Category: Music

Doing my homework (reading blog reviews of Rebecca Blood’s weblog handbook), I encountered Cruftbox passing off a disgression as “navel gazing.” Having just titled a recent post with that phrase, I went into memewatching mode and decided to Google it. Lo and behold, a table of contents from Enterzone was on the first page of…

The History of David Weinberger’s Face

Get one fer yer favorite bitch

CNN.com reports that Mesa Airlines fired a pilot who tested positive for drinking: The incident follows two other cases involving commercial pilots allegedly drinking before flying.

I finally got around to playing back Lawrence Lessig’s copyright talk from the Open Source conference, following a pointer from bOingbOing. Cory is right. It’s a great talk, well honed, and one of the best slide decks of that type that I’ve ever seen. Not sure why I like it so much. Anyway, he says…

In one of my (ironically, typo-laden) earliest entries in this blog I discussed the difference between typing and writing, and the fact that I write with my left hand but type with both. The New York Times today covers a patent for a one-handed “stealth keyboard” that is more like a glove and a cylindrical…

From links.net: From the United Airlines Mileage Plus signup web page, a fantastic list of possible “titles” – name prefixes in a pull down menu: Note: I removed the form element, because it was breaking Radio’s aggregator, losing me at least one subscriber! Here are the titles listed in the pull-down menu (which you can…

To warchalking now add seachalking.

While I’m not a big fan of conspiracy theories, the images do raise questions and deserve, at least, a debunking.

There was a street in Berkeley called Grove. It’s name was later changed to Martin Luther King Boulevard. Some time after that the city posted a sign labeling the street “Old Grove Street.” Subsequently, people would refer to the street that way, which made B and I joke that it was eventually going to be…

Why you should fall to your knees and worship a librarian

In yesterdays New York Times, an article on AOL’s management shakeup reported that AOL discovered its membership was fleeing in the face of increased pop-up ads: A study showed that when the number of pop-up ads was cut in half for a group of members, their satisfaction improved notably. That led not only to a…

The Business Section of the the Rocky Mountain News has an article on Starbuck’s new experiment with online ordering in advance: In this latest version of clicks-and-bricks retail, customers order through the Internet or a cell phone, and in five minutes, their coffee’s ready at checkout. Charged to a pre-arranged credit card number, the drinks…

Adbusters: Meme Warfare