Category: Music

  • When did the Nation get weblogs?

    Someone on the Well just pointed me to Katrina vanden Heuvel’s blog. They’ve got RSS feeds too.

  • Spring comes to San Francisco

    Rich Frankel’s got foxgloves coming up everywhere.

  • Ten years of public blather

    Today marks the tenth anniversary of my first post to Usenet (May 11, 1993). I actually posted four times that day, all to rec.music.gdead. None of the posts are especially memorable (though one gives a fair idea of my other favorite bands of that time), but I still find it noteworthy to mark the passing…

  • Product placement on the news

    Jeff Green exposes how some companies pay to have their products mentioned on the TV news.

  • Real convergence

    Geoff Faulkner has posted an informative article describing how he set up a computer-mediated entertainment center. His solution converges the functionality of his TV and stereo system with a computer for controlling everything.

  • Oakrageous

    A week ago today, before I realized how sick I was getting, I made it down to downtown Oakland for (second?) Oakland bloggers’ (and auxiliary) luncheon at the Pacific Coast Brewery, aka Ladies (& Gents) Who Lunch (or: A much-needed excuse to leave the house). What a great gang of folks, some familiar to me…