27", 2560 x 1440.

I should've done this years ago!

(and, years ago, i should've bought a PC with a power supply big enough to handle a real graphics card. alas)

NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums Of 2013 includes a half-dozen that I've heard of and three that I own !

I've always thought that I have pretty wide-ranging musical knowledge. But NPR just crushed that delusion, hard.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument on the Statehouse steps.

The Republican-controlled Legislature in this state known as the buckle of the Bible Belt authorized the privately funded Ten Commandments monument in 2009, and it was placed on the Capitol grounds last year despite criticism from legal experts who questioned its constitutionality. The Oklahoma chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit seeking its removal.

But the New York-based Satanic Temple saw an opportunity. It notified the state's Capitol Preservation Commission that it wants to donate a monument and plans to submit one of several possible designs this month, said Lucien Greaves, a spokesman for the temple.

"We believe that all monuments should be in good taste and consistent with community standards," Greaves wrote in letter to state officials. "Our proposed monument, as an homage to the historic/literary Satan, will certainly abide by these guidelines."

Greaves said one potential design involves a pentagram, a satanic symbol, while another is meant to be an interactive display for children.

I hope hope hope it's the interactive display for children.

King James Programming:

Markov(King James + Interpretation of Computer Programs) =>

21:32 Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when the cherubims lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no business with any man; and it was written in the native language of the machine, or simply machine language.

26:27 And if ye shall at all turn from following me, that they are both symbols and the symbols are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, ….

However, with the stream version, there is no need to do to resume the computation is finished and the answer of a good courage: for thou must go to some trouble to manage the continuations. The execution procedure is called with the message get-signal as input. Alternatively, writing (get-signal wire) encourages us to think of men above that which is good in thine eyes.

…the saints of the most common optimizations performed by compilers is the optimization of variable lookup. Our compiler, as we have borne the image of Baal, and made a king over all Israel

OMFG

The Japanese town of Taiji has announced a plan to build a park where anyone can swim and play with dolphins, while tasting various marine products including whale and dolphin meat.

They are supposedly aiming to have the park as a spin-off of their annual custom of rounding up and killing thousands of dolphins, as its meat is considered a delicacy.

A little local flavor..

Following the death of former South African president and civil rights leader Nelson Mandela today at the age of 95, sources confirmed that the revered humanitarian has become the first politician in recorded history to actually be missed.

By comparison, this stain won't seem to go away, no matter how many times we try to wash it out:

“He [Mandela] was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people’s lives -- and Obamacare is front and center in that,”

Wiki lists at least 17 people (more or less) with a claim to the title The Fifth Beatle.

Driving home from the Dave Rawlings show a couple of weeks back, I was listening to XM's Sunday night Pink Floyd show, when "Fearless" came on. It's a nice simple tune, and I'm pretty sure there's a banjo lurking in there; so that got me to thinking that it would be an awesome candidate for a straight bluegrass remake. And then I thought, "Hey, I know a banjo player. And the chords sound pretty easy. The words aren't terrible for the context. Maybe I can make this happen!"

And then it hit me that it's probably already been done and that the internet would be full of bluegrass versions. But I was afraid to check because I liked thinking I'd come up with one original idea in my life. So I enjoyed that feeling for a while.

And today I checked.

Just after he said this:

"I think if you have to hit Iran, you don't put boots on the ground. You do it with tactical nuclear devices, and you set them back a decade or two or three...I think that's the way to do it -- with a massive aerial bombardment campaign."

...actual elected representative, Duncan Hunter (R-CA), said this:

"You've got some crazy guys running the governments there."

And somehow the intrepid reporter was able to get this all written down without becoming overcome with the urge to curl up into a weeping ball of despair. Soldier on, brave Caitlin MacNeal.