Domino’s Pizza has been trying to convince you that they are no longer a big, insensitive corporation who does a lousy job of creating products and will cut any corner if it benefits the bottom line. Whatever. » Read on »
Domino’s Pizza has been trying to convince you that they are no longer a big, insensitive corporation who does a lousy job of creating products and will cut any corner if it benefits the bottom line. Whatever. » Read on »
People often ask me, “Colin, how do you get that crazy sound? You know, your sound – the Beatnik Dungeon Sound.” Let me show you. » Read on »
With some regularity, I assemble a group of musicians in my basement studio to record soundtracks for films or audio pieces (under the Nadir Novelties banner, for the most part). I usually have a rough conceptual outline of how the song should feel and what parts need to happen, which we usually discuss back and forth for a bit. Then we improvise. » Read on »
A conversation got started over on abetteroakland.com about crime in Oakland. V Smoothe (one of the truly great Oakland bloggers), wanted to make the point that crime in Oakland is bad, and to do so she used the FBI’s Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report to build a graph comparing the crime rates of several cities to show that Oakland’s is particularly bad. While I agree that crime is bad and that some people are unrealistic about the existence of a problem, I said that the numbers aren’t an honest or conclusive comparison of cities. » Read on »
Today is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, and lots of rejoicing is taking place around the world. And it should be celebrated – The Origin of Species fundamentally changed the way humans understand life on this planet. Maybe I’m splitting hairs here, but it’s frustrating to me how many times I’ve heard people refer to Darwin as the “inventor” of the theory of evolution.
He didn’t invent the theory of evolution. » Read on »