room for a badly stuffed dog, which before needing rehousing was used as a guard dog.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 8:04, Reply)
This is a normal post i'm so tempted

(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 9:19, Reply)
This is a link post AT-AT day afternoon
40 seconds = Jabba the Poo.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 7:56, Reply)
This is a normal post
glasscocked to buggery - it also on the popular page.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 8:20, Reply)
This is a normal post FUCKSTICKS!
In my defence it was from Vimeo and not YouTube so GC checker didn't pick it up mumble mumble grumble whinge moan ..... etc ...
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 8:36, Reply)
This is a normal post no excuse
rarrrh!
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 11:17, Reply)
This is a link post Scientist cracks The Plato Code
An amazing read. 2,000 years later people are only just discovering the hidden musical tones in Plato's writings. Pretty mindblowing
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 6:05, Reply)
This is a normal post Err...ha?
Joke or wrong link?
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 6:17, Reply)
This is a normal post I cracked the plate code
in the dishwasher once.

Think it was a loose bottle top that did it.

www.physorg.com/news196943667.html
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 7:02, Reply)
This is a normal post errr... ahem.

(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 7:31, Reply)
This is a normal post
www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=5894

'imma guessing this is the link you are looking for.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 7:53, Reply)
This is a normal post "Before becoming a teacher, he worked on the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, in Tokyo as a translator, and in Baghdad at the National Computer Centre."
I'm not saying trouble follows him around, but I'd stay out of Manchester ;)
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 8:00, Reply)
This is a normal post ummm
tbh isn't this a bit of a "non-story" if they don't even have a link to this fucking music they have found? I want to listen god damnit!
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 8:56, Reply)
This is a normal post They didn't find any music
The Greek musical scale had 12 notes (I suppose ours does, if you count it in semitones) and some of these notes are harmonic with the fundamental, and some discordant. He's apparently found that Plato wrote about specific emotions at points multiples of 1/12 through the text. This sounds like bollox to me. A bit Bible code-ish.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 9:21, Reply)
This is a normal post So no Plato speedcore?

(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 11:25, Reply)
This is a normal post Thanks for the link (sort of)
spent the last 15 mins tracking the paper down and researching what Apeiron is (as a journal. It isn't main stream, I'm pretty sure there will be further debate about the validity of the work, but it's still interesting and exciting stuff :-)

Where is Enzyme? He does philosophy, I want to know what he thinks.

Anywho: personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/jay.kennedy/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apeiron_%28journal%29
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 9:24, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh, hai!
Yup: I'm a philosopher, and a philosopher at the University of Manchester to boot, so I share an institution with this guy. I'll check it out if I get the chance: I'm a touch busy at the moment.

My initial hunch is that any talk of a Plato Code is - as Smale says up ^there^ - distinctly iffy...
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 9:56, Reply)
This is a normal post :-D
I'm going to look at the paper to see what his specific claims are and what the implications are.

My impression of Apeiron as a publisher is a bit dodgy, but it will be fun to see if there is anything it what he says. Reply here or wizz me a pm if you get 5! Cheers!
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 10:16, Reply)
This is a normal post I read one of the PDFs
(the one with picures, I thought it might be simpler). Without spending more time understanding his evidence I'd say his decision of what is 'harmonic' and 'discordant' in the writing is subjective. His location of speeches within twelfths of the text also looks suspicious, since he includes bits of non-speech to pad it out. It's not clear to me whether he's using strict line-counting or not. Even if he is, it looks very much as if he doesn't define the start and end clearly, meaning it could just be that Plato wrote 10 speeches with a prologue and an epilogue. Either way, it's hardly a code hiding something else. If he's right then Plato just found a handy form to structure his writing around. I think his quarter-note theory is baseless, and introducing the golden mean seems a bit arbitrary... So I'm not impressed.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 10:35, Reply)
This is a normal post You read a lot more than I did!
It's a shame though, it would have been fun to have an actual simple code hidden in his writing. A bit like finding a brilliant game that has the konami code secretly placed in for a secret message. Having said that I don't see why it would have taken all this time to discover an ancient konami code that Plato made.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 11:05, Reply)
This is a normal post OK - based on a preliminary read, I don't buy it.
I know I said I was busy, but I couldn't resist.

