Category: Music
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The perfect pink margarita
*as promised via twitter:* Serves 6: 7 limes 1 blood orange 4 mandarin oranges (medium sized) 1 pink grapefruit 8 fl.oz. Patron reposado 6 fl.oz. Cointreau (or Patron Citronge or any decent triple sec) rock salt table salt 3 ice trays of cubes 1. Put six cocktail glasses in the freezer to chill. 2. Reserve…
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Building my sxsw schedule
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Invincibility overrated
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman My review rating: 4 of 5 starsSomething Jonathan Lethem might have cooked up after watching all three seasons of the Venture Brothers while perusing the Watchmen graphic novel. I enjoyed it! View all my reviews.
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unbook, that's the word I was looking for
Dave Gray articulates clearly some ideas I’ve been wrestling with about writing, publishing, bookmaking, the web, and social collaboration: The unbook View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: books book)
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Too risky!
Looks like Jay Smooth has decoded the McCain ad strategy: (via Vivirlatino via Jenternational)
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Get Your War On says time for us to come together
to kill all the bankers and steal their money:
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…and we're back
Holy Christ that was a giant pain in the ass. On the bright side I may have gotten a whole chapter for my book on presence, all about what it’s like to have a longstanding web presence offline for six weeks or more. As far as the Internet is concerned you might as well be…
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System going down in 10 minutes. Please finish up….
This blog, this domain, and all of my other Mediajunkie domains are going offline for about a week. We are retooling our server, migrating from RHL to Ubuntu, and generally tightening up security. If I have a burning need to blog while this site is down, I’ll do it over at Vox. See you in…
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Etymology of monk dimin'?
First of all, let me just say that I completely love Achewood. The comic is funny, clever, well written, hip, profane, and sometimes astonishing. In a recent strip, Beef commiserates with Ray because Ray is going bald (or is it mange?), and he uses an expression to describe going bald: monk dimin’. I did a…
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Question about OpenID data policies
Just when I was really starting to enjoy not blogging, I find myself compelled to ramp up the post-o-matic for the new year. I was just writing a comment on a recent blog entry from Chris Messina and decided to use my OpenID identity attached to this blog (although actually brokered by MyOpenID.com, which presented…
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The twelve-month review
Levi Asher tagged me with a meme, according to which I am to list the first sentence of the first post of each month for the past year. I’m game: * January: “The talented Lisa Williams has launched Placeblogger” (Local blogging gets a site) * February: “Grab your preferred username at Useless Account before someone…
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Calendar made of people
The big version of the human calendar is amazing! The portable version is kind of cool too. From Craig Griffen, who also brought you the human clock.
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I am not Spock
I trust these people but why lodge that information with Spock.com?
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Voice over iPod?
Remember when I said that an iPod touch with wifi and Skype (or similar) would obviate the need for an iPhone? Well, according to the unofficial Apple weblog, that day may be closer than ever: > [iPod] touch hacker eok has ported Samuel’s SvSIP to the iPod. SvSIP uses the SIP protocol to connect to…
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A message to you, Rudy
Since Rudy Giuliani is running for president of 9/11, WFMU is running a remix contest encouraging people to put together tracks using his incessant invocation of that day (when his command center proved to be so ill-placed): > Here’s over two minutes of wall to wall September Eleventh’s, courtesy of America’s mayor. Your mission: turn…
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Discovering Louise Nevelson
So yesterday B and I went into SF in the afternoon to visit our friends D and P and get some cultcha. We went to the deYoung museum in Golden Gate Park and took in the Louise Nevelson exhibit. For some reason I did not know who Nevelson was. I read her bio on the…
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Slow blogging ahead, or behind?
Yeah, what she said: FringeHog: In Praise of Slow Blogging. Or is it a he? There’s no byline and several authors for the site. Whatever. Also, should I get an OLPC (one laptop per child) XO laptop in the buy one / donate one program? They look like they might be a great conference tool.…
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My photos from Oaxaca
Well it took nearly forever, but I’ve finally got all my photos from my trip to Oaxaca posted to Flickr. I organized them into umpteen sets by event and then collected those all together into one master collection, linked from earlier in this sentence. The badge in this entry points to the same photos except…
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Stumbling out of the gate
I’m feeling a bit under the weather, fighting off some kind of bug. That’s my first excuse. I woke up on time today after going to be really early last night. I was exhausted. I got up, put the coffee on, and sat down to fold some laundry. The cat was still asleep, which is…
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It's nearly that novel-writin' time of year again