August 2009
38 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-30) →
Simon & Garfunkel (82)
Rage Against the Machine (48)
Van Morrison (23)
Ludwig van Beethoven (15)
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (15)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr…
So much of repugnant behavior is about getting... →
Here is an Easy Way to Get on My Blacklist
From my inbox:
Someone once told me that there is some sort of “club” where iPhone app developers meet every once in a while…? Do you know of such a thing in NYC? Or any other place/network where I could potentially find developers?
Response:
Yes, I heard they work for 2 cans of Mountain Dew / hr and are trying to find Wall Street folks with no technical knowledge and ideas...
Sometimes User Feedback Results in Smiles instead... →
The grain dilemma →
Fwd: Tao Te Ching (04 of 14)
Daily lit is a great way to cache books onto my Blackberry (grr, no kindle app). Here’s a chapter from Lao Tzu that I particularly enjoyed.
————— Forwarded message ————— From: DailyLit <books@dailylit.com> Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:20 AM Subject: Tao Te Ching (04 of 14) TAO TE CHING by Lao Tzu PART 1. (CONT’D) Ch. 18. 1....
gbattle:
Bob Parsons, CEO of GoDaddy.com, gives his take on Twitter with hot chicks, wacky graphics, and soapbox banter. The infomercial style video has been around a while, but I only saw it today for the first time. Yes, the same guy that made buying domain names sexy is a better Twitter salesman than Biz, Ev or Jack (sorry guys) ever could be for the mainstream set. Don’t be fooled by Bob’s...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-23) →
London Concertante (81)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt & Concentus Musicus Wien (30)
Van Morrison (29)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (24)
Marjana Lipovsek, Nikolaus Harnoncourt & Concentus…
The American Breakfast
alimentary:
Breakfast: there is no meal that I anticipate more highly, and no other meal leaves me feeling more guilty. The American breakfast consistently consists of 3 groups: starch, meat, and eggs. The stars of the show are the meat and the eggs. What’s with the cholesterol attack?! I’m getting sick of this….
Even if I go to a fancy restaurant and order the spinach quiche (hoping to get some...
How to Effectively Use Sharing Links in Automated... →
Ignoring pyc and other file patterns in Subversion →
Redirect Output of Cron Task to File (both stdout... →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-16) →
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (55)
Ludwig van Beethoven (32)
MGMT (13)
Millencolin (13)
Lupe Fiasco (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Proximity Perqs of AWS: Free and Fast Data... →
Something Between Guacamole and Salsa →
Auto Link Plain Text URLs in Python →
Send To Tumblr And Track With Bitly Google Reader... →
Running Barefoot First Thoughts →
betaworks – Notes from our Lifehacks session →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-9) →
Van Morrison (71)
Fleetwood Mac (58)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (33)
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (30)
Burning Spear (28)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by …
Selling a Bunch of Stuff on Craigslist
I am selling a bunch of household stuff on craigslist (including a 1 pood kettlebell) before I move to a different apt (same hood, I hope). Please let me know if you want any of these:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/app/1314642987.html http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/hsh/1314648224.html http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/hsh/1314651051.html...
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be...
– William Morris (via superamit) (via davemorin)
Note to self: do this.
Take a look at how Apple would be able to quickly build a large search engine...
– Image by ThiagoMartins via Flickr
Schmidt Resignation: Is Apple Building Apple Search Service? - SiliconValleyWatcher
Rafer sez: I thought this was a silly statement for the first 30 seconds. And, then I flipped.
I bet that I’d switch to search.apple.com — and I’m only a laptop fanboy, not an...
Very Useful Message Parsing in Gmail Made My Day →
How to Think Constructively About Healthcare –... →
Business Cards Have Google Maps Now →
Meaningful Referrer Data and Semantic Web →
Health = Long Lasting Functional Ability: The... →
The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via reluctantbuddha)
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that...
– Stanley Kubrick (via affremblequotes)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-2) →
Van Morrison (164)
Stevie Wonder (44)
Akron/Family (21)
D’Angelo (7)
Nirvana (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Design Bit: Export to Calendar Widget →
Start OS X ScreenSaver from Terminal Command Line →
Enjoy Salsa And Avoid Chips →