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• Enjoying an abstract painting by "the wife of one of Jon's best friends from high school"
• Listening to Amplive's great (& free) remix of Radiohead's Videotape from the Rainydayz Remixes. Download the set.
• Looking through the collages of Lance Letscher
• Bill Maher talks about Obama & Clinton: "Is it just me, or do they look like the local weekend news anchor team?"
• Laughing at geek singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton's cover of Baby Got Back
• Wondering how I missed "Battlestar Galactica: Razor" this past November - it is already on DVD
• Adding a few books to my LibraryThing catalog
• Wishing I could add my LibraryThing feed to my FriendFeed stream

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• Admiring the amazing laser-etched moleskines on Etsy via friendfeed.com/kfury
• Awesome, Barack Obama dedicated a song to me, barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com
• Listening to the funky perfection of Jamiroquai. A live show from 2003 is playable on Stage6
• Resisting the urge to dive into the freshly published panel schedule for SXSW Interactive
• Listening as "Thom Yorke shares some of his favorite music with All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen" on NPR
• Bookmarking the videos from Interaction08 "geared at anyone who practices Interaction Design"
• Thinking Zero 7's "In The Waiting Line" sounds nice live

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• Loving Apparat's beautiful album cover
• Surprised I like a painting that includes glitter
• Thought you might enjoy J Smooth's commentary on the State of the Union and the Democratic candidates
• Adding the character count plugin to Pidgin IM for easier Twitter posting via IM
• Grooving to a band from Denton, TX called Ghosthustler (didn't expect that sound from Denton)
• Staring in disbelief at the new Capital One logo featuring "a swoosh with gradients and bevels"
• Sharing links to Obama's New Hampshire speech & subsequent all-star music video
• Disgusted by the turn of events in Denton at the old Fry Street "development" near UNT campus. Historic buildings with local businesses were torn down and/or relocated to make way for a generic shopping center with a CVS, whose plans appear to be falling through.

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• Enjoying art on Flickr by swallowfield (collage) and livefunky (hand-altered prints).
• Listening to Rhymefest's free Michael Jackson mixtape. Mark Ronson mixed up MJ tracks & Rhymefest rapped over 'em.
• "Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work." Chuck Close via Brian Oberkirch.
• Trying Last.FM's on-demand streaming. Kanye's current release is preview only but his previous disc is playable.
• Surprised that the entire 45-minute Run track LCD Soundsystem made for Nike is playable on Last.FM.

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• Loving several of these Sid Dickens tiles, especially Opaque T192. I collected them in the 1990s when they were $60 each rather than today's $90 each.
• Finally listening to Radiohead's NYE broadcast. They sound great.
• Thinking we'll never see what the deal is with that island after JJ said "Mystery is more important than knowledge" in his TED Talk (via Eric)
• Listening to Vampire Weekend's A-Punk way too many times.
• Digging the TaskSwitchXP app for alt-tab app switching. It has plenty of config options and a tiny RAM footprint.

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• Looking through the abstract paintings of Jackie Saccoccio (via ArtCal)
• Really enjoying the direction Moby has taken with the new song Alice, tinyurl.com/289ony. The album drops in March.
• Planning a visit to the Dallas North Aquarium. I may get more fish for my new tank
• Amazed that Bob Staake is using Photoshop 3 in this video creating a fun illustration
• Planning to purchase the Charles & Ray Eames postage stamps when they're released next summer, tinyurl.com/3aejd8
• Installing the Windows freeware app DisplayFusion to manage my dual-monitor desktop wallpaper, www.binaryfortress.com/displayfusion/

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• Admiring Mike's marker & pencil illustrations of several vintage Leica cameras
• Listening to Diplo spin his BBC Radio 1 Essential mix (stream or DL), tinyurl.com/28cbo4 (via Party Ben at tinyurl.com/2aj9un)
• Considering the Pixel Tools tee shirt, www.insanelygreattees.com/shirt/pixeltools
• Becoming a fan of The National way late. The Boxer album is fantastic - it sounds like alt-country Joy Division, tinyurl.com/2zmebq

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• Digging this letterpress poster for a recent Spoon concert that was printed with "wood type & actual 45's," tinyurl.com/yuaj89
• Watching the making of the 1966 cartoon "How The Grinch Stole Christmas!" - hosted by Phil Hartman, tinyurl.com/2aelht (via drawn.ca)
• Ordering the Helvetica documentary DVD, www.helveticafilm.com (I couldn't get a seat at the SXSW screening this past spring).
• Geeking out watching the creator of the xkcd.com comic speak to a group at Google, tinyurl.com/248g96 (via laughingsquid.com)
• Listening to Refinery29's favorite albums of the year (stream or download), tinyurl.com/388mso (via Michael at DesignNotes.info)

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• Uploading abstract collages I made recently with cardstock, an old map, papers, and a clothing pattern, tinyurl.com/2buoec
• Jamming to Ursula 1000's "hard-hitting breaks mix with a retro vibe - lot's of beeps, distorted bass," etc. tinyurl.com/37grtb
• Making beats with an old freeware program called HammerHead Rhythm Station, www.threechords.com/hammerhead/
• Scanned & posted a Batman and Robin ad for a 1966 sweepstakes to Flickr, tinyurl.com/2c95gh

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• Finding art on a record sleeve, tinyurl.com/379xk6
• Thinking @stephenanderson & I saw the same unicycle commuter, tinyurl.com/3bw2aj (not my pic). I was on Coit in Richardson.
• Listening to the Go! Team perform on Triple J, tinyurl.com/3ox4z (via Ben's Top 10 Online Radio Streams, tinyurl.com/yo53vd)
• Looking at my artwork a new way with TiltViewer. Zoom & flip images or change tags (in the URL), tinyurl.com/24an7v (via Coudal.com)

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• Loving these "dense pieces that deal with the absurdity of our culture" by artist Hilary Williams, tinyurl.com/2sa4hg (via design-milk.com)
• Listening to Diplo's fun remix of Spoon's Natural History cover Don't You Evah, tinyurl.com/2q5lh6
• Downloading the Kleptones' mashup set from Bestival: Live'r Than You'll Ever Be, tinyurl.com/25m2h5 (via Matt @ Beatmixed.com)
• Listening to the best songs of 2007 as picked by Paper Thin Walls' favorite music writers (download it or stream), tinyurl.com/2bd2yg
• Paraphrasing: "All creative people have a little hater that lives inside our heads & tries to set up traps for us" tinyurl.com/29qs75
• Jamming to a "super old Dr. Dre cassette from 1986 that he did on a four track in the back of the club he DJed at." tinyurl.com/2yr9w6

