February 2010
72 posts
“Everyone says it wasn’t an absolutely great year for him and he still won two...”
– Lleyton Hewitt on Federer’s “bad year” in which many thought he was vulnerable and his reign was coming to an end.
And while it’s a shame that Nadal, a true challenger to Federer, is injured, the injury demonstrates the significance of Federer’s achievements. To be at...
January 2010
69 posts
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Drive-By Truckers - Like a Rolling Stone (Bob...
“9:41– mr tambourine man plays. God I love Dylan.
9:42– even though the fucker...”
– Fake Steve Jobs liveblogging the iPad event
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Live blog will be here
“In that really incredibly short space of time we’ve gone from...”
– stevenf.com - I need to talk to you about computers. I’ve been…
“…many people don’t know this, but the iPhone OS that is used by the...”
– Cloud Factory - Blog - We don’t need general purpose multitasking on the iPad
“Usually, when I want the opinion of a multiply-concussed, bible-thumping, former...”
– A comment on metafilter re Tebow’s anti-abortion superbowl ad
(h/t BConger)
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“Bad luck, non-US countries. iBooks won’t be available from launch in any...”
– This is what’s so wrong with the content industries (music, movies, TV, books). This is why (part of the reason, anyway) people steal this stuff. This is why it drives me crazy when eMusic tells me a particular album “is not available in your country” (Canada). Or when MP3...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Spoon (13)
Antlers, The (9)
jj (9)
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros (8)
Eels (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“The site contained in the instruction booklet which came with the ipod charges...”
– Email from a friend’s mother-in-law upon receipt of a new iPod. Paid music has some challenges.
“WILCO - CAUSES FREE DOWNLOADS TO SUPPORT HAITI
We have just posted two shows...”
– WILCO : CAUSES (via luke-h)
zing!
Jon Stewart: How many followers do you have?
Bill Gates: Uh...how many do you have?
Jon: I don't Twitter! I'm busy!
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Drive-By Truckers - This Fucking Job
The Truckers...
“The FDIC assembles a team of anywhere from 50 to 100 people to replicate...”
– Globe & Mail article this weekend on how the FDIC swiftly and secretly manages the sale of failing banks. Quite fascinating.
globeandmail.com: Saving America’s Banking System
Kid Cudi - The Prayer (w/ a sample from Band of...
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Social Distortion - Under My Thumb (Rolling...
Mont Blanc Speed Flying →
Hmm. The embedded video in that last post didn’t work, so hear’s the link instead. Well worth the click.
Video: Mont Blanc Speed Flying
This is incredible!
Last night I attended the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour. It’s basically a showing of 7 highlighted films selected from the festival. My favourite was this one. The full version was 10 minutes long, and filmed in...
WatchMont Blanc Speed Flying
This is incredible!
Last night I attended the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour. It’s basically a showing of 7 highlighted films selected from the festival. My favourite was this one. The full version was 10 minutes long, and filmed in one shot. The music is perfect, too.
Watchdavid-noel:
Obama’s first year in eight minutes by Lawerence Lessig.
And it’s on Blip.tv
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Eels - The Beginning
Opening track from the new...
“…any legislative moves with this Democratic party and this Republican party are...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via azspot, dalasverdugo) (via marco)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Mumford & Sons (13)
Low Anthem, The (12)
Fanfarlo (12)
Vampire Weekend (10)
Antlers, The (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“May I root against the New Orleans Saints? No, you may not. Rooting against the...”
– Saints Are the Sentimental Team of the Century - WSJ.com
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Broken Bells - The High Road
Broken Bells is a...
WatchJimmy Fallon as Neil Young covering Pants on the Ground
This is brilliant. Jimmy Fallon absolutely nails Neil Young. If you don’t get the Pants on the Ground reference, it’s an American Idol thing. See the original here.
aewsome:
matt-t:
Fallon as Neil Young cover “Pants on the Ground”
via Punkondeck
Lookin’ like a fool!
Antony & The Johnsons - If It Be Your Will...
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Josh Ritter - Blame It On The Tetons (Modest...
“The murkiness of the attacks is no surprise. For years the National Security...”
– Fascinating (and scary) articles in the New York Times on the Chinese cyberattack on Google and others.
After Google’s Loud Stance on China, U.S. Treads Lightly
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Josh Rouse - Straight to Hell (The Clash)
I know...
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Instapaper & Tweetie 2
I love Instapaper and I love Tweetie 2 on my iPhone. Today I discovered a way to use Instapaper’s web page parser to display any URL you choose to view in Tweetie.
Give it a go:
Browse the web from mobile devices using Instapaper’s Text view to save bandwidth, reduce loading times, and optimize pages for small screens.
Start here on your mobile phone:
http://instapaper.com/m
In...
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral...”
– John F. Kennedy as quoted in this TechCrunch piece on Google’s China stance. Soul Searching: Google’s position on China might be many things, but moral it is not
How Smart is Tumblr?
Pretty cool. A while back Tumblr started automatically adding album art to your music posts, if it could discern the album from which the track came.
I just posted a track from Dave Rawlings’ Daytrotter Session (not an album at all) that was posted only today. Somehow Tumblr recognized the source of the track and added to my post Daytrotter’s unique artwork.
How does it know?
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“In leaving Idol, Cowell walks away from an unspeakably well-compensated job, one...”
– Maybe they’ll take me.
Why Simon Is Quitting Idol - The Daily Beast
“I was a Kindle naysayer.
Until I got one.
Now I’ve read twenty three books...”
– Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » Lips Of An Angel
“Imagine if Apple introduced a product no one wanted. Something lame. And held a...”
– Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » The Apple Paradigm