July 2009
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Guide to light bulbs
marco:
Katie Schenk needs light-bulb help:
I replaced two light bulbs on Sunday night and both are already out. Yes, I bought the cheap kind but I really expected them to last a little bit longer than three days. And of course I have no extras because I am never domestically prepared for anything.
So, I ask you all - Which light bulbs should I be buying? (Marco, I’m looking at you on this...
“A mystery I never got: You’re David Beckham. And you marry…Posh...”
– @SIPabloTorre
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“Sean’s right about cultivating a merch market. At one of the venues I do press...”
– John Seroff, “Music Bloggers Roundtable Redux”, pointing out the tragic habit bands have of spending thousands on music production and pennies on design and promotions.
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Dear Apple: Please Move the Search Bar in iTunes
Dear Apple: Please move the search bar in iTunes from the top-right corner to the top-left corner, right above “Library”. These two pieces work together and couldn’t be farther apart on the screen.
How many times has this happened to you? You click in the search bar, type something, see no results, then realize it’s becuase you’re searching your music library...
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Discovery - Orange Shirt
I’m a sucker for pulsing synth lines, and songs like this make me want to get back into making music videos. (Re-creating the vibe in Logic with Tremelo on an ES2 is addictive.)
Discovery - Orange Shirt
[via @cwblack]
Watchbuzzandersen:
Daily Show “iFart vs. Pull My Finger” Clip
(via Phill Ryu)
At least they didn’t do a segment about Twitter clients.
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PackageTrack | Package Tracking for Twitter →
Now we’re talking!
Follow packagetrack on Twitter, within a few minutes packagetrack will begin following you.
You can now Direct Message packagetrack with the nickname and tracking code, separated by a “:”, eg. “Amazon Books: 23345631243” of a package you would like to track.
[via Springwise]
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How to use Twitter
This is pasted from numerous emails I’ve sent to friends and family in the past year. Bear in mind that the best way to understand what Twitter is and how to use it is to… start using it. Feel free to chime in with additions, clarifications, and criticisms.
This is not how to use Twitter well or strategically or without annoying you and everyone around you. This is about what to do...
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Palin's Resignation: The Edited Version →
English Composition teachers should use this speech as a homework exercise.
“Just how poorly constructed was the governor’s holiday-weekend address? We asked V.F.’s red-pencil-wielding executive literary editor, , together with representatives from the and departments, to whip it into publishable shape. Here is the colorful result.”
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What up, Bumbalo
Just discovered this Bay Area rapper, who packs some sick synth beats. Turns out the album’s production is anchored by Asa Taccone, whose credits include SNL shorts “Dick in a Box” and the Natalie Portman rap.
My favorite three tracks (read: instrumentals) on this self-titled album: BUMB, Hyphy Cat, and The B Side.
Unrelated: I discovered him via the bandcamp demo video....
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iTunes brings back b-sides with Digital 45s →
iTunes recently revived an old marketing tactic:
The vinyl 45 rpm record once ruled jukeboxes and helped bring artists into the hands of true music fans … iTunes is bringing this concept into a new age with D45s—two great tracks at an equally great price.
In other words, top tracks used to cost $.99 each, but now they’re so $1.29, so buy two and save 30-50 cents.
This is a...
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Hid.im convert torrents into PNG images →
Turn any photo sharing site into a torrent hub.
Um, data cannot be stopped.
[via Andy Baio]
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Shawty Redd - Who’s With Me
Here’s...
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Drake - Juice | Full Drake mixtape
UPDATE: Does...
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fatherabraham:
28 Pink and Purple (Father Abraham...
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Design Your Life
Today I encountered two examples of beautiful design in everyday, physical life.
Full article: Brooklyn Fare’s Packaging and Graphic Design [via Gruber]
Full article: Guerrilla Typography [via BTJ]
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The plural of anecdote is not data →
Suw Charman-Anderson:
The US investment bank’s European media analysts asked Matthew Robson, an intern from a London school, to write a report on teenagers’ likes and dislikes, which made the Financial Times’ front page today.
His report, that dismissed Twitter and described online advertising as pointless, proved to be “one of the clearest and most thought-provoking insights we have seen – so...
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Year Two: Improving the iTunes App Store →
Craig Hockenberry:
Building the App Store using the iTunes infrastructure was a brilliant move on Apple’s part. It allowed them to sell software to millions of users with a minimal amount of development. Look at it this way: would you rather have lost the first 6 months of revenue while waiting for Apple to perfect the system used to deliver our applications?
But now iTunes presents problems...
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WatchSlow-Jam the News is 212 degrees heated. (~3 mins)
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Change ⌘V to "Paste and Match Style"
My life just got easier.
Mike Piontek (via Twitter):
Just set the keyboard shortcut for “Paste and Match Style” to ⌘V for all applications. Apps without this still work as expected. So so happy 2:13 PM Jul 7th from Tweetie
If I do want to paste with styles (which is rare) I can just choose it from the menu. 2:15 PM Jul 7th from Tweetie
Here’s a screenshot showing the Paste...
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Watchkatykelley:
Flash mob dancing is the new black.
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Rhythm, Rhyme, Results - Elasticity
I think...
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Trent Reznor on what to do if you're an...
jonmtm:
(disclaimer) This was written on a bumpy Euro-bus ride across the wilderness - may ramble a bit but I think the point gets across. TR I posted a message on Twitter yesterday stating I thought The Beastie Boys and TopSpin Media “got it right” regarding how to sell music in this day and age. Here’s a link to their store: [illcommunication.beastieboys.com] Shortly thereafter, I got...
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Mayor Announces $1.5 Million Investment Plan for... →
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a $1.5 million bailout plan that he hopes will create and retain between 6-8,000 media jobs. He announced today eight new initiatives for MediaNYC 2020, an arm of his Five Borough Economic Opportunity program…
[via DigitalDUMBO]
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Music Labels Reach Royalty Deal With Online... →
The conflict began in March 2007, when the federal Copyright Royalty Board ruled that all so-called webcasters needed to pay a fee, set to increase to 0.19 cent a song next year, each time they streamed a song. Webcasters said the fees would eat up most of their revenue, which mostly comes from online advertising.
Many of the streaming music sites had argued that all sites should pay a...
Shit's Easy Syndrome: credit card buckets and... →
Like many ambitious do-gooders out there I am always running around asking why x problem exists and why can’t they just fix this simple problem and what have you. This rant is a nudge in the line of thought that suggests, because implementation is way f***ing harder than you think.
Everyone else is arguing about HTML 5's video...
The commercial (though still possibly free in price) stuff is better than the free (and open-source) stuff.
marco:
Ryan Paul at Ars Technica wrote this great overview of the argument. In short:
HTML 5 includes a native <video> tag so people don’t need to rely on Flash or other proprietary plug-ins to play video in pages. It’s currently only supported by the absolute newest versions of...
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Birdman feat. Lil Wayne - Always Strapped...
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Rhythm, Rhyme, Results - “Elasticity”...
The Perfect Burger and All Its Parts →
Article includes recipes and techniques. Just in time for the 4th.
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