nrvous, org.

Mr Nick Webb
Sunday Independent
Independent House
Talbot Street
Dublin 1 FOI/2009/40

Requesting access to correspondence between the following bodies (RTE, Comreg, ESB group, Bord na Mona, Bord Gais, SEI, Eirgrid, Digital Hub) and the Department

Request & Reply 28/10/09 21/12/09

Mark Pilgrim

Writer, Developer advocate, Google
Jan 30, 2010
Who are you, and what do you do?

I'm Mark Pilgrim. I'm a developer advocate for Google. I write open source books and advocate open standards. Most recently, I've been advocating HTML5 and related web standards.

The first 90% of John Gruber’s And Oranges is excellent. Everyone should read it, and I’m not just saying that because it’s all about me. Unfortunately, the last 10% goes right off the rails, so naturally that’s where I’m going to start.

"Trance music" is not a new phenomenon. The ability for music to drive dancers into ecstatic frenzies has been known at least since Euripides. The Shakers got their name from the ecstatic behavior they exhibited when dancing to their simple, repetitive hymns. Voodoo rituals are built around complex, trance-inducing rhythms. It was well known that trance-dancing can produce ecstastic states, but until the later part of the 20th century, and the invention of the 'extended dance remix', it was rare for commercial music to reach for it.