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• @cgriego It is always fun to make changes to a site with shuffled, non-semantic classes (i.e. p.green is red & div.rightCol is on the left). #
• Listening to Dev/Null spin a high bpm "oldskool-rave set at a Beat Research party" tinyurl.com/yq3ngg #
• Bookmarking the Flickr set of Ralph McQuarrie Star Wars Concept Paintings, tinyurl.com/34n8no (thanks @stephenanderson & @Kraemer) #
• Starting to think that if you add the words Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger to a song (any song), I will like it, tinyurl.com/2g88g3 #

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• Reading about Georges Seurat's 19th century drawings (tinyurl.com/yq4cnj) & viewing the online exhibition (tinyurl.com/yw3b5y) #
• Listening to Girl Talk live with "completely new remixes and mash-ups alongside his officially released material" tinyurl.com/23cmka #
• Realizing that to open animated GIFs in Photoshop CS3, I have to Import > Video Frames to Layers > File Name *.*, tinyurl.c ... #
• Realizing I can't cleanly import animated GIFs with transparency into Photoshop CS3. I'm opening with Flash first to export as movie frames. #
• Switching to Fireworks to perform animated GIF hocus pocus since there is no ImageReady CS3. #
• Bobbing my head to DJ Z-Trip, a mashup master before they were called mashups. Lots of free downloads: djztrip.com/downloads.html #

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• Listening to Aphex Twin mashups, www.100dbs.com/mixes/aphex/ (via 17dots.com/) #
• Getting down with Bill Cosby's funky rendition of I'll Be There (the Sgt. Pepper one is painful). Love the album cover, tinyurl.com/yqj878 #
• "In art, as in love, as in dancing the hora, if you don't know the moves, you really can't fake them." In the NYT: tinyurl.com/yo4h6h #
• Admiring the nice bonsai painting that Ali Spagnola is dropping in the mail for me, tinyurl.com/yvjjey (more info: tinyurl.com/26ghoh) #
• Rocking to an old school hip hop station on Pandora that I found on a Digg-style site called PandoraStations, tinyurl.com/355hqt #
• Mesmerized by a couple paintings by Frank T. Martinez, tinyurl.com/2adsww #

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• Listening to DJ Vin Sol mash 'em up (tinyurl.com/3bf6tp) after seeing him on Mahalo Daily w/ Veronica B (tinyurl.com/2f93ws). #
• Watching the history of evolution according to Fatboy Slim, AKA the big beat hit "Right Here Right Now" tinyurl.com/3xl5vz #
• Preparing my acceptance speech after being appointed "Prince of Edgy Arts, Entertainment & Music" in the Rohdesign Facebook group. #
• Jamming to "Pet Sounds: In The Key Of Dee" from Bullion, who cut up the Beach Boys with beats inspired by Jay Dee, tinyurl.com/2jfhoc #
• Listening to Spoon perform at the 2007 Treasure Island Music Festival - a free download from BayTaper, tinyurl.com/2wcfhb #
• Facebook's Rock Your Firefox app detects most add-ons, so I was able to list all of mine except Google Browser Sync, apps.facebook.com/add-ons #

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• Watching Jared Spool in an excerpt of "Delight by Functionality" from User Interface 12 Conference, tinyurl.com/3aa2fh #
• Bookmarking Jared Spool's 45-minute Google TechTalk video "Strike Up The Brand: How to Design for Branding" tinyurl.com/2o369d #
• Posting an image of my overhauled Windows desktop to Flickr. I swapped the XP taskbar for a Mac-ish ObjectDock, tinyurl.com/2va6jl #
• Listening to Spoon on Sound Opinions. They played a couple songs in between talking about the band & their music, tinyurl.com/2qb3b4 #
• Trying out drop.io for retrieving a large file (a mixtape) from a friend. The site is clear & easy to use. #

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• Enjoying the vibrant colors of Jane Booth's abstract paintings, tinyurl.com/2pzas6 (via dearada.typepad.com) #
• Listening to an "up-beat, funky, tough and edgy" mix on Funky House London Style, tinyurl.com/2mytw3 #
• Bookmarking this paper-folding video "Paper Transformer" to try out later, tinyurl.com/2bnw4h (via andyrutledge.com) #
• Watching "Chank Fonts Across America" and remembering when Mike Cina was in the Chank Army, tinyurl.com/2gfzkz #
• Ordering a handful of Tombow MONO 100 HB pencils from the kind folks at Pencil Things, tinyurl.com/338hqw #

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• Surprised that Denton band Midlake collaborated w/ the Chemical Brothers, tinyurl.com/2hfacy (old story: tinyurl.com/2ywmwx) #
• Loving the serve in today's Layer Tennis: great textures, color saturation, & an old school joystick, layertennis.com/071109/01.php #
• Watching Radiohead in studio covering Ceremony - a classic Joy Division & New Order song, tinyurl.com/25aayt (thanks @hotdogsladies) #

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• Thinking this accordian portfolio treatment would work well with slices of art images for the title bars, www.mariusroosendaal.com/ #
• Thinking it would be cool to have the moon in my room, tinyurl.com/23eque (via blog.wired.com/geekdad) #
• Going big beat on b00mb0x, "Want You To Push It!" tinyurl.com/245y94 (Fatboy Slim, Groove Armada, Bassbin Twins, Tim Deluxe & others) #
• Installed Samurize on my XP laptop to add a battery meter to the desktop after ditching the system tray display, tinyurl.com/y3o2qo #
• Listening to a smooth hip hop track by Consequence featuring an old Brazillian jazz sample (Milton Nascimento), tinyurl.com/38dyjd #

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• Looking through the abstract paintings of Gisela Colon, giselacolon.com/ (via the October issue of Metropolitan Home) #
• Adding a bio to Last.FM for Denton band Ten Hands, www.last.fm/music/Ten+Hands/ #
• Watching a great tribute to design legend Paul Rand, tinyurl.com/2mu8or (via blog.onpaperwings.com/) #
• Organizing photos on Flickr from my four-images-per-frame lomography camera and expired Lucky film from Heather, tinyurl.com/2w8ksf #

