August 2008
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Sitting on a cliff overlooking the Atlantic. http://twitpic.com/9hjd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-24) →
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
The Kinks
U2
The Police
The Feelies
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Feeling relaxed… belly full of seafood… beginning to remember what life is all about. That only took 5 days.
12 miles on the bike… The intention was a leisurely ride.
Which beach should we go to today… Hmmm… Decisions, decisions
Decided on Arnold’s. I think it was a good choice.
Off to the beach, Cape Cod here we come
Afternoon nap time… Biggest problem: deciding where today’s lobster roll will come from
I work with some pretty amazing people
Dealbreaker - A Wall Street Tabloid - Business... →
Dealbreaker - A Wall Street Tabloid - Business News Headlines and Financial Gossip - Goldman Forces
Source: dealbreaker.com
DealBreaker is an online business tabloid and Wall Street…
Looking For the Mouse →
Originally posted in ct2
Clay Shirky is my favorite tech evangelist these days. I resonate with what he says and especially how he says it. A video of a talk he did recently reverberated…
Elderly Chinese Women Sentenced to "Re-Education" →
Chinese authorities have sentenced two elderly women to a
year of “re-education” through labor because they repeatedly sought permits to
protest in one of the official Olympic protest…
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Culture Shapes How People See Faces →
Culture shapes perception so fundamentally that it may determine the way we look at faces.
East Asians focus their gazes on the center of faces; Westerners looked to first the eyes,…
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Magazine Preview - Barack Obama, A... →
Magazine Preview - Barack Obama, A Free-Market-Loving, Big-Spending, Fiscally Conservative Wealth Re Source: www.nytimes.com Barack Obama is both more left-wing and more right-wing than…
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Music Review - The Walkmen at the Bowery Ballroom... →
Music Review - The Walkmen at the Bowery Ballroom - New Focus, Same Sonic Grandeur - Review - NYTime Source: www.nytimes.com The Walkmen showed perspective as well as purpose on Monday,…
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Very Long-Term Backup →
Originally posted in Long Now>
Paper, it turns out, is a very reliable backup medium for information. While it can burn or dissolve in water, good acid-free versions of paper are otherwise…
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Elderly Chinese Women Sentenced to "Re-Education" →
Chinese authorities have sentenced two elderly women to a year of “re-education” through labor because they repeatedly sought permits to protest in one of the official Olympic protest…
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physical information sculptures →
a collection of physical data sculptures made from found objects of graphs & charts mapping a variety of datasets. the linear geometric forms could easily be dismissed as homage to minimalist…
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Frost Sparkling on Mars Phoenix Lander Mirror →
Mars Phoenix sent home a series of images of frost accumulating on the mirror of the telltale —a four-inch instrument used to sense wind direction and velocity on the lander. Although…
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Steve Jobs vows iPhone app crash fix for September... →
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider: Steve Jobs vows iPhone app crash fix for September — iPhone owners suddenly locked out of their third-party apps by a crash bug on startup will have a…
Perhaps Pandora Must Be Our Sacrificial Lamb →
Pandora made a bold political statement today, saying they’d likely shut down rather than continue to pay exorbitant fees to play music to …
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Copyfight: RIAA "problem" shutters online-music... →
Muxtape a New York-based online-music startup much favored by the Tumblr set has shut down its website citing a problem
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-17) →
Johnny Cash
Derek and The Dominos
Faces
The Who
The Modern Lovers
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Old-time Baltimore was green long before living... →
Every time I hear about how we need to live more green, I chuckle. Nothing new. I was raised that way - and so were many fellow thrifty Baltimoreans in the 1950s.
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Terra Sigillata : A celebration of life-saving natural products a backgrounder on statins, the cholesterol reducing drug
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Pontiac Turbo Trans Am Daytona 500 Pace Car: Feel... →
Oh baby, can you feel those short hairs on the back of your neck growing? Here’s a pristine 1981 Pontiac Turbo Trans Am down at the Woodward Dream Cruise that’s so complete it even has…
thinking that I may possibly be over my cold.
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thinking that I may possibly be over my cold.
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Subtraction: Highly Demographic Language are designers marketers?
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These Colors Never Run, But They Do Fade In The... →
The California sun tends to be hard on bumper stickers, especially those from the Desert Storm era slapped on the chalky tailgate of a junked 70s Jeep Cherokee.
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Nation To Leave Olympics On In Background →
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“All music is folk music, I ain’t never heard no horse sing a song”
– Louis Armstrong (via newspeedwayboogie)
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GraphJam: Pop culture for people in cubicles. (AKA Song Chart Meme)
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Is Google a Media Company? - NYTimes.com →
“Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case,” said Jason Calacanis, the chief executive of Mahalo, a search engine that relies on editors to create pages on a variety of subjects. “They are competing for talent, for advertisers and for users” with content sites, he said.
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WatchChange Congress: Netroots Nation Keynote - Laurence Lessig
Change Congress is a movement to build support for basic reform in how our government functions. Using our tools, both candidates and citizens can pledge their support for basic changes to reduce the distorting influence of money in Washington. Our community will link candidates committed to a reform with volunteers and contributors who...
“Not long ago, we came up with an interesting set of facts: A billion hours ago,...”
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Roberto Goizueta, in a Coca-Cola Company annual report (via unalone) (via superamit) (via chetgulland)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-10) →
Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros
The Kinks
Frightened Rabbit
The Walkmen
My Morning Jacket
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Isaac Hayes, Deep-Voiced Soul Icon, Is Dead at 65 →
Isaac Hayes, the baldheaded, baritone-voiced soul crooner who laid the groundwork for disco and whose ”Theme From Shaft” won both Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon after he collapsed near a treadmill, authorities said. He was 65.
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For Opening Ceremony, Beijing Told Rain to Go Away →
What other government in the world, for what other reason, would be able to “guarantee” the weather? One of the biggest feats of China’s spectacular opening ceremony on Friday wasn’t inside…
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All Points West Saturday: More Radiohead, More... →
Saturday’s weather was immaculate for day two of the All Points West music festival in Liberty State Park, New Jersey; unusually cool and crisp, with a fresh breeze off the harbor and spectacular…
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Large Hadron Collider Begins Testing →
The Large Hadron Collider, soon-to-be the world’s most powerful atom smasher, begins testing this weekend. CERN will fire the first test beam through one of the particle accelerator’s…
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All Points West Day One: Radiohead Returns to... →
Aside from a passing shower in the afternoon, the weather at Liberty State Park was unseasonably mild and sunny yesterday for day one of the “inaugural” All Points West rock festival. The grassy…
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Charles Arthur: What is the father of internet invention? | Technology | guardian.co.uk Comments on a plethora of useless innovation and a lack of useful innovation: “While it’s true that necessity is the mother of invention, it has a father too. I think it’s observation: spotting where that necessity is.”
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http://twitpic.com/6ybd - smash and grab on Henry St.
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Watching Firefly, they’re using Thule roof racks as space age coffins.
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The Hold Steady - Stay Positive →
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive via Seeqpod
