Week of 2007-06-16 17:00 to 2007-06-23 16:59

“Ancient Indians made ‘rock music’”

Archaeologists have rediscovered a huge rock art site in southern India where ancient people used boulders to make musical sounds in rituals.

The Kupgal Hill site includes rocks with unusual depressions that were designed to be struck with the purpose of making loud, musical ringing tones.

via Cronaca

I was out watering the back yard plants earlier when a huge BOOM! BOOM! exploded somewhere. We had no idea at the time what it was, thinking maybe it was fireworks or something. But I think I know what it was!

“California landing for Atlantis”

The shuttle touched down at the Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave desert at 1549 (1949 GMT).

Poor weather conditions caused the touch-down to be first delayed and then moved from the original landing site, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Whoo hoo!

“The Man With The Hat is Back”

For the first time since 1989, Harrison Ford dons the familiar costume on Thursday, June 21, 2007, as the upcoming Indiana Jones adventure begins production under the direction of Steven Spielberg. The new Indiana Jones movie is set in the 1950s and stars Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett, John Hurt, Ray Winstone and Jim Broadbent. The Lucasfilm Ltd. production will be released by Paramount Pictures worldwide on May 22, 2008.

• Using Emacs org-mode for GTD A brief overview of org-mode Emacs and how it can be used to implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology.
• GTD with vim Using an outliner in VIM with dynamic todo lists

The fascinating philosophy behind some of my favorite electronica, Music for Airports — for public spaces originally, but also lovely for coding or just chilling out.

Via Bruce Sterling, who says, “The clarity of his thought is frightening. Every airport in the world should play nothing but this music.”