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It’s way beta (i.e. the prefs are in Japanese, it’s a bit buggy) but the review I read of it made it seem way too nice not to try out.
Author: Jason Cosper
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Links for 2006-07-25
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Pitchfork Friendly Band Names, Part Tres
Next time you want to out cool your one friend who brags about downloading the Gnarls Barkley album “months before it was released here in the U.S.”, try dropping any of these fake band names into a conversation:
- The Iron-On Letters
- Scotland Yard
- Cancer Omega
- Kerouac
- Burst Into Flames
Oh, they’re good — but have you heard The Iron-On Letters? Fucking transcendent. I saw them open for Colin Meloy when he was doing his solo Morrissey acoustic thing a while back. I’m pretty sure they’ve got a MySpace.
I guarantee it’ll work almost every time… Well, at least until your friend Googles whatever band you name check and finds this post. *shrug*
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Feel The Warmth
A full beard. + 110 degree heat. = No fun.
If everyone wasn’t so damn used to it, I’d have no problems shaving it all off. But alas, it’s one of those things that makes me who I am.
*shrug* C’est la vie.
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Links for 2006-07-22
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I’m not sure how good this is, but it looks promising…
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My, what a dead sexy WordPress plugin. It lets you edit your posts on the page instead of having to jump to the backend. I’ll have to look into implementing this.
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The Big Lebowski – Fucking Short Version
*snicker* [via]
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Links for 2006-07-18
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So long as they don’t do this the weekend of my high school reunion, I’m so in!
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CDs attached to fliers on a pole is actually a pretty neat idea for band promotion.
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Woah! IGN has the first 24 minutes of “A Scanner Darkly”, which I saw over the weekend and loved. If you have a little time to kill it’s totally worth watching.
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I’ve been using this the past couple days and I’ve been loving the simplicity of the interface compared to Bloglines. Unless I find a reason to hate it, I think I’ve got a new feed reader of choice.
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Links for 2006-07-15
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What a clever little Mac Classic mod! Part of me wants to build a set of these, stat.
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My inner Maker is saying, “You know, that’s a bit expensive for what ammounts to a couple strips of wood…” But frankly, I don’t think I can make something that looks as elegant as this.
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My Twttr Ponies
Like any good internet beta whore, I just started using twttr. And while it’s pretty cool and rather promising, there are a few things that I really wish it had…
- For starters, a simple JavaScript based badge would be nice. While Flash is nice for some things, I really don’t think I need to load it to tell the world I’m having a beer or going on a walk. Also, it’d be nice if I didn’t have to recode my template to fit it in.
- RSS/Atom feeds wouldn’t hurt either. I know it’s supposed to be mobile phone based, but it really would be nice if I could give my feed out to folks instead of making them use twttr’s service to follow me around. Keeping track of my friends would be much less irritating too… ;)
- The ability to turn off “update sent” notices being sent to your phone. Yeah, I know I just sent an update. I appreciate that you want to let me know that my friends got my message and everything, but that’s really sort of unnecessary. Well, at least I think it is. *shrug*
I’m really not trying to be a curmudgeon, honest. I just think that this stuff would take twttr from being a novel application to something I actually use frequently.
P.S. Like, OMG! Add me!
P.P.S. According to Jack — who happens to be the dude behind twttr — ponies #1 and #2 are already being worked on. Hooray!
P.P.P.S. What’s more, pony #3 is a non issue. Apparently the “update sent” message only gets sent to your phone on your first message. Sweet! -
Links for 2006-07-10
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I’m going! Anyone up for carpooling up from Los Angeles?
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I Don’t Wanna, I Don’t Think So
I don’t know what’s worse — the fact that T-Mobile offers Sonic Youth’s “Kool Thing” as a ringtone or the fact that I’m actually considering purchasing it.