January 2009
6:30 pm and the subway smells of vomit and perfume; as a trigger for memories of New Years’ past I’d prefer that aroma of madeleines thing.
“A strategic inflection point is a time in the life of a business when its...”
– Andy S Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive (via thetapeleader)
December 2008
Headline - Every Zune 30 crashes simultaneously: dozens of people inconvenienced. http://bit.ly/8lKq
EVERY 30 gig Zune died last night →
Subhead: “dozens of people inconvenienced.”
marco:
(via jeffbaum)
This is hilarious. A software bug made every 30GB-model Zune crash last night at 2 AM, and they won’t reboot properly.
The Poem That Took The Place Of A Mountain
There it was, word for word, The poem that took the place of a mountain. He breathed its oxygen, Even when the book lay turned in the dust of his table. It reminded him how he had needed A place to go to in his own direction, How he had recomposed the pines, Shifted the rocks and picked his way among clouds, For the outlook that would be right, Where he would be complete in an unexplained...
The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What... →
DJ Shadow - The Number Song
Endtroducing…...
Gartner Says, “2008 Should Be The Last Christmas... →
(via didyouevernotice)
This is true as far as it goes, but when it comes down to it pretty much every Christmas since 2004 (at the latest) should have been the “last Christmas for retail CDs.”
Yes, “music labels should instead emphasize ‘digital first,’ making all new releases and catalog issues via digital services and moving CDs to an on-demand publishing mode,”...
4yo sitting on the floor, chanting “…freedom…freedom…” over and over. I fear that the revolution is coming.
“When in doubt quote Talking Heads.”
– britticisms is getting into abstract analysis; she wants to make intuitive leap. (via postpunk)
“is thinking how our best work is done when resources (time, materials, etc) are...”
– Twitter / johnmaeda (via wreckandsalvage)
“Embrace constraints.”
Remember that 308 page manual I twittered about yesterday? Good. Now; do you remember where I left it, by any chance?
Bonny Prince Billy - Cursed Sleep
Hud and Andy...
“It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.”
– Will Oldham. The New Yorker profile (via hud)
Trying to decide whether we are in the baroque or rococo stage of toothbrush design.
Jay Reatard - Always Wanting More →
Anybody got data (or thoughts) regarding what it costs, say, Amazon to keep an mp3 available for sale? [ref. Page study: http://bit.ly/lVmD]
Study Says That 90% Of All Digital Music Didn't... →
artistspaid:
katieschenk:
Despite all the possibilities the digital age brings forth, music is still slumping. While its helped usher in things like the viral music video, sales of actually music hasn’t become the money maker that CDs once were for major record labels. According to a recent study by Will Page, chief economist of the MCPS-PRS Alliance, (via Times Online), 90% of all digital...
WatchPretty sure I’ve posted this before, but since it’s the most awesome video ever…
Another blow to the paperless office: admitting defeat and printing out the damn 308 page manual.
Matt K. Shrugg - I Know People In The F.B.I.
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Trying to decide between Bollywood steel guitar compilation and Finnish psychedelia compilation for tomorrow’s commute. Bless you, internet.
It’s not unreasonable, exactly, but I find it weird that Amazon is recommending that I buy a Silver Jews album along with my kitty litter.
Been buying new cat food that apparently promotes brain development. Cats still appear unusually stupid.
Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream
No particular...
Pro tip: the secret to good chili is—as with most good things—bacon.
Sister and brother in law drove off w/our daughter’s bag of presents. Already called “not it” on telling her about it.
Side note: want to feel cooler than you really are? Get somebody to send you an email with the subject line “limited alpha (TOP SECRET)”.
“Popularity is not a validation of authority”
– Mark Ghuneim/mediaeater (via betaworks)
The Tallest Man On Earth - It Will Follow The...
Family traditions that I personally will work to preserve, installment one: the smashing of the gingerbread house. http://bit.ly/11gzB
WatchThe second annual smashing of the gingerbread house.
My mother just asked me to burn her a copy of The Tallest Man on Earth EP…cool on so many levels.
Dragging two whining 4yos to ice skating rink. Telling them about the “Present Liberation Army” that comes to the houses of whiny kids.
Drunk with holiday spirit, chilean merlot, and hot buttered rum. Not necessarily in that order.