First, the stuff about mathematics in there is trivial. Yes, mathematics is very important for Plato, and he has some odd ideas about the soul that reasonably frequently get lumped alongside his mathematical stuff. But, really, so what? (I'm not going to sweat this, though, because I'm by no means a Plato scholar.)

Second, one has to ask oneself why this paper hasn't appeared in a mainstream philosophy or history of philosophy journal. The fact that it hasn't isn't evidence of the paper's scholarly qualities... but, still, there's a whiff about it.

But here's the real reason why I don't buy it. Plato is, at times, a really good writer. As the Aperion paper makes clear, he's not averse to throwing in a good pun or joke now and again. As a dramatist, he's not bad - again, unsurprisingly, given the importance of the drama in Greek education and religion at the time.

BUT... If the hypothesis of the paper is true, it'd seem to imply that Plato sat down with a piece of paper before composing each dialogue, and planned to the line what would go where. And that doesn't seem plausible. After all, it'd mean that the arguments advanced would have to play second fiddle to their place in the dialogue, and be stretched or cut to fit. That is not the way to generate a philosophical system that was influential for two and a half milennia. You might be able to write an opera like that - but not philosophy.

To give an analogy: a philosopher (or scientist) might try to structure an essay by deciding to devote 10% to the introduction, 10% to the conclusion, and to share the remainder between the premises and different parts of the argument. But if that's the only criterion for what goes where, he probably won't generate an essay of a standard that's anything more than... well, barely undergrad. The chances that this essay would still be read 2500 years later are slim. And the chances that he could pull the same trick with tens of different essays of different lengths defies belief.

Yet this seems to be exactly the strategy that Kennedy ascribes to Plato. There's a serious credibility gap.

EDIT: Right, have to go now. There's a bloke here who wants to do things to my computer. I might add more comment later.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 10:29, Reply)
This is a normal post It does seem a bit like he wants Plato to be Hari Seldon-ish
I could buy that he wrote using a particular form, but when it comes to placing punctuation in mathematically pre-ordained places, he's getting a bit thin on the plausibility.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 11:00, Reply)
This is a normal post Writing using a particular vague template is one thing.
But for it to be that precise, and for it to generate anything worth reading... naaah.

Props for the Seldon reference, though: I keep meaning to re-read those...
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 11:42, Reply)
This is a normal post hehe
You should organise a secret Santa in your department this year, and buy him a copy of 'The Da-Vinci Code' :-D
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 12:00, Reply)
This is a normal post Ha!
Fortunately, he's not in my department - I'm in the law school, and he's in life sciences.

I've never knowingly met the guy. I don't think I'm missing much.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 12:19, Reply)
This is a normal post if you read Enid Blyton very carefully it predicts the Daily Mail
(I'm saying I don't buy it)
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 10:42, Reply)
This is a link post Mum & dad play favourites
Show your children how much you love them, the Star Trek way.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 5:43, Reply)
This is a normal post Doesn't really apply. Those are TNG uniforms, and red means officer.


I...uh...mean, uh, shutup.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 6:20, Reply)
This is a normal post The comments make it for me
Nerd-gasm!
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 8:44, Reply)
This is a link post I think this is some kind of 'dance craze' what the kids get down to.
But this time it is performed by a mentalist.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 5:33, Reply)
This is a normal post Bless her
She is dedicated to her art I'll give her that.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkIEW3r673U&feature=channel
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 10:48, Reply)
This is a link post How not to wash your badger
No animals were harmed in the making of this video...
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 3:19, Reply)
This is a normal post Hermaphrogoat
Can it be milked? Yes!
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 3:24, Reply)
This is a normal post It gets better
A goat beauty pageant? Only in Arabia...

and if you followed this far, the next in the series is even better!
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 3:32, Reply)
This is a link post Pants for the Memory...
new world record for pants...
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 2:35, Reply)
This is a normal post play it backwards
its like a child gang rape
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 10:08, Reply)
This is a normal post shouldn't laugh but
:D:D:D
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 12:04, Reply)
This is a link post I took this from my own computer I made this!
WTF, Google, seriously.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 1:51, Reply)
This is a normal post Chrome regards "google" and "googling" as spelling errors.

