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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2011-11-11 11:02 am

Interesting Links for 11-11-2011

[identity profile] willplant.livejournal.com 2011-11-11 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
rather humourous coincidence on that Reg story about the dating copper:

Scroll to the bottom and it says:

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[identity profile] momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com 2011-11-11 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Wasn't one of your recent links about how maths education shouldn't involve memorizing formulae...? ;)

[identity profile] octopoid-horror.livejournal.com 2011-11-11 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Had you changed the genre names, chunks of that Warren Ellis thing could have been written a decade or three ago. When you look back at music from the 70s, 80s and 90s, the genre names you use now aren't necessarily the ones that would have been used then. What people now see nostalgically (or for the first time, for young 'uns) as a homogenous genre from years ago was not seen that way at the time. And similarly, what we now see as fragmented genres and subgenres may well, in years to come, be one large genre with a stupid name.

A change from subcultures being about live music, obscure shops with back rooms and zines going to the internet has taken time to happen, but in some ways we've ended up back where we were some years ago, but just doing it faster and more connected.