Pitchfork gave us: In 2011, we mostly listened to Turkish psych from the 1970s in our tour van, so I am ill-equipped to talk about current albums. Which brought Andy to propose: Write a Pitchfork sentence! Which made me say: In 2011 we mostly sang jingles from the 1980s and tried to fit them 1960s […]
HOWTO Use UTF-8 Throughout Your Web Stack at rentzsch.tumblr.com, via DF (tagged: webdev web programming UTF-8 ) Chrome and Safari extension to rehabilitate disruptive footnotes. at Ideon Open Ideas — a great idea but sadly doesn’t work on blog.founddrama.net yet; it appears to be looking for footnotes with fn embedded in the href… so perhaps […]
Super Mario Music (tagged: music mp3 games mario nintendo retro ) Notabilia "Visualizing Deletion Discussions on Wikipedia" — a fascinating data visualization project (via infosthetics.com) (tagged: visualization design data interesting )
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Microscopic Vinyl Record Grooves
Microscopic photographs of two full rotations of the grooves within three different genres of vinyl records. The grooves have been increased in scale from their original scale by 100.
Build Your Own Furniture: 9 Helpful Tips For Non-Carpenters at Wise Bread — resonates with me because I've been thinking about making a bookshelf or three… (tagged: woodworking carpentry DIY furniture essay todo ) Data URIs make CSS sprites obsolete at NCZOnline — yes please, anything to kill off sprites (tagged: css datauri webdev ) […]
Download Every Single BBC Radio1 Essential Mix From 1993 To 2007 (tagged: bbc music mp3 house mixes ) Pre- and Post-Workout Meals in 15 Minutes at Active.com (tagged: via:aspiringlibrarian food recipe fitness exercise ) Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adapter available, HDCP compliant at Ars Technica (tagged: Apple Mac wishlist displayport hdmi hometheater ) Fiction’s Dirty […]
I’m sure that there’s someone else way ahead of me but it feels pretty good to be closing in on 200,000 plays. And since it’s been asked already: 199,000+ represents approximately five years worth of play counts tracked via iTunes, iPod synchronization, and “nudging” 1 the playcount when we know something has been played off […]
Spoiled: Organic and Local Is So 2008 by Paul Roberts (at Mother Jones) — the gist seems to be: re-evaluate your assumptions about what sustainable agriculture means (hint: it involves more than just carbon footprints and whether/not the farm is organic; see also: labor conditions, see also: man-hours of labor) and maybe be prepared to […]
The 75 Albums Every Man Should Own …according to Esquire. Not such a bad list, actually; and surprisingly well-rounded and eclectic. (tagged: todo music ) The Case for Paying the A.I.G. Bonuses at NYTimes.com : That may strike many people as a bit of convenient legalese, but maybe there is something to it. If you […]