(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 1:56, Reply)
This is a normal post I have also noticed this

(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 2:26, Reply)
This is a normal post s'why
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_%28verb%29
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 10:58, Reply)
This is a normal post
sort your inbox out
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 2:34, Reply)
This is a link post Sammy Davis Jr - Rhythm of Life
AS mentioned bellow. This is a great vid for it also :)

Audio quality on this version is bad, but video quality is better... www.youtube.com/watch?v=97GzBd92kWk
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 1:26, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm deep into watching this now. It's great.
www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=29D00236C88FC89E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&v=qB8m85p7GsU
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 1:34, Reply)
This is a normal post AS RECENTLY AS 1980!!!!! ;)
Kiding aside I am going to watch this now :) cheers me dears!!
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 1:44, Reply)
This is a normal post will say this though
I love how Mandelbrot Set's kinda look like my grandad's paisley PJ's ;)
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 1:46, Reply)
This is a normal post well, it is fairly small,...

(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 1:22, Reply)
This is a normal post Is it "For ages 3+" ?
It is, isn't it?
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 8:19, Reply)
This is a link post Cthulhu fhtagn I made this!
Cthulhu fhtagn Cthulhu fhtagn Cthulhu fhtagn Cthulhu fhtagn Cthulhu fhtagn ....
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 0:21, Reply)
This is a normal post nicely!
Looovecraaaft!
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 0:27, Reply)
This is a normal post ha ha ha ha
that's great : D
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 1:18, Reply)
This is a normal post Spooky
I watched this and then my internet connection died. How long before I have fishmen at my door?
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 0:45, Reply)
This is a normal post not long
.....not long
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 0:53, Reply)
This is a normal post Oh crap...

(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 0:56, Reply)
This is a normal post Not long at all.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTHn2tHhcI&feature=related
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 0:54, Reply)
This is a normal post Roll 2d10 and minus your current Sanity

(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 9:35, Reply)
This is a normal post Goodly
Have a clicking forth.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 2:26, Reply)
This is a normal post Dancey time!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVR8PRwQUCw&feature=related

There seem to be an awful lot of these on youtube.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 8:18, Reply)
This is a normal post I like that!

(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 18:56, Reply)
This is a normal post Just this week I've been reading H.P. Lovecraft for the first time
Odd that you bring up that video now...

...in his house at R'Lyeh...
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 23:39, Reply)
This is a link post G20 Riots
Fck this shit. If that was South Africa we would have shot these wankers. What's the point of taking the day off to riot.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 0:19, Reply)
This is a normal post cops?
actually there are reasonable suspicions that some of the agitators are undercover canadian cops. they have prior on this...a lot of prior actually, I happened to be reading about it today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAfzUOx53Rg
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 0:38, Reply)
This is a normal post cunts
riot? about 6 people destroying private and state property, about 6000 people with cameras loving the theatre.

This pisses me off so much, not least the grinning fuckwit jumping on the police car (sooo naughty, post that on facebook).

Can someone inform me about anything that might lend the G20 (or indeed any of the anti-globalisation) protesters a shred of credibility, please.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 1:08, Reply)
This is a normal post Haha!
He looks like fucking Dougal. He's delighted his Mammy let him out to play with the big kids
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 1:42, Reply)
This is a normal post foxconn.
et cetera.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 9:38, Reply)
This is a normal post You do get the impression...
..that a lot of protests these days are full of people going "oooh, I'm protesting...about stuff...and the government...and ooh it makes me mad. I jumped on a police car lol"
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 1:33, Reply)
This is a normal post Sign at one demo a few years ago
"Worldwide Campaign Against Globalisation"

I hope it was a joke, but suspect they were serious.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 9:38, Reply)
This is a normal post actualy it;s just a small contingent of anachists
using the mayday protests as cover for their actions.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 7:53, Reply)
This is a normal post
anachists undercover police
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 8:21, Reply)
This is a link post Mandelbox trip
fractals ftw
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 0:18, Reply)
This is a normal post needs more HD
That was wicked!

So whats the defenition of fractal? ones ive seen have clearly been the result of a code punched in and a graphic representation. That looked more like something modeled then...erm...made bigger.. kinda..

