Word: instrumentality
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...things like “competition” and “judgment” taint the purity of knowledge. For the rest of us who could largely give a rat’s ass about “learning,” it’s the ultimate instrument of slackerdom. Imagine if you didn’t care about impressing your TF in section. Or think of those times that you just can’t (or don’t want to) read that 600-page monstrosity of incomprehensible blather. Response paper? Maybe next week. Morning lecture...
...been burned will stay away from the fire for good. Even as Rupert Murdoch rebalances his books, he is keeping his eye on the long-term ball. The media mogul may have written down his KirchPayTV stake, but he still holds a $1.5 billion "put" option - a risk-averse instrument that gives one the right to sell an asset at a pre-determined price - in the business that he could use as leverage to get his hands on any part of the Kirch empire that interests him. Including Formula...
Mapfumo’s music shares numerous elements with the best of modern trance music. Both are based around driving, endless beats although in Mapfumo’s case, the rhythms are in the distinctive compound measure of the thumb-piano. Both use subtle variations with no single instrument leading the melody, creating hugely long songs (Mapfumo’s penultimate song lasted at least 20 minutes). Most importantly, both create an irresistible urge to dance...
...built around a motion sensor that picks up vibrations from the surrounding room. Put it on the floor, and when a toddler stamps a foot or knocks on a wall, Musini composes music on the fly in time with the kid's movements. The room itself becomes a musical instrument, one that never plays the same song twice. Note: Musini is not compatible with Hummel figurine collections...
Things could get a lot worse for Kirch if Rupert Murdoch is thinking along the same lines. Rumors are constantly swirling that Murdoch may use Kirch?s current debt problems to make an opportunistic grab for a greater share of the pie. And he may also have the instrument with which to do it. In 1999, Murdoch?s BSkyB bought into KirchPayTV. But it, too, negotiated a "put" option - come October, BSkyB can elect to sell back its 22% stake in KirchPayTV to Kirch for an estimated $1.5 billion, above market value. Murdoch may demand that Kirch pays...