Small Findings: Recent Episodes
Jim Kang
A roundup of small bits of information that I've collected, processed, and put away each week. Findings topics are often mundane (like pizza dough) or weird (like shark attacks in 1916).
The findings this week: 1. On going too far for flavor.
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The findings this week: 1. Four-holers and six-holers
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The findings this week: 1. Four-holers and six-holers
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The findings this week: 1. Where on the beat the notes in the Hell Awaits riff fall, but with distortion this time.
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The findings this week: 1. Where on the beat the notes in the Hell Awaits riff fall, but with distortion this time.
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The findings this week: 1. Where the notes fall in the chorus riff in Hell Awaits, illustrated with the worst instrument — the unplugged electric guitar.
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The findings this week: 1. Where the notes fall in the chorus riff in Hell Awaits, illustrated with the worst instrument — the unplugged electric guitar.
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The findings this week: 1. What happened to Small Findings, and how does it work now?
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The findings this week: 1. What happened to Small Findings, and how does it work now?
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The findings this week: 1. Testing again!
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The findings this week: 1. Testing again!
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The findings this week: 1. It’s a test!
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The findings this week: 1. It’s a test!
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The findings this week: 1. Guerilla art getting established * Futility Closet on Charging Bull * Wikipedia on Arturo Di Modica * Wikipedia on Fearless Girl 2. Hell Bent for Leather * Hell Bent for Leather lyrics * The Word Detective on the phrase * Halford photo by André Banyai 3. Between repetition and timbre * Bassoon sample from Carlos Vaquero * Chapter 2 of The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music
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The findings this week: 1. Steve Jobs getting away with stuff, but in the '70s * A History of Video Games in 64 Objects 2. The indie dev tale of NanoStudio * NanoStudio 2 * Blip Interactive forum thread about Studio Drums
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The findings this week: 1. The Great Emu War * Wikipedia * Rogue 2. Audio signal modulation * My blog post about this * Talk box * The Recurse Center * Don't Panic, Colby's podcast 3. Vomit, the band from Norway * The Vomit demo compilation * Their Metallum entry * Kittil Kittilson's entry * Entombed's classic Left Hand Path
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The findings this week: 1. Glaciers and the Milankovic Cycles * Moving to Higher Ground by John Englander * NASA: Milankovic Cycles * NASA: Why Milankovic Cycles Can't Explain Earth's Current Warming 2. Teaching is hard * Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder * Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder * The Student Who Got Away 3. Correction: Nassim Nicholas Taleb is actually incoherent
* Episode 20, about how I thought his works were likely a good read
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The findings this week: 1. Watertown's true name and the forms of municipal government in Massachusetts * Article LXXXIX of the Articles of Amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, about town and city forms of government * City or Town of Watertown – Charter Review Committee Weighs in on That & Other Proposed Changes 2. How speakers make vibrations 3. Poirot and his similarities to Sherlock Holmes 4. Correction: Even more people can hear delay on the vibraphone!
* Episode 18, about delay on vibraphone and voices
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Correction: Nassim Nicholas Taleb is not a student
- Wikipedia
- Episode 19, with the finding about Bitcoin's unsuitability as a currency
- RealPlayer still exists
- real dot com
- Atari
- Wikipedia on Atari SA
- WordPerfect
- wordperfect.com
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The findings this week: 1. Catbirds * Wikipedia * Episode image from PxHere 2. Posting to Bandcamp * Bandcamp artist guide * The Sound of the Far Future on Bandcamp 3. Correction: Some people can hear delay on the vibraphone!
