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Leo Ornstein is generally considered to have been one of the greatest pianists of the early twentieth century. His performances of works by avant-garde composers and his own innovative and even shocking pieces made him a cause célèbre on both sides of the Atlantic. By the mid-1920s, he had walked away from his fame and soon disappeared from popular memory. And although he passed away in 2002 , the internet still remembers him and his amazing legacy of work. At this website dedica... more

The Gulf Coast has just witnessed what’s being called the "the largest evacuation in US history", but let’s hear from those hardy souls who stuck around NOLA to ride it out, shall we ? Hey, where else are you gonna see National Guardsmen (charged with the task of enforcing curfew) put down their rifles and take the stage at a local bar for a little blues jam? And be sure to watch the video that accompanies the article: immensely entertaining! ... more

" Analysis of traffic logs (PDF) of email received by a large UK ISP shows considerable disparity between the proportions of spam received by addresses with different first characters." A quick overview by the author, with a follow-up .... more

Bruce McDonald , respected Canadian indie director, announced his plans last week to make not one, not two, but three sequels to his low-budget 1996 cult favorite Hard Core Logo , essentially turning it into a franchise . Hard core fans will no doubt hope that the films are either great enough to live up to the original, or that it’s all a publicity stunt timed for the TIFF premiere of his new film Pontypool , a horror flick about zombies who spread infection through conversation. ... more