Roy Kuhlman, in 45 tiny pictures
While looking for cover art for my books in Delicious Library, I found this site dedicated to Roy Kuhlman, the graphic designer responsible for those unforgettable covers for the Grove Press and Evergreen paperback lines. As part of a larger site on Grove Press, J. A. Lee has collected scans of 45 different Kuhlman [...]
Free music roundup
The Wednesday Morning Download column at Salon just started updating again after an October hiatus. In celebration, here’s my own roundup of free downloads:
If you didn’t snag a copy of this month’s Wired magazine, featuring a CD of Creative Commons-licensed tracks by such artists as David Byrne, My Morning Jacket, the Beastie Boys, Thievery Corporation, [...]
Sony Music gets RSS
LockerGnome: Sony Music now has RSS. Following the trail blazed by SubPop, Sony has posted twelve artist info feeds and one tour feed. Sadly none of the bands are ones that I’m interested in, though I suspect Oliver Willis will be subscribing to the Destiny’s Child and Beyoncé feeds.
Like SubPop, the feeds are RSS [...]
Got R?
Apple Downloads: R for Mac OS X 2.0.1. I hadn’t seen this one before: a Mac OS X implementation of R, the statistical computing and graphics language from Bell Labs. The Mac OS X implementation comes complete with a Cocoa GUI that is pretty damned sexy for a stats package, especially a free one:
