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Turn on Metal and they will boost their efficiency by 666%!

the title is at best misleading ... they add piezoelectrics into PV cells ... "manufacturing a piezoelectric material, zinc oxide nanorods, into the solar cells increased their efficiency when sound waves were played"

"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music." -Betrand Russell

As discussed during lunchtime...

"Development work that requires an Internet connection is transferred across the border to China." What are programmers doing 'while the code is compiling'? Play table tennis?

fantastic ... I particularly like: "Kim Jong Il, the de-facto leader of the country, declared people who couldn't use computers to be one of the three fools of the 21st century. (The others, he said, are smokers and those ignorant of music.)"

nice demonstration of power of html5

oh yeah Arcade Fire :)

Interview with the director: http://pitchfork.com/news/39927-directors-cut-arcade-fire-we-used-to-wait/

I'll just leave this here... Found them through a recent publication of LeDoux in Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Ah, and if there are no strong objections, from now on every brainstorming session shall commence with this: http://thebeautifulbrain.com/2010/10/ledoux-amygdaloids-brainstorm/2/

Autonomous Emotional Robot Band. Pure Scottish genius

Unfortuantely only in german. Apparenly Ludwig 2.0 is an amazing piece of software able to compose songs make arrangements etc. From the same guy who programmed crazy chess software.

nice paper ... Luca and Luzi , you will like it :-) ... (LS)