* Episode 18, about delay on vibraphone and voices
- Grasshopper group sounds
- Bitcoin's unsuitability as a currency
- Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
- Bretton Woods
- Cryptocurrenices use a lot of energy
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The findings this week: 1. The Westminster Quarters * Wikipedia on the Westminster Quarters * Joseph Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum * Mars, Bringer of War 2. The perception of stereo delay effects on voice and instruments
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The findings this week: 1. Similarities between recording a computer playing music and recording a human playing music 2. More from Beverly Cleary's autobiography My Own Two Feet * My Own Two Feet (autobiography) * Smudge pots * Telegram service level in the 1930s * Engineer stereotypes in the '30s * A sandwich spread recipe (the deluxe kind, with bologna) * Boarding houses * Library schools and attitude grading in the '30s * Beverly Cleary's first book deal 3. Bands' messages and politicians * NOFX lost their beer deal * Rage Against the Machine's response to Paul Ryan being a fan * NPR on Napalm Death and the president of Indonesia * Harmony Corruption, a great Napalm Death album reported to have been huge in Indonesia
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The findings this week: 1. What decibels actually are * Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance * Open Broadcaster System on the 0 dB digital audio convention 2. Arneson and Gygax from Playing at the World * Playing at the World by Jon Peterson * Jon Peterson's blog * Hobby Games: The 100 Best 3. Trusting cats' confidence * Image of a leopard sleeping in a tree by Michael Schamis via Wikimedia Commons 4. Production notes * Automatically removing terrible mouth sounds
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The findings this week: 1. Defeating bike locks * Your U-Lock Is Basically Worthless * A Kryptonite lock being cut with a bolt cutter * Someone car jacking open a Kryptonite lock * Kryptonite Anti-Theft Protection Offer matrix 2. Defeating laser printer DRM * Consumer Reports on inkjet ink's per gallon cost * How to move an HP laser printer cartridge chip 3. Sherlock Holmes and six-year-olds * Wikipedia * All Men Are Brothers
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The findings this week: 1. Beverly Cleary in the 1930s * My Own Two Feet (autobiography) 2. Sun Ra in Alabama and Chicago * Space Is The Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra by John F. Szwed 3. How to evaluate air purifiers with Fred * Clean air delivery rate 4. Footnote 1 from Fred: "Regarding air filtration in commercial spaces, what I said was generally true for offices, commercial spaces, chemical labs, and medical spaces. Generally there's focus on air quality through outside air intake. However, there is a particular sector that focuses heavily on recirculated air filtration, and that's cleanrooms." 5. Footnote 2 from Fred: "The CADR to square foot ratio of 2/3 corresponds to 5 air changes per hour. That is to say, an air purifier in the recommended space for its CADR will filter all the air in the space five times per hour, or once every 12 minutes. The "bad" air purifier I mentioned has enough CADR to do 2 air changes per hour in its marketed space of 1100 square feet. It does say "cleans the room in 30 minutes" on its product web page but I wouldn't expect a lay person to know that that is below the AHAM's recommended air cleaning rate. If someone smoked a cigarette in a room and it took an air purifier 30 minutes to make the smell go away I would call that poor performance." 6. Fredrick Douglass on discussing slavery * History of Ideas episode * My Bondage and My Freedom on gutenberg 7. Adam Buxton discusses making jingles with found music * Adam Buxton Tape Notes episode
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The findings this week: 1. Getting paid for art, submitting the work of bots to calls for art * Allison Tanenhaus, glitch artist * Codaworx (art broker) * RAL Companies and Affiliates LLC's Fairmont Ave condo * Hills bot * Code to make Hills bot create a specific set of hills * Slop Cube (the bot whose work was turned down) * My other bots 2. How to repeat random decisions 3. SVG 4. How NOT to replace Roomba tires 5. The name Seph * The post on josephg.com 6. Filamentation * Wikipedia on Filamentation 7. CRLF and minified JavaScript
