Strange Passion Presents Chant Chant Chant, Choice & SM Corporation live
‘We are delighted to announce, for one night only, 3 legendary Irish Post Punk bands performing live in Dublin after a 30 year hiatus. This follows on from the critically acclaimed release of the Strange Passion Irish Post Punk compilation in 2012. Post punk legends Chant Chant Chant will perform along with electronic music pioneers Choice and SM Corporation. ‘
(tags: choice music ireland post-punk electronic dublin strange-passion gigs)
‘Mythbusting Modern Hardware to gain “Mechanical Sympathy”‘ [slides]
Martin Thompson’s latest talk — taking a few common concepts about modern hardware performance and debunking/confirming them, mythbusters-style
(tags: mythbusters hardware mechanical-sympathy martin-thompson java performance cpu disks ssd)
High home ownership can seriously damage labor market, new study suggests
Interesting — a healthy rental market is needed to allow sufficient labour mobility. This matches what I heard and saw from friends and coworkers in the US, anecdotally
Concert Industry Struggles With ‘Bots’ That Siphon Off Tickets – NYTimes.com
Bots now buying more than 60% of tickets, one group requesting up to 200,000 per day; bot writers now charging $14 per 10k captchas (via Shane Naughton)
(tags: ticketmaster scalping tickets via:shane-naughton bots captchas abuse)