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• One of my favourite types of music is lo-fi hip-hop beats with pictures of anime. Here is that in blog form.
• You probably saw this, but there was recently a surprisingly good Google doodle that used AI to generate harmonies in the style of Bach (two bars at a time). Here's Bach doing Beethoven. And an especially fancy version of I Like Meow Mix.
• In one episode of 30 Rock, you can vaguely hear a Joni Mitchell parody. Here it is
• jwz recently found out that Netscape and its patents (but not the name) belongs to Facebook.

A six part series on the Renaissance, which apparently has never been rerun or released on DVD *cough*. All I could find on it was a review from the Telegraph which is ranty, dishonest, and poorly-argued even by "Hitler was left-wing" Telegraph standards. ("standards").

Pleasantly-written narration, good camera work, and tasteful pacing make this both extremely relaxing and extremely exciting. I couldn't recommend it more strongly.