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• Watching a short CBS segment on typography, tinyurl.com/2ocyde (via Quipsologies 75, tinyurl.com/3e3f8v) #
• Impressed by the behind-the-scenes breakdown Chris Glass gave of last week's Layer Tennis match, tinyurl.com/26946e #
• Listening to Dave Gahan's new disc - RS says it is a "very Depeche-sounding album indeed." They're streaming it at tinyurl.com/2dkpdw #
• Pre-ordering the new Saul Williams album that Trent Reznor produced. You choose a $5 or $0 payment for MP3 or FLAC, niggytardust.com #
• Listening to Saul Williams rock it out on his last album, tinyurl.com/2mnm6u & tinyurl.com/277mhf #

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• Finding GEMO, tinyurl.com/2pvrrp #
• Listening to "Now Is The Winter Of Our Discotheque" or as Lenodd puts it, "classic disco without too much cheese" tinyurl.com/2spsxm #
• Listening to Spoon's 10/23 concert on NPR, tinyurl.com/2rb4fe (a nice preview before I see them in Dallas next week) #
• Reading "The content of form" on Typies (a typography & graphic design blog), tinyurl.com/2nlu4p (via dfckr.com/) #

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• Listening to Booka Shade's mix for the DJ Kicks series. Spinner is streaming the full album, tinyurl.com/2z9hm8 #
• I'm losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets & borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered 80s, tinyurl.com/ys2m6m #
• Reading about a million dollar painting that was found in the trash in NYC 20 years after it was stolen in Texas, tinyurl.com/2odntm #

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• Listening to Stars latest album on Hype Machine - it sounds great, hypem.com/loudstyle #
• Adding the file extension to one of the files purchased with the Amazon MP3 Downloader. Other than that hiccup, the process went smoothly. #
• Contemplating the art of sharpening pencils, tinyurl.com/2x3d5q #
• Listening to Stars perform in DC on NPR, tinyurl.com/2u9wbt (via largeheartedboy.com/). #

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• Wondering whether the two planned Star Wars TV shows (one live-action & one animated) could actually be any good, tinyurl.com/3asbr2 #
• Listening to an old school house music mix by Zombie Disco Squad - the MP3 is on the Mad Decent Blog, maddecent.com/blog/?p=182 #
• Listening to Common with Lily Allen from Common's latest release, "It's this thing now, that's drivin' me wild." tinyurl.com/237trq #
• Blown away by Daft Punk's 10-minute Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger mix for Louis Vuitton, tinyurl.com/2lax4c #
• Reading about artist Karl Benjamin & his colorful paintings, tinyurl.com/3dwgrm (slideshow: tinyurl.com/2l4yky) #

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• Layer Tennis should invite Jason Santa Maria for the blood bath #
• Jamming to Postal Service live on KCRW a few years ago, tinyurl.com/3959h6 (using the Flash Audio player on playr.hubmed.org/) #
• Trying out Andy Rutledge's podcast "examining design fundamentals, business, culture, and professionalism" show.andyrutledge.com/ #
• Laughing at this Wheel of Fortune clip where Vanna tells Pat which fonts she uses, yourmonkeycalled.com/post/15161336 #

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• Looking through the African art section in Yale's online art gallery, tinyurl.com/37k289 #
• Thinking the Firefox pencils are cool, but I'm not into custom ordering a batch of 250 for $75, tinyurl.com/26f2xo (via penciltalk.org) #
• Considering ScanCafe's service to digitize a pile of photo negatives, tinyurl.com/2yuvej (via Kottke.org) #
• Taking a trip down memory lane with Brazilian DJ Porssionatto 80s dance mix - more than 20 tracks in 7 minutes, tinyurl.com/3bnrju #

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• Listening to a new Daft Punk track called "Too Long / Steam Machine" on myspace.com/daftpunk #
• Watching the trailer for "My Kid Could Paint That," the documentary about child artist Marla Olmstead, tinyurl.com/29fg43 #
• Laughing about Lupe Fiasco claiming to have never heard A Tribe Called Quest's "Midnight Marauders" album, tinyurl.com/324tpz #
• Thinking the trailer for the movie Jumper looks really cool (plus it features Mace Windu and Darth Vader), www.jumperthemovie.com/ #

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• Loving the colorful illustrations in the Space Alphabet, tinyurl.com/2xw6ur #
• Jamming to Spearhead's funky anti-war track "We Don't Stop" featuring the Gift of Gab from Blackalicious, tinyurl.com/26js28 #
• @hotdogsladies: That's a great metaphor for it. Wait, um, I don't know you... in reply to hotdogsladies #
• Got the email from Radiohead that they'll send download instructions Wednesday morning for their new album - it will be ten 160KBPS MP3s. #
• Wishing I didn't already have plans Thursday night - Jeremy Johnson will be speaking at Refresh Dallas, tinyurl.com/2p9sje #
• "Making the world a weirder place, starting with my eBay Feedback page," tinyurl.com/2srylz #

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• Listening to "Borne on the FM Waves of the Heart" by Against Me! tinyurl.com/3cojlz (via Status Ain't Hood tinyurl.com/2movpp) #
• Reading Yahoo’s Ian Rogers To Music Industry: “Inconvenience Doesn’t Scale” on TechCrunch, http://tinyurl.com/3bsjjh #
• The band Midlake shows MTV their hometown (and mine) Denton, TX, http://tinyurl.com/2649pj (Bonus: the Roscoe video) #
• Reading the Salon's illustrated Evolution of a Hip, Ironic Catchphrase, "Don't Tase Me, Bro" http://tinyurl.com/2khblq #

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• Reading reactions to Radiohead's "pay what you want" pricing model for their new album, tinyurl.com/2d4pba #
• Staring in disbelief at a Kurt Cobain doll, tinyurl.com/2s75e9 #
• Loving Mark Ronson's cover of the Smiths' 1987 track "Stop Me", tinyurl.com/365wwj (original tinyurl.com/2gnf7f) #
• Subscribing to the Spark podcast from CBC Radio. The latest episode features Khoi Vinh on designed deterioration, tinyurl.com/2ajvdm #
• Reading Debbie Millman's preview of Friday's Layer Tennis match (formerly known as Photoshop Tennis), tinyurl.com/yokwkw #

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• Listening to Electrocast 504 with Gorillaz, Daft Punk, Le Tigre, and LCD Soundsystem, tinyurl.com/yu2l38 #
• Successfully preordered Radiohead's new album (the download version). Their site worked much better today, www.radiohead.com.
  Story: tinyurl.com/2coqyw #
• "You can use it as a candy corn holder!" Make your old records into bowls, but leave the cat alone, tinyurl.com/2jmkek #
• I should have seen this one coming - LOLcats.TV, lolcats.tv/caturday/75 #

