I used the Musically Intelligent Machines autotagging api to analyze and tag all of David Bowie’s music. Then I lined it up in order and calculated the similarity between every 10-second clip and every other 10-second clip in terms of the automatically generated descriptions. Then I made some pretty pictures of this similarity matrix. (via Bowie S-S-S-Similarities)

[…] résoudre géométriquement (à la règle non graduée et au compas) l’équation z² = az + b², avec a positif.

(via La méthode de Descartes pour résoudre une équation du second degré)

The song’s odd structure is a result of its original placement on the album — between “Mean Mr. Mustard” and “Polythene Pam.” The band didn’t like it there, so it was edited out of the sequence and subsequently tacked onto the end of the album. The note that was meant to be the last note of “Mean Mr. Mustard” is now the first note of “Her Majesty,” and the last note of “Her Majesty” is the first note of “Polythene Pam.” The Beatles reportedly liked the effect and left it that way. (via Finding Closure for ‘Her Majesty’ in Beatles: Rock Band – Digits – WSJ)

Un peu d’Ariège – Salut c’est Blonde

Générateur de Rothko

Vanderlin | A Day in the Life of the MBTA – Some nice info viz with Boston’s T traffic data.