The amazing Alabama Shakes performing “Hold On” at Pegasus Record in Florence, Alabama for “Live from the Shoals” on August 21, 2011. Best new band in a long time …
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Bermuda still in the slow lane …
Posted: March 23, 2012 in Bermuda, internetTags: Bermuda, broadband, internet, OECD
Bermuda is still lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to broadband internet speeds. The latest figures released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for average advertised residential broadband download speeds makes depressing reading.
Bermuda isn’t actually ranked in the OECD list but as of March, 2012, our average of 4Mbps would even put us behind the likes of little Luxembourg. Japan tops the list with a staggering 156 Mbps. I can’t even think that fast …
[Thanks to RDIS Communications for the info.]
If you love music, you should invest 50 minutes or so and watch Bruce Springsteen’s keynote at SXSW in Austin, Texas yesterday.
Even if you’re not a big Bruce fan, this is a poignant and funny crash course in the evolution of pop music, the creative process, and the many influences that have informed Springsteen and many other artists through the decades, from Elvis, the Animals, James Brown, Dylan, Woody Guthrie and the Sex Pistols.
Springsteen urges young musicians to “stay alive and stay hungry”, stating: “The purity of human expression and experience is not confined to guitars, to tubes, to turntables, to microchips. There is no right way, no pure way, of doing. There is just doing.”
If you just want the audio, listen here. Great stuff.
[Warning: Some explicit language.]
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