How Strings Differ From Winds, and Other Edifying Tidbits
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Droll, perceptive comments from composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle set up the experience of hearing his complex instrumental and vocal works.
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Listen to an iPod during a storm and you may get more than electrifying tunes.
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Two new books provide ambitious overviews of complicated topics.
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So goes the familiar holiday tune. Unfortunately, this holiday season, scientists are heralding bad news for birds. New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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It is mood music conforming to the sentimental nature of the story that sets the album apart.
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New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in information technology--and what they mean.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 19  /PRNewswire/ -- New research by two University of Tennessee professors could help us better understand hurricanes by looking to an unusual source: tree rings.
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This week we look at text nodes, node lists, forms and the level 0 DOM, DOM hyperspace and markers. The W3C DOM defines a few methods for getting and changing texts, but the core string methods and properties are more useful and versatile. By Peter-Paul Koch. 1120
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In this second and final part I'll demonstrate some of the loop-specific tools I've found in Ardour, Reaper, and Audacity. Tutorials and links to project demos are included, so warm up your headphones and let's get loopy. read more
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An eclectic array of collaborators has given new life to the lyrics a folk trailblazer left behind. A rare concert recording has surfaced too.
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The orchestraâs performances at Carnegie Hall this week reminded listeners that character and distinctiveness in classical music have not been obliterated entirely.
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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One of these things is not like the others ...
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Sometimes, it's just not enough to sit and try to teach theory about something in programming - it's better to just jump right in and take things as they come. That's what Harry Fuecks thinks, at least in his latest post on the SitePoint PHP Blog - a look at the "Joy of Regular Expressions".   He does go over a bit of the theory and why they are so invaluable, but it's a short section before he gets to the heart of the article - working with regular expressions for:  positive matching matching all instances in a given string finding an exact match matching the start of a string validation of the contents of a string checking the length of a string  There's simple examples included for each of the items to help you get an idea of how they'd work.
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What makes the human heart sing? Researchers are taking a close look. What they've found may surprise you
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Ivo Jansch discovered something interesting by way of an applicant's resume - a hidden "trick" that PHP pulls on the user when they try to use a Java-like syntax with System.    So yesterday I was reviewing a code sample that a job applicant had written during a test and I encountered the following line of code:  It's not hard to guess what his background was :), but I was initially stunned that this actually works in php.    After a little investigating (and ruling out the Java Bridge), Ivo found that the line was being interpreted literally and was just being handled as a string instead of a constant. He gives two other examples to help with clarification.
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In response to this recent article from the Hiveminds website, Marco Tabini has a few choice words about some of the topics they cover in the article, and cover incorrectly.   Over the last few years, I've made it a point of trying to respond to at least some of the "PHP is dead"-type articles that crop up on the Net from time to time. The latest one comes from Hiveminds and reveals a complete misunderstanding of almost every point it covers.   He notes that though the article seems to be a coherent whole for why PHP is dwindling, it's "based on nothing more than a string of misinformed concepts cobbled together to give the appearance that the author knows what he or she is talking about". Marco comes back against each of the points made in the article, setting things right and eliminating some of the FUD (fear, uncertainly, and doubt) that the Hiveminds article spreads.