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- Episode 24: Hell Bent for FindingsThe findings this week:Guerilla art getting established
- Futility Closet on Charging Bull
- Wikipedia on Arturo Di Modica
- Wikipedia on Fearless Girl
Hell Bent for Leather- Hell Bent for Leather lyrics
- The Word Detective on the phrase
- Halford photo by André Banyai
Between repetition and timbre- Bassoon sample from Carlos Vaquero
- Chapter 2 of The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music
Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at [email protected]!29 min - Episode 23: AppleThe findings this week:Steve Jobs getting away with stuff, but in the '70s
- A History of Video Games in 64 Objects
The indie dev tale of NanoStudio- NanoStudio 2
- Blip Interactive forum thread about Studio Drums
Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at [email protected]!32 min - Episode 22: Emu WarThe findings this week:The Great Emu War
- Wikipedia
- Rogue
Audio signal modulation- My blog post about this
- Talk box
- The Recurse Center
- Don't Panic, Colby's podcast
Vomit, the band from Norway- The Vomit demo compilation
- Their Metallum entry
- Kittil Kittilson's entry
- Entombed's classic Left Hand Path
Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at [email protected]!36 min - Episode 21: Glaciers Are LongThe findings this week: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
Teaching is hard- Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder
- Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
- The Student Who Got Away
Correction: Nassim Nicholas Taleb is actually incoherent- Episode 20, about how I thought his works were likely a good read
Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at [email protected]!25 min - Episode 20: WatercityThe findings this week: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
How speakers make vibrationsPoirot and his similarities to Sherlock HolmesCorrection: Even more people can hear delay on the vibraphone!- Episode 18, about delay on vibraphone and voices
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
Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at [email protected]!24 min - Episode 19: Weird Animal SoundsThe findings this week:Catbirds
- Wikipedia
- Episode image from PxHere
Posting to Bandcamp- Bandcamp artist guide
- The Sound of the Far Future on Bandcamp
Correction: Some people can hear delay on the vibraphone!- Episode 18, about delay on vibraphone and voices
Grasshopper group soundsBitcoin's unsuitability as a currency- Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
- Bretton Woods
- Cryptocurrenices use a lot of energy
Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at [email protected]!21 min - Episode 18: Bells and DelayThe findings this week:The Westminster Quarters
- Wikipedia on the Westminster Quarters
- Joseph Fux's Gradus ad Parnassum
- Mars, Bringer of War
The perception of stereo delay effects on voice and instrumentsEmail me any findings you want to share (or questions) at [email protected]!24 min - Episode 16: Incorrect AttributionsThe findings this week:What decibels actually are
- Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance
- Open Broadcaster System on the 0 dB digital audio convention
Arneson and Gygax from Playing at the World- Playing at the World by Jon Peterson
- Jon Peterson's blog
- Hobby Games: The 100 Best
Trusting cats' confidence- Image of a leopard sleeping in a tree by Michael Schamis via Wikimedia Commons
Production notes- Automatically removing terrible mouth sounds
Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at [email protected]!34 min - Episode 17: Sandwich SpreadThe findings this week:Similarities between recording a computer playing music and recording a human playing musicMore 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
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
Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at [email protected]!30 min - Episode 15: Light criminologyThe findings this week: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
Defeating laser printer DRM- Consumer Reports on inkjet ink's per gallon cost
- How to move an HP laser printer cartridge chip
Sherlock Holmes and six-year-olds- Wikipedia
- All Men Are Brothers
Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at [email protected]!28 min
About Small Findings
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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).