Category: Music

  • links for 2007-02-28

    Geek to Live: Supercharge your Firefox downloads with DownThemAll from Gina Trapani’s Amazon plog (tags: firefox add-on plugin lifehack batch download wildcard pattern)

  • Signing up for the sake of signing up

    Grab your preferred username at Useless Account before someone else does! Today’s web is crazy. Open ID is a pipe dream. Every direction you turn you’re forced to create yet another account. Most of the time it’s for one of those throw-away web startups created 10 times a day, but occasionally it’s worth the effort.…

  • links for 2007-02-02

    ConvinceMe: Three Ways to Argue Online via trn (tags: reputation debate democracy social argument socialnetwork socialsoftware) Interesting(ness) post from O’Reilly (tags: reputation Flickr Yahoo! yahoo socialmedia interestingness)

  • links for 2007-01-29

    The History of XMLHTTP , and Patience – Nate Koechley’s Blog (tags: ajax xmlhttp xml outlook ria webapp webservice)

  • links for 2007-01-26

    Unmasking Digital Identities … (tags: identity digitalid privacy)

  • links for 2007-01-25

    What are stealth settings and how do I use them? – Yahoo! Messenger (tags: presence IM) Tagging’s Hip in 07 at Rareface (tags: tags tagging ego) Phil Windley’s Technometria | MicroID Plugin for MovableType (tags: microID identity digitalID claim blog microcontent plugin microformats extension) Flickr Photos – MT (Movable Type) Hacks widget for mt sidebar…

  • Pardon our dust

    I got tired of the old design and wanted to take advantage of some of the new-er features of the blog software I’m using, so I’ve temporarily redone the design with one of their canned themes. Soon I’ll start tweaking the typography and colors and spacing and such and adding back in some of the…

  • Feinstein can pry my MP3's from my cold dead fingers

    Adina Levin sent me a head’s up (discussed on her blog: BookBlog: Dianne Feinstein wants to ban mp3) about the resurrection of the PERFORM act (why am I not surprised Lieberman is a co-sponsor?): Hi, all. Don’t know if you’ve seen this, but Senator Feinstein has just re-introduced the PERFORM act, a bill that makes…

  • Local blogging gets a site

    The talented Lisa Williams has launched Placeblogger: PressThink: Check out Placeblogger.com. It’s About All Those Hyperlocal News Sites Springing Up… …via George, who pointed out the article in Poynter wherein it is written […] Today, Lisa Williams debuted Placeblogger, an online resource that lists and showcases placeblogs — so far 713 from around the U.S.,…

  • I'm a weiner

    The novel isn’t done. Well, the month isn’t over until midnight tonight, and I haven’t hit “The End” yet but am aiming to do so sometime today. But I crossed the finish line from the National Novel Writing Month perspective last night when I exceeded 50,000 words written in November. w00t! It only took my…

  • That time again

    Last year I did National Novel Writing Month and managed to bang out 30,000 words of my novel For You, The Stars. I wrote nearly every day of the month and averaged slightly more than 1000 words a day, short of the 50,000 word target for NaNoWriMo participants but still a heckuva lot more fiction…

  • Beaker sings 'Feelings'

    Today’s been pretty stressful. This was just the chuckle I needed:

  • Need that elusive chinchilla sound effect?

    Now here’s something useful:

  • Blogging and identity panel proposal for SXSW

    Hugh Forrest, the indomitable lead organizer of South by Southwest Interactive has announced a public process for voting on and vetting panel ideas for next year’s conference. Apparently it will take several rounds, with the first round narrowing down the 173 panel proposals. The voting is open to anyone, but the votes of past attendees…

  • Is ANWR as ugly as they say?

    Jim Goldstein was up in Alaska in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge recently and brought back these photographs. He says, “A conservative friend asked me, ‘Is ANWR as really as ugly as they say it is? This alarmed me a great deal after having one of the best photo trips I’ve taken to date. The…

  • Scaling back the blog(s)

    I just don’t post to RFB much these days. Nor do my other contributors. Does that blog need to continue? Should I put it to rest? I like the “this day in” stuff from the past, but of course a lot of it is dated. Is there any value to a legacy blog-on-blogging that doesn’t…

  • Snakes on the m.f. plane

    Oh, man. I can’t wait to see Snakes on a Plan, starring Samuel L. Jackson. When Mike Stillman posted

  • Analogy as the core of cognition

    I majored in philosophy in college. At Princeton nearly all liberal arts majors (and many of the engineering students too) have to write a senior thesis to graduate. I was interested in philosophy of language and wrote a thesis called “Is Metaphor Necessary for Communication?” In it I argued that metaphor was much more than…

  • My blogger code (2.0)

    Am I a geek? Yes, I am a geek. B9 D+++ T+ K S F I+ O X- E+ L C-\- Y4 R- W P+ M5 N N+ (via [Powazek](http://www.powazek.com/2006/03/000568.html), and wondering why they use N twice.) That is all.

  • It's not you; it's me

    I was catching up with ALLABOUTGEORGE and I was intrigued by his Johari window. (I’m not sure I’m brave enough to try the negative-orientd Nohari window.) It seems like a cool way to find out how you are perceived. If you’re interested in helping me with this, please stop by and pick a few adjectives…

  • How to do precisely the right thing…

    I’m here at SXSW Interactive and I’m scattering my blog notes to various blogs, depending on the topic and relevancy. This one is kind of general and about psychology so I’m stowing it here Raw notes from the Daniel Gilbert Presentation: How to Do Precisely the Right Thing at All Possible Times: standing in a…