October 2009
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“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own...”
– Oscar Wilde. Banned Books Week 2009: CELEBRATE THE FREEDOM TO READ! (via linguist) (via tristn)
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September 2009
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iPhone 3.1 Bugs: Got Random Freeze or Shut Down? |... →
Incredibly frustrating iPhone 3.1 abortion of an update continues unabated…as Apple ignores the mounting evidence. My phone is locking up a half dozen times a day, requiring a hard reset. I’ve missed calls, voicemails, texts, you name it. For the first time since I got this thing, I’m more annoyed with Apple than I am with AT&T (who’ve actually stepped up their game a...
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Spaceman 3 - Revolution
Sonic Boom: “I...
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MC5 - Kick out the Jams
Kick out the jams,...
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“I’ll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dilettantes,...”
– Iggy Pop, the infamous interview with Peter Gzowski on the CBC.
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X Lossless Decoder: Lossless audio decoder for Mac... →
Since I don’t do this nearly enough, I thought I’d highlight some useful free software that I’m a big fan of. XLD (X Lossless Decoder) is a Mac OS X app that does one thing, and does it extremely well: decodes, transcodes, and encodes lossless audio formats. Any time I pull some FLAC or Ogg files off of the Internet Archive, eTree, or the BitTorrent networks, I like to convert it...
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tuneage:
Take - “Fall in Love Again”
Take, aka...
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“He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of...”
– Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter.
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Browser Statistics →
So…is it official now that Firefox has surpassed Internet Explorer as the most dominant web browser? By my count, that’s about 47% Firefox, 40% IE (IE6, IE7, IE8), 10% WebKit (Chrome & Safari), and 2% Opera.
To be fair, these logs are primarily from W3C’s site and probably reflect the large amount of web developers who consult their code dictionary via Firefox or WebKit.
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“Faith means not wanting to know what is true.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via tmblg) (via davidkaneda)
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“As more great new companies are absorbed into big old companies, a whole new...”
– The next generation bends over - (37signals) (via theopie)
I actually deleted my account when I saw the deal. I had high hopes for Mint, but Intuit’s software and general presence has always turned me off. I wasn’t entirely comfortable handing over my financial details to a third party...
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WatchRecord Club: Velvet Underground & Nico “Heroin” (Alt. Version) (via Beck on Vimeo)
One of the highlights of Beck’s Record Club experiment, and a huge improvement on the first version they posted. There are a few others worth checking out as well…fun project.
Oh, and it inspired me to play the original album at full volume for about the millionth time, so no complaints...
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Watch“Perya” - a Canon 7D Short (via Vimeo)
Canon’s 5D MkII was certainly drool-worthy enough, what with its full-frame sensor and 1080p video…but at least I knew that it was comfortably out of my price range at around $3k. The recently-announced 7D, however, will be coming in around $1700 (body only) and is shooting 1080p at 24p on an image sensor bigger than comparable video...
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Human Sexual Response - Cool Jerk
More Boston...
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WatchPassion Pit - The Reeling (via Vimeo)
Another incredible music video, this from Cambridge’s Passion Pit and the visual artists at Humble.tv and Phantom Color.
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Watchdavemorin:
Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear on Vimeo (via Gabe Askew)
Grizzly Bear has a couple of really incredible videos; the attention to detail on this is impressive.
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In-dash iPhone OS
Something that I’d really like to see: an in-dash computer that runs the iPhone OS. Basically it would be an iPhone, but running on a larger touchscreen (maybe 6”x4”?). The audio would be piped through the car’s system, calls would behave as if you were on speakerphone, and you could run all your apps on the bigger screen. I’m thinking that apps like Pandora would be...
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Pharos - Pintor
It’s been a surf rock kind...
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Titus Andronicus - Titus Andronicus
More evidence...
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iPhones Overload AT&T's Network, Angering... →
Yes…angered because we pay substantially more for data rates*, and AT&T knew this going in…yet they trumpeted their newfound profits instead of pouring that money back into the network.
* $30 a month for data PLUS $15 for text, which is patently absurd…how is text not data? Nevermind the neverending MMS and tethering delays.
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theopie:
Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat — Beck
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Venom - Live at City Gardens (recorded by Black...
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“My dad became a statistic—merely one of the roughly 100,000 Americans whose...”
– How American Health Care Killed My Father - The Atlantic (September 2009)
Please read this. I linked to it earlier today, but I wanted to make sure everyone reads this article. I trained in Peter Provonost’s department at Hopkins. He and his people were the ones that taught me to look at all of...
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My Gmail is broken.
notesfromundervault:
peterwknox:
josh:
I want to cry.
Someone AIM me when it’s back up. = peterwknox
I guess we’ll all have to work or something.
I had Gmail at work for two weeks, loved it, and then THE MAN went and blocked it.
I am the oppressed :-(
I used to work at a large firm with a somewhat oppressive web policy, and I was able to sneak by the filter through a combination of...