April 2008
69 posts
The Beatles
Via catbird
Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer...
I can. And I will, this Saturday. I hope you’ll join me. Go to Shutdown Day dot org to find out more about it.
Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes →
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Photo of Honolulu by my good friend, Shawnis Low.
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus →
A great read by Clay Shirky regarding cognitive surplus in the Wikipedia Generation.
Signed up for twitter.. my life is now starting to fall into a deeper void of...
– Danny Glunz
Build.Last.fm
Build.Last.fm, recently deployed, gathers community developed tools for analyzing meta data stored by Last.fm. You can do some cool stuff like generate a wave graph based on artist listening patterns like the one below.
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Get iTunes-style scroll bars in Leopard
I can’t stand those old-school Aqua scrollbars in Leopard. They seem to glow bright blue within the new unified and subdued interface.
Long ago I replaced them with the iTunes-style gray flat bars and think they look much better. I only think of how ugly it looks without them when I see other people’s machines. Go to MacThemes and find out how to easily get iTunes-style scroll bars on...
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Black Cab Sessions: Spoon's Britt Daniel →
Driving around playing music inside of a cab in London.
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BrightKite Invites
BrightKite is a new social web app similar to Twitter, but instead of saying what you are doing you can add where you are doing it. (You can be specific or vague depending on privacy.) With this service, you could be walking around with your iPhone and it will give you an alert when friends enter the area. You can upload a picture of what you are doing as well.
BrightKite is Beta and invite-only....
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If one candidate’s trying to scare you and the other one’s trying to get you to...
– President Bill Clinton
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How to make a proper iPhone icon →
What is a perfect PNG size for the iPhone Webclip icon? For Internet Jay I chose Dan Dickinson’s 158x158 method. The real answer may shock you. Via Cameron Hunt via Fontblog
Country music is born when the country becomes a nostalgic idea.
– Columbia Professor of Music Aaron Brown
In$truction manual
jakoblodwick: What if money had instructions on the back? Basic economic facts, wise slogans, etc? I think it would be useful.
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DESTRO featuring The Baroness - Get Money
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HNIC Part 2
Prodigy’s new album hit stores today, but I can’t buy it from AmazonMP3 until May 6th. For a guy that supposedly gets Web and Music 2.0, why doesn’t Prodigy let me buy his digital album at the same time as the physical copy?? I’ve been anticipating buying this album for a while but now I can’t.
Oh well. Here’s an unreleased Mobb Deep track, possibly a demo.
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Prodigy keeps a blog
Prodigy from prison: P.S. ANYBODY THAT GOT SOMETHING AGAINST KEEPING A BLOG, YOU SHOULD STAY FARRRRRR AWAY FROM THE FOOL AND NEVER TRUST EM’. A BLOG IS NOT FOR EVERYBODY, JUST LIKE RAP MUSIC ISN’T FOR EVERYBODY. A BLOG IS INTERNET SLANG FOR A LOG AND IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT A LOG IS—IT’S WHAT BOAT CAPTAINS WRITE AND KEEP IN ORDER TO DOCUMENT THE DAYS OF LONG VOYAGES AND TRAVELS…IT’S LIKE A DIARY....
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Display the Apple Command Symbol in HTML
& # 8 9 8 4 ; in your HTML will display the Apple Command symbol (like the one on your keyboard). Remove the spaces between the characters; I had to add them to display the code properly. Related link: Special HTML character reference.
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And does Facebook really connect people? Doesn’t it rather disconnect us, since...
– Tom Hodgkinson, Guardian article
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Single-window mode Safari →
Single window mode Safari has changed my life. Though Safari 3.0 brought the ability to reorder tabs and the Merge All Windows command, Why suffer with other windows? Use this terminal command to change Safari to single-window mode and never look back.
The True Price of SMS Messages →
“So getting a SMS delivered is bit for bit 200x more expensive than getting a message hand delivered to your doorstep anywhere in the United States.”
TJ: jesus h christ im huge
Jay: yeah im getting pretty big myself
Jay: eating a lot of Frito-lays
TJ: thats real nice. i prefer to dip everything i eat in mayonaise first. its a great way to pack on the weight plus you get to poop like every 45 minutes.
Jay: so it's a win-win
TJ: thats correct.