Drunkness doesnt lend to explaining my awe ;)
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 0:33, Reply)
This is a normal post pay close attention
it takes your brain to another dimension.

I think this is a 3D way of looking at the fractals. So expand the forumla by cubing the results.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 0:58, Reply)
This is a normal post Or a Guinness advert ;)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs-PPOy8bEU
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 1:00, Reply)
This is a normal post Ooh I remember that
My fav's still got to be this one just for Sammy D Jr.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMZKBbNuW2s
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 1:23, Reply)
This is a normal post The Guinness ads are pretty much a masterclass
in advertising
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 1:27, Reply)
This is a normal post Done the Guinness tour 3 times now ( I know sad and touristy...Jamesons is better but equally touristy)
But each time I've spent a long time perusing each and every advert in that section in the museum, all really entertaining, which is the point really :)

Saying that about touristy, Ive done my fair share of micro/smaller brewery tours. And though they dont come close to that experience both Guinness and Jamesons give a good experience considering how many people they need to cater for. I got 4 free pints on my second visit to the St.James's Gate. Though nothing will ever top drinking several pints with Mr.Theakston him self in my local brewery...
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 1:41, Reply)
This is a normal post Definition of fractal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIlwFpz9s_I
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 8:23, Reply)
This is a normal post I think a fractal is defined as a shape that is self similar
which means you can cut out a little bit of it, and zoom it up and you get a copy of the original. The Mandelbox uses a similar set of equations to the Mandelbrot set, just over 3-D space with a couple of transformations to make it more "boxy" and 3-D.

Fractals are a bit weird. Take that triangle one, (Sierpinski Gasket) for example. If you stick three copies of it together, in a triangle, you get a Sierpinski Gasket twice as big as what you started with. Fair enough, you might think, but think about this - if you wanted to make a simple 2-D triangle twice as big, you'd have to put four copies of it together. And if you wanted to make a line drawing of a triangle twice as big, you could make it out of the lines from two copies. So the Sierpinski Gasket isn't really a 1-D drawing or a 2-D drawing. I think it's technically a 1.585-D drawing, more or less.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 14:03, Reply)
This is a normal post i bet that took a good few minutes to render on povray

(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 1:05, Reply)
This is a normal post Hellfire, that's good
Like a roccoco borg cube. Or something.

Damned impressive!
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 8:59, Reply)
This is a normal post Beautiful
Reminds me of something from Ken McLeod's novels; the post-human AI constructs called 'macros'.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 9:55, Reply)
This is a link post Conan the Barbarian-The Musical
If you don't listen...then the hell with yooooooo.
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 0:15, Reply)
This is a normal post THIS is
AWESOME!!
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 0:24, Reply)
This is a normal post That does indeed win the internet...
I'm waiting to post that to facebook at the perfect moment!
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 0:40, Reply)
This is a normal post The vocal is sort of half Ahnuld and half Billy Crystal
Which makes it twice as funny!
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 3:49, Reply)
This is a normal post Hahahahaha....
2:10 - "Angh angh angh angh" is pure win.
*Click*
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 8:50, Reply)
This is a normal post MANOWAR-TASTIC!

(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 14:49, Reply)
This is a normal post I love this.

(, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 18:10, Reply)
This is a link post Quick
move to Andorra!
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 0:04, Reply)
This is a normal post i would, but i'm moving to sydney
*smugness*
(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 0:09, Reply)
This is a link post lol
Anyone seen the new "redesigned photo page" spiel on Flickr? Click the link (if you're an account holder), go to one of your pics, and then scroll across to the last part of the tour.
(, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 23:33, Reply)
This is a normal post Glee!

(, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 23:55, Reply)
This is a normal post Eee!

(, Tue 29 Jun 2010, 8:56, Reply)
This is a link post According to my mate who can't drive I made this!
"I can actually drive well enough to escape a crowd of zombies should the need arise. Yeah, my highway code is rubbish and I always shift down too late but I'd be alive and the zombies would be eating dust."

So I made this and stuck it on his Facebook.
(, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 22:46, Reply)
This is a normal post Works well with the vuvuzela button.

(, Mon 28 Jun 2010, 23:56, Reply)

« Older links | Newer links »