Late Junction plays a laid-back, eclectic mix of music from across the globe, ranging from Mali to Bali, and from medieval chant to 21st-century electronica on BBC Radio 3 every Mon-Thu about 10.30 to midnight. Last four programmes always available from web
Lo’Jo This French music & theatre group combines African and gypsy styles and instruments with its own very French sound, and is a sponsor of Le Festival au Désert
Sterns World Music Major catalogue of traditional and popular music from around the world
Kirkcudbright Community I founded this web site as a community project in 1998 (see article from The Scotsman); it’s now run entirely by Kirkcudbright people.
The Royal Society of Arts mobilising the great and the good, now in its third century
Terror’s Mask an analysis of terrorism by Michael Vlahos of the Joint Warfare Analysis Department, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University.
The Meatrix exposes the lies we tell ourselves about how our food is produced.
Signal vs. Noise a weblog by 37signals about entrepreneurship, design, experience, simplicity, constraints, pop culture, our products, products they like, and more.
A+ After implementing Sharp APL/HP, Arthur Whitney designed this all-ASCII, stripped subset of APL for Morgan Stanley’s Analytics Programming Team to write financial trading applications. Morgan Stanley later released A+ under a GNU General Public Licence. The BAA has produced a Windows version for free distribution
J Wiki After 30 years, Ken Iverson and Roger Hui redesigned APL from scratch. The result is J.
Kx SystemsWhere did the code go?Arthur Whitney’s K and Kdb+ might be the tersest and fastest language and database ever written. K is written in 1200 lines of C; 20 lines of K implement a simple spreadsheet, complete with GUI. Kdb+ is typically 20-50 times faster than Oracle and is used by investment banks to support financial traders. It ships on a floppy disk