minor jive: Archive

Jan 1st

Dec 31st

I’m digging this Tumblrette iPhone app. Today’s posts and reblogs have all been from the iPhone.

Dec 31st

Some great best of 2008 lists

ericamay: Short of spouting out my top five albums of the year for Tuneage I was too lazy to compile any sort of musical best ofs (eeks- sorry!). Fortunately other people have a greater commitment to year-long summaries and here are some posts from around the blogosphere that are super worth checking out: Heartache with Hard Work: Top 25 albums and Top 40 songs I Guess I’m Floating: Top...

Dec 31st

Recession Hits Minority Auto Workers Hard -... →

Dec 30th

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-12-21) →

The Mountain Goats (30) Beirut (12) Sam Cooke (12) Grandaddy (11) Wipers (11) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 29th

furryrabbits: everybodycares: Range Life -...

Dec 29th

Disinformation, secrecy and lies: How the Gaza... →

Long-term preparation, careful gathering of information, secret discussions, operational deception and the misleading of the public - all these stood behind the Israel Defense Forces “Cast Lead” operation against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, which began Saturday morning. The disinformation effort, according to defense officials, took Hamas by surprise and served to significantly...

Dec 28th

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The Twitter API

bijan: I’m loving two great new Twitter products. And the most powerful part is that the Twitter didn’t have develop them. They came from 3rd parties using their creativity + Twitter API. Dabr I’m using a Blackberry Bold these days and I’m not a huge fan of any of the existing twitter clients for the blackberry. Dabr is mobile web interface to Twitter. It’s clean and fast. It’s just what I...

Dec 28th

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Whoops

I had posted a link to this blog post on Black Nerds, reporting that Sophia Stewart has won her copyright infringement lawsuit against the creators of the Matrix and the Terminator. Apparently this is untrue and is based on old, incorrect information that has been on the web for a while. I’ve taken down my original link and the extended block quote from the Black Nerds post to avoid being...

Dec 26th

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francisandthelights: Francis and the Lights -...

Dec 26th

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Little Blue Pills Among the Ways CIA Wins Friends... →

Dec 26th

Disqus Blog » DISQUS for iPhone: Mobile comment... →

Dec 26th

Shocking study finds most will torture if ordered... →

It is disturbing to find Milgram’s findings confirmed again—but I also question the ethics of replicating the experiment, even with the safeguards that were added. I’m no psychologist, but I think people who participated in the study may still be traumatized by it.

Dec 25th

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