Diana Nollen wrote a new blog post: REVEIW: Orchestra Iowa hits a home run at ballpark

Source: The Gazette

Orchestra Iowa teams up with Jeans ’n’ Classics from Canada to perform Beach Boys music in a triple header that included a Kernels baseball game and fireworks at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, ...
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Saturday Night at the Movies: SIFFting through cinema Pt. 2 -- Highlights of the Seattle film festival

Source: Hullabaloo

The Seattle International Film Festival is in full swing, so over the next several weeks I will be sharing highlights with you. SIFF is showing 273 films over 25 days. Navigating such an event is no easy task, even for ...
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Download a City Rain vs. Michael Jackson mashup (playing tonight at The Fire at the Sundrop Music & Arts Festival)

Source: The Key

City Rain have taken on Michael Jackson in this absolutely floor shaking mashup of MJ’s “Thriller” and their own “Watch Out.” Download “Watch Out For Thriller” here. City Rain play tonight at the Sundrop Music & Arts Festival. John Wesley Harding is addi ...
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Epic Preview - Western Conference Finals: Raiders of the Lost Trophy

Source: Pounding the Rock

It's a story of a man in search of a priceless treasure that belongs in a museum at the AT ...
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Hurricane Trackers: Survival tools for iPad, iPhone and even Desktop users

Source: ZDNet

Summary: The iPad can be an invaluable tool to help you stay out of harm’s way during hurricane season. Note: This article was originally published in September of 2010. It has been updated to reflect current content. During Labor ...
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Moppy lets you play your floppy drives

Source: hack a day

The name is a mashup between Musical and Floppy. By using an Arduino UNO as a translator, you can command an array of floppy drives with a musical keyboard (think piano). The head on each floppy drive is controlled by a stepper motor which ...
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18 APIs Used in 7 Days: Yahoo, Thrutu and Forvo

Source: Programmable Web

This past week 10 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 18 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Google Client Authentication and MyWot. The most often used APIs this week ...
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HuffPo Amps Up the Culture War

Source: BAGnewsNotes

I thought twice about saying anything: as a Huff Post junkie, I have little basis for faulting how they mash up images and stories. Every story gets an image, no matter how distant in space, time, or topic it might be. S ...
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The Late Movies: Star Wars Songs

Source: Mental Floss

On May 25, 1977, a film hit theaters that would influence everything that came after: Star Wars. Now known as Episode IV or A New Hope, it was the first of six feature films and a whole bunch of stuff that wasn’t feature films. In h ...
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