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An open letter to England:
Dear England ( Read more... ) -
Goodbye Elmo.
I just got off the phone from Australia. My mother called me to say that the aging family cat had passed away peacefully while dozing under his favourite tree.
( Some cat memories. I don't need you to read this. I just needed to write it. ) -
Rawr!!!
Positing a theory ( Read more... ) -
Theoretical Ink
I wonder... if I got a tattoo of the hypercube would anyone know what it was?
Though a two dimensional representation of a four dimensional shape rendered onto a three dimensional body (mine) would make for an interesting irony.
Yep, this is the kind of stuff I think about dead sober. -
Raised Fist
Whatever algorithms they run at Spotify Central usually the record suggestions on my front page are so far off base as to be laughable. But every so often it's halfway right ( Read more... ) -
Okay, this is going to be a long one:
I'm feeling a mite down after reading about the latest on the RIAA v. Tenenbaum case.
For those who haven't heard, a grossly simplified version of the story: a student shared some songs on KaZaa and was caught by the RIAA, who decided to take him to court. For $4.5 million. For 30 songs.
You can read more about it in this open letter published in ( Read more... ) -
RAWK!
I feel like going to a gig.
(checks Stargreen)
Hanzel und Gretyl are playing the Underworld tomorrow. Who's in? -
Clunk.
You know what I'd like?
A Twitter reader that would show you new posts in the order that the were posted, running from the last time you clicked in.
Trying to follow @reply conversations is currently akin to eavesdropping on the Sdrawkcab planet in Red Dwarf.
Anyone with coding skills to do make such a thing consider the gauntlet thrown down.-J -
Listening
Listening to Simon and Garfunkel on Spotify; right now Sound of Silence ( Read more... ) -
More Pointless Neologisims:
I just realised that based on the whole MJ digital flurry from last Thursday that to go with my Wikisecond there should also be a Twittersecond.
IE the time it takes for an event to reach pandemic level on Twitter.
In this case the Michael Jackson Twittersecond was was almost nothing.