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The findings this week: 1. Text findings * Miscellaneous Findings IV (web odd and ends) * Miscellaneous Findings V (the doings of servers) 2. How to make your own pasta and what it's like * The Play-Doh Fun Factory (which I misrembered; it looks nothing like a pasta machine!) * A picture of a real pasta machine 3. Snuff * The Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe * My post on the first book in the series that the Arrow of God is in * Wikipedia on Snuff 4. Bonus Cat and Dr. Wily are actually right * Dr. Borns-Weil on All Things Considered
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The findings this week: 1. A book podcast I'm doing with some friends * Rehydrate 2. Autocorrelation * Companion blog post that uses numbers in the explanation * Why You Hear What You Hear 3. LLCs and legal insurance * Does Forming an LLC or Corporation Fully Protect You From Liability? * Massachusetts law about homestead 4. Expedition with Alex 2: Crossing the bridge over Route 2
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The findings this week: 1. Surnameless cultures * The Hidden History of Burma * Wikipedia on Mononyms * Javanese names 2. The gömböc * Wikipedia on the gömböc 3. Lenin's style and stance on state capitalism * V.I. Lenin's “Left-Wing” Childishness * Jeffrey Toobin's True Crimes and Misdemeanors review * Episode 3, with a segment about China's state capitalism * Lenin's Wikipedia article
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The findings this week: 1. Expedition with Alex: The bridge over Route 2 and the top of Alewife Station * The Lightning Field * An account of visiting the Lightning Field in the New Yorker * Wikipedia: Alewife Station * Map between Alewife Station and Encore Boston Harbor 2. The "Marketplace of Ideas" veneer in effect in 1933 * Out from under their rock: Nazis fly their flag outside the State House * Drivers Are Hitting Protesters as Memes of Car Attacks Spread 3. The Work Force * Work Force home page * Housing Authority made own system for teens, and four years after high school show it works 4. The mystery of the library book drop * Contactless Pickup at the Cambridge Public Library
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The findings this week: 1. Polio * Wikipedia on Polio * The 1956 Polio Epidemic * Fooling the coronavirus proofreading machinery 2. White people closing ranks around atrocities, then and now * The Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery * Emmett Till on Wikipedia * Hundreds of armed counter-protesters confront Black Lives Matter rally in Ohio * White Defendant Allegedly Used Racial Slur After Killing Ahmaud Arbery * Where Ahmaud Arbery Ran, Neighbors Cast Wary Eyes 3. The Cambridge Police * Cambridge police superintendent owns up to spewing about Joe Kennedy, Ed Markey on department Twitter account * Denied official report of police tweet discipline, councillors issue their own censure for incident * Motion over redirecting $4.1M in police funding causes council to explode in anger, accusations - Cambridge Day * Councillor stalls order to see police property list, citing 'systemic racism' over checking testimony * March to defund the police in Cambridge
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The findings this week: 1. Text findings * Miscellaneous Findings I (mostly about businesses) * Miscellaneous Findings II (video editing commands) 2. Regular and gravitational lensing * Wikipedia lens article * Wikipedia optical telescope article * The Bold Plan to See Continents and Oceans on Another Earth * Wikipedia gravitational lens article 3. The anachronism and lightness in the beginning of the Lord of the Rings 4. The appeal of Lord of the Rings to five-year-olds * InvestiGators * Dog Man 5. Burger seasoning
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The findings this week: 1. Parchment paper and pizza * Wikipedia on parchment paper * Can You Heat Parchment Paper Higher Than Manufacturers Recommend? 2. How restaurants are affected by the practices of delivery companies * Universal Hub on the Boston City Council hearing about delivery companies * The Daily: Reopening, Warily * Wikipedia on Foodler * GrubHub pricing overview (PDF) * Uber Eats pricing * The Postmates Problem: Why Some Restaurants Are Forced to Fight the Delivery App * Even If You're Trying To Avoid Grubhub By Calling Your Favorite Restaurant Directly, Grubhub Could Still Be Charging It A Fee * Facing fury over ‘fake websites,’ Grubhub says restaurants have it wrong * GrubHub, Doordash Accused in Suit of Pushing Prices Higher * GrubHub to add restaurants without permission * ‘We Don’t Even Do Takeout’: Why, Then, Is This Restaurant on Seamless? * New York City Council votes to cap food-delivery app fees at 15% during states of emergency 3. The secret of Pasqually's * Trying to Support a Local Pizza Joint? Just Make Sure It Isn't Actually Chuck E. Cheese * Hot Garbage 4. The surprising power of puffy cats * Bonus Cat, undeterred in 2020 * Dirrty Puff in 2009
