December 2011
2 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Brian Wilson (15)
Lady Gaga (14)
Faunts (10)
Justice (10)
Radiohead (8)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
The Mae Shi (14)
Saul Williams (14)
Okkervil River (11)
Brian Eno & David Byrne (11)
Fever Ray (10)
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November 2011
5 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
The Mountain Goats (38)
Saul Williams (33)
Peter Gabriel (32)
Ladytron (32)
Mos Def (20)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
Nero (41)
Saul Williams (29)
Wavves (22)
Justice (14)
Ravi Shankar (12)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13) →
Spoon (140)
Jóhann Jóhannsson (17)
Peter Gabriel (16)
Steve Reich (14)
Das Racist (10)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) →
Justice (25)
Das Racist (19)
The Streets (14)
Vybz Kartel (12)
Spoon (11)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
Das Racist (42)
Spoon (20)
The Flaming Lips (18)
Ladytron (16)
Mos Def (16)
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October 2011
2 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-16) →
Peter Gabriel (37)
Spoon (35)
Ladytron (24)
Dio (24)
Daft Punk (22)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
Carter Burwell (22)
DJ Shadow (18)
Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Laboratory (16)
Jim Guthrie (15)
Bad Religion (14)
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September 2011
1 post
August 2011
3 posts
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globochem:
Anamanaguchi - Rainbow in the Dark...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-21) →
The Very Best (25)
Rush (12)
The Beach Boys (4)
Chromeo (2)
Radiohead (2)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-14) →
Belle and Sebastian (11)
Jim Guthrie (10)
Kanye West (10)
Dio (9)
Radiohead (8)
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July 2011
1 post
Car Review: 2011 Chevrolet Cruze
The cars used in this review were provided by General Motors.
The Chevrolet Cruze is what I would consider to be an “compact car;” it’s not frighteningly big, not frighteningly small, good on gas, and is the kind of car I would drive to work in if I had a commute.
Most of my impressions are from a weekend where I drove from Miami to Melbourne, three hours each way. The...
June 2011
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-26) →
Beastie Boys (32)
Cee Lo Green (14)
Faunts (13)
Sufjan Stevens (11)
Dio (4)
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Short BusyCal Review
iCal annoyed me with frequent error messages about Google’s janky-ass calendar service being occasionally unreachable. On occasion, these messages would block the UI in such a way that required me to force-quit iCal.
BusyCal doesn’t! I’m willing to overlook some UI strangeness (goofy panels, fonts that aren’t pixel-perfect to iCal) for this.
Try it for 30 days...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-5) →
Faunts (69)
Metallica (21)
Daft Punk (11)
Brian Eno (10)
a-ha (2)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-29) →
Rush (17)
Lady Gaga (14)
Hot Chip (10)
jj (9)
Faunts (3)
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May 2011
6 posts
New Jargon for Gadget Blogs
I read a troubling article today suggesting that a plastic mock-up containing a printed-on screen and no electronics was a product. With that in mind, let’s clarify what wording should be used in this situation:
“make-believe:” a thing that doesn’t work, has a simulated screen, or contains no electronics.
“pretended:” unveiling a make-believe product
...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-15) →
Kanye West (24)
J.G. Thirlwell (21)
The Lonely Island (19)
Daft Punk (13)
SoulEye (12)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-8) →
Kanye West (25)
The Avalanches (17)
Arcade Fire (16)
Sufjan Stevens (11)
Daft Punk (11)
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Lisp-style "quoting" in ruby? - A question from... →
Ruby doesn’t support that particular technique because it’s object-oriented more than it’s functional:
[1, 2, 3].each{|n| puts n}
However, in 1.9.2, you can snatch a Method from an object using the Object#method method:
method(:print) #=> #<Method: Object(Kernel)#print>
5.method(:+).call(8) #=> 13
And you can even turn a Method into a Proc or syntactic block:
...
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Bitcoin Mining on Amazon EC2
This isn’t profitable; if you do this, stop after a while because you can get a better US Dollar to Bitcoin exchange rate basically anywhere else.
You might think it’s a good idea to learn how to use Amazon EC2 at some point, especially with their big juicy GPU Computing instances. Here’s how to use one to throw hard-earned US dollars away for fractional Bitcoins.
Sign up for...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-1) →
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (12)
Future of the Left (12)
Kanye West (12)
Passion Pit (11)
Pendulum (10)
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April 2011
4 posts
Dining When Attending a Conference
I’m going to LessConf this weekend, and I figured I should post some tips on how to get good service and have fun when dining with a conference group.
Forget going as one giant twelve-person party unless you set that up with the restaurant hours or days ago. You’ll take forever to get seated and the service will most likely suck.
Two or four person parties are best since the...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-17) →
Jim Guthrie (48)
Carter Burwell (24)
Daft Punk (22)
The Mountain Goats (13)
Jens Lekman (12)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-10) →
J.G. Thirlwell (23)
Arcade Fire (16)
Lightspeed Champion (15)
Gnarls Barkley (13)
Animal Collective (11)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-3) →
The Streets (14)
Jóhann Jóhannsson (13)
The Mountain Goats (13)
Passion Pit (12)
M83 (11)
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March 2011
8 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-20) →
Yes (28)
The Mae Shi (14)
Wavves (12)
Röyksopp (11)
Belle and Sebastian (11)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-13) →
SoulEye (42)
Chromeo (25)
Spoon (23)
Saul Williams (22)
Dio (19)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-6) →
Radiohead (44)
Chromeo (20)
Iron & Wine (14)
Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble (14)
Kanye West (13)
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The Obamas Make History With Homebrewed White... →
President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama made culinary history when they served homebrewed White House Honey Ale, made with a pound of honey from the White House Beehive, to guests at last month’s Super Bowl party. They are the first presidential couple to ever charge their chefs with the ancient—and now wildly popular—art of homebrewing, according to White House Curator Bill Allman.
How...
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I made some pixel art
Somebody else in chat pulled in the Reginald and Beartato from the Nedroid post I just reblogged, so I made some extra pixel art for other people:
Harrison from Nedroid. I made this one for myself.
Bartholomew from Nedroid. I made this for Chris.
T-Rex from Dinosaur Comics. I made this for Engimo.
Lloyd the Droid from some Android website. I made this for Clint.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-27) →
Saul Williams (32)
J.G. Thirlwell (20)
SoulEye (17)
Hans Zimmer (12)
Röyksopp (11)
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February 2011
6 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-20) →
Radiohead (64)
The Flaming Lips (18)
Arcade Fire (16)
Bag Raiders (11)
Dio (10)
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ubergrid:
In CASINO ROYALE, James Bond is the Bond girl. Look at the way they even show him emerging from the ocean like Ursula Andress. Sexual torture, too, if less creepy-glam than being stripped and painted gold. Vesper Lynd is Bond: never not in control, never without a plan, seducing to further her goals. She has to die so Bond can become her.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-13) →
Okkervil River (20)
Lightspeed Champion (15)
Iron & Wine (14)
Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble (14)
Hans Zimmer (12)
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Ticked off
bryce: just got a call from the vet who looked at nadia today
apparently she has lyme disease and her kidneys are failing :(((
are you…
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-6) →
The Beach Boys (24)
Daft Punk (22)
TV on the Radio (14)
Einstürzende Neubauten (12)
Bat for Lashes (11)
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January 2011
3 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
SoulEye (21)
Ladytron (20)
J.G. Thirlwell (20)
Das Racist (19)
Arcade Fire (16)
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Smashing your face with a hammer considered...
Or at least I consider it harmful. If it works for you, that’s good for you!
The title for this blog post should be “I don’t like to smash my face with a hammer”, which actually reflects that you don’t like it, and does not lead the reader to assume that it’s not just an opinion post. Please remember this next time you write a “considered harmful”...
December 2010
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
SoulEye (25)
Kanye West (25)
Daft Punk (22)
Spoon (22)
Beastie Boys (22)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-5) →
Kanye West (80)
Spoon (36)
Dio (27)
Brian Wilson (17)
Einstürzende Neubauten (10)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-28) →
Spoon (85)
Pulp (17)
Kanye West (13)
Dio (9)
The Venture Bros. (6)
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November 2010
5 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-21) →
Kanye West (27)
Spoon (25)
Belle and Sebastian (12)
Nine Inch Nails (12)
Animal Collective (11)
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