February 2011
26 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
The Carter Family (64)
Uncle Dave Macon (51)
The Stanley Brothers (20)
Dock Boggs (19)
Secret Sisters (16)
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January 2011
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Google’s Android mobile platform is experiencing considerable growth, but...
– Google hopes to fix weak growth of Android Market app purchases
This will be tough. If we wanted to pay for apps we’d have iphones.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
DJ Krush (61)
The Carter Family (36)
Boards of Canada (27)
Uncle Dave Macon (26)
Secret Sisters (22)
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Downton Abbey
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham [Maggie Smith] makes a remark about Isobel's Crawley's industry, implying she can't leave well enough alone.
Isobel Crawley [Penelope Wilton]: I take that as a compliment
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham: I must not have said it right.
me: Bwahahaha! Daaaamn!
me: If I'm ever born as an Earl in the Edwardian English Aristocracy I want Maggie Smith to be my Dowager Countess.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
Madlib (44)
Howlin’ Wolf (21)
The Carter Family (20)
Johnny Cash (19)
Leadbelly (19)
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Our experience of the music we love stimulates the pleasure chemical dopamine in...
– Turns out that music really is intoxicating, after all
I’m going to listen the hell out of some music this week. I’ll tell you that much.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-9) →
Secret Sisters (74)
Cab Calloway (42)
Chet Atkins & his Colorado Mountain Boys (36)
Bonobo (30)
Howlin’ Wolf (27)
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Japan fears for future as number of new adults... →
They talk about this like it’s bad:
The fall has been blamed on the low birthrate and the failure of successive governments to persuade young Japanese to have children.
No. We’ve got people. We’ve got people up to here. It’s not a question of blame; it’s a question of recreating their success.
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But from a systemic perspective, the stock market risks spinning out of control....
– Algorithms take control of Wall Street
The singularity will begin on wall street. Or the economy will die in a fit of complexity. What’s that stuff they say about interesting times?
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robinson in fog (by jason brackins)
I’ve been watching a lot of London and Robinson in Space
It has become impossible for me to put