Reviews, new tunes, Top N lists, occasional song and DJ mix downloads, and other musical mash-ups.
Perhaps we’ll get a few posts from the road but tomorrow morning A. & I are out for a holiday road trip. A few parting shots before we jam out, however: Get your holiday/2006-year-in-revue retrospective mix at Synaptic Clog. (Yes, I am a cross-posting whore.) Careful with your bottle-opening methods: You know what they say […]
Via afoundobject: IF YOUR LIFE WERE A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE? So, here’s how it works: Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc) Put it on shuffle Press play For every question, type the song that’s playing When you go to a new question, press the next button Don’t lie. Opening […]
The “That Was So Last Week” Method (Last Played is in the last 7 days, Play Count is greater than 10, Genre does not contain Mix; Limit to 10 selected by least recently played.) The Smiths “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out” The Dining Rooms “Lucy” BT “Firewater” Gus Gus “Ghetto Belief” GTR […]
Cross-posted from Synaptic Clog: Writely Done or: How F_D Learned to Stop Worrying and Love NaNoWriMo The tunes that got me through the month: “Panic” The Smiths “No Names feat. Black Debbie” Danger Doom “We Will Become Silhouettes” The Shins “How Soon Is Now?” The Smiths “Banstyle/Sappy’s Curry” Underworld “Lift Your Head up High (And […]
Pertelian.com LCD add-on for your PC. (tags: geek hardware gadgets) zamzar free online media conversion (tags: software pdf freeware conversion) deephouse.pl (tags: house music mp3 dj) GTD: Project Verbs vs. Next-Action Verbs via 43f: your verbs are your Rosetta stone to getting GTD right (tags: language GTD productivity essay) DOSBox via Tao of Mac: an […]
A windsurfing, CSS-grudging, IE7-hating, web-developing, gigantic-machine-puzzling friend joins the blogging fray HiveLogic has a new Mac Pro: and wants you (me? us?) to name it Pete is rocking DC’s house party scene and Ben has the picture to prove it (don’t let the over-exposure fool you, this photo was NOT taken in 1977) I’ve made […]
The Bitch I’m Broke Method (Date Added is in the last 6 months, Genre does not contain Mix; Limit to 10 items selected by most often played.) The Rapture “Pieces of the People We Love” TV on the Radio “Wolf Like Me” Tokyo Police Club “Nature of the Experiment” Under the Influence of Giants “In […]
The Sampo Method (Last Played is in the last 7 days, Date Added is in the last 2 weeks, Genre does not contain “Mix”; Limit to 10 items selected by most often played.) TV on the Radio “Wolf Like Me” Midlake “Roscoe” Built To Spill “Goin’ Against Your Mind” Built To Spill “Mess With Time” […]
How-To: SSH tunnels for secure network access via Engadget: a pretty good tutorial on how to set up SSH tunneling (as well as what it’s good for); includes a link to a tunnel manager for OS X. (tags: ssh OSX terminal geek howto security tutorial) libwpd a library for importing and exporting WordPerfect ™ documents […]
fleep.com Awesome deep house mixes from a DJ in Japan… (tags: blog music mp3 house) The Magical Number Seven A good essay (article?) that talks about human attention spans and puts it into a scientific context; understanding this goes a long way for understanding usability principles – – especially when it comes to things like […]