A single sheet of music manuscript with Mozart’s unmistakable handwriting has been discovered in a library in western France.

“It’s a melody sketch so what’s missing is the harmony and the instrumentation but you can make sense out of it. It’s only one part and not the whole score with eight or twelve parts.”

Web pages seen through Chrome tinted glasses.

In a world of on-demand, just-in-time page generation, what does a URL really point to – a program or the result of running that program? If I spider and index a bunch of web “pages” that are 95% Javascript, what have I created in the index? An index to the content or an index of the programs that, when run, would generate the content?

Tetris tiles.

I like this flickr pool that is devoted to diagrams from social theory.

I’m really looking forward to visiting Arcade UFO next time I am in Austin.

Annie Leibovitz discusses her photographic process in the latest issue of Vanity Fair.

I was in awe of Robert Frank. He had been one of my heroes when I was a photography student at the San Francisco Art Institute. I couldn’t believe that I was able to watch him work for a few days, that I was actually in the room where Robert Frank was loading his camera. He picked up my camera once. I was terrified. He held it. It was like being with God. He said to me, “You can’t get every picture.” That was comforting advice. You do miss things. You’re attached to this machine. To its timing. Things are moving in front of you and you’re supposed to capture them, but it’s not always possible.

A recent study has shown that personality types are closely linked to musical preferences.

Fans of classical music and jazz are creative, pop lovers are hardworking and, despite the stereotypes, heavy metal listeners are gentle, creative types who are at ease with themselves.

We had coffee at Octane this afternoon and were very impressed with Michael Thrush’s “Post-modern appropriation art,” on display through September 30. There is an opening/reception Friday September 12th.

This series of photographs from the now internet-famous “Waffle House Wedding” actually gave me a serious case of the warm fuzzies. :

I didn’t go to DragonCon this year, but I have had fun looking at other folks’ photos from the events.

It’s been a good week for violin fanatics! First, the Seidel videos I wrote about last night, and now a kind person has updated this page with Friedman’s stellar recording of the Vitali Chaconne.

OpenStomp has released an open source guitar effects pedal, the Coyote-1. The device allows users to create patches which can be saved and shared with others via software (Windows) interface. IDK if the software is open, but there are currently no Linux or Mac versions planned.

Intel demonstrates wireless power technology that was developed by MIT.

Building off work unveiled last year by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, Intel Corp. on Thursday demonstrated how to make a 60-watt light bulb glow from an energy source 3 feet away. The Intel team did it with relatively high efficiency, losing only a quarter of the energy the researchers started with.