June 2011
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"Rave On Buddy Holly" →
tuneage:
I love Buddy Holly’s music. His music is simple, charming, innocent, light-hearted, and a litany of other adjectives that all add up to “great”. As a tribute, the Concord Music Group has put together a collection of covers that do what so many of these albums fail to do: pay proper homage to the artist without simply parroting the original records.
The line-up on the album is an...
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The American Man's Guide to the Pronunciation of... →
As someone who’s butchered his fair share of scotch pronunciations in front of people who know better, I wish I’d had a list like this a long time ago.
May 2011
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“Design is never as easy as it looks from the outside.”
– Lukas Mathis
January 2011
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“When a nerd says, ‘We can build it better,’ he’s saying, ‘I...”
– Rands understands Not Invented Here Syndrome.
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Spooky Experiments That 'See' The Future →
Heady stuff…
One of the most respected, senior and widely published professors of psychology, Daryl Bem of Cornell, has just published an article (pdf link) that suggests that people — ordinary people — can be altered by experiences they haven’t had yet. Time, he suggests, is leaking. The Future has slipped, unannounced, into the Present. And he thinks he can prove it.
(via...
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"The Rise of Intellectual Property" by Carla Hesse →
The concept of intellectual property – the idea that an idea can be owned – is a child of the European Enlightenment. It was only when people began to believe that knowledge came from the human mind working upon the senses–rather than through divine revelation, assisted by the study of ancient texts–that it became possible to imagine humans as creators, and hence owners, of new ideas rather...
December 2010
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Bruce Schneier: Close the Washington Monument →
Securing the Washington Monument from terrorism has turned out to be a surprisingly difficult job. The concrete fence around the building protects it from attacking vehicles, but there’s no visually appealing way to house the airport-level security mechanisms the National Park Service has decided are a must for visitors. It is considering several options, but I think we should close the...
November 2010
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October 2010
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“Just because you’re not charging for it, doesn’t mean you’re not selling it.”
– Rands In Repose
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September 2010
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There, I Fixed It: iTunes 10 Edition
I installed iTunes 10 the other day, and I tried to like it, honestly I did, but the icon is awful and the monochromatic palette is depressing. Luckily, I’ve come across some links that’ll fix both of these problems:
iTunes 10 Replacement Icon — modeled after the iTunes icon used on iOS, this icon seems a much better fit than the yet-another-blue-circle one Apple went with....
“All of this data can wait until later – and much of it can wait until never.”
– Dave Pell, on the “urgency” of services like Twitter.
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August 2010
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Worry Isn't Work →
Many of us have grown up thinking that if we are properly self-punishing then we are somehow being responsible. “What, I’m a nervous wreck — how could I possibly take on more?” On the other hand, if, God forbid, we are feeling carefree, we have this nagging sense that we’re being downright irresponsible, certain that if we don’t get right back to self-flagellation...
I’m Not Pro-Gay Marriage, I’m Pro-Equality →
Derek Powazek gets it:
I’m not Pro-Gay Marriage, I’m Pro-Equality. I’m not Pro-Gay Rights, I’m Pro-Common Sense. I’m Anti-Discrimination. I’m Anti-Enshrining Your Queasiness About Buttsex In My Constitution. I’m Pro-When The Constitution Says We’re All Equal, It Means We’re All Equal.
July 2010
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“Did I learn anything about actively listening to and talking about records?...”
– D. Patrick Rodgers, on what he learned by writing his excellent A Record a Day.
“The programmer’s path to hell is paved with the word yes.”
– John Nance
June 2010
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New Theme: Stirred →
cubicle17 recently got itself a new coat of paint, so as I’m wont to do, I’m making my old theme freely available to anyone who wants it. This theme was easily one of my favorites of any theme I’ve put together, so hopefully someone out there will like it enough to keep it alive. Anyway, enough jibba-jabba, start downloading/installing/modding/whatever; that’s what...
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“We have to stop championing each ridiculous feat of overengineering and call it...”
– “Criminal Overengineering”
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May 2010
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April 2010
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Give Me Stuff I Starred
Not every day can be a winner in the busy-at-work department, and today was one such unfortunate day. I’ve been mulling over a new design for cubicle17 and as part of that design, I wanted to include the articles I’ve starred through Instapaper. So, to kill the excess time, I wrote Give Me Stuff I Starred, a dead-simple jQuery plugin to pull the last X links out of your starred RSS...
March 2010
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Create a simple timer using LaunchBar and... →
Justin Blanton:
The real problem with me is that sometimes I get so engrossed in what I’m doing on the computer that things like those listed above simply slip my mind, often to frustrating ends (e.g., a burnt pizza). In light of this, I wanted a simple and frictionless way to set up reminders for things that needed to be done in the very near future.
I’ve missed the “Run After...
February 2010
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“If you design something without any regard for or understanding of the end...”
– Form over Function: A review of the Cube Jigger
January 2010
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December 2009
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Repeal Day is December 5th →
Jeffrey Morgenthaler thinks December 5th should be the US’s official “drinking holiday”:
December 5th is the anniversary of the day the United States repealed the Eighteenth Amendment and gave us all the constitutional right to consume alcohol. I’ve been celebrating Repeal Day for years by forcing this information down the throats of my customers, and now I’m forcing it on...
October 2009
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The Manhattan Street Corners →
The Manhattan Street Corners is my working title for a project to produce a comprehensive photographic portrait of everyday life at street level in daytime Manhattan. Between March and November, 2006, I systematically photographed each and every one of the island’s roughly 11,000 street corners.
Guess that’s roughly 11,000 pictures I’ll have to look through to decide which ones I...
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Cabel Sasser visits the Kashiwa Mystery Cafe →
Explaining why it’s a “mystery cafe” will ruin the story. (via waxy)
September 2009
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Independent Music Manifesto →
So, if things are so great for the indies, does that mean loads of people are making loads of money? Not at all. But the false notion there is that any musicians were before! We haven’t moved from an age of riches in music to an age of poverty in music. We’ve moved from an age of massive debt and no creative control in music to an age of solvency and creative autonomy. It really is win/win.
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