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Music you didn’t expect to hear in places you didn’t expect to hear it

The M.I.A./Diplo mixtape Piracy Funds Terrorism includes samples from the game Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom in tracks 10 & 11 (“M.I.A. [Diplo mix]” and “You’re Good [Diplo mix]”). Neato! Big props to Diplo

Posted 07 October 2008 † Porges § music ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Compare and Contrast

Coldplay’s ‘42’ from Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (starting about 1:45), Nine Inch Nails ‘Complication’ from The Fragile.

Posted 04 September 2008 † Porges § music ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Music Post #1

Is it just me, or does “Race: In” from Battles’ album Mirrored reference Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells heavily? Update: Fleet Foxes ‘Quiet Houses’ does this even more.

Posted 01 September 2008 † Porges § music ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

NullPointerException

Why is this such an insidious error in Java? (An opinion piece!) A Comparison Firstly, I’ll show a short comparison between some Java code and some code from a language that doesn’t have NullPointerExceptions, but does have something that allows you to accomplish anything you might want to do with null pointers. This Java code: [...]

Posted 25 May 2007 † Porges § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,