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Geoff Mangum’s Flatstick Forum: How Music Training Primes Nervous System and Boosts Learning “Those ubiquitous wires connecting listeners to you-name-the-sounds from invisible MP3 players — whether of Bach, Miles Davis or, more likely today, Lady Gaga — only hint at … Continue reading →

Monitor and Control Memory Usage in Google Chrome “Do you want to know just how much memory Google Chrome and any installed extensions are using at a given moment? With just a few clicks you can see just what is … Continue reading →

Places to visit – a set on Flickr tags: photos places Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

Musicians detect pitch violation in a foreig… [J Cogn Neurosci. 2007] – PubMed – NCBI “The aim of this study was to determine whether musical expertise influences the detection of pitch variations in a foreign language that participants did not … Continue reading →

Landsat GeoCover dataset “The Landsat GeoCover dataset is a collection of high resolution satellite imagery provided in a standardized, orthorectified format, covering the entire land surface of the world (except Antarctica). This is an invaluable record of land cover and … Continue reading →

6 Examples to Backup Linux Using dd Command (Including Disk to Disk) “To backup an entire copy of a hard disk to another hard disk connected to the same system, execute the dd command as shown below. In this dd … Continue reading →

NASA Opensource – Projects tags: open_source software government FITS Support Office “The standard data format used in astronomy stands for ‘Flexible Image Transport System’ “ tags: open_source software government Welcome to Software Catalog | Software Catalog “Welcome to the NASA … Continue reading →

Internet Census 2012 “Abstract While playing around with the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) we discovered an amazing number of open embedded devices on the Internet. Many of them are based on Linux and allow login to standard BusyBox with empty … Continue reading →

Buddhist-Artwork & Buddhist Statuary; Devoted to Japanese Buddhism & Asian Buddhist Art “OVERVIEW. Buddhist-Artwork.com was founded in July 2006. We specialize in hand-carved wooden statues made for the Japanese market, and to a lesser degree we handle handcrafted Buddhist artwork … Continue reading →

100+ Useful Bookmarklets For Better Productivity | Ultimate List “In a nutshell, bookmarklets are small little applications you can place as browser’s bookmark bar and they each perform a specific function, depending on what they are coded for. Bookmarklets are … Continue reading →