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• Looking forward to the long awaited return of Photoshop Tennis, AKA Layer Tennis, layertennis.com. Friday's match is online. #
• Wow, the Hampton is already sold out for SXSW Interactive, Film, and Music, tinyurl.com/2l5odx (glad I booked for Interactive early) #
• Watching artist Phil Hansen create a portrait of Bruce Lee with karate chops of black paint, tinyurl.com/37qvl2 #
• Looking through Time Magazines's list of the 100 Best TV Shows of All Time (many with clips), tinyurl.com/2mzqkm #
• Listening to Electrocast 504 with Gorillaz, Daft Punk, Le Tigre, and LCD Soundsystem, tinyurl.com/yu2l38 #
• Subscribing to the Radio Lab podcast. "What is music? How does it work? Why does it move us?" http://tinyurl.com/3b4ud4 (via @hotdogsladies) #

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• 14:33 I'm optimistic about Amazon's new music download store with DRM-free MP3s at 256kbps VBR, tinyurl.com/yruhvk #
• 15:05 Sonny J's "Can't Stop Moving" reminds me of the infectious tracks put out by the Avalanches a few years back, tinyurl.com/yt7tl7 #
• 17:17 Reading Jeff Croft's summary of the Webmaster Jam Session this past weekend, tinyurl.com/32anqu #
• 17:20 Digging Helen Durant's mixed media goat (third image down), tinyurl.com/2rubny #
• 20:18 Watching John Maeda's Ted Talk, Simplicity Patterns. Rather than call his work "Eye Candy," he prefers "Eye Meat" tinyurl.com/3xh9wy #

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• 09:11 Looking through Griego's iPhone photos from the Sabre Usability Labs on Tuesday night, tinyurl.com/ynqw84 #
• 14:31 Listening to a big fave, Depeche Mode's Black Celebration, after seeing it at #3 in TMN's Top 10 Albums of 1986, tinyurl.com/254j8o #
• 17:46 Flipping through all of the record sleeves on Record Envelope, "A reference for vinyl geeks and graphic artists" tinyurl.com/yr5xp4 #

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• 16:50 Love this low tech video of the high tech features in Google Docs, tinyurl.com/yqebxa - More on www.commoncraft.com/show #
• 21:01 Watching the video for "The Girl Who Fell Through The Ice" by Aim featuring Kate Rogers (via @stoplookingswan), tinyurl.com/3xa3lp #
• 21:11 Considering paying way too much for a dozen black on black Faber Castell design pencils ($28 w/ S&H), tinyurl.com/24ssyv #
• 21:25 Recommending a couple web books to a friend from the review list on 456 Berea Street, tinyurl.com/29roz8 #
• 21:28 Liking the coloful patterns in this colorful bedding collection, boodalee.com/spacecollection.html #
• 22:58 Really digging this ISO50 turntable poster, tinyurl.com/3cgb3h and a t-shirt there too, tinyurl.com/2lkhbn #

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• 20:49 Watching Good Copy Bad Copy, a great (so far) documentary on sampling in music, on Google Video, tinyurl.com/32bj3o #
• 21:03 Listening to Girl Talk mash up Elton John's Tiny Dancer with Biggie's Juicy. It starts at 4 minutes - pure magic, tinyurl.com/36jww2 #
• 21:37 The documentary Good Copy Bad Copy covers the affect of copyrights in music and film throughout the world, tinyurl.com/32bj3o #
• 21:39 Thinking these would be interesting questions to ask candidates being considered for your web team, tinyurl.com/2k7daq #
• 21:47 Loving the abstract art of Jennifer Sanchez, tinyurl.com/3d7cha. A print is available here, tinyurl.com/358pky #
• 22:40 Watching John Stewart, "Dave Petraeus, Dave Petraeus...Iraq Me Dave Petraeus!" & the finale "It's a worm hole!" tinyurl.com/2l7djw #

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• 14:28 Disabling Firefox extension Firebug to slow any memory leak (right click on its icon). I can re-enable it for use, tinyurl.com/2caxvn #
• 13:03 Thinking I'd rather update Twitter from my browser sidebar & not in a slick standalone app line Snook's Snitter, snook.ca/snitter/ #
• 13:05 Reading "25 Art Forms to try and Artists who already use them" and thinking I have a lot of catching up to do, tinyurl.com/ytc7q3 #
• 13:09 Listening to the latest CMG Podcast that includes tracks by Spoon, Coconut Records, Wheat, and Vampire Weekend, tinyurl.com/yu4pa8 #
• 13:15 Reading "Beyond The 'T' - Coordinating Realistic Design Teams" www.peterme.com/?p=580 via www.xplane.com/xblog/ #
• 16:10 Digging this typographic collage print by Enja Wong, tinyurl.com/25f996 #
• 22:25 Buying a pack of Moleskine Cahiers - small journals for notes or sketching, tinyurl.com/25hpzb #

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• 19:18 Watching a narrated slideshow about Zhang Huan's massive art studio in China, tinyurl.com/2s5r88 #
• 19:23 Contemplating the Deborah Kass painting of colorful rings on ArtCal, tinyurl.com/35rpwz #
• 20:57 Subscribing to the @media 2007 podcast feed. There are 16 sessions online for your listening pleasure, tinyurl.com/33ory8 #
• 20:58 Listening to Tegan & Sara on Jared's post, tinyurl.com/37hzdk - I had only heard a rad T & S mashup prior, tinyurl.com/38apgg #
• 21:03 Changing my USB drive's assigned drive letter after reading the first response on an existing Metafilter post, tinyurl.com/29tyy4 #
• 22:55 Reading a new site from Khoi & Liz featuring "design opinions expressed in short form - 200 words or less." abriefmessage.com/ #
• 23:01 And the winner for the most crazy long URL is . . . httpcolonforwardslashforwardslashwwwdotjenniferdanieldotcom #

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• 08:18 Listening to the audio book "The Time Machine" by H.G. Wells, a science fiction book originally published 1895, tinyurl.com/22tl8m #
• 22:39 Watching a short interview with the founder of the music blog aggregating site Hype Machine, tinyurl.com/yqezf4 #
• 22:59 Listening to Tricky's first single from 1994 with vocals by Martina Topley-Bird: the dark groove Ponderosa, tinyurl.com/27ajua #

