Music Monday #049 – Beats Antique

And now for something completely different (although still in my SteamPunk play list);

Beats Antique
Beats Antique are an experimental world fusion and electronic music group, formed in San Francisco, California in 2007 when Zoe Jakes approached her manager, Miles Copeland (brother of drummer Stewart Copeland of The Police) about creating an album. Copeland green lit the project, and their debut album Tribal Derivations was conceived on Copeland’s CIA record label. Tribal Derivations was a concept album, created to complement the dance styles of producer/arranger Zoe Jakes, whose belly dancing is described as an innovative blend of traditional belly dance with tango, break dance, and Indian dance. The group’s second album, Collide, reached the top 10 of most downloaded artists under the Middle East and World Dance and the top 20 most downloaded electronic albums on Amazon. For their third album, Contraption Vol. 1, Beats Antique brings in collaborators such as hammered dulcimer player Jamie Janover, and beat boxer and hip hop vocalist LYNX. The group’s members, David Satori, Tommy Cappel, and Zoe Jakes use their varied experiences with world music genres to draw inspiration for their music with Beats Antique.
– wikipedia

Time for some music …

This weeks links (2011-01-31)

Egypt
* Tweets must flow (2011-Jan-28) [Twitter]
* Update: Following Egypt events live on Twitter, video, liveblogs (2011-Jan-30) [BoingBoing]
* The Twitter Revolution Must Die (2011-Jan-30) [ulises mejias]

The Book Of Legends
via Outer Edge magazine

In Brief:
* Leukaemia Foundation World’s Greatest Shave Fundraising App
* The First Hashtag Ever Tweeted on Twitter – They Sure Have Come a Long Way (2011-Feb-04) [ReadWriteWeb]

Tour Down Under 2011

Tour Down Under – Flickr Photoset

♬ Feel the rush as colours blur,
Feel the rush and hear the purr of wheels in motion
wheels in motion
Feel the rush as pedals whir,
feel the rush as colours blur and wheels in motion
wheels in motion ♬
– Feel The Rush!

This weeks links (2011-01-24)

Ride Hard to Breathe Easy
Karen Munro’s ride from Adelaide to Melbourne to raise lung cancer awareness and funds for The Australian Lung Foundation. The ride is called ‘Ride Hard to Breath Easy’.
* www.ridehardtobreatheeasy.com.au
* Courageous Karen (2011-Jan-20) [SBS:Cycling Central]

In Brief:
* In praise of artful bludgers (2011-Jan-27) [Brisbane Times]
* The cost of our surplus obsession (2011-Jan-27) [Business Spectator]

My Blackberry Is Not Working!

My Blackberry Is Not Working!
The One Ronnie, Preview (BBC One)

Thanks to GB for this one.
Note: Orange = UK Phone Carrier

Patch Tuesday Wednesday (JAN-2011)

Welcome to another Patch Tuesday, this month we have two (2) new security bulletins.

Today as part of our monthly security bulletin release we have two bulletins addressing three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Windows Server. This first bulletin is rated Important, while the second is rated Critical. … We are not aware of Proof of Concept code or of any active attacks seeking to exploit the vulnerabilities addressed in this month’s release. [1]

Bulletin	KB number	Description	Severity	Impact	Software
MS11-001	2478935	Vulnerability in Windows Backup Manager Could Allow Remote Code Execution	Remote Code Execution	Important	Microsoft Windows
MS11-002	2451910	Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Data Access Components Could Allow Remote Code Execution	Remote Code Execution	Critical	Microsoft Windows

PATCH NOW:
NOW: MS11-001 – This vulnerability has been disclosed publicly

LINKS:
[1.] January 2011 Security Bulletin Release (2011-Jan-11) [MS: MSRC]
[2.] January 2011 Microsoft Black Tuesday Summary (2011-Jan-11) [SANS]
[3.] Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for January 2011 (2011-Jan-11) [MS]
[4.] Microsoft security updates for January 2011 (2011-Jan-11) [MS]

Australia Day Celebrations! > How Australian Are You?

How many of these things have you done?
Try this fun list. Feel free to copy/paste and check off what you’ve done.
via the Good Reads – Aussie Readers group.

I managed 93/100

Worlds Greatest Shave 10-12 March, 2011

World’s Greatest Shave
I’m taking part in Worlds Greatest Shave 10-12 March, 2011. Please sponsor me! The money I raise is used by the Leukaemia Foundation to fund services to support patients and families living with leukaemias, lymphomas, myeloma and related blood disorders. All the services are free. My fundraising also funds blood cancer research to find better treatments and cures.
Targets are $750=ponytail cut off, $1000=#2 shave, & $1500=nudenut!
– my page

The Tiffany Aching Discworld books

Currently listening to the Tiffany Aching Discworld audio books with the kids, it is after all a YA series, but not just for children. The also means that the kids are running around the house yelling “Crivens!”, “No’-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock Jock”, and other Nac Mac Feegle boisterousness … you ken.

Tiffany Aching is a trainee witch, [...]. She’s the main character of a sequence of Young Adult novels, which also feature the Nac Mac Feegle, or Pictsies, a band of war-like, blue-painted magical “wee free men” approximately six inches high. Granny Weatherwax and other characters from the Witches novels also appear in some of the Tiffany Aching novels. [HubPages]

Tiffany Aching (Drawn by Kira)

This weeks links (2011-01-10)

In Brief:
* Sounds of Summer: Intrigue and heartbreak in cycling (2011-Jan-10) [ABC : The World Today]

QLD Floods

@allandavis27 : The huge devastation is heartbreaking to see so many Aussies affected by the floods. Help & donate www.qld.gov.au/floods call 1800219028.

How fast is the water moving when it pushes a car around like a cork?

The flood surge for the Lockyer Creek;

The flood surge for the Lockyer Creek

2011 Tour Down Under
* Santos Tour Down Under – UCI World Tour
* Tour Down Under 2011 [Adelaide Now]
* Santos Tour Down Under 2011 [SBS Cycling Central]
* Tour Down Under 2011 [SteepHill]