Category: Music

  • Most amusing referrer of the day

    My favorite referrer of the day: A search on the “without bra on beach no writing pictures”&#8212:I like the specificity.

  • Thought he was searching for the real killers?

    This is probably all over the net, but I just got it in email from JG:

  • Jam Master Jay, R.I.P.

    Jam Master Jay, né Jason Mizell, was shot by two gunmen at a NY recording studio, cops say. He was 37.

  • Christian Crumlish is…

    I noticed Dave Winer posting about Googlism today and I’ve seen the reference riding up the meme charts but only realized after following his link that someone has wired up the Google api to automate the searching-for-“Your Name Here is”-and-posting-the-results-to-your-blog meme. (I did “xian is” at bodega back in June.)

  • Five years ago today

    Five years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, I started my first online journal, breathing room. It wasn’t a blog in the sense we mean today, as it was more of a writer’s journal, a daily writing practice, a place for unvarnished honesty and fleeting thoughts. But to me the transition from journal to blog…

  • Another attempt to ping the metaxian blog

    Hate to do this, but there’s no other way. Technicalia, but not interesting. I’ll report if anything becomes interesting.

  • Beck with Flaming Lips tonight on Conan

    My old buddy JG turned me on to Flaming Lips (finally) and when they added a second Beck opened for and backed by the Lips show, we got tickets, so I’m psyched about that. Yoshimi reminds me a little of OK Computer, but it’s hugely catchy and grooving. I can’t remember the last time I…

  • Let's put that 'Leftists have no sense of humor' meme to rest, shall we?

    from MZ: Actual slogans seen at the SF peace march on Sunday: Stop Our Crazed Government. Take Back Our USA.PEACE: Live In It Or Rest In ItOregonians for SanityBush: Inspect Yourself!War Is So Last CenturyBlow It Out Your Ass, BushNo War Go Giants and from dac: some more, from both SF and D.C. Blondes for…

  • Still unpacking blogses

    Having ceased posting new content to bodega, I haven’t exactly been tearing it up over here at x-pollen yet (which paid LJ users can add to their friend’s list as

  • Broken Esc key?!?

    For some reason my Escape key suddenly doesn’t seem to work, at least in the context of “vi”. It’s essential in that program for dropping back out of text entry mode into command mode (for such things as, oh, saving and quitting). I can’t find any references to broken Esc keys in tiMacs anywhere online,…

  • Timezones

    I’d like to see a breakdown of the living web (or at least the blogosphere) in terms of timezone codestamps on documents.

  • I'm baaaack…

    Geez, you go away for a long weekend and the pornographer blog knocks you back down to fourth place in the all-time rankings…. John McCain was surprisingly funny on Saturday Night Live. Got to watch the Sopranos in my hotel room last night. (Without cable I usually have to wait a year or so for…

  • Goodbye, cruel blog!

    Eh, I’ll be out of town til Monday night, at my cousin’s wedding in So.Cal. Be good. Read my blogroll for me while I’m away. Catch you on the flip side. Oh, and remind me next week to post about my minor revelation about personal filing. Hint: it’s all about journaling.

  • Send lawyers, guns, and money

    Hey, my triumvirate of motivations meme is getting legs. I noticed a visitor today referred from a post called [Python-Dev] Missing symbol in sre.py (Python 2.2.2b1) on what I gather is a list for Python developers).

  • Tweney on a mass-amateurization precedent (from my comments)

    Seems like today is all about followups and conversations among blogs. (For example, Mark Byron noticed my unfisking yesterday and wrote about it in his blog. My response to his response to my response to his original post can be found in his comments.) So I wanted to elevate an interesting thread from my comments.…

  • 'We only fisk the stoopid ones'

    Minnesota columnist James Lileks is a charming writer, if a little flashy (like the guitar soloist who uses volume and speed to get the inevitable cheer from the audience), who understands the web medium mighty well. As I study warblog jargon, I’m fairly confident that his interleaved, point-for-point refutation of a speech by Senator Paul…

  • WebCollage: Exterminate All Rational Thought

    WebCollage: Exterminate All Rational Thought

  • And in the darkness bind them

    Allow me to acquaint you with this moment’s meme: (via plasticbag)

  • 'Who is our enemy' meme crosses to email

    An old philosophy buddy of mine sent me this e-mail message this morning, with the subject “Help me before I get hawkish”: Despite some fatuous chest-thumping about the greatness of American culture herein, I find this indictment of Arab/Islamist culture hard to argue with, along with the claims about possible Arab responses to the situation.…

  • Yahoo teams up with SBC

    Read in the Times today that Yahoo and SBC are teaming up to offer a DSL service and compete with AOL, MSN, and EarthLink. Also saw an ad on TV last night advertising a $29.95 (I think) monthly rate to sign up for SBC/Yahoo DSL. Well, I already have SBC DSL and I’m paying $20…

  • News aggregator problems with forms

    Since Jrobb and dws and others have posted their form code, the strange decoding, unencoding, recoding behaviors of the Radio RSS Aggregator appear to have rendered my Delete button inoperable. Or is this just me?