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3rd January 2026 - Link Blog

Was Daft Punk Having a Laugh When They Chose the Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger? (via) Depending on how you measure it, the tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger appears to be 123.45 beats per minute.

This is one of those things that's so cool I'm just going to accept it as true.

(I only today learned from the Hacker News comments that Veridis Quo is "Very Disco", and if you flip the order of those words you get Discovery, the name of the album.)