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I’m in love with the haunting/creepy/gorgeous atmosphere and isolation in Kim Høltermand’s Tuve.

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. (via @danbenjamin)
iTunes 109 — a small set of UI modifications that restores the color to the iTunes sidebar icons, returns the “stoplight” widget to its horizontal glory, and makes a few other minor changes. Unfortunately, though, it doesn’t fix those horrible checkboxes. (via yewknee)

“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.

The easy way to ruin your day.

John Coltrane - “Alabama”

Coltrane wrote the song ‘Alabama’ in response to the [16th Street Baptist Church] bombing. He patterned his saxophone playing on Martin Luther King’s funeral speech. Midway through the song, mirroring the point where King transforms his mourning into a statement of renewed determination for the struggle against racism, Elvin Jones’s drumming rises from a whisper to a pounding rage. He wanted this crescendo to signify the rising of the civil rights movement.

So. Good.

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 then the other shoe is going to drop. And hard. We don’t correlate our sense of responsibility with what we are actually producing. We correlate it with how hard we are being on ourselves.

As someone who has tendencies to worry about how much work they’re doing and to “push through” problems rather than taking (much needed) breaks to gain some (much needed) perspective, this article hits close enough to home to be sitting in my living room.

So, if you’ll excuse me, I have a problem that’s currently driving me crazy and walk around the block to take…

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.

Why don’t more software companies keep sexy lists of the things they’re working on?

“Did I learn anything about actively listening to and talking about records? Absolutely. I most importantly learned that if there’s something you’re passionate — or at least obsessive — about, it’s worth doing every day and holding yourself to. Even if you’re not getting paid for it.”

— 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

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