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• 20:55 Considering the statement, "Servers are people too" tinyurl.com/285npf #
• 21:41 Enjoying The Morning News list of the top 10 albums of 1985 with a favorite of mine, the Cure's "Head on the Door" tinyurl.com/2fn9tx #
• 21:45 Listening to a favorite song of mine, The Cure's "Six Different Ways" live from Theatre antique d'Orange, tinyurl.com/2mmvt4 #

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• 22:23 Adding the Spoon & New Pornographers show at the House of Blues in Dallas to Upcoming #
• 22:30 Watching Feist on Letterman with "her indie rock super-choir" blogsarefordogs.com #
• 22:42 Looking through a Flickr pool of Banksy street art, tinyurl.com/g875j via YWFT. A favorite: tinyurl.com/ynjn2a #
• 22:55 Watching a parody of TI's What You Know About That, TI-84's What You Know About Math #

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• 20:51 Flipping through the latest favorites of my Flickr contacts in an RSS feed created with Yahoo Pipes, tinyurl.com/2co2y5 #
• 20:55 Thinking this island near New Zealand would be a nice place to spend a few days (via Google Sightseeing), tinyurl.com/yorox2 #
• 20:59 Reading the WSJ: "the IN UR phrasing is a recurring source of riffs and references within the lolcat community," tinyurl.com/2xocrl #
• 21:28 Accepting the productivity loss caused by resubscribing to Dooce's RSS feed because of posts like this, tinyurl.com/27v6n9 #
• 22:01 Realizing I had never seen the video to one of my favorite songs from the 80s, Inner City's Good Life, tinyurl.com/2zc653 #

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• 12:44 Reinstalling the GreaseMonkey script that shows TinyURL targets and adding "link.href = match[1]" per comment 3, tinyurl.com/mgd2g #
• 16:28 Rocking to DKR's "old school mix tape" that includes Cloud Cult, The Lodger, and The Cribs, tinyurl.com/yw7xgu #
• 19:23 Admiring the vintage watches on www.watchismo.com/gallery.htm #
• 20:51 Reading a comparison of poor audio quality in compressed MP3s to that of cheap transistor radios in the 50s & 60s, tinyurl.com/3d39yp #
• 20:58 Looking at a photo of the wildfires in Greece w/ an ancient statue "appearing to gasp for air through the smoke", tinyurl.com/2xfx7u #
• 22:36 Listening to great 2004 releases from MIA & Diplo. They're reviewed & available for download on Coke Machine Glow, tinyurl.com/7e2wt #

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• 11:42 Refreshing the CSS Sculptor page to hear Eric Meyer say "Rock!" one more time, tinyurl.com/354z9f #
• 14:52 Listening to Refinery29's late summer playlist, which is "smoother than our third afternoon mojito." tinyurl.com/2gwkze #
• 15:39 I'm mesmerized once again by the work of Charley Harper, tinyurl.com/ys8m2p which I blogged about recently, #
• 21:24 Listening to a classic from 1988 - the Jungle Brothers "I'll House You" #
• 23:14 Listening to an industrial track from 1988, Front 242 "Headhunter" #
• 23:20 Posting a third song I liked in 1988, "What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)" by Information Society #
• 23:33 Thinking some may not like the 1988 song by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, "And This Is What The Devil Does" #

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• 13:45 Watching a video on targeted image resizing or seam carving, tinyurl.com/2m8frc (via Khoi) #
• 19:29 Staring at Peter Fox's painting "Bury My Heart", tinyurl.com/25kc2d #
• 19:33 Downloading a Depeche Mode remix set called The Butterfly Effect 5, tinyurl.com/3ch6lr #
• 21:20 Trying iconfinder's icon search and am impressed, www.iconfinder.net (via BittBox) #
• 21:37 Looking through the tutorials in Adobe's CS3 Video Workshop, tinyurl.com/2ymyyh #

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• 13:54 Thinking automatic restarts of a Windows machine after an update are bogus, tinyurl.com/3e4uhz. The fix: tinyurl.com/2w3tjy #
• 16:24 Realizing that Daft Punk are more Warhol than Picasso after hearing the source of one of their top songs, tinyurl.com/33gup9 #

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• 09:23 Considering the Dot Grid Book that Garrett posted - it has dots to help UI sketching instead of full grid lines, tinyurl.com/2j7g82 #
• 12:53 Looking forward to playing LEGO Indiana Jones, tinyurl.com/2ke9vq. The Star Wars releases were great. Via cameronmoll.com/linkage. #
• 16:20 Wondering why Polyphonic Spree did the theme song for the pro soccer team FC Dallas, tinyurl.com/2fcu4n #
• 16:56 Remembering a great song and video from 1994, Lucas with the Lid Off, tinyurl.com/yppbvp #
• 20:46 Tipping my hat to legendary jazz drummer Max Roach, who passed away today, tinyurl.com/23jc4e #
• 00:26 Watching the Lost orientation film for the Orchid Station, released at Comic-Con, tinyurl.com/ytucak #

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Music: Gave Away the Masters

From the August issue of Prospect Magazine regarding the move from LPs and cassettes to compact discs and music piracy:

Yet in some ways the CD contained the seeds of its own destruction. One of the few industry moguls to raise his voice against the digital format in its early days was the late Maurice Oberstein, an American who was latterly head of the Polygram UK (later Universal) label. "Do you realise we are giving away our master tapes here?" he asked at an industry event. At the time, everybody was too busy counting the cash to listen. But as the advent of recordable CDs kickstarted a black economy in counterfeits in the 1990s, Oberstein was proved right.

