Small Findings

The findings this week: 1. Guerilla art getting established * Futility Closet on Charging Bull [https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/11/05/free-enterprise-3/] * Wikipedia on Arturo Di Modica [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Di_Modica] * Wikipedia on Fearless Girl [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearless_Girl] 2. Hell Bent for Leather * Hell Bent for Leather lyrics [http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/judaspriest/hellbentforleather.html#4] * The Word Detective on the phrase [http://word-detective.com/2009/10/hell-bent-for-leather/] * Halford photo by André Banyai [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Halford#/media/File:Robhalford03.jpg] 3. Between repetition and timbre * Bassoon sample from Carlos Vaquero [https://freesound.org/people/Carlos_Vaquero/sounds/154330/] * Chapter 2 of The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music [http://msp.ucsd.edu/techniques/latest/book-html/node28.html] Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at smallfindings@fastmail.com!

The findings this week: 1. Steve Jobs getting away with stuff, but in the '70s * A History of Video Games in 64 Objects [https://www.worldvideogamehalloffame.org/about/history-video-games-64-objects] 2. The indie dev tale of NanoStudio * NanoStudio 2 [https://blipinteractive.co.uk/nanostudio2/] * Blip Interactive forum thread about Studio Drums [https://www.blipinteractive.co.uk/community/index.php?p=/discussion/2096/nanostudio-2-1-2-now-available] Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at smallfindings@fastmail.com!

The findings this week: 1. The Great Emu War * Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War] * Rogue [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)] 2. Audio signal modulation * My blog post about this [https://jimkang.com/weblog/articles/miscellaneous-findings-008/] * Talk box [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_box] * The Recurse Center [https://recurse.com] * Don't Panic, Colby's podcast [https://dontpanic.io/] 3. Vomit, the band from Norway * The Vomit demo compilation [http://vomit.misantrof.net/] * Their Metallum entry [https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Vomit/30736] * Kittil Kittilson's entry [https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Kittil_Kittilsen/1118] * Entombed's classic Left Hand Path [https://entombedband.bandcamp.com/album/left-hand-path-full-dynamic-range-edition] Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at smallfindings@fastmail.com!

The findings this week: 1. Glaciers and the Milankovic Cycles * Moving to Higher Ground by John Englander [https://www.worldcat.org/title/moving-to-higher-ground-rising-sea-level-and-the-path-forward/oclc/1249597522&referer=brief_results] * NASA: Milankovic Cycles [https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2948/milankovitch-orbital-cycles-and-their-role-in-earths-climate/] * NASA: Why Milankovic Cycles Can't Explain Earth's Current Warming [https://climate.nasa.gov/blog/2949/why-milankovitch-cycles-cant-explain-earths-current-warming/] 2. Teaching is hard * Among Schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder [https://www.tracykidder.com/among-schoolchildren.html] * Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder [https://www.tracykidder.com/among-schoolchildren.html] * The Student Who Got Away [https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/07/the-student-who-got-away/532791/] 3. Correction: Nassim Nicholas Taleb is actually incoherent * Episode 20, about how I thought his works were likely a good read [https://jimkang.com/smallfindings/episodes/watercity] Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at smallfindings@fastmail.com!

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 [https://malegislature.gov/Laws/Constitution#amendmentArticleLXXXIX] * City or Town of Watertown – Charter Review Committee Weighs in on That & Other Proposed Changes [https://www.watertownmanews.com/2021/07/12/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 [https://jimkang.com/smallfindings/episodes/bells-and-delay/] 5. Correction: Nassim Nicholas Taleb is not a student * Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb] * Episode 19, with the finding about Bitcoin's unsuitability as a currency [https://jimkang.com/smallfindings/episodes/weird-animal-sounds] 6. RealPlayer still exists * real dot com [https://www.real.com/] 7. Atari * Wikipedia on Atari SA [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_SA] 8. WordPerfect * wordperfect.com [https://www.wordperfect.com/] Email me any findings you want to share (or questions) at smallfindings@fastmail.com!