Category Archives: Culture

Critical Piece on Jay Z’s new music service Tidal

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-05-28/why-jay-z-s-tidal-streaming-music-service-has-been-a-disaster

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The fragility of the institutions of modern life are like the proverbial weapon in the movies… once you introduce a gun, at some point sooner or later it has to go off. The very advances that are the foundations of our modern communities create vulnerability. http://blog.seattlepi.com/bigscience/2014/01/28/314-years-ago-a-megathrust-earthquake-devastated-the-region-ready-for-another/

The last word on Sudoku

This is exactly what I saw when I first encountered the game: As computer security expert Ben Laurie has stated, Sudoku is “a denial of service attack on human intellect”. http://norvig.com/sudoku.html