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• 09:56 CSS isn't just for building websites - it's good to dance to, tinyurl.com/rqzj9 #
• 13:06 Rocking out to Tokyo Police Club & linking to the "safe for work" version of the video (w/o the toy train), tinyurl.com/yrw64x #

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• 09:36 Wondering why I should add the Rock Your Firefox application to Facebook, tinyurl.com/2y46ts #
• 11:10 Testing pages with the unofficial standalone Internet Explorer 7 (which will run side by side with IE6), tinyurl.com/eb37c #
• 19:21 Laughing about how jealous Eric is going to be when he sees my Pandora t-shirt, tinyurl.com/3xbojd #
• 23:33 Setting up OpenPandora, a standalone version of Pandora's music player w/ global shortcuts and Last.FM reporting, tinyurl.com/2guhcp #

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• 07:51 Listening to a funk & soul mixtape that includes a phone call from Cheech over a beat Dr. Dre used in G Thang, tinyurl.com/3du6f3 #
• 22:59 Posting a crazy Photoshop collage to Flickr. So far it has been viewed once and they marked it as a favorite, tinyurl.com/2d87go #

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• 11:09 Admiring the beautiful design of the Web Designer Wall site by Nick La (via ThinkVitamin), tinyurl.com/2qfwah #
• 16:29 Grooving to the music and creeped out by the video, Hawker Beat, with cameos by Richard Simmons and Bart Simpson, tinyurl.com/34wj39 #

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• 18:49 Reading Dallas Morning News' commentary on 10 classic hip-hop albums listed in the book "Check the Technique," tinyurl.com/2j2dao #
• 21:36 Reviewing an information design article with lots of great illustrations, "The dashed line in use," via xBlog, tinyurl.com/ysolo4 #

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• 12:38 Trying XRAY, a cross-browser bookmarklet that exposes web page element attributes, westciv.com/xray/ #
• 14:26 Watching the World Clock increment births & deaths versus cars and bikes produced in the world among other stats, tinyurl.com/2yp2dr #
• 15:09 Subscribing to only the best posts of a blog by using aideRSS, a service that filters feeds by ranking posts, tinyurl.com/29ju73 #
• 21:56 Watching a couple Kanye videos with farmers and robots (thanks Merlin and Eric). #

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• 09:12 Watching a wheel DJ - Younnat doing a DJ routine with what looks like a video game steering wheel, tinyurl.com/ywwsun #
• 12:18 Watching the Tom Green Show, now on the web and he looks like he's back to his public access roots, tinyurl.com/2ecas4 #

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Music: Vinyl Appeal

Tenn. Plant Presses on With
Vinyl Appeal:

That dusty stack of records in your parents' basement? They're not as retro as you might think. Many record collectors, DJs and music junkies still consider vinyl to be the gold standard of recorded music — scratches, pops and all.

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Music: Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

I started going through Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music and am very impressed. He has broken down electronic music into more sub-genres than I knew existed. Ishkur includes short descriptions of each, many audio samples of songs, and links to radio streams. The Flash interface is a bit cheesy but I highly recommend Ishkur's Guide.

[via Mr. Coates]

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Music: My Music Podcast Selections

When I chose an iPod over a new Archos MP3 player, it was for the user interface and small size. I had no idea that podcasts were going to consume so much of my use of the player. It has been a welcome surprise. While most of the podcasts I follow are technology or Lost related, below are the free music podcasts to which I subscribe.

If you'd like to try one out, drag and drop the "subscribe" link to your iTunes podcast page or right-click and copy the "subscribe" URL to use Protein's instructions. If you don't use iTunes, you could subscribe by adding the URL to your Netvibes homepage ("Add Content" and then "Add My Feed") to listen through their slick browser-based player.

illJazz Podcast: subscribe or visit the website, which describes this great one as "a podcast providing you with soulful sounds from the past and present. It's all about funk, breaks, old school hip hop, afro beat, disco, and house." Episode #2 is my favorite, featuring some great old school hip hop.

Solid Steel Podcast: subscribe or visit the website. As I've posted about before, I'm a big fan of the Solid Steel radio show. This podcast is a thiry minute excerpt of the weekly show. Great stuff.

DJ Connor Podcast: subscribe or visit the website. DJ Connor has "eclectic musical tastes, including hiphop, electronic, house, dnb, techno, trance, breakbeat, and triphop." I found this one on Podzinger when I was searching for podcasts with DJ Shadow tracks.

Coldcut Podcast: subscribe or visit the website. I've followed these guys since I heard the "Seven Minutes of Madness" remix of Eric B & Rakim's "Paid In Full" in the late 1980s and they're still kickin'.

Pete Tong Tongcast: subscribe or visit the website. Pete Tong is a long time club DJ throwing down the techno and trance (or whatever the kids call it these days).

Protein Podcast: subscribe or visit the website. They say their podcast "takes you on a musical mystery tour that travels the entire sonic spectrum. Soulwax to Snoop Dogg, Daft Punk to DJ Shadow." My favorite episode is the Andy Compton mix, "Floppy Disco '05."

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Music: Remembering Pretty Hate Machine

I remember the first time I heard the Nine Inch Nails track "Down In It" from the album Pretty Hate Machine. The year was 1989 and I was in the DJ booth of a club called Rick's Place. DJ Eric 7 was kind enough to let me drop a blank cassette tape in the deck to record his set that night. The club was on the edge of the UNT campus in Denton, Texas along with other hangouts like the Flying Tomato and Otays (where Mike Cina and Jason Douglas used to spin).

After Rick's that night, my future wife and I stopped at a fast food place whose name inspired us to call the new tape Whatabeat. A few months later we saw Nine Inch Nails perform live when they opened for Jesus and the Mary Chain at the Arcadia Theater. I still love the NIN album Pretty Hate Machine more than fifteen years later, not that nostalgia colors my opinion at all.

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Music: Inventor Of The Portable Personal Stereo Player

Unlikely trendsetter made earphones a way of life | CNET News.com:

SÃO PAULO, BRASIL--In the late 1960s, Andreas Pavel and his friends gathered regularly at his house here to listen to records, from Bach to Janis Joplin, and talk politics and philosophy. In their flights of fancy, they wondered why it should not be possible to take their music with them wherever they went.

Inspired by those discussions, Pavel invented the device known today as the Walkman. But it took more than 25 years of battling the Sony Corporation and others in courts and patent offices around the world before he finally won the right to say it: Andreas Pavel invented the portable personal stereo player.

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Music: Favorites of 2005

Roger reminded me that it is time for the 2005 top ten list. I pulled myself away from Pandora long enough to compile my favorite albums of the past year, in no particular order:

• Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
• Supersystem - Always Never Again
• United State Of Electronica - Emerald City
• Konono No 1 - Congotronics
• Pitty Sing - Pitty Sing
• Outlaws - Too Many Fools Following Too Many Rules
• Beck - Guero
• Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
• Spoon - Gimme Fiction
• Common - Be

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Music: Holiday Music On SomaFM

On a recent afternoon at home my wife requested I play some Christmas tunes - apparently she wasn't feeling Diplo's FabricLive Radio Mix. While I usually cringe at the thought of this season's soundtrack (except for the Waitresses' sublime "Christmas Wrapping"), I found SomaFM's Xmas in Frisko stream and really enjoyed it. The playlist includes Bing Crosby, the Muppets, Fiona Apple, Eric Cartman, Weezer, the Crypt Keeper, Elvis, the cast of Star Wars, Bruce Springsteen, Sha Na Na, and George Michael along with the unexpected "I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus" and "The Nine Days of Kwanza". They occassionally include a politically incorrect joke or obscenity so it may not be safe for listening at the workplace or with your children. Even though I don't typically like Christmas music, SomaFM's Xmas in Frisko is a lot of fun.

