I want one of these…..I have dreamt of having a flying car since I was 5 or 6.
Terrafugia has completed flight testing of the Transition POC (Proof of Concept). Introducing the Transition®. Simply land at the airport, fold your wings up and drive home.
Learn more at: http://www.terrafugia.com/aircraft.html
Fly a distance of 725 kilometers at speeds of 115 mi/hour;
requires a special license to drive and fly.
I know it sounds bizarre, but it is a fact. The study suggests that this perception difference is due to the face that in left-handed people, and equal amount of their brain is devoted to controlling the left and right sides of their body, while right handed people have much more of their brain dedicated to controlling the right side of their body.
I can’t help but wonder if this is why there are so many lefties who are successful in the fields of art and architecture.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091104152304.htm
$5 Fiddling Workshops are held Monthly at Magnolia Music
Topic: Practical Music Theory—Learn the magic behind the music. Music theory basics and how to apply them. All musicians Welcome.
Date/Time:
Thursday February 18, 7:00PM
Location:
Magnolia Music
210 Magnolia St.
Fort Collins, CO
Teacher: Vi Wickam – Champion Fiddler—970-430-6381
Admission is $5 All proceeds after covering our costs will go to COTFA (Colorado Oldtime Fiddlers Association.)
As a musician, I am acutely aware of melody. I am always listening for good melodies, and with my musical experience, I can often predict where the melody is going to go before it goes there. Good composers use this human tendency to hear where the melody should go to lull you into a sense of melody, and then add in twists that you are not expecting, which makes the melody more interesting. Combining the expected with the unexpected, the tonic with the dissonant surprises your mind and keeps you actively listening.
The premise of how humans do this was the topic of a new paper published in NeuroImage. “Have you ever accidentally pulled your headphone socket out while listening to music? What happens when the music stops? Psychologists believe that our brains continuously predict what is going to happen next in a piece of music. So, when the music stops, your brain may still have expectations about what should happen next.”
Read the rest of this article:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100115204704.htm
I have just created a new meetup group called Fort Collins Traditional Music.
I started this group to foster a community of people interested in oldtime music in the Fort Collins area.
We will be scheduling monthly group fiddling, harp, and flute workshops, and may also schedule periodic jam sessions.
If you are a traditional musician, or are interested in learning to play, we would love to have you join this meetup group.
The original post for this announcement is on the Fort Collins Strings Website.
TV Has a Negative Effect On Parent-child Interactions (Even when you aren’t watching it). A new study looks for the first time at the effect of background TV on interactions between parents and young children. Using an experimental design, researchers found that when a TV was on, both the quantity and quality of interactions between parents and children dropped. This study challenges the common assumption that background TV doesn’t affect very young children if they don’t look at the screen.
This seems like a no brainer to me, but I’m sure there are a lot of people who are tied to having the TV on all of the time who would disagree.
Can you cut the cord between you and your TV for a week? Your kids will thank you for it.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090915100951.htm
This is an excellent tutorial on how to utilize .htaccess files to secure your web hosting, and hopefully also save a little bandwidth. Dr. Neal Krawetz recently presented on htaccess, and I was thoroughly impressed by his knowledge and enjoyed the presentation. http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/342-Better-Than-Nothing-Security,-Part-IV.html
You may also find this HTACCESS/mod_rewrite cheat sheet useful:
http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/mod_rewrite-cheat-sheet/
I have been saying this for the last 5 years. The paper yellow pages are gone. They are a dead duck – or a freight train that has been running out a fuel since 1995. Google, and other local search engines are the “Yellow Pages” of today. If you can’t be found online, you can’t be found.
It’s nice to get agreement on this from someone as brilliant as Roy H. Williams (The Wizard of Ads)
http://www.mondaymorningmemo.com/?ShowMe=Jan4b
PS. I can help you get found online…
