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deadhead··on Remembering Laika, Space Dog and Soviet Hero
There's also "Laika" by Moxy Früvous, referring to the dog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlG-kpzMQIw

deadhead··on Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop in the Classroom
Its not an option for everyone. I had a classmate in undergrad who had a medical condition where they could not take notes by hand. They even had a doctor's note saying that they had to have a laptop in class.
deadhead··on Show HN: Play Chess Without Moving Pieces
From my understanding, you are not guessing which human player won. Instead, two equal AIs play the remainder of the game and you have to guess which side will win.
deadhead··on MuseScore: Create, play and print beautiful sheet music
It happens to me as well (Windows, Chrome) but inconsistently (sometimes, its on time). Looking at the JS, it might be since it schedules to check for updates every 100ms (`timerId = setInterval(update, 100);`) instead of scheduling a callback for the time of the next bar.

Edit: Also, the JS `setInterval` callback can be delayed.

Edit: After debugging their code some more, the above isn't why (though is still inefficient). The audio player (SoundManager) they are using only updates the audio playback time at a rough granularity. If I log the time values, I get the following (all in milliseconds):

    0
    182.404
    681.59
    1180.778
    1680.963
    2179.152
    ...
The song is 120 BPM which means that the first bar changes is at 2000ms causing the first bar change to be 179ms late.
deadhead··on Less Money, Mo' Music and Lots of Problems: A Look at the Music Biz
Phish currently releases audio from all of their concerts. They do webcasts of some (all?) of their shows, and usually release a video of one of the songs after. I don't know why they don't sell the video now though.

You can find all their concerts at livephish.com. They also release old concerts of theirs every so often.

I could be wrong on this, but I think you also get a free mp3 download of the concert the day after if you attended the event.

deadhead··on The habits of practically unhackable people
Chrome does have a password generator and password syncing though I think the generator is hidden behind a flag still.
deadhead··on Google chrome – Global marketshare by version
The only show the current versions of Firefox and Chrome on the Top Versions. The other category drops as soon as Firefox and Chrome gain which means that past versions of all browsers (eg, Chrome 31, 30, etc) are grouped into other. The "Top Families" show all versions together of each browser, and you may notice that the other category on that page is very minimal.

http://clicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/

deadhead··on The Curious Case Of The Chromebook: Is It Really A Hit?
Write the assignment using docs offline mode. Print it out or email it from school. Or from a friends house. Or from the countless places that have free internet these days.
deadhead··on Browser Pong
I have two monitors (Google Chrome on Ubuntu). The paddles appeared on one while the ball appeared on the other. It was still playable, but was rather odd lining up the paddle against the ball on a different monitor.
deadhead··on Facebook is suffering an extended outage affecting many users in the US
www.facebook.com was down for me and some friends earlier. Only for a few minutes though.
deadhead··on Peak Chrome? Google's browser falls as Firefox, Internet Explorer stay flat
The article was using the data from NetApplications which is % of users. Most % of page views, such as StatCounter, still show Chrome as the top browser.
deadhead··on Apple v Samsung Foreman Gets More Things Wrong
I hardly say he did his best. From a previous groklaw article [1]: "The foreman told a court representative that the jurors had reached a decision without needing the instructions." The jury then doesn't follow all of the instructions. Sounds to me like a jury that just wants to get out as quick as possible, not do their best.

[1] http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2012082510525390...

deadhead··on I analyzed the chords to 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found.
The graph showing the chords following E minor was created after all songs were transposed to the key of C major.