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Music: Radiohead Remixes

The Radiohead remix album Me And This Army is available for download or purchase:

Panzah Zandahz has released a full album with Radiohead remixes. The album, “Me & This Army’” is the follow-up of the Radiohead breaks & beats 12″. Panzah pays tribute to his favorite band & some of his favorite emcees with this 40 min collage of original remixes, mash ups, & covers.

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Music: Konono No. 1

The NY Times describes Konono No. 1:

He played traditional music on the likembé, a 'thumb piano' constructed of thin metal rods attached to a resonator box. When performing outdoors with his group of singers, percussionists and other likembé players, it was tough to compete with the street noise. So he fashioned instrument pickups using automobile alternator magnets and amplifiers using old car radios, and sent his music out over salvaged metal public-address speaker horns.

The sound, not surprisingly, was distorted. But it was an appealing distortion, giving his hypnotic music a raw, electric quality. And the conical loudspeakers, or 'lance voix' (voice-throwers), proved more effective than anyone expected.

Crammed.be has pictures of the men and their instruments along with a sample MP3 (labeled "extract" at the bottom of the page).

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Music: Depeche Mode Violated

Download the remix project Depeche Mode - Violated:

Depeche Mode's 'Violator' album was short by most standards, but it was the quality not quantity that made this album a classic. 15 years after it was first released, and as a celebration of a brand new Depeche Mode album, 'Playing The Angel', this is a new spin on an old favourite. A mixture of covers, mashups and remixes for your listening and possibly dancing pleasure.

[via Beatmixed]

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Music: DJ Shadow Would Be Proud

Watch a video performance of the Minnetonka High School band playing tracks from DJ Shadow's album Endtroducing:

The after-school percussion group at Minnetonka High School, Minneapolis, rehearsed for months and can now play two tracks from DJ Shadow's 'Endtroducing' album. The music was arranged by 25 year-old geographer/law student/vibraslap enthusiast Brian Udelhofen, who teaches the group.

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Music: Spinbeats

DJ Matt Hite presents a house mix called Spinbeats:

I've been an avid spinner (the cycling kind) for the past year. My instructor, having taught spin classes for the past 5 years, has decided to move on to greener pastures. He wanted to go out with a bang, so he asked me to put together a special mix CD to be used for the routine during the last class.

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Music: Depeche Mode

From depeche mode dot com:

The band have announced the title of their upcoming album. The album will be called 'Playing The Angel'. Some of the songs on the album are:

• Precious
• Sinner in Me
• Suffer Well
• John the Revelator
• Macrovision
• A Pain That I Used To Be
• I Want It All

The Depeche Mode site also reports that a soon-to-be-released compilation called Future Retro features two Depeche Mode remixes. The whole track list looks great for 80s new wave junkies.

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Music: Come As You Are

Eleven years after his death, Kurt Cobain's hometown has finally embraced the legacy of the late grunge icon. Last week, the title of one of Nirvana's signature hits, 'Come as You Are,' was added to the 'Welcome to Aberdeen' sign on the anniversary of Cobain's April 5, 1994, suicide. (photo)

From mtv.com via the July issue of Blender.

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Music: Arcade Fire Video "Neighborhood #3"

Arcade Fire's Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) is a great song that reminds me of 80s New Order and it has a great video that reminds me of 90s Radiohead.

The video played fine in Internet Explorer but Yahoo Music does not support the Firefox browser.

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Music: Tone396 Mix

Download Tone396's latest mix Tone396@The.Controls.05 featuring the Chemical Brothers, New Order, Gwen Stefani, Billy Corgan, Nine Inch Nails, and the Prodigy among 26 tracks.

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Music: Introducing the Instant Tribute

From the New York Times:

Our post-postmodern era of mash-ups, music blogs, file sharing and near-instantaneous distribution, however, has given rise to a new phenomenon: a certain species of indie bands is covering their peers' brand-new songs - in those first heady days of release when the songs seem to be playing in every cafe and club, or even earlier, before they've made an impression at all.

[via beatmixed]

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Music: Rock Radio Not Rolling

Rolling Stone reports:

Rock radio stations might be changing formats just as the music is beginning a renaissance. A new wave of bands including the Killers, Modest Mouse and Franz Ferdinand are gaining play on stations across the country. 'Five years ago, I stopped listening to radio completely,' says Franz Ferdinand bassist Bob Hardy. 'Now there's dozens of new bands I'm keen to hear. It's all just part of the natural cycle of music.'

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Music: SXSW's Torrent of Free Tunes

From Wired:

Music fans don't have to be in Austin, Texas, to hear hundreds of new songs from the South by Southwest music festival.

South By Southwest Music Festival offers the entire 2005 Showcasing Artist MP3 library (750 songs) in a big 2.6 GB BitTorrent file. You must have BitTorrent installed first.

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Music: We Have Retreated into the iWorld

There were little white wires hanging down from their ears, or tucked into pockets, purses or jackets. The eyes were a little vacant. Each was in his or her own musical world, walking to their soundtrack, stars in their own music video, almost oblivious to the world around them. These are the iPod people.

[via Design Observer]

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Music: Postal Service

Postal Service's 2003 album Give Up is getting a lot of spins on my MP3 player lately:

Despite some nods to more contemporary electronic pop, Give Up's sound is based in classic new wave and synth pop, at times resembling an indie version of New Order or the Pet Shop Boys.

Download the beautiful track Such Great Heights or watch the video for their cover of Against All Odds.

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Music: Acoustical Art

Acoustical Art presents Flow, Centro and Hydro. Loudspeakers with modern industrial aesthetics and high fidelity sound. Every loudspeaker begins as PVC tube fittings & are precisely fabricated by hand into a finished loudspeaker.

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Music: Chemical Brothers & Prodigy Remixes

If you're in the mood for some free beats, download these two full length remix albums. The download app Bittorrent worked great.

