Category: Musicology

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • It's nearly that novel-writin' time of year again

  • With one lobe tied behind my back

    In New York my work laptop starting shutting itself off without warning. With the help of savvy Mac users at Yahoo I determined that it was a known bug with aging G4 Powerbooks wherein the trackpad falsely reports a severe temperature spike (“overtemp” according the log) and the system initiates a shutdown to protect itself…

  • Can I blog from my iPhone?

    Since I started at Yahoo my workaday routine involves riding a shuttle from Oakland to Sunnyvale with a big laptop computer crammed on my lap so I can work, browse the net, or as I’ve been doing lately, blog.

  • Invasion of the *funny* snatchers, you mean

    Our survey of the zany madcap futuristic scenarios of the 21st century takes us now to the year 2055, where we will learn from “a post-apocalyptic workplace situation comedy” called Mankind’s Last Hope who conquered the human race, why, and what they’re keeping the remnants of our ragtag band of homo sapiens alive for (hint,…

  • In the year 2000

    Friends and cow-orkers alike have heard me make the now clichéd quip about being disappointed not to have a jetpack yet, living as we do in the year 2000. Jetpack has in fact become a sort of shorthand for some awesome feature that probably won’t get included in a final design. I still remember some…

  • How you say I Know You Rider en Francais?

    Earlier this year a friend on the Deadwood Society mailing list sent around this video excerpt from a French film called Gimme shelter, l’Airplane et les Stones à Altamont. The first half of the clip shows the Dead playing “I Know You Rider” in Hérouville in 1971. I love the band from that era. Lean,…

  • A corridor of flickering light

    The Illuminated Corridor meets the Internet Archive. What does that even mean? To find out, I went to the source, Oakland artist, musician, and impresario Suki O’Kane: wake up!: What is the Illuminated Corridor? Suki O’Kane: The Illuminated Corridor is a next step in outdoor cinema: a nomadic public art installation that creates site-specific illumination…

  • I'm retiring the links for today thingy

    I’m trying to do more “real” blogging here these days and I feel like my Delicious links just drown everything else out. (Also a twitter follower mentioned being interested in people’s blog posts but not their bookmarks – I am now having my blog posts send notices to twitter – and that kinda made sense…

  • links for 2007-09-12

    Demand Satisfaction! :: You decide who speaks at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival plug for one of my panels and a good model for recommending others (tags: innovation sxsw sxsw2007) Protoscript Bill Scott’s amazing Protoscript is a simplified scripting language for creating Ajax style prototypes for the Web. With Protoscript it’s easy to bring…

  • 35 ways to draw more readers to your blog (a series)

    23. Write lots of numbered lists.

  • links for 2007-09-11

    Apogee’s Duet: pro audio at a mini size – Engadget dream on, dream on, dream on, dream until your dreams come true, yeaaagh (via poly.chromatic) (tags: music gear audio pro mini)

  • links for 2007-09-10

    Simple hackery enables free iTunes ringtones – Engadget for future reference (tags: apple free hacks howto iphone itunes music ringtones)

  • links for 2007-08-29

    Mobile Web Design ~ A Book by Cameron Moll (tags: book books css design development webdesign mobile web)

  • links for 2007-08-22

    Psychology Of Social Design » SlideShare (tags: social design networking reputation identity)

  • links for 2007-08-20

    FINDINGS; The Whys Of Mating: 237 Reasons And Counting – New York Times The results contradicted another stereotype about women: their supposed tendency to use sex to gain status or resources. “Our findings suggest that men do these things more than women,” Dr. Buss said, alluding to the respondents who said they’d had sex (tags:…

  • links for 2007-08-18

    Brad’s Thoughts on the Social Graph an aspect of portable social networks (tags: collaboration community FOAF identity interop network networking networks openid portable research social socialmedia socialnetwork socialnetworks socialsoftware society tags technology toread visualization web web2.0 webdev attention reputation presence) The Web as a loose federation of contractors — everwas Our human OS concept might…

  • Three things about me you may not have known

    via B (who did hers in email): >**Three jobs I have held:** vendor at Yankee stadium, freelance legal summarizer, assistant sexton > >**Three Places that I have lived:** Lawrenceville, NJ; Glen Canyon, SF, CA; Washington, DC > >**Three TV shows I like to watch:** Flight of the Conchords, Ugly Betty, The Wire > >**Three places…

  • links for 2007-08-14

    Data Visualization: Modern Approaches | Graphics (tags: dataviz visualization data design graphics information inspiration webdesign statistics)