October 2008
38 posts
“McCain could announce he’d bomb Argentina for being too near the start of...”
– Mark Steel: I’m frozen with fear – could Obama still lose the election? - Mark Steel, Commentators - The Independent
Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 →
A shame that the final, relevant conclusion is missed: do something interesting, then blog.
My Pops used to say it reminded him of Be-Bop
Exactly. Well, besides #1.
caseyg:
Lately I’ve been playing with 8tracks, a service that lets you upload tracks and then put them in a mix for others listen to as an audio stream online. You can also build mixes using tracks that other people have already uploaded. There are anti-piracy limitations built into the system; users can’t download tracks from the mix and just like when listening to...
Mix Feed for listeners + Comments for DJs
Check it out, I ripped off the tumblr dashboard and now 8tracks has a mix feed!
8tracks:
Late Thu night, we launched 2 great new pages aimed at giving both listeners and DJs an easy way to review “new stuff” of interest on 8tracks.
For listeners:
We now offer a Tumblr-like “mix feed” that serves up, on 1 page, all new mixes by people you follow on 8tracks. (Click the big “+ Follow” button...
“What the Bush administration has created in Iraq is a sort of paradise of...”
– The Great Iraq Swindle: : Rolling Stone
Here is some audio to go with that last pic.
“I thought a lot of those people were recycling a lot of ideas, like playing...”
– Girl Talk - TIME
Droog →
“As of Friday, a $10,000 investment in the S.& P. stock market index* would...”
– Op-Chart - Bulls, Bears, Donkeys and Elephants - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
This assumes that you’re not insider trading and diverting capital to offshore bank accounts. Wait, is that against the law?
As fucked as the U.S. banking system is now,...
I have been trying to get enough money in cash to pay the remainder of my rent for the past 3 days, because my budget rental company doesn’t take any other form of payment, only to discover that traveler’s cheques don’t work here like they do in the rest of the world; i.e., you have to go to American Express yourself, with your passport, if you want to change them without a fee.
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Swing State of the Union - Angry McCain Supporter from Sean Mattison on Vimeo.
I love how he spouts off about propaganda and goes off about how Obama’s an illegal immigrant from Kenya.
Nice capture Sean.
Swing State of the Union
“The real Web 2.0, the web of collective intelligence applications, is going to...”
– Tech guru Tim O’Reilly challenges next generation to get serious - Los Angeles Times
Buenos Aires Day 3
Still crashing on my friend Fabian’s couch. His place is pretty cool, and there is slow internet, but I came here to commit currency arbitrage, not couch surf.
Apartment hunting is a pain, but not as painful as in NYC. Porteños don’t understand how to use craigslist, and thus will interchangeably list weekly and monthly rates, number of bedrooms or number of ‘passengers’ (wtf), making it a pain...
Apple - Support - Discussions - Invalid DST change... →
Ah, Latin America.
Call me a dumb hippie, but I agree with Ryan Adams... →
Is it weird that I like Ryan Adams a lot more after reading his lunatic rantings?
efstein:
soupsoup:
muppetpants:dradams:
If you need a reason not to do heroin, read this from Mr. Adams.
Mad Mix →
Most awesome 8tracks mix as online performance art thus far.
http://keatingeconomics.com/ →
Oh man, they were just waiting for the right moment to drive the nail in the coffin.
Great campaign strategists.
Web 2.0 startups in two words or less
Twitter - pedantic egotism
Tumblr - narcissistic memology
8tracks - obsequious minimalism
Muxtape - DOA
Digg - nerd fraternity
Reddit - absurdist paranoia
Hulu - tolerable advertising
Youtube - modern censorship
Current TV - apathy exposed
OkCupid - despair exploitation
Indaba Music - confused
Soundcloud - musics future
Drop.io - fucking useful
Flickr - outdated design
Facebook -...
“I hate it when older teachers tell art students that art used to be good but now...”
– Jerry Saltz (via deepseathoughts)
God I fucking love Jerry Saltz.
Lefsetz on Myspace Music
MySpace Music is just as fucked up as the original MySpace site. With a user interface so complicated and so unintuitive that you bounce right off of it, to another site, the same way a meteorite bounces off the Earth’s atmosphere.
But it’s worse. I got the AOL click of death. Remember the days of dialup, when we had to keep clicking to tell AOL we were still on and shouldn’t be...
“Look at nature - in all its beauty, ugliness, sweetness, brutality, charm,...”
– Academics spat over intelligent design | Science | guardian.co.uk