• Chemical Brothers - Flip The Switch


• The Prodigy - Always Outsiders, Never Outdone

Not content with the unprecedented international success of their last remix project, the team behind 'Always Outsiders, Never Outdone', the unofficial Prodigy Remixed album, have only gone and done it again. This time the Chemical Brothers latest album 'Push the Button' gets the remix treatment.

[via The Skinny & beatmixed]

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Music: John Legend

Allmusic aptly describes John Legend's great Get Lifted disc:

The production work supporting his songs strikes a fine balance between soul and hip-hop, allowing him to appeal to those who are coming from either angle.

He has a personable and instantly fetching voice you could listen to all day long.

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Music: iPod Socks

Not to be outdone by C. Ronson’s iPod hoodie, Apple offers iPod Socks, as reported by iPodLounge:

Viewed by some as a cynical marketing ploy and heralded as perfect holiday fun by others, iPod Socks are six-packs of two-toned colored baby socks that serve as quasi-cases for any size of iPod.

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Music: Beastie Boys vs The Beatles

Apparently DJ Dangermouse has inspired other folks to mashup classic Beatles stuff. Go download DJ BC Presents The Beastles (9 tracks and cover art).

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Music: Download Sites

I've been meaning to post these links to sites with free music downloads for a while (mostly MP3 blogs), so here they are:

• ChristopherPorter
  
• Cocaine Blunts
  
• Fluxblog
  
• Gabba - Pod
  
• Largehearted Boy
  
• Londonlee
  
• Music (for robots)
  
• Royal Music
  
• Said the Gramophone
  
• Soul Sides
  
• Sticker Shock Music
  
• Tofu Hut
  
• And more . . .
  

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Music: Jay-Z vs The Beatles

Download this Danger Mouse mashup (all 12 tracks) on Illegal Art:

DJ Danger Mouse remixed the vocals from Jay-Z's The Black Album and the Beatles' White Album and called his creation The Grey Album.

Check out illustrator Justin Hampton's great cover for the mix and read the review on Pitchfork Review.

Update: I was surprised to hear a track from this album on Sirius Satellite Radio.

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Music: Modest Mouse, Grand National, Midlake

• I've discovered Modest Mouse's first two albums just a few years later. They're often compared to the Pixies.
  
• The debut Grand National album has an 80s retro rock sound. The harmonies and Reggae riffs on many tracks are reminiscent of early Police. Some of the guitar and bass riffs remind me of an old new wave favorite of mine, New Order.
  
• It is always fun to hear bands from Denton, Texas make some noise. Midlake's debut is tough to describe - you'll just have to check out the audio samples. Maybe they're a more subdued version of The Polyphonic Spree - another North Texas band.

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Music - NBA Tells Player to Stop Listening to iPod

The NBA told Vince Carter to stop listening to his iPod:

The Toronto Raptors star was informed by the NBA that he no longer can listen to music on his iPod during the 20-minute warmup period before each game. Carter recently started listening to the music on his headphones, a violation of the league's rules on proper attire.

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Music: Citizen Cope

Citizen Cope's second album, "The Clarence Greenwood Recordings," is a polarizing album. I've read reviews that trash it and others that say it's great. I think it's great. Billboard agrees, saying his album his highly recommended and that his style is:

All-inclusive with hints of reggae, shades of hip-hop, allusions to Memphis soul, a sprinkling of Latin jazz percussion and even a clopping country lope.

The album sounds like a slower, blues inflected Maroon 5 and includes appearances from Carlos Santana and Me'shell Ndegeocello. Check out the audio samples on Amazon.com.

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Music: Solid Steel

I love the long-running radio show Solid Steel, originally created by the master cut-n-paste DJs Coldcut and now featuring many great guest DJs. Go to NinjaTune.net for the latest Windows Media stream and tracklist.

From its inception Solid Steel presented arguably the finest and most diverse selection of music to be heard on one radio show. The emphasis is on mixing many styles seemlessly, from jazz to electronic oddities, from hip hop to poetry. There are no records or styles deemed unnacceptable, even a children's story has featured in one particularly wigged out show. Another unique element is the way 100's of spoken word samples are used to tie the music together, a style often imitated but never bettered elsewhere on radio. Each mix becomes a mini masterpiece.

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Music: TV on the Radio

The rock band TV on the Radio followed up their "Young Liars" EP with a strong full length titled "Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes."

This dark, hypnotic album is described very well on Pitchfork Media and All Music, which also has audio samples.

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Music: iPod Ubiquity

OK, I understand the iPod is the hottest digital music player out there but Karl Lagerfeld's obsession has gone over the top:

Couture maven Karl Lagerfeld's iPod collection is up to 60, coded in the back by laser etching so he can tell what's on them. "It's the way to store music," he says. Lagerfeld's tribute to the iPod is a $1,500 Fendi pink copper rectangular purse that holds 12 iPods.

The Newsweek article is titled iPod Nation. I have a severe addiction to my Archos player. I upgraded it to 60GB for music and file backups.

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Music: Fiona Apple

Fiona Apple hasn't released an album since 1999's "When the Pawn..." (one of my favorites). I'm disappointed to see her upcoming album has been shelved according to her producer, Jon Brion, in a Rolling Stone interview:

Sony has yet to find the magic song on Brion's latest production, Apple's new record. The album has been finished for months but sits on the shelves at the label as, Brion says, execs search for a single."

A leaked MP3 called "Extraordinary Machine" can be found with a quick Google search. It is a cool song but not exactly ready for the radio - it is too quirky for the masses. But I like it.

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Music: Rachael Yamagata

New artist Rachael Yamagata's recent release "Happenstance" reminds at times of Fiona Apple, Norah Jones, and the more obscure female vocalist Imogen Heap of Frou Frou.

I highly recommend Rachael's album (along with Frou Frou's 2002 release "Details").

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Music: Gift of Gab

"4th Dimensional Rocketships Going Up" is the first solo album from Gift of Gab, a member of the underground hip hop group Blackalicious. Gab delivers fast rhymes surrounded by smooth beats and samples.

There are a few audio samples on Amazon and a 4 star review on AllMusic.

Gift of Gab is a member of the Quannum crew (formerly known as Solesides) along with one of my favorite artists, DJ Shadow.

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Music: Interpol

Listening to the 2002 Interpol album "Turn on the Bright Lights." They're very reminiscent of Joy Division and still fit in nicely with current rock groups Franz Ferdinand, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Phantom Planet's last album.

There are audio samples on Amazon and a 4.5 star review at AllMusic.

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