August 2009
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Something about that first beat reminded me of the...
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On Heuristics and Human Factors, by Will Shipley →
The field of computer interaction is still in its infancy. Computers are too hard to use, they require us to waste our brains learning too many things that aren’t REAL knowledge, they’re just stupid computer conventions.
It’s up to us to fix this.
I was so close to majoring in human factors engineering.
[via Gruber]
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Just to finish this show and tell, here’s...
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Friday Slink (rainy): Underworld
Underworld - Glam Bucket
[via dp’s 8tracks mix]
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Some health care numbers
mrgan:
Every health care debate swings between emotional and number-based arguments. On the emotional front, those in favor of universal, government-backed health care empathize with the uninsured, while the free-market proponents warn about the nanny state and ask why they should be expected to pay for others’ bills.
That game can be played forever, and neither side is likely to convert the...
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Is It OK to Blog About a Public Figure... →
Depends on what you say, it turns out.
Last week Judge Joan Madden ordered Google to identify the anonymous blogger whose site … slammed the fashion model Liskula Cohen. Madden found the blogger’s writing, including the assertion that Cohen is a “psychotic, lying, whoring … skank,” to be “reasonably susceptible to a defamatory connotation.” That is, Cohen has the basis for a lawsuit and is...
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The RRR science album is selling like whoa right...
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Picnic (8tracks)
From Picnic, an 8track mix by dp.
The song that really caught my attention (so far) is “Pale Horses (Apparat Remix)” by Moby. A stroll through the mix comments reveals I’m not alone.
(Download the track here at RCRD LBL).
Are you the shoe store with the coffee shop next...
Ate breakfast at a hole-in-the-wall coffee shop this morning. Just realized I left something there. Wanted to find out if they actually have it before I head across town to retrieve it, but had no idea what it’s called. What would you do?
I looked up the street on Google maps street view, found a story nearby with lettering I could make out (“Shoe shine shoe repair”), looked...
iPhone apps: a snapshot
Most used:
Tweetie (mobile Twitter)
Droppler (mobile drop.io)
Encamp (mobile Basecamp)
Instapaper Pro
Shazam
Google Maps (with GPS = whoa)
Subway Shuffle (puzzle game)
KICK Lite (Unique NYC subway map)
BPM (calculates bpm of your tapping)
Neat:
Bump
Handy but rarely used
Flashlight
Surprisingly useful
Interesting:
Tumblr
Beautiful, intuitive UI, though I don’t...
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Friday Slink: Lykke Li
Lykke Li - I’m Good, I’m Gone (Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid Remix) by Van Rivers
Side note, we’ll be using SoundCloud for our new RRR site and I am PUMPED.
[via SoundBoard]
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Twitter: Location is Everything →
A new API will allow developers to add latitude and longitude to any tweet.
[I]f people do opt-in to sharing location on a tweet-by-tweet basis, compelling context will be added to each burst of information. For example, with accurate, tweet-level location data you could switch from reading the tweets of accounts you follow to reading tweets from anyone in your neighborhood or city—whether you...
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in Bb 2.0 - a collaborative music/spoken word... →
play these together, some or all, start them at any time, in any order.
20 YouTube videos on one page that can play simultaneously. More projects like this.
Textbook Publisher to Rent to College Students →
“I think it could very well end up being a standard offering,” said Patrick Maloney, the executive vice president [at Barnes & Noble College Booksellers]. “We’re renting books at 35 percent of the list price, and it’s only for hardcover texts, because paperbacks would get beaten up too fast. The schools assist us with collecting the books at the end, as they do with library books. The other...
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Hip-hopchestral
Among all the other good reasons...
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“stop suing yr street-team, stoopid”
– @wayneandwax
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Rhythm Rhyme Results - Regulation (rough mix,...
True Blood
Sara: i might watch it without you
me: *gasp* the gall
Sara: 2 mins
Sara: hard to resist
me: just the tip
Sara: ep is done
Sara: holy shit
Sara: HOLY S***
me: you can't live blog it to me!
me: no no no
Sara: i'm not live blogging
Sara: i'm just live reacting
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Thanks, guy
Two distinct phrases pop up here and there in NYC—especially between men—that seem perfectly fine here but could easily be considered rude elsewhere (e.g., my native Ohio suburb).
1. “Let me get a…”
This is what people say when they approach a food situation that involves someone else taking their order. It may or may not be appended with “please”. ...
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The xx - Space Bass (Jamie xx’s Remix of the...
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The Secret of Successful Code: Suck Less →
I really liked the software in general, but man, the crashing sucked. I reported a bug about it, and the bug was ignored. I kept using it through 10 new releases, and it still crashed. The upgrades brought lots of new features, but I didn’t care about them. Remember, the feature set only mattered to me when I first picked the software. Now I just needed it to suck less.
But it never did.
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Björk - Hunter (Skothùs Mix)
Sits nicely in the...
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“I’m not a lobbyist with all kinds of money to stuff in your pocket so that...”
– Craig Anthony Miller, who seems to be confused about healthcare reform and the people in favor of it
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Major labels are introducing their own file format →
It’s called “CMX” and it’s in the form of a single file that contains the music, artwork, and more.
[via @wayneandwax]
For years you’ve been using the well-supported, ubiquitous file format called MP3. It’s an international standard, it works just fine in every media player, and other universally-accepted formats are in place for the album artwork, lyrics, and what have...
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Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On (1993)
In...
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Eating Apples on Planet Calacanis
Read the full text of Marco’s reponse to Calcanis. If you’re hungry for more, it gets better.
marco:
I’ve seen a lot of people quoting and linking to Jason Calacanis’ recent article, The Case Against Apple—in Five Parts, in a positive light. But I can’t. It’s ridiculous.
Let’s start with an easy one…
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Watchazizisbored:
Hannibal Burress on Jimmy Fallon
Hannibal is one of my favorite new comics. He lives in NYC right now. That apple juice joke is so good.
[via pablog]
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Shazam + iTunes = SongGenie →
SongGenie automatically combs your archive for tracks with incomplete or missing descriptions. You’ll be able to get a quick overview of your music’s status whether you use iTunes or not.
SongGenie creates an acoustic fingerprint of every track to find out the title, artist and album information.
Not sure I’m ready to plunk down $29.95 for it, but this thing sounds pretty...
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Twitter link monitor →
I can’t tell whether this is useful.
Enter your Twitter ID to filter your feed for tweets that contain links