May 2008
47 posts
WatchClay Shirky on Gin, Television, and Social Surplus Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco Great talk in which Clay discusses cognitive surplus and the desire to particpate. See a full transcript here.
April 2008
53 posts
“For the past 33 years, I’ve looked in the mirror every morning and asked...”
– Steve Jobs Nick S shared Steve Jobs’ commencement speech at Stanford with me yesterday, there is even more there. (via fascinated)
White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
“I have seen the future and it works.”
– Lincoln Steffens (via pmarca)
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John Selya's Tweaker and La Voix
On my way to NYC for class Saturday morning, I read this great review of choreographer John Selya’s La Voix at Joyce SoHo. It was sold out, but I decided to go to the theatre anyway and hope for some no-shows. No luck. Just a few minutes before curtain, though, co-director Chris Freer offered me his seat in the second row! This was my first brush with dance theatre, and I loved it, but...
This was the best song Tokyo Police Club played in...
“Senator McCain’s not here. He probably wanted to distance himself from me a...”
– Bush re: the candidates explaining their absence from the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner (via mascarah)
Juno - Tokyo Police Club I’m going to see...
A letter to my boss
Dear Natalie, Nikola Tesla was one of the great innovators of our time. He has been called “The Father of Physics” and “the man who invented the twentieth century.” For your consideration, I post the following. I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking...
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi - Radiohead In celebration of...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-27) →
MGMT
The Old Believers
Frightened Rabbit
Man Man
Hjaltaln
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R5 Productions - Philadelphia
This started as commentary attached to my reblog of a Tokyo Police Club track, but it deserves its own post. So I’m going to see TPC next Monday night. The show is hosted by R5 Productions, a Philly-based DIY promotions agency, owned and operated by ONE GUY - Sean Agnew. All I know about R5 is what I’ve read on their super utilitarian website, and what I’ve learned through...
Just bought tickets to see Tokyo Police Club next...
The Ghost Inside Our House - Cloud Cult I am...
“You should remember that in many real life applications, the decision as to...”
– My Statistics professor, Lawrence G. Tatum
Bring It On Home To Me - Spoon (Sam Cooke cover...
DaveHyndman is my long lost music twin. I was...
Hi-Fi, M. Ward I’m taking a cue from Bijan,...
There It Is, The Old Believers I heard this band...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-20) →
The National
Frightened Rabbit
Tim Fite
Common
Architecture in Helsinki
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
WOW. Bjork. Brilliant. tuneage: Björk -...
Theme change
I changed my theme because Litewire’s center panel isn’t wide enough for some entries, like reblogs, which spread out pretty quickly. The overlap with the right column isn’t handled so gracefully in some browsers. So I’m switching to a one-column theme for now. Hope you like.
“The blogging revolution is the adult social network whereas Facebook style...”
– Fred Wilson http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/04/the-difference.html
The Modern Leper - Frightened Rabbits
Porcelain - Moby I just read a review of...
Semantic Web
A colleague of mine asked me earlier today about the semantic web. With little visible progress since this concept first caught my attention, it’s hard for me to stay excited, but our conversation reinvigorated my interest a little. So, a quote to mark the occasion. Of all that’s been said about the Semantic Web, this vision statement from the godfather of the interweb still says...
Tim Fite is at it again! I just heard a couple new...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-13) →
The National
Annuals
Christian Falk
Chromeo
Antony and the Johnsons
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Postcards from Italy - Beirut One of my favorite...
“For most early adopters (and all Mac users), the browser is increasingly the...”
– Gartner Says Vista Will Collapse. And That’s Why The Yahoo Deal Must Happen
tracks: bijan: I’m Going Higher - M.Ward I...
Pitchfork.tv →
This just f*cking blows my mind. The Pitchfork crew - those guys out of Chicago who started that little music blog when I was in college - have launched something revolutionary. You think online music videos are nothing new? Well, here’s the thing: most of this stuff is exclusive. What does that mean? It means the critics are now the label. It’s kinda sneaky - Pitchfork...
Dream On - Christian Falk featuring Robyn and Ola...
Ready for the Floor - Hot Chip This is the second...
Where Is My Mind
This morning I posted one of my favorite lyrics of all time to Lyric of the Day on twitter. “You’re so pretty when you’re unfaithful to me.” - Bone Machine, Pixies HOT. Well, I was listening to my favorite podcast of all time on my way home from work, and my boys Jim and Greg busted out the full length version of the Pixies’ Where Is My Mind. Greg described...