Posts Tagged ‘ Monkeys ’

The Retro Sounds of Awesomeness

May 13, 2012

Computer games these days could almost be classified as movies (especially Metal Gear Solid 4 with its (in total) six hour cut scenes). As sound technology advanced and with soundcards bringing clearer and fuller quality to our games I thought I would regale you of some of the sounds I still remember experiencing over the [...]

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A Million Monkeys Demonstrate the Power of Hadoop

May 12, 2012

There are many great use cases for Apache Hadoop, the open source framework for scalable, reliable, and distributed computing on commodity hardware built around Hadoop Distributed File System and MapReduce, such as delivering search engine results, sequencing genomes, and indexing entire libraries of text, but the Million Monkeys Project by Jesse Anderson may be the easiest [...]

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He’s monkeying with a lifelong goal

May 12, 2012

HANOVER — Breaking the world record for the longest chain of red plastic monkeys has always been a goal for Dartmouth College senior Parker Phinney in his endless quest for random, goofy fun. “This actually started when I was in middle school,” the 22-year-old computer science major said. “It’s been fun and kind of exciting [...]

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Oneupweb : 10 Things You May Have Missed!

May 12, 2012

Oneupweb : 10 Things You May Have Missed! This week has been a doozy! Avengers rocked, Netflix added some sweet content to their offerings (personal excitement, I love my Netflix!) and I had some killer nosh at Giovanni’s! And oh yeah! Life was good online as well. In the spirit of Friday, I will continue [...]

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A Million Monkeys Demonstrate the Power of Hadoop – SYS

May 11, 2012

There are many great use cases for Apache Hadoop, the open source framework for scalable, reliable, and distributed computing on commodity hardware built around Hadoop Distributed File System and MapReduce, such as delivering search engine results, sequencing genomes, and indexing entire libraries of text, but the Million Monkeys Project by Jesse Anderson may be the easiest [...]

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He’s monkeying with a lifelong goal

May 11, 2012

HANOVER — Breaking the world record for the longest chain of red plastic monkeys has always been a goal for Dartmouth College senior Parker Phinney in his endless quest for random, goofy fun. “This actually started when I was in middle school,” the 22-year-old computer science major said. “It’s been fun and kind of exciting [...]

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WEEKEND MUSIC PREVIEW: Van Halen vs. The Black Keys

May 11, 2012

The highlight of this star-studded weekend of live music is undoubtedly the Black Keys, performing at Rexall Place Saturday night. With three well-deserved Grammy awards and counting, the Akron, Ohio duo has taken the world by storm with its low-fi garage-rock stylings. The same could be said for the opening act, Arctic Monkeys, from the [...]

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The Day is Here Little Monkeys Sing for Charity

May 11, 2012

The Day is Here Little Monkeys Sing for Charity Monkey Music – the UK’s premium music group for pre-school children – has recorded a special charity song to celebrate an amazing summer of sport. Performed by young children, aged 7, 8 and 9, and written especially for Monkey Music, the Anthem, ‘The Day is Here!’, [...]

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‘Real Housewives of OC’ Recap: The Bride and Frankenstein

May 10, 2012

I call the Real Housewives all sorts of mean names, from screech banshees to shriek harridans to feces-chucking monkeys, but basically they are all just monsters. They are awful molded flesh, plasticine, and filler wrapped around a dark core. They’re the opposite of a Scooby-Doo villain who looks like an evil sea creature but you [...]

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Success hasn’t changed the Black Keys’ tune

May 10, 2012

Enlarge Image The latest album from the Black Keys (Dan Auerbach, left, and Patrick Carney) has gone platinum in Canada. 11″It’s essentially the same,” the vocalist-guitarist says over the phone from St. Louis. “It’s the two of us in the studio, kind of just improvising and coming up with stuff and seeing what sticks. Usually [...]

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How do you insult a hamburger patty? Call it a meatball!

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