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The findings this week: 1. How to paint black without actually using black, from Sam * Sam's site 2. The Witch of Endor * Wikipedia * The Visitation, a podcast about the Plague in London * Purcell: Funeral Sentences for the Death of Queen Mary II Z27 : I March * Purcell: Saul and the Witch of Endor, Z. 134: "In guilty night" 3. Surprising businesses I stumbled upon in Cambridge * Adaptive Surface Technologies COVID-19 response * Sky & Telescope * Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory on Wikipedia * Minor Planet Center 4. Magnetars * Milky Way Magnetar Makes Fast Radio Burst * Independent detection of the radio burst reported in ATel 5. CDNs 6. The thing at the end of the faucet * Faucet aerator * Redux
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The findings this week: 1. The hardest part of making pizza * The other episode with a segment on pizza 2. Why stock buybacks matter * Wikipedia * These Companies Enriched Themselves. Now They’re Getting a Bailout. 3. Amazon and labor * Amazon is reportedly using a heat map to track stores at risk of unionization * Amazon executives privately insulted a warehouse worker, then attacked him on Twitter * Amazon warehouse workers walk out in rising tide of COVID-19 protests * Amazon's "Brazil" office * Leaked Amazon Memo Details Plan to Smear Fired Warehouse Organizer: ‘He’s Not Smart or Articulate’ * 'Go back to work': outcry over deaths on Amazon's warehouse floor * ‘That should not be happening’ – Amazon warehouses’ serious injury rates more than double industry average * VP Tim Bray quits Amazon in response to Amazon firing protesting workers (Discovered after the podcast was recorded) 4. How Testament records an album * Titans of Creation * Interview about recording Titans of Creation 5. Existential risk * We have the power to destroy ourselves without the wisdom to ensure that we don't * Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority
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The findings this week: 1. The basics of China's economic model * A spectre is haunting the West — the spectre of authoritarian capitalism 2. Harvard's endowment * Harvard announces salary and hiring freezes 3. What's involved in an ICU * How to set up an ICU 4. Conspiracy theories * Conspiracy and Democracy * John Naughton's quarantine diary * Jair Bolsonaro claims NGOs behind Amazon forest fire surge – but provides no evidence * Brussels accuses Orbán of peddling conspiracy theory with Juncker poster * Ruling party blames Muslims for spreading the coronavirus, would-be autocrats use Covid-19 as an excuse to grab power 5. Volcanic lightning * brownpau on Taal * Lava fountain times * Popular Science on volcanic lightning * Popular Mechanics: How to stir up lightning in a lab * Wikipedia on Taal's 2020 eruption * Rappler's Taal eruption timeline 6. Space elevators * Sky Line, a documentary from 2015 * Wikipedia
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The findings this week: 1. The CARES act signing statement * Trump's signing statement 2. Undoing paint 3. Zoom 4. Audm 5. Wistia 6. The coronavirus impact on the ad industry * NYT: The impact of the coronavirus on advertising 7. Black beans and black coffee 8. Bread and grape resurrections * Bon Appetit: How to revive stale bread 9. MRRP!
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The findings this week: 1. Woodrow Wilson was weak on sharks 2. How to paint lots of darkness 3. tags as elements 4. Hot water gaskets 5. Mouse handedness 6. Lap desks 7. Making good pizza dough and cooking pizza sausage 8. The coronavirus stimulus package. Here's the executive raise limit formula for companies that take stimulus assistance: (current pay - $3 million)/2 + $3 million. (The / means "divided by" there.)
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