July 2010
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Watchpablog:
I’ve long believed that this is a thing that needs to happen way more often with singers. In fact, I’d pay to watch an entire feature film, spanning all kinds of musicians and all kinds of karaoke bars, premised on this very idea. (Would Ke$ha impress no one? Would Bonnie Tyler reduce people to tears? Justin Timberlake? Dr. Dre?!) It’d be Joshua Bell on steroids. Relatedly: if anyone is...
June 2010
2 posts
“So you’re a ninja/rockstar designer, and you scored an unpaid summer internship...”
– zoya (via david-noel)
May 2010
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Make a mix for Threadless
8tracks:
Threadless just kicked off a monthly mix competition using 8tracks:
Make a mix for the Threadless warehouse
We love music in the warehouse here at Threadless and we want to get our community involved. Make us a mix of songs you love or just music you’re really into at the moment and we will play the mixes for everyone in the warehouse.
Use the awesome...
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April 2010
3 posts
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Follow Finder: how to find people to follow on... →
Interesting Twitter gadget. [via]
Follow Finder analyzes public social graph information (following and follower lists) on Twitter to find people you might want to follow.
March 2010
2 posts
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Senduit: a simple, private, file-sharing service →
Upload a file and choose an expiration period from 30 mins to 1 week. No registration required.
February 2010
11 posts
WatchThe Sandpit (NYC)
My good friend Matt O’Malley, RRR producer and staff composer at Human Worldwide, made the music for this tiltshift video.
Some great shots of DUMBO in the beginning.
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Warner Retreats From Free Music Streaming →
Record label Warner Music has said it will stop licensing its songs to free music streaming services.
How much do they make as a cut of advertising on those services vs. paid pipes?
[via]
Work with Us!
educationalrap:
Want to work for an innovative educational media company? Do you understand the Web and feel extremely comfortable with computers and popular online services? Want to provide routine customer support to our growing customer base and interact with them on our website and social media channels?
We’re hiring!
College/graduate students, freelancers, part-timers, and others with 2...
“I wonder how Facebook’s and Google’s approaches to privacy will...”
– John Bracken [via]
LESS, a CSS App for Mac OS X →
LESS is an app that lets you write CSS using variables, nested rules, and operations that simplify your code, then compiles it into plain-old CSS. Uses existing CSS syntax but adds functions you always wish were there. Can’t wait to work with it. [via]
Me according to Pandora (rap edition)
hardcore rap attitude
gangsta rap influence
southern rap roots
r&b influences
funk influences
danceable beats
syncopated beats
funk beats
bright beats
a slow moving bass line
consistent rhyme patterns
heavy use of vamping
southern vocal twang
clear pronunciation
lyrics about the rap industry
street talkin’ lyrics
explicit lyrics
boastin’ lyrics
the use of...
My Starred Posts →
If you want to check out random articles I find most interesting, I’ve routed my Instapaper starred posts feed through Google Reader so they can be presented for public consumption. There’s also a link to it in my sidebar.
Instapaper is sort of like DVR for the Web. It’s a simple web tool that lets you mark a website to “read later” using a bookmarklet in your...
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Statistical Fingerprinting: LeBron=Durant and... →
pablog:
Jesse Andrews’ analysis never fails to entertain.
January 2010
43 posts
“… if “pad” is inherently bad root word, how do you explain “ThinkPad”?
...”
– Gruber and Gruber
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Bad Astronomy on NASA's budget →
mrgan:
The general public public perception of NASA is that it’s an inefficient, unnecessary drain on the US budget. How bad a drain? Bad Astronomy quotes The Space Review:
In a just-completed study, we asked respondents what percentage of the national budget is allocated to NASA … NASA’s allocation, on average, was estimated to be approximately 24% of the national budget (the NASA allocation in...
“The engineers and I handle customer support. When I tell people that, they look...”
– The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak
It’s true. If people ever wonder why I’m always tinkering with RRR’s website, it’s often because I’m trying to save myself time on the customer support side.
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When two web services love each other very much...
hypem:
Some great music blogs use Tumblr as their platform, and we aggregate those in The Hype Machine. But plenty of people have awesome insights on music, even if they post about everything else on their tumblelog, too. So now, you can submit your music posts to the Hype Tumblr. We’re also following some cool people and reblogging their stuff, so you can see all the...
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Airbnb: travel like a human →
A website for finding places to stay that are not hotels. What craigslist should be.
Watch“I wish they did!” - Oh, Andy.
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Watchhypem:
SoundCloud’s Alex talks about our beautiful new partnership.
Hype Machine now scoops up embedded SoundCloud tracks (not just linked MP3s) from blogs and serves them up using the SoundCloud streamer. This keeps all the stats in one place and moves that playback bandwidth over to SoundCloud. Read more.
“A ‘weapons’ is defined as a rifle, shotgun, pistol, airgun, and STARTER PISTOL....”
– How to guarantee your luggage won’t be lost or stolen next time you fly (via mattlehrer)
YouTube Now Testing HTML5 as Alternative to Flash →
Gruber:
Sign up for the beta on this page, and boom, you get videos using H.264 and the HTML5 video tag instead of Flash. Working great for me. Note, though, that it only applies to videos on youtube.com itself — YouTube videos embedded in web pages on other sites still use Flash.
So far things are loading and playing much smoother compared to Flash.
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Keep It Goin Louder (Feat. Nina Sky) (Diplo Remix)... →
That low, quarter-note synth that comes in at 2:22 make me feel all warm and fuzzy. Also, it turns out one of my roommates is in the promo video for this song I posted recently. Look for the crazy eyes at 1:32.
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The (App) World According To Verizon
This is what I refer to when people (read: random tech bloggers) stop using an iPhone because of their objections to the App Store. Yes, it’s closed and has a fundamentally faulty review system—which prevents timely acceptance of not just new apps but revisions and bug fixes as well)—but: this is what the world looked like before it arrived.
via Wikipedia:
Get it now, VCast,...
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Major Lazer vs. Olive
[Note: this post contains content that does not display properly or at all in the Tumblr dashboard.]
Just heard “Keep It Goin’ Louder” by Major Lazer (2009), and the chord progression reminded me of “You’re Not Alone” by Olive (1996), a high school favorite of mine.
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DVR Bookmarks
Wouldn’t it be handy to add bookmarks (or just, “marks”) to DVR recordings and other streaming video?
Example uses:
Awesome touchdown you want to show someone when they get home
Remember where one person stopped watching (fell asleep) when another person keeps watching
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A Letter to Rush Limbaugh →
david-noel:
suitep:
From: Roger Ebert
You should be horse-whipped for the insult you have paid to the highest office of our nation. Having followed President Obama’s suggestion and donated money to the Red Cross for relief in Haiti, I was offended to hear you suggest the President might be a thief capable of stealing money intended for the earthquake victims. The rest.
The reason that...
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“We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on...”
– Official Google Blog: A new approach to China
[via david-noel]
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“Hype Machine approached their 2009 Music Blog Zeitgeist with the same automation...”
– Mishka NYC’s blog has kind words on the Zeitgeist. (via fascinated)
david-noel:
Well said, agreed! Outstanding work, Anthony & team.
I was slow to warm to Hype Machine, but damn, this is the future, people.