Archive for August, 2009
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Google recently asked several online luminaries what they subscribe to, or read, in Google Reader. There are people from four different areas:
* News
* Tech and web
* Food and health
* Trends and fashion
Find someone on the list you know or like, you can subscribe to what they read. My only gripe ...
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
"Old" Diet A & W Root Beer can design
"New" Diet A & W Root Beer can design
I purchase soda for the office so I see several types soda pour down the gullets of thirsty employees. The diet A&W root beer redesign caught my eye. Both are particularly ugly, but ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
"This song is called Woof Woof; it is about a dog."
This is a video performance by Dan Deacon at Todd P's (which I think is in NYC). It comes from NOISEVOX who say of themselves:
NOISEVOX is an open music magazine and media network created by journalists, photographers, musicians, and you.
Not ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
So after getting my invite for Brizzly and signing up and in, I'm not overly impressed with this new third party, web-based Twitter service. Brizzly is just an ever so slightly beefed up version of Twitter.com. The basic navigation and choices are on the left instead of the right, like ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
Techcrunch recently posted a post about music sites called "Your Guide to Music on the Web -- Part 1". Here are the sites it includes:
Pandora
Last.fm
Deezer
Finetune
Amie Street
Jamendo
SoundCloud
TheSixtyOne
Project Playlist
Jiwa.fm
Jogli
MixTube
Lala
Musicovery
CitySounds.fm
Jango
RadioBeta
TheRadio
Aupeo
Tun3r
Play.fm
Some of the sites/services are very similar and some are naturally better than others, but all are worth briefly checking if you admire tuneage. ...
Posted in Internet, Music, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
There's not much information about the video above on its website. But it is basically a 3D drawing tool called "Rhonda". Looks pretty mind blowing. Rhonda is currently being developed for "various platforms" and you can enter to become a beta tester.
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Archivists are currently cataloging Andy Warhol's junk. Here's some stuff they've come across:
postal box from Paris
piece of wedding cake from Caroline Kennedy's wedding
$17,000 in cash
naked picture of a Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, autographed
soup cans (unsurprisingly)
antiques
piles of furniture
gems worth $1 million
mummified human foot
Ramones 45 record signed by Joey Ramone
orange nutbread
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico "Run Run Run" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
Beck covers the Velvet Underground & Nico album in one day. (via Brain Pickings)
The NIH sets a goal to complete a region-to-region map of the brain in five years by encouraging collaboration among neuroscientists.
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
Here is your error of day. Currently trying out COtweet and what do you know, the search is erroring. What a lot of good that does me. To be fair, it could be chalked up to Twitter's API or something, but now I'm wading into something I don't ...
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
Even though the Google Voice app was rejected by Apple, Google went ahead and put out Google Voice through the web, via mobile Safari, at google.com/voice. I haven't had much time to test it out, but did make a test call using Google voice from my iPhone's Safari browser.
All ...
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