Cloud computing made real

Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS: "The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel."

Now we see the future of cloud computing: the home computer doesn't scale, so you get a thin client OS on it and connect to the scalable server farm which provides apps. Interesting.

Blaspherian interview

Blaspherian comes from Houston, Texas, and makes old school death metal with its own voice. Their music does not sound like any known band but is clearly influenced by the old school of booming, primitive, dark, introspective and alienated metal. Formed in 2004, Blaspherian arose from the collaboration of Wes Infernal -- formerly of Infernal Dominion and Imprecation -- and Desekrator, but rapidly branched out to include Matt Mayhem on drums and Apollyon on vocals and bass.

Interview: Blaspherian

Review: Blaspherian - Allegiance to the Will of Damnation

Full track MP3: Blaspherian "Enthroned in Blasphemous Triumph"

Net's oldest metal site opens classical music forum

Metal Hall: Classical Forum

The net's oldest metal site has created a forum for classical music only.

As many of you know, classical and metal are similar through their use of narrative composition, where riffs fit together to form motifs and communicate change in experience.

This is why there is significant overlap between metal and classical fans, and why both musics have a stormy, powerful yet sensitive approach.

We are looking forward to connecting more of these fans with each other and more music they'll like, even if to outsiders it appears radically different.

For more information:

* Classical Music for Metal Fans
* What makes heavy metal heavy?

Metal music for classical fans

I went from being a metalhead who had a couple classical albums to a classical and metal listener. The two musics are really similar: like metal, classical strings together a series of riffs to tell a story.

My favorite composers are:

• Franz Schubert


• Ottorino Respighi


• Gustav Faure


• Anton Bruckner


• Camille Saint-Saens


• Ludwig van Beethoven


• Robert Schumann

All of these dudes are extremely "metal": stormy, powerful, dark and lawless music.

Some of my transition was inspired by the Talk Classical metal forum and "Classical Music for Metal Fans".

Anyone else listen to classical?

DNA shows human origins in three basic groups, or "races"

"All of Earth's people, according to a new analysis of the genomes of 53 populations, fall into just three genetic groups. They are the products of the first and most important journey our species made -- the walk out of Africa about 70,000 years ago by a small fraction of ancestral Homo sapiens. "

- The Washington Post

Cosmic Atrophy

This is one of those rare progressive and/or "weird" death metal bands that not only holds together, but generates an atmosphere. Unlike bad prog bands of all varieties, who patch together different artistic impulses in the same key or tempo and call it a song, these riffs are made to work together as if part of a continuing dialogue within each song.

Comparisons to Demilich, Voivod and Gorguts would be appropriate. Cosmic Atrophy do not try for the killer awkward and difficult riff, but fit together a series of smaller, eerie riffs that comprise an overall attitude or spirit to each song. The 2009 teaser track you can hear on their myspace represents not a new direction but a clearer vision of the same direction they showed on 2008's Codex Incubo.

Cosmic Atrophy -- Progressive Death Metal from Houston

End Democracy

Democracy is based upon the belief that all people have equal abilities and therefore can work in any position in society. This is wrong; most people are unable to cope with anything outside of their immediate existence and when combining that with the pacifying effect of television, you turn your so called "active voters" into brain dead zombies. Democracies are run by powerful lobby groups that manipulate citizens via "entertaining" propaganda and corrupt politicians. This marks a bleak era of the entire Western civilization and its future.

http://www.enddemocracy.org/