Weaving as a way of life: the global corporation.
There are crafts worth doing for the process alone, never mind the product. Weaving together the different strands of our lives is one such process which is rew...
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What’s on YouTube?
Does anyone know what’s on YouTube? What percentage movies from the 80s, what percentage footage of kittens vs cats, what percentage action movies vs come...
if climate change brought “cold” summers to LA, would the culture change?
LA today (63° F) feels as cold as an SF summer – where it’s not much colder (58°F). if temperature impacts culture (amount of outdoor seating at restauran...
A modern Easter story; rebirth in Butte, Montana.
Radiolab has produced a startlingly beautiful story of hope and the awesome complexity of life. It involves abandoned mines, toxic waste and geese. It should be...
randy brown built himself a motion picture in the shape of a house.
some people express their freedom via clever movements. the player or dancer who makes a great move. others express their freedom by what they build. a great pl...
Rolling Stone strikes back, via the New York Times.
David Carr for the NYT tears into Time and Politico for posting the PDF of Rolling Stone’s explosive profile. The last graph starts with this protest: “Th...
Music: the new Foals is not like the old Foals but it might be better.
For your pleasure: Foals 2 trees. I would gladly buy this song again and again. Loving and sweet, it’s a little gem. It reminds me of Elliott Smith’...
Companies adapting to, others defining the possible.
Rolling Stone failed to make its explosive article available online to consumers after making it available to other press outlets. I’m not sure how much m...
TV: Kill It, Cook It, Eat It from the BBC 3
Kill It, Cook It, Eat It is a very smart show from BBC 3. I’ve only watched the beef episode and it’s drawn out to fill an hour, but you can skip to...
Gourmet Magazine: now with easy to clean pages.
Gourmet magazine is back as an interactive iPad app. Here’s what I wrote about the end of Gourmet Magazine back in October of 2009, four months before the...
You know it’s the future when digital db meters cost $1.
I just bought a basic digital sound level meter. For $1. Three years ago, it likely would have cost me at least $60. But because the one I just bought uses my i...
satc2 as science fiction.
My favorite sex and the city 2 review to date. via mefi.
clever adjustable table
The crutch table by the ADDI pair.
Unarchiving me.
I’ve been using an Apple computer for almost 20 years. I have files that date back to 1991. Back then, storage was limited. (I have mp3 files that are big...
Unintentional irony in the NYT.
This lede in the NYT is so absurd it must be a weird joke: “He was the moneyman to the stars, entrusted with managing fortunes for the likes of Wesley Sni...
The new LCD Soundsystem album is happening.
This is happening is no Sound of Silver but it might be just as great an album. An instant classic. For example, the layered chorus at the end of “Drunk G...
Somewhere between Tron, Up and Ren & Stimpy
David OReilly‘s animated short Please Say Something is excellent and rewards repeated viewings. (The debt to electronic music is noted: OReilly has done a...
Checkpoints around the cloud: the Conficker dilemma.
It’s hard not to feel sympathy for Apple’s decision to set up checkpoints around its cloud computing devices when reading Mark Bowden’s report...
Modern music in popular 20th century film scores; wishing on a post-iPad version of The New Yorker
I look forward to the day when I am reading an article which references several different pieces of music and I don’t have to put the magazine down, go to...