Song of the week.

I wanted to do a new thing called song of the week. As I was searching for the first song of the week it became more like the album of the week. So here it is: Cindy Lauper – A night to remember.

When I was a bit younger (well a lot younger )I rented this album from the library. I loved it from the start and still love this great album. The album did not do as well as her previous albums and neither the recording industry or casual fans took much interest in the project. The album's lead single, "I Drove All Night" became a moderate hit, and at year's end it earned her a Grammy nomination.

I drove all night

My first night without you

Heading west

A night to remember

Primitive

How Spotify Works

I found this interesting article about Spotify.

• User clicks a track to listen to.
• If it’s in the cache, Spotify just starts playing it from there.
• Otherwise, the Spotify client requests the first 15 seconds of the track from the Spotify servers so that playback can start as soon as possible.
• At the same time, the client starts looking for the track on the peer-to-peer network.
• The rest of the track is streamed, from a combination of multiple sources if available (cache, multiple peers, Spotify servers). The more popular a track is, the more likely it will be streamed using the p2p network instead of the Spotify servers.
• When the track has 30 seconds to go, the Spotify client begins searching the p2p network for the next track.
• When the track has 10 seconds to go, if it hasn’t found the next track on the network yet, the client starts pre-fetching it from the Spotify servers.

More information can be found here.

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Things you've always wanted to know but have been afraid to ask…

Maybe above is one of them.

The surrealist bridges of Google Earth

The satellite imagery used in Google Earth is captured in 2D. The terrain that it covers is rendered in 3D. Sometimes those disparate layers don't line up, and sometimes those results can be quite compelling. Artist Clement Valla has collected some of the most striking examples in an online gallery called "Postcards from Google Earth, Bridges."

WHAT'S ALL THIS?

Candy Chang is a public installation artist, designer, urban planner, and co-founder of Civic Center who likes to make cities more comfortable for people. Enjoy her projects here.

Winter Wonderland

If we took a holiday