links for 2008-03-29

• Temporary Residence Limited
  ambient label
  (tags: ambient experimental music portland)
• Jacques Attali
  book on noise and what it means
  (tags: capitalism criticism economy literature music noise philosophy)

links for 2008-03-20

• This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize
  the fewer the number of goals, the closer people get to competing for a single resource, the more they congeal into one similar entity.
  (tags: anthropology computing culture intelligence math programming psychology pyschology research science technology thought wired)

links for 2008-03-19

• YouTube – The Pursuit of Gay (Happyness) (2007)
  it’s funny
  (tags: humor art sexuality)
• MySpace.com – SENATOR R. STEVIE MOORE – Dada Data, New Jersey – New Wave / Classic Rock / Acousmatic / Tape music – www.myspace.com/thersteviemoore
  (tags: music indie homerecording)

links for 2008-03-18

• IIEPassport.org-Study Abroad Funding, Scholarships, Grants
  for economic history
  (tags: economics funding scholarships school)
• IIEPassport.org-Study Abroad Funding, Scholarships, Grants
  (tags: economics funding scholarship money college)
• Systematic ideology – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  on the idea that ideologies run people
  (tags: ideology ideas history)
• George Walford International Essay Prize – £3,500 Annually
  awards money for best essay on systematic ideology
  (tags: ideology anthropology belief scholarship funding)
• George Walford – Politics as Ideology
  beyond politics on the influence of ideology in the creation of political identity
  (tags: politics ideology reading)

links for 2008-03-13

• IJ TRANSGENDER – A sex difference in the human brain and its relation to transsexuality By J.-N. Zhou, M.A. Hoffmann, L.J. Gooren and D.F. Swaab
  basically in a study of male-to-female transsexuals, the part of the brain usually associated with gender behavoir is similar to a woman’s.
  (tags: biology gender neuroscience psychology sex transgender)
• Autogynephilia – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  on the love of being a woman who is anatominically a man
  (tags: gender sexuality transgender)

links for 2008-03-12

• Schneier on Security: FAA Badges Missing
  that’s reassuring
  (tags: security technology airport)

links for 2008-03-11

• MySpace.com – GRUPO LA CUMBIA – MEXICO – Other / Other / Other – www.myspace.com/gpolacumbia
  recommended by dj/rupture. some of the tracks are amazing some are cheesy
  (tags: hiphop music media)
• MySpace.com – Maga Bo – Rio de Janeiro – Hardcore / Tropical / Dub – www.myspace.com/magabo
  it’s amazing
  (tags: music media brazil rap)
• The Economists’ Voice
  Dean Baker on why a rent to own policy would help out subprime home owners
  (tags: mortage poverty economics)
• Tutorials
  series of rather good tutorials for how to make electronic music and media
  (tags: videos reference music software programming)

links for 2008-03-04

• Docuticker » Zero as a Special Price: The True Value of Free Products
  turns out free stuff doesn’t behave by typical price benefit rules.
  (tags: economics free internet research)
• Beat Streuli
  people on venice beach. via WORK
  (tags: art media video)
• WorldChanging: Growing Sustainable Biofuels: Common Sense on Biofuels
  on the carbon payback times for converting land to produce corn ethanol (sugar cane is a faster payback)
  (tags: sustianability ethanol environment global_warming)