May 2009
38 posts
Fortune: Palm Pre syncs flawlessly with iTunes →
Shared by Toby Even though it’s not in Apple’s best interest, I fully support the idea of being able to sync any PMP/phone with iTunes. Filed under: iPhone We’ve previously reported on…
May 28th
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The Decemberists’s Hazards of Love live is awesome. Thanks for the show @colinmeloy and crew.
May 28th
ListenSome crowd noise because I haven’t posted...
May 28th
Yikes. Pulling recordings from the Tivo is slow. Evidently it remuxes proprietary streams to MPEG-PS on-the-fly as it sends. ~2MB/sec, tops.
May 24th
Wonder how much I spent on my birthday weekend. “I’m going to go pick up your cake,” she says. There are gifts in the living room. *Sigh*
May 23rd
Google Friend Connect →
May 19th
Verisign VIP & OpenID →
May 19th
Tori Amos’s new single free from @amazonmp3 — it’s exactly as generic and unremarkable as all her other recent work.
May 17th
Let the 90s revival begin today; got RU Sirius’s Cyberpunk Handbook & a 1st Ed of Coupland’s Microserfs @ used bookstore.
May 17th
May 15th
Attending a lecture on Swiss design at the Kansas City Art Institute.
May 15th
Coverage of today’s Google outage seems dominated by remarks about the role Twitter played in the event’s development.
May 15th
Jacob and Proto-Locke on the beach wearing black and white. Exactly the scenario Locke described to Walt in the pilot. #LOST
May 14th
Huh. Egyptian crocodile head. Jacob is old. Speaks modern English. I love a good #lost WTF.
May 14th
Drinking a cab from mario Andretti’s napa winery. It’s good. Who knew?
May 14th
Cigar box Fender amp →
Shared by Toby It’s a bit higher class than the smoky amp I have built into a pack of Kamel Reds. Someone did a lovely job on this Fender amp built into a cigar box. Cigar Box Amp Powered…
May 12th
RT @amazonmp3 The Decemberists emerge victorious over Coldplay. Get Hazards of Love for $6.99 through Monday: http://bit.ly/qLv3r
May 9th
'Columbine,' by Dave Cullen -- New York Magazine... →
“Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold did not go on a killing spree because they were picked on, or because they were pagans, or because Colorado had lax gun laws. Eric was a cunning, calculating psychopath who wanted to kill as many people as possible, and Dylan was a depressive who wanted to kill himself. That is it.” I thought it was because of rock music and video games!
May 7th
New giant Kindle looks awesome, and has native PDF support but no SD slot? Come on. 4GB storage and that’s *it*? ForEVER?
May 7th
I’d put this on my Kindle. You know I would. PDF: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0905.0624v1
May 7th
“[a] strategy of axiomatizing a mathematically precise decision theory within a fuzzy [Many Worlds] quasiclassical ontology is incoherent.”
May 7th
Dell injects WiMAX into trio of laptops →
Shared by Toby Just the other day someone was telling me that WiMAX would “never get here,” and by “here” he didn’t mean just Kansas City. He meant *the world*. While making a point to…
May 6th
Does every Slade song sound like J. Geils’ Centerfold?
May 5th
WatchWatch
Hilarious.
May 4th
Does Lithium in Drinking Water Reduce Suicide... →
Shared by Toby Yeah, but we have to consider the unintended consequences of mixing lithium and fluoride. Lithium has long been used as a psychotherapeutic drug, and treatment with lithium…
May 4th
I’m not going to pretend I don’t want to see the G.I. Joe movie.
May 4th
iTunes needs an atomic tagging engine like bad. It’s far too tedious to add stuff to Comments.
May 3rd
How Google's book-scanner cleverly corrects... →
Shared by Toby It sure beats guillotining the spine and ruining the book. One of the hard problems of bulk book-scanning is the distortion in the scanned images arising from the bowed center of…
May 3rd
Apple rejects Nine Inch Nails iPhone app update →
Apple’s seemingly arbitrary app review process reminds me of the FCC. “What can we say on TV?” “I can’t tell you that; it’d be censorship.” “Can I say ‘fuck’?” “You never know until you try.” “Fuck.” “You can’t say that on television.” “That other guy said it.” “Yeah,...
May 3rd
Netflix: Crowley →
This might be the first time I’ve seen an earnest star wipe in a feature film. Not horrible, though the dialogue is hammy; pacing and editing is clumsy.
May 3rd
How about a "The Chronological Lost" Blu-Ray when... →
Shared by Toby No; this would be as unsatisfying as the in-order cut of Memento. LOST is a show that rewards patient viewing and careful parsing by the viewer, not a popcorn-friendly spoon-feeder. …
May 3rd
“Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a Universal...”
– Immanuel Kant, “Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals”
May 2nd
A Curmudgeon's and Improv's Guide to Outliers:... →
Entertaining counter-Outliers argument. Sure, Gladwell’s evidence-by-anecdotes seems facile, but I’m pretty sure he never claimed to have identified the one and only outlier-making factor. Still, some good points here.
May 2nd
Virgin America: Now, with Absinthe. →
Shared by Toby I can mix a Corpse Reviver right now, as long as any old absinthe will do — and I suspect it would. I’m pretty sure the recipe appears in Harrington’s out-of-print Cocktail, the…
May 2nd
May 2nd
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May 1st