January 2011
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
Sara Isaksson & Rebecka Törnqvist (57)
Frankie Newton (27)
Francis Farewell Starlite (24)
Talking Heads (14)
Grinderman (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Rick Seaney, chief executive of FareCompare.com, studied three years worth of...”
– Whatever You Do, Don’t Buy an Airline Ticket On … - WSJ.com (via kenyatta)
WatchConnected
Listening Room →
Listening Room is a website for listening to music with your friends. Anyone in a room can play mp3s from their computer, and everyone hears the same thing at the same time.
The Shawna Forde trial: Will the mainstream media... →
Mapping and analysis of new data documents... →
Emperor of Ice-Cream Cakes: Poems Are Jokes:... →
This is so cute. Long ago and far away I wrote serious poems and submitted them to places like Poetry, APR, etc. I so get this … Congrats, Patricia.
WatchMatt Haughey (Metafilter founder) at Gel 2010 (by Gel Conference)
As the founder of Metafilter.com, Matt Haughey has created one of the most successful and vibrant online communities in the world. At Gel 2010 he describes some of the lessons he’s learned along the way.
This is really really great. h/t @allaboutgeorge
Dear Tumblr
oatmeal:
If you’re going to go down, you might as well blame it on an imaginary animal like Twitter did with their infamous Fail Whale. I’ve taken the liberty of creating this animal for you:
Please use it.
Please oh please.
-The Oatmeal
Please say, yes, Tumblr.
“What I did have, which others perhaps didn’t, was a capacity for sticking at it,...”
– Doris Lessing. (via writingadvice)
Preach.
Why you should always encrypt your smartphone →
Excellent overview of smartphone data security.
“It’s tempting to equate what Beck does to yelling fire in a crowded theater. But...”
– Techcafeteria Blog » How Glenn Beck Incites Violence
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
The Kills (36)
Low (13)
Silver Jews (12)
Wilco (11)
Pink Puffers (10)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Twilight Calculator - "Blue Hour / Golden Hour... →
h/t petitchou
Watch1000xpm:
Aloe Blacc | I Need A Dollar (Live On Conan)
Well, mark this under pleasant surprise for a Friday morning - my favorite song from last year apparently got some great exposure on Conan O’Brien’s new show last night! Aloe Blacc got a little dancy while belting out his (in my opinion) career-defining track off of Good Things, which hopefully will allow a whole new set of people to see its...
“All children should have access to a good public school. And public schools...”
– Joanne Barkan - Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule Our Schoos
“To justify their campaign, ed reformers repeat, mantra-like, that U.S. students...”
– Joanne Barkan - Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule Our Schools
Read this article.
