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2023/10/18

Todays Thought

What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.

-Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (18 Oct 1865-1946)

2023/10/17

JWST Discovered The Farthest Star Ever Seen!

Todays Thought

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

-Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist (17 Oct 1915-2005)

2023/10/16

A Song That Actually Uses Locrian

Mode (music)

$\relative c' { \clef treble \time 7/4 \hide Staff.TimeSignature c4 d e f g a b c2 }$

Diatonic major scale (Ionian mode, I) on C, a "white note" scale

${ \key c \dorian \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \relative c' { \clef treble \time 7/4 c4^\markup { Dorian mode, II, on C } d es f g a bes c } }$

${ \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \key c \phrygian \relative c' { \clef treble \time 7/4 c4^\markup { Phrygian mode, III, on C } des es f g aes bes c } }$

${ \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \key c \lydian \relative c' { \clef treble \time 7/4 c4^\markup { Lydian mode, IV, on C } d e fis g a b c } }$

${ \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \key c \mixolydian \relative c' { \clef treble \time 7/4 c4^\markup { Mixolydian mode, V, on C } d e f g a bes c } }$

${ \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \key c \aeolian \relative c' { \clef treble \time 7/4 c4^\markup { Aeolian mode, VI, on C } d es f g aes bes c } }$

${ \override Score.TimeSignature #'stencil = ##f \key c \locrian \relative c' { \clef treble \time 7/4 c4^\markup { Locrian mode, VII, on C } des es f ges aes bes c } }$

The modern (diatonic) modes on CIn music theory, the term mode or modus is used in a number of distinct senses, depending on context.

This Song Teaches Counting But Is INSANELY Hard To Count

Todays Thought

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (15 Oct 1844-1900)

2023/10/13

The Whole of the Whole Earth Catalog Is Now Online

Whole Earth Catalog

The Whole of the Whole Earth Catalog Is Now Online

A NEARLY COMPLETE digital library of Whole Earth publications—including the famed Whole Earth Catalog founded 55 years ago by counterculture icon Stewart Brand—has been made available online for the first time. A curious reader can now flip through all the old catalogs, magazines, and journals right in their web browser, or download entire issues to their computer free of charge.

The Whole Earth Catalog was the proto-blog—a collection of reviews, how-to guides, and primers on anarchic libertarianism printed onto densely packed pages. It carried the tagline “Access to Tools” and offered know-how, product reviews, cultural analysis, and gobs of snark, long before you could get all that on the internet...