"The House That Hova Built" - Zadie Smith interviews Jay-Z 
“Rappers use language as a form of asymmetrical warfare…. It’s the contradictory pull of the ‘cipher,’ rap terminology for the circle that forms around the kind of freestyling kid Jay-Z once was.”
What if Hemingway Wrote JavaScript?
Here’s @AngusTweets take on how Hemingway might have written JavaScript:
“Code reduced to its essentials with no word or variable wasted. It’s not fancy; maybe it’s even a little pedantic — but that’s the beauty of Hemingway’s writing. No need for elaborate logic or clever variable names. It’s plain and it’s clear and it does what it has to — and nothing more.”
Shel Silverstein's Poems Live On In 'Every Thing' : NPR
When Shel Silverstein wrote the poem “Years From Now,” he seemed to know that one day he’d be gone but that his playful words and images would still be making children happy. “I cannot see your face,” he writes to his young readers, but in “some far-off place,” he assures them, “I hear you laughing — and I smile.”
WebAudio Drum Machine
Great Example of HTML5 / W3C Web Audio API Updates in Chrome 14
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MNFT —> Michael McDonald with The Roots - Philly July 4 2011 (by soulgirl07)
Today’s MNFT….
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Booker T Jones playing his Hammond organ for a #TinyDesk concert at NPR. (Taken with Instagram at NPR Headquarters)
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Random Daze theme by Polaraul
