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• Baaba Maal, Baayo. Baaba Maal playing acoustic stuff. Of course, this is good. (I don't like his electronic music I've heard, though.)
  
  
• Bembeya Jazz National, The Syliphone Years. A very influential Guinean orchestra, a 2-CD compilation of recordings from the 60's and early 70's. Listening to it right now for the first time, and it's real fine ( Read more... )

WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Senate is forming a committee to look into why it is a bad idea to have foxes in charge of the henhouse. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) stated, "In the interests of diversity, we don't really understand why this should be any kind of problem and we'll work dilligently with foxes and chickens to see what can be done to have them live ( Read more... )

It's a bit amazing how whenever some scientists publish some study that provides empirical data demonstrating racism, so many educated people will go to such lengths to deny it, trying to enumerate every single potential half-assed loophole that they can imagine to evade the conclusion, with very little concern as to whether the loopholes even ( Read more... )

Today at work I described something as kilometric (Spanish kilométrico, informal for "very long"). The blank stares I got in response quickly alerted me to the fact that the word does not exist in English with that sense.

I wrote the following code for work the other day. And I wrote it because it actually made it simpler to write the program I was writing:

(define (contextual-fold-right contextual-kons ( Read more... )

I can actually remember the first time I communicated in English with a monolingual. I was six years old, and my mother, my sister, an older cousin, some friends of hers, and me, we all went for a little vacation in Florida, to see the amusement parks ( Read more... )

I was once at a "talk" by Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy which consisted of him reading to us, in a completely earnest manner, his short story The Robot and the BabyFrom the general insanity of the whole thing, there is one moment where he briefly was talking about common sense knowledge and emotions, and mentioned some AI person's " ( Read more... )

Contrary to what you assume, most of the world's printed and recorded works are unlikely to ever become available on the web.

Geoff Nunberg has recorded an NPR segment on the controversy, which seems to promise to be quite good:
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 22:27:46 -0700 ( Read more... )