February 2008
By far the weirdest thing about Lost tonight was Colonel Daniels from The Wire showing up at the mental hospital. That stuff always trip …
January 2008
52+ covers by Of MontrealIf you ever wondered what...
“People have been around for a very long time. Tens of thousands of years. Music...”
– Nancy Baym (who really has this whole internet and music thing completely locked down) in response to the ridiculous comments made by U2’s manager this week.
Don’t believe the low bit-rate ‘HD’ lie →
I was all set to buy an Apple TV until I saw this.
Watching Friday Night Lights has made me remember how awesome a band Explosions In The Sky is.
Have Facebook Apps Peaked in Popularity? →
Boy, I’d hate to have started (or re-focused) an entire business around Facebook Apps…
“I am optimistic because I think that while disease, illness, stupidity,...”
– Kevin Kelly
“COSTS OF TRANSFERING 2,560 MP3s:
via my ISP: $1
SMS: $61,356,851.20”
– The True Cost of SMS Messages
Way too hopped up on Cherry Coke for this late at night
Phosphorescent — Wolves
If you like this song, we will probably be best friends forever. If you don’t like Phosphorescent, we might still be friends but I’ll always be a little leery of you.
MP3 Phosphorescent — Wolves
2008 Bad usability calendar →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-1-27) →
Cloud Cult
Phosphorescent
Heavenly
Magnolia Electric Co.
Xiu Xiu
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Photoshop CS3 and Save for Web issues →
An easy fix to a problem that caused me an unbelievable amount of frustration last week. I hate color management on computers with the intensity of a gazillion burning suns.
Wondering how long it will be before I can actually find a Wii to buy
Five historical blog posts
Moses: Top 10 Bulletproof Tips for Not Pissing-off The Lord (2 tablets - reg req.)
HOWTO: Some Guy Compares Thee to a Summer Day
Crazy Italian Dude Totally Draws on Pope’s Ceiling (DIGG THIS!!!!)
I CAN HAZ INVISIBLE THUMBSCREWZ? Top 50 LOLInquisiton Macros
BOOBIES - Hot Naked Chick Horses Around Coventry [PICS!]
From Merlin Mann’s excellent 5ives
thinking about murdering out my Mazda 6, Rob & Big style (sans mini-horse trailer)
“Screw it. I’m in.”
– Bill Clinton (via The Onion, of course)
“Maybe, just maybe, taking care of customers is something worth doing when you...”
– Put Buyers First? What a Concept - New York Times
“As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the...”
– Last.fm
I’ve said this before, and I believe it even more now: Last.fm could be the future (and savior) of the music industry.
Friendly Clip: Friendly iPhone Web Clip Override →
Give the web pages on your iPhone’s home screen pretty icons
How (and how not) to handle a customer... →
I had two separate technical issues this week with web hosts. The first was with Dreamhost, who hosts this blog. They accidentally billed their customers for almost $10 million in extra hosting fees this week. The people who weren’t successfully charged had their accounts and websites disabled. It was a pretty big deal. How did they notify people that they totally screwed up? With this joking blog...
A little frightened by how excited that Rambo commercial I just saw made me
Watching a movie I’ve had from Netflix for over a month: http://tinyurl.com/2xfs9t
A prettier NYTimesRiver →
Dave Winer created NYTimesRiver, a site that pulls all of the latest headlines from The New York Times and formats them for mobile devices. I think it is a pretty great service, but one thing that has always bugged me was that it has absolutely no styling whatsoever on the page. Early this morning I spent about 15 minutes and made it look like this. I haven’t checked it out on other mobile...
I should be sleeping, but I will probably just listen to the new Destroyer record until I have to go to work tomorrow morning.
I just saw a man get his face torn off by a barracuda on Animal Planet HD. I might not be ready for all this newfangled technology.
Dieter Rams' Ten Commandments of Good Design →
The ten most important criteria for what Dieter Rams considered was good design. — sweeting
Create custom iPhone and iPod Touch webclip icons →
Dear Facebook, Newsgator and Twitter: Please do this ASAP.