Category: Musicology

  • Why do businesspeople love magic squares?

    I’m the same way. I love it when you can talk about all music as popular and good, popular and bad, unpopular and good, or unpopular and bad. I love magic squares. Is it because they’re very small databases?

  • Last week

    Monday I invited some potential speakers for the upcoming Waterside conference this April, had lunch with Phil Wolff and interviewed him for my book, and then deal with a flat tire on Eve. I wasn’t carrying my insurance company’s roadside help card, so I called B (on Phil’s cell phone) and asked her to call…

  • Found poem but why?

    I like it, but I don’t get why anyone would bother to send it: Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:07:33 -0800 From: “Terry Rhodes” To: Lenore Subject: resurgent toss divan soon sebastian infamous tomato boggle fortify bellamy

  • Mental association jukebox

    Nearly every week I shop for groceries at the Berkeley Bowl. Inevitably, near the end of my round, in the produce section, I find my mind humming the words “… yesterday don’t matter when it’s gone / Dying all the time / Lose your dreams and you will lose your mind / In life unkind….”…

  • Evil homeland security spam

    Disturbing spam received today uses the the language of homeland security and currency manipulation to get you to log your identity information into an insecure site (the link claims to be pointing to www.fdic.gov but via HTML link formatting in fact points to a numerical IP address and port number – 211.191.224.108:3180 – presenting the…

  • My pipes, my strings

    What the voice is for, what the body wants.

  • What happened to X-POLLEN?

    Christian Crumlish’s personal weblog, most recently called X-POLLEN, has been renamed. It is now called wake up and has been moved to xianlandia.com, as a more appropriate domain for Christian’s personal effects. Christian feels strange writing about himself in the third person and will stop now. You can also call it “xianlandia” or Christian’s blog…

  • The John Kerry blogosphere

    The John Kerry for President Blog now features an aggregrator page listing recent blog and news items that mention Kerry. [via Scripting News]

  • orkut groups are teh suck

    orkut is still pointless but at least now the friends you see on your home page are random intead of nine princes in amber. now i’m paring down my communities, most of them have little or no action or real point at all: it’s kind of like a patchwork quilt or the ersatz coat of…

  • Joe Trippi's new blog

    At his new Change for America website, Joe Trippi has started a blog. Just one post so far (“Still in the fight”) with 127 comments last time I checked.

  • I've seen a lot of states, at least

    (thanks to the Dead) World66: visitedStates

  • Where I've been (pitiful)

    Wow, I haven’t done too much of the world traveling I had in mind. (via camilo’s Mercurial) You can create your own visited country map, which is part of some new (in beta) collaborative travel guide called World66 (“the travel guide you write”).

  • Which world leader are you?

    What Famous Leader Are You? Bonus: Which rock band is your presidential candidate?

  • Political pr0n

    The Rude Pundit is shockingly right about everything! (via The Little Teapot).

  • Vote for me this Sunday!

    From: “California Democratic Party” Dear Christian Crumlish, Thank you for applying to be a Male district-level delegate in Congressional District 9 for Howard Dean. This email is to inform you that we have received and processed your form. Your name has been forwarded to the Howard Dean Campaign for their caucus in Congressional District 9…

  • Jewels and binoculars

    Freaky software malfunctions are currently making it nearly impossible for me to reply to email in the normal way, so if you need to hear back from me soonly, try calling me. If you don’t have my number or don’t know anyone who does, then that’s probably just as well. There’s a weird dislocating feeling,…

  • Life as a beta test

    When inviting friends to an orkut community, the interface should remove from the list friends who are already in the group, and maybe even let you know which you have already invited, in case they silently declined to join in which case things could get awkward. More: Brian Dear has some impressions of orkut too.

  • Relaunch as new blog

    I just commented on the last entry but that doesn’t notify anyone, so thought I’d iterate her that I’m happy to archive off the legacy RFB and relaunch in a new clean setup, though I’d have to tweak the search a little, I think. Hey, who added the categories? Good idea! Now they need to…

  • Hooray, hang out the flags

    Here comes President Kill again, surrounded by all of his killing men. Telling us who, why, where and when, President Kill wants killing again. Hooray, ring out the bells, King Conscience is dead. Hooray, now back in your cells, we’ve President Kill instead. Here comes President Kill again. Broadcasting from his killing den. Dressed in…

  • The great renaming I: the switcheroo

    Once consequence of my “damn the torpedoes” approach to web presence is blundering ahead and trying stuff without knowing what the final shape will need to be. I hope to learn from the consequences and if my tools make the work malleable enough and I pay attention, things will keep getting closer to what I…

  • The marketing plan

    It consists mostly of names, people I’ve spoken to or will email or have chatted with or plan to, many of whom I plan to quote, have interviewed already, or are being featured in some other way. There’s also the web and radio marketing plans to think through. TV would be good too. People have…