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I have a feeling that I am going to be writing a few articles/posts about HTML5 in the next few weeks and months. Mostly because we’re starting to see some real cool stuff being built with it. I, of course, will concentrate on the new video capabilities, but if you want to Dive Into HTML5, [...]

Tags: apple, Html5

I wonder if kids would have the attention span to make it through this today, but this is a little gem, and worth watching to the end. Besides the absolute joy that Stevie exudes while he is playing, there are lots of little bits to look for in the background. One is a little kid [...]

Tags: sesamestreet, steviewonder, video

It’s about time I blogged this, so why not go with New Year’s Day, 2009. This post could also be titled, “What to do while waiting for a Blur Reunion”. I had every intention of posting this in June after seeing Monkey: Journey to the West at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C. Busy weeks [...]

This is just extra special news for me personally. I’ve known about the possibility of this reunion for a few weeks now, but seeing others in my Twitter network tweet about it makes it very much more real. Blur, one of my recently discovered favorite bands, are getting back together and doing at least one [...]

Have I ever told you how fortunate I am (we are) to have a colleague like Gardner Campbell here at Mary Washington? There are many examples of sparks that have fired from my head after listening to a Gardner talk, or speech, or riff, or even watching him in a jam session. However, the one [...]

Thanks to an intrepid UMW Blogger, it was brought to my attention that one of my favorite bands is releasing their new album as a download on October 10. How much will it cost. Well, you name the price. "No really, it’s up to you."   I never really care about how much a record [...]

The remix as promotion. I came across a great example of this via the ccMixter website, which is a Creative Commons project site that allows you to use, re-use, and remix vocals, instrumental music, and other sound samples into new compositions. All this with the benefit of a Creative Commons license. It’s an interesting site [...]

var FO_214 = {movie:”http://clipaday.com/flvplayer.swf”,width:”500″,height:”367″,majorversion:”7″,build:”0″,bgcolor:”#FFFFFF”,allowfullscreen:”true”,flashvars:”file=http://media1.clipaday.com/embed/m_bands/kid_zep_9i4.flv.flv&image=http://media1.clipaday.com/embed/m_bands/thumbs/kid_zep_9i4.jpg&lightcolor=0xF6C230&backcolor=0×000000&frontcolor=0xCCCCCC&logo=http://clipaday.com/images/playerlogo.png&link=http://clipaday.com” };UFO.create(FO_214,”kid-zeppelin”); (a.k.a. Kid Zeppelin) I’ve been heavy into Led Zep lately, so when I found this video it was blogs away! Enjoy, and I dare you to keep your lower jaw from dropping. Linktribution to Respectful Insolence.

This snuck up on me, just like June itself, but it’s the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. I could give you my take on it, but this article does a fine job of describing the greatest album of all time (start the argument in the comments). I’d like to able to [...]