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3 Albums I Listened to in August
I'm trying to make this a somewhat regular occurance (hopefully monthly). So here's another installment of the albums that got me through the month. I've also been working on my top 50 for the year (I'm well aware that people shouldn't have a top ...
September 9, 2004 |
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A9 Reviews
I just read Marc Canter's brief thoughts on the A9 user interface. For those that don't know, A9 is the new search engine by Amazon that has been met w ...
September 21, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
America as Jekyll & Hyde
The following letter to the editor appeared in the Norwalk Hour on 9/29/04 in the Letters to the Editor section. I received this in an email from my mother this morning along with this message: < ...
September 29, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Apology
To anyone who clicked on the link to 'Guy breaks up to his girlfriend via PowerPoint' after about 1 pm today I apologize for what you saw. Apparently the person whose website this was hosted at was not entirely happy with all the publicity and dec ...
September 24, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Apple's New iMac
Apple released it's new iMac and, not overly surprisingly, it looks like a giant iPod. In fact, they even mention the connection to the iPod in the first line of the product description. Wh ...
September 1, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Essaying
I just wanted to post a link to a very interesting essay by Paul Graham titled "The Age of the Essay." In it, Graham illustrates the problems with the current state of essay writing, especially in ...
September 7, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
For Those of You in New York
Well ladies and gentlemen, the time has almost arrived. Get ready for a booze filled evening of music and cameras. The party has arrived. When: Friday, September 10, 2004 Where: Remote Lounge (http://www.remotelounge.com) ...
September 9, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Gmail Marketing
I have written a few times about what I thought was the genius of Gmail's invite system (read 7.22.04: "Has Gmail Already Reached its Trucker Hat Phase?") as a way to cre ...
September 16, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Green Day CDRs
In a fascinating marketing move, Green Day is offering custom CDRs with the artwork of their albums on the discs. For $7.99 you can order: A 5-pack of custom printed blank ...
September 27, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Happy Birthday Mom
Warning: Sappiness to come, read at your own risk. Since this is my page and I can do whatever I want, I'm sending out birthday wishes to my Mom. Happy Birthday! Thanks so much for everything you've done for me, I'm more grateful than you' ...
September 21, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
Librarians with a Clue
Wired posted an article today about librarians standing up to the Patriot Act. Since I wasn't very nice to librarians in my writing ...
September 15, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Monday Randomness
Since it's now officially football season, and I really can't think of anything else to write about, here's my rundown from a Sunday of football followed by some other random, non-football, non-computer, non-internet, non-rss and maybe even non-do ...
September 20, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
More Letters to the Editor
I received an email from Sean Hannon, author of the Jekyll & Hyde letter to the editor, and it turns out he has just started his ...
September 30, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Newly Discovered: The Morning News
I may be a bit behind the times on this one, but I have recently begun reading The Morning News religiously. I can't reccomend it highly enough. It's basically a daily online comedy magazine with the occ ...
September 28, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Postal Service "Against All Odds"
Apparently The Postal Service made a video for their cover of the Phil Collins song "Against All Odds" which will be in Wicker Park. You can watch the video in Real either <a href="http://www.redmusic ...
September 14, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Race Authenticity
Just wanted to point everyone to an article by my friend Charlton McIlwain in The Gadflyer. In "Blacker Than Thou", Charlton discusses the similarities ...
September 16, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Radical Recommendations by a Former College President
In today's Time's there's an Op-Ed from John M. McCardell Jr., former President of Middlebury College in Vermont. The piece is titled "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/13/opinion/13mccardell.html?ex=1252814400&en=5618dd4a22610b26&ei=5090&pa ...
September 13, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Some Links for You
Since I've been fairly lazy lately and haven't really been updating much I decided to write up another links roundup. These are all stored in my del.icio.us bookmarks, and normally these links would be shown ...
September 5, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Thinking About September 11th
As I was walking to work this morning I began to think about September 11th. I wasn't thinking of it because we are two days removed from the three year anniversary, rather, I was thining about it because it was a beautiful cloudless day in Septem ...
September 13, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Tiger Print Football Pants
Today I was trying to remember the name of the bad 80's fashion that put tiger print stripes in the color of your favorite football team onto a pair of parachute-like pants. When I did a Google search for the terms 'tiger,' 'print,' 'football' and ...
September 15, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Top 10 Bush Tax Proposals
I missed Kerry on Letterman, but here's the top 10 list from the show [via WBAY]: 10. No estate tax for families with at least two U.S. presidents. 9. W-2 Form is now ...
September 22, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Woody Allen on Politics
On USAbroad.org they have posted an interview from Der Spiegel with Woody Allen. The whole interview is worth reading, Woody has some interest ...
September 29, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS