FailForward @FailForward@social.cleverlibre.org

@Oskar456 Ha! To bolo dobre. Vdaka. Sa mi vratili spomienky na vsetky tie blaznive reklamy z 90-tych rokov co mi odvtedy este furt zostali zaseknute v hlave.

Actually watching the musician to play this instrument is amazing in itself. Maybe I should have titled the post "Church bells jam session", or something like that.

# Golden Earring - Radar Love played on church bells

> When I get lonely
> And I'm sure I've had enough
> She sends her comfort
> Comin' in from above
> Don't need no letter at all
>
> We've got a thing that's called Radar Love
> Golden Earring/Radar Love 1973

On March 11th 2021, churches around the Netherlands played a cover version of a Radar Love, famous '73 rock song by Golden Earring, by now an ancient Dutch rock band from The Hague. The event was in a tribute to Golden Earring and occasion of the front-man's 73rd birthday.

This is a highly interesting thing from several angles. Firstly, the bells cover version is interesting music in itself. Second, this is the first time I saw how the instrumentation of church bells looks like - I always thought it's programmed with a computer/microcontroller. Actually it's played similarly to a keyboard instrument, even though it has a kind of "sticks" and pedals instead of keys. I learned something new today.

Before checking the bells cover version, it might be interesting to get into the ear the original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRlSHG5hRY4


And then the bells cover - actually there were several played on that day, but they seem to be the same score.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxweaPAQxAA


* The Hague: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uks5sSqXgPU
* Wateringen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h6SFa_k3P4
* Amsterdam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxweaPAQxAA

More news: https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/03/church-bells-all-over-the-netherlands-play-radar-love-in-tribute/

@ak

Elsewhere...

@vfrmedia

@piggo These are fun challenges you are posting.

Galinsoga (quadriradiata/...) ?

Hairy Galinsoga—Galinsoga ciliata
aka Quickweed

@mark@metalhead.club

Chris Grey in his latest blog post on the attitude of Brexiteers now after Brexit is done:

> The country, as represented by Frost, seems increasingly like a stroppy, entitled teenager who has stormed out of the family home in a tantrum and now endlessly complains that his awful parents are disrespecting him. _‘Not only are they no longer housing me,’ he whines, ‘but they are insisting I clear my stuff out just because I promised to when I left. And I’m stuck with paying the rent on my new place because they won’t help me out any more. Don’t they realise I’m an adult now?’_

https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2021/03/fisking-frost.html

@piggo Pěkný kraj.

@piggo There you go. I was thinking the same, but the locality does not match. The botanist I asked about your pics told me this is probably some non-European plant, but I gather you collected it in CZ (or around), right? So it's some import which went wild...

And indeed, [Wikipedia says](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinocystis#Distribution) it's an invasive species in E/SE Europe:
> It has also been reported as an uncommon invasive species in the Örség Landscape Protection Area of Hungary near the Austrian-Slovenian border.

If the fruit matches, you've got it.

@piggo Check photos of cucumber seedlings here: https://identify.plantnet.org/weurope/species/Cucumis%20sativus%20L./data (the little tree-like icon)

@piggo This really looks like a kind of cucumber. Your 3rd leaf and the 3rd leaf on the sample pic look very much alike.

Actually correlates well with population density. No surprise there. More people, more GDP per capita.

Now this one is a bit misleading, apparently the scale matters. Here's an alternative.

@jwildeboer I like how you always arrange flower into these tastebuds-test pics 🙂 .

And I am reading "Our plugin erection". Something's wrong with me today...

@Salixj I liked it too. More complex than the movie.

@z428 I hear you. But I am afraid, you are looking at history with the advantage of hindsight here. When we were designing those technologies, we did not foresee a lot of accidental complexity in our designs.

So let's take a look at your example and let's find some KPI to measure "progress". Say adoption - be it in absolute numbers, or fraction of relevant industry players adopting the tech. Whichever way you cut it, REST has by far the highest adoption of the three and by that measure it's a great success, so it apparently does some things better then the predecessors (being familiar with CORBA specs 20 years ago, I'd say that another KPI to care about is the absolute weight of the printed specs in kg!)

So maybe another answer your question about what's the name of the phenomenon: "evolution"(?) As in: the evolution cannot solve the inherent complexity, but over time it manages to smooth out the accidental complexity involved which leads to greater adoption. And that sounds like a "Good Thing(TM)".

Better?