It can be startling to be passed unexpectedly, but if you can hear the other car's music at standard highway traffic speeds, I find the probable hearing damage to the driver and passengers much more worrying.
I highly recommend reading 'This is your brain on music' by Daniel J. Levitin if you're interested in learning more about the neuroscience side of music.
Can you provide a link? This is probably my hugest pet peeve when it comes to browsing the internet. I have no idea how fixed headers became so trendy and I find them absurdly painful. I tend to read at the top of the page and scroll down to keep my current line near the top, and (large) fixed headers really mess with that. Small ones can still be annoying, but some like Facebook's aren't that bad.
I even asked a question on the superuser stack exchange about blocking them, but it never got very useful results.
I'm not on my main box, so I can't give you links, but there are extensions for both Chrome and Firefox to add a "remove this element" entry in the right click menu.
Sometimes, it takes a bit of perseverance to get rid of nested elements; sometimes you accidentally nuke the <body>...
I don't tend to read right at the top of the page, but I do scroll with the spacebar. It's infuriating when what's supposed to be a one-page scroll skips over three lines because they're blocked by navigation I'll never use.
This agrees with my own experience: I've found that I can type around 10-20% faster when I'm listening to fast music, and oddly enough make less errors in the process (this might be a different effect, however.)
I was going to ask what music slows the perception of time, then after checking his soundcloud under related sounds I came across [Orchestral Crunkwave](https://soundcloud.com/tags/orchestralcrunkwave).
Mainstream music is impoverished by its adhesion to danceable tempos and rhythms. With classical the music 'breathes' more.
Listening to the top charts on Spotify, the defining trend of today's pop music seems to be a driving bass drum through all 4 beats of the bar, and getting louder for the chorus.
It's not impoverished, it just has a different function. You could equally say "classical music is impoverished by its dismissal of danceability" (and you'd be equally wrong)
> It's not impoverished, it just has a different function.
Its primary function is to make money. Compare that with the primary function of dance music from twenty years ago, which was to blow the speakers and give the listeners heart attacks.
But there is lots of danceable classical music. My point is that mainstream music rigidly adheres to steady tempo and rhythm. If you only listen to mainstream music (like most people) then you don't hear much exploration of that entire 'dimension' of music.
Interesting that I repeatedly saw quartet and not quintet- probably because the assumption is so strong. He only wrote one of them, so the piece clarification was unnecessary.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 98.5 ms ] threadIn 2004, the Royal Automobile Club Foundation for Motoring deemed Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyrie the most dangerous music to listen to while driving.
Clearly they've never experienced dubstep.
(inspect element... untick position: fixed... done)
I even asked a question on the superuser stack exchange about blocking them, but it never got very useful results.
Sometimes, it takes a bit of perseverance to get rid of nested elements; sometimes you accidentally nuke the <body>...
Most of the time it works fine.
If you want to make changes permanent, Stylebot or Stylish are useful. Stylebot is Chrome-only, Stylish exists for both browsers.
Totally agree with you, however.
And here is the code for `~/.js/_kill-position-fixed`:
Then I just link the domain name of the offending website to that file: I don't remember where or from who I copied this though.Also, the scrolling is broken. You press "Page Down", and you miss some of the text that scrolls by. This is suboptimal.
Edit: Ghostery was overzealous in blocking DISQUS.
Listening to the top charts on Spotify, the defining trend of today's pop music seems to be a driving bass drum through all 4 beats of the bar, and getting louder for the chorus.
Its primary function is to make money. Compare that with the primary function of dance music from twenty years ago, which was to blow the speakers and give the listeners heart attacks.
I don't have much time to listen to a lot of different types of music these days.