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May 11, 2008

May 10, 2008

The car, the radio, the night - and rock’s most thrilling song

Travelogue round Route 128, inspired by Jonathan Richman’s “Roadrunner”

Steadfast and Strong

Steadfast and Strong

I love the free Red Sox "Sports Propaganda" posters that Dunkin Donuts is giving away. I'll have to buy a real screenprint once they're on sale again.

May 9, 2008

Miles of Styles

CD Purchase: Shawn Lee & The Ping Pong Orchestra - Miles of Styles

It’s Now Completely Impossible To Sell A Laptop On Ebay

I can’t imagine trying to sell anything of value on eBay these days — it’s hard enough on Craigslist, and that’s free to post to. “The cool thing about eBay’s support system is it will always answer your question; unfortunately, that answer will always be a form letter on how to reset your password”

TapeDeck. ▸▸ The tape recorder…fast-forwarded to Mac OS X.

Graphically lovely, and drop-dead simple, audio recording app.

May 8, 2008

Sunshine Project Uncovers US Military “Gay Bomb”

Tonight’s “30 Rock”? Not *entirely* based on fiction.

Processing.js

John Resig has ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript, using the <canvas> tag. John is officially one of the most scary-smart people I know.

May 7, 2008

Instant Rimshot

Because you never know when you’re going to quickly need to accentuate some comedy.

Chronotron

Excellent time-travel-based platformer — interact with past versions of your actions to solve puzzles.

May 6, 2008

Age of the Understatement

CD Purchase: The Last Shadow Puppets - Age of the Understatement

Economist wins acclaim from rap duo

Things I never thought I’d hear: Nerdcore rapping about The Economist.

Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery

Some great tips from Simon Willison on using JQuery effectively.

Radio One Established 1967

CD Purchase: Various Artists - Radio One Established 1967

Radio 1’s Live Lounge, Vol. 2

CD Purchase: Various Artists - Radio 1’s Live Lounge, Vol. 2

The Acoustic Alternative Album

CD Purchase: Various Artists - The Acoustic Alternative Album

Later… Live with Jools Holland

CD Purchase: Various Artists - Later… Live with Jools Holland

vi in JavaScript

Just what the internet needed… a vi clone implemented in JavaScript.

Twitter Charts

Nice plotgraph of your Twitter posting habits.

Richard Herring slams a heckler

How not to heckle, a handy guide.

May 5, 2008

nine inch nails: the slip

Another NIN album released for free download under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. It should be noted that Ghosts I-IV was the first NIN album I’ve ever bought, after enjoying its free release earlier this year.

LOLCODE It’s Everywhere

Flickr’s API includes LOLCODE as a return format. Duly noted for any APIs I might create in the future…

Mountain Battles

CD Purchase: The Breeders - Mountain Battles

Third

CD Purchase: Portishead - Third

Ghosts I - IV

CD Purchase: Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I - IV

Attack and Release

CD Purchase: The Black Keys - Attack and Release

May 4, 2008

May 3, 2008

Olinda

Schulze & Webb’s hardware prototype of a socially-networked open-source digital radio. Some excellent ideas for internet-enabled physical objects in the pamphlet.

May 2, 2008

5 Cats that Look Like Wilford Brimley

The most important webpage you will look at today.