September 2008
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-28) →
The Shins
Band of Horses
Arcade Fire
Bright Eyes
The Arcade Fire
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.”
– Mason Cooley (via affremblequotes)
“Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly...”
– Doug Larson (via affremblequotes)
Rockbox 3.0: turn your old iPod into new h4wtness... →
Via Boing Boing: “There’s a new version of Rockbox out — this is the free/open firmware replacement for MP3 players like the iPod, Archos, Sansa and others. It has many awesome features, including playback for…
Weekend project?!
MuxTape To Stop Being a Mixtape →
Via Mashable: It looks like MuxTape finally updated their home page to provide a bit of insight as to exactly why they pulled down their functionality.
This sucks.
Understanding Socio-Technical Phenomena in a... →
via danah boyd: Earlier this week, I had the honor of giving a talk at the opening of the Microsoft Research New England Lab. I have uploaded a crib of that talk, entitled “Understanding Socio-Technical…
Today is OneWebDay - an Earth Day for the Internet
One Web. One World. One Wish. Today is OneWebDay.
“The idea behind OneWebDay is to encourage people to think of themselves as responsible for the internet, and to take good and visible actions on Sept. 22 that celebrate the positive impact of the internet on the world.”
Here are some links to more information:
OneWebDay Events (offline and online)
On the OneWebDay site you can...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-21) →
Kaiser Chiefs
My Morning Jacket
Beck
The White Stripes
Radiohead
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“You’re a 47-year-old black man with a foreign-sounding name who went to Harvard...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - Seeking a President Who Gives Goose Bumps? So’s Obama. - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com (via mikehudack)
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
– George Orwell (via affremblequotes)
O'Reilly: Stop throwing sheep, do something worthy →
(via luro)
“Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos.”
– Don Kardong (via affremblequotes)
WatchMy colleague Paul turned me on The Heavy this afternoon. I like the vocal. Paul says he likes the clunky drum sounds and that they have a catchy-cool-motown-real-funk sound.
Nearly every kid a video gamer: survey →
(via luro)
Ninety-seven percent of young respondents play video games. That’s 99 percent of boys and 94 percent of girls, with little difference in the percentages among various racial and ethnic groups and incomes. In fact, 7 percent of those surveyed said they didn’t have a computer at home, but did have a game console, such as Sony Corp.’s PlayStation, Microsoft Corp.’s...
Watchdavidcho:
Beaker - ‘Ode to Joy’
Meep meep meep.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-14) →
The Clash
Ryan Adams
The Tragically Hip
Radiohead
Pearl Jam
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“We will take no lectures from John McCain who is cynically running the sleaziest...”
– Bill Burton, Obama campaign spokesman, on McCain’s increasingly bizarrely negative campaign. (via election08) (via wiesen) (via mikehudack)
“As we watched Sarah Palin on TV the last couple of days, we kept wondering what...”
– Editorial - Gov. Palin’s Worldview - Editorial - NYTimes.com
Hackszine.com: HOWTO - Read/Write to NTFS drives... →
f*ck me. look what i have to do to be able to read my new 320 GB drive.
update: we bailed on this and reformatted the drive. i did manage to get through about 8 of the 10 steps.
How to move from TypePad.com to WordPress.com «... →
I’m moving my other blog to Wordpress. Darling tumblogs are staying put.