David Vasileff

"As many as 30 passengers were injured -- one seriously -- after a United Airlines flight experienced severe turbulence and landed in Denver, Colorado, Tuesday evening, the Denver Fire Department said." - David Vasileff

"Plenty of musicians think critics are worthless, but few would tell the editor of a jazz magazine, with the tape recorder rolling, how music coverage is “really just a big advertising scam—nothing else.”" - David Vasileff

"Dr Kennedy spent five years studying Plato’s writing and found that in his best-known work the Republic he placed clusters of words related to music after each twelfth of the text – at one-twelfth, two-twelfths, etc. This regular pattern represented the twelve notes of a Greek musical scale. Some notes were harmonic, others dissonant. At the locations of the harmonic notes he described sounds associated with love or laughter, while the locations of dissonant notes were marked with screeching sounds or war or death. This musical code was key to cracking Plato’s entire symbolic system." - David Vasileff

"Thus, as we sleep on our coil-spring mattresses, we are in effect sleeping on an antenna that amplifies the intensity of the broadcast FM/TV radiation. Asleep on these antennas, our bodies are exposed to the amplified electromagnetic radiation for a third of our life spans. As we slumber on a metal coil-spring mattress, a wave of electromagnetic radiation envelops our bodies so that the maximum strength of the field develops 75 centimeters above the mattress in the middle of our bodies. When sleeping on the right side, the body's left side will thereby be exposed to field strength about twice as strong as what the right side absorbs." - David Vasileff

"Record Club is an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day. The album chosen to be reinterpreted is used as a framework. Nothing is rehearsed or arranged ahead of time. A track is put up here once a week. The songs are rough renditions, often first takes that document what happened over the course of a day as opposed to a polished rendering. There is no intention to 'add to' the original work or attempt to recreate the power of the original recording. Only to play music and document what happens." - David Vasileff

"For the Giants, repricing tickets generally means making them more expensive, Mr. Stanley said. He added, however, that 75 percent of the Giants’ single-game tickets sold before the season were cheaper than they were the year before. The club wants to reward fans who bought tickets earlier and reassure season ticket holders that single-game ticket prices would never be lower than what they had paid." - David Vasileff

"The former Formula One engineer who created the iconic McLaren F1 supercar has officially unveiled the T.25 -- his idea for a new class of city car." - David Vasileff

Maybe more interesting is: ""iStream" is "a complete rethink and redesign of the traditional manufacturing process," he says, which simplifies the auto assembly line by allowing all major components to be fitted directly on to the chassis prior to the body panels, which are also pre-painted." - Todd Hoff

"The John Wooden Memorial Service is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. on Saturday, June 26. It's expected to last about 90 minutes. Prime Ticket will televise the service in Los Angeles, and is providing the livestream version here on this page." - David Vasileff

"Today (June 23, 2010) would have been Alan Turing’s 98th birthday—if he had not died in 1954, at the age of 41." - David Vasileff

"Black lines represent very slow movement under 7 mph. Red are less than 19 mph. Blue are less than 43 mph. Green lines depict faster speeds above 43 mph." - David Vasileff

"The white dots are the circulating vehicles at that moment. The trails of the vehicles group themselves into main arteries where the thickness represents traffic intensity. Each trail constitutes a temporary route where the average speed is mapped to its color. Pure green represents average speeds of 60 km/h. Therefore cooler and greenish hues traduce rapid transit arteries, while the sluggish ones are reddish and hotter. There is a visual emphasis on the slower areas, with hot colors traducing sluggish traffic." - David Vasileff

"Facebook is very close if not already able to store the entire data store minus large objects in memory and within a factor of two of being able to store in memory twice and have memcached be the primary copy completely omitting the database tier. It would be a fun project." - David Vasileff