A really amazing Terry Riley-esque inspired project form Darren Solomon of Science for Girls.

In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project developed with contributions from users.


The videos can be played simultaneously — the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders.

Click here to create your own combination/variation.

On LAist a story about arrests of looters following the Laker’s Championship win in June. LAPD using a combination of security footage, Flickr, and Youtube to nabbing already 20 individuals

“It’s nearly impossible to stay anonymous in this age of cell phones, video, and social websites; and that’s a good thing, if it holds people more accountable for their behavior,” said Lt. Paul Vernon, head of LAPD detectives downtown, today about the 20th arrest related to the Lakers Championship melee on June 14th). Detectives have been using security footage from around downtown, complementing it with videos and images posted on websites like YouTube and Flickr.

Thanks to appropriately-titled Find La Food Trucks for consolidating all your mobile-dining options on one page. Living on the east-side makes it difficult to check a fair number of these but I’ll vouch for an enjoyable dog at Let’s Be Frank, and an adequately priced delicious Sunday brunch from the Gastrobus.

Curious to see how these numbers were determined. More images at Creative Cloud.

Kottke examines an interesting segment from Michael Stillwell’s A Farewell to Alms examining the speed in which news took to travel around the world.

For instance, in 1805 the news of the Battle of Trafalgar took 17 days to travel the 1100 miles to London; that’s a speed of 2.7 mph. By 1891 when the Nobi earthquake occurred in Japan, it only took the news one day to travel 5916 miles, a speed of 246 mph.


Nowadays an email or a Twitter update can travel halfway around the world nearly instantaneously. The 2008 Sichaun earthquake occurred 5100 miles from London with the first Twitter update in English occurring about 7 minutes after the quake started. Assuming the message was read a minute later by someone in London, that’s 38,250 mph. Had the Twitter updater been right at the epicenter and able to send a Twitter message 30 seconds after the quake started and was read a minute later in London, that’s 204,000 mph. Five orders of magnitude improvement in 200 years…not too shabby.