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(via: fimoculous.com - the other Rex)

Free iPod store download for ‘Suzuki’ folks: Any student or parent who has experienced a few years of the Suzuki violin method has probably overdosed on the “Bach Double.” The two parts are in the Suzuki repertoire (Books 4 & 5 as I recall). I just noticed the iTunes store is currently (hurry) offering a free “discovery download” of the piece (officially known as the “Vivace” from Bach Concerto for 2 Violins, Strings and Continuo in D minor) by violinst Akiko Suwanai. I’m happy to report that after a few years of recovery, a “Suzuki parent” can actually enjoy the piece again.

(via the weblog: Free iTunes Songs)

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What Ethan Kaplan said: While I didn’t attend Gnomedex, I listened in some and read many blog posts tagged “gnomedex.” According to several of those posts, Ethan Kaplan led a great session. Along with other insight, his reflections on Gnomedex include this very funny and wise observation: “Age matters. Dave Winer, Marc Canter, et al lived through an era I did not, and dealt with political, social, technological and epistemological situations that I never had to. They can be curmudgeonly bastards, but they still actually bought Patti Smith’s Horses on RELEASE. I did not.”

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Long posts: I have a couple of “ego search” RSS feeds set up that alert me whenever someone may reference my name. Once in a while, those feeds will turn up a rather interesting post in which the words “rex” and “hammock” are used in ways that have nothing to do with me. Today (and I’ll spare you the link), it turned up the very first post of a new blog in which the writer lost me after a sentence or two — it was clearly not referencing me, in other words. However, in a quick search for how the words were embedded in the post, I discovered that the post had 18,000 words in it. That’s even got to beat the length of anything Jeff Jarvis has ever posted. I wonder what the longest, non link-spamming, coherent, original (not merely cutting and pasting content from somewhere else) blog post is. (Note: Not that I will read it — I’m going outside to play.)