March 2009
27 posts
samhey: My dog talks. This might be cool, if my dog weren’t an asshole.
Mar 31st
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Replies Are Now Mentions →
This makes so much more sense! “Reply” was confusing because what you were saying wasn’t necessarily a reply to anything at all.
Mar 31st
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-29) →
Face to Face (4)  Me First and the Gimme Gimmes (4)  NOFX (4)  Bad Religion (4)  The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (3)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mar 29th
Mar 28th
Mar 25th
Classic writing guide celebrates 50th anniversary →
Strunk & White, the best style guide.
Mar 24th
Mar 23rd
The Makers of Things →
Mar 23rd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-22) →
Bad Religion (9)  The Yardbirds (8)  NOFX (7)  Buck-O-Nine (6)  The Decemberists (6)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mar 22nd
'Brain decline' begins at age 27 →
Sigh..
Mar 17th
Ars reviews the Nerf N-force sword →
I can see a set of these being exceptionally fun in a few years…
Mar 16th
Operating systems don’t matter →
Exactly.
Mar 16th
Ethernet — a networking protocol name for the ages →
Ethernet cables and ports are omnipresent in this day and age. Just amazing.
Mar 16th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-15) →
The Mountain Goats (20)  Bad Religion (20)  “Weird Al” Yankovic (10)  Descendents (9)  Spoon (9)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mar 15th
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Mar 12th
The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond... →
Like Ocean’s 11, but in real life!
Mar 12th
Mar 12th
Lithium breakthrough could charge batteries in 10... →
Mar 11th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-8) →
Reel Big Fish (16)  The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (15)  Duke Ellington (8)  Bad Religion (7)  No Use for a Name (4)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mar 10th
Audiosurf: Ride Your Music →
This game makes its tracks based on songs that you select. Put this on the I’ll-have-to-try-that-someday pile.
Mar 4th
Amazon unveils Kindle Application for iPhone →
Great. Now I can read ebooks on two devices that I don’t own. This is a very nice move though. Amazon is trying hard to make it easy to ‘own’ a DRM-locked ebook that syncs between devices.
Mar 4th
In search of the click track →
Interesting analysis of music, trying to determine whether drummers played along with a click track (metronome) or not.
Mar 3rd
Gmail Tasks On The (Mac) Desktop
UPDATE: You can skip all of the user agent string junk and just use http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig or http://mail.google.com/tasks/a/DOMAIN/ig for Google Apps as the URL for Fluid. Makes life simpler! Google recently added Tasks via a Gmail Labs add-on. I find this simple task list to be quite useful. However, it’s tied to Gmail in that Gmail has to be open in a browser window for it to...
Mar 3rd
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Should artists get 12% or 50% royalties from... →
Universal argues that they’re distributing music to iTunes, rather than licensing which entitles them to a larger cut. In this day and age, the purpose of being on a major label at all is for promotion and advertising. It costs little to make your music available, but promotion can still be time and money intensive. Rather than screwing over artists, I’d think that labels should be...
Mar 3rd
Revealed: The secrets of belly button fluff →
Mar 3rd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-3-1) →
Maynard Ferguson (10)  Bad Religion (8)  John Coltrane (8)  Descendents (5)  Reel Big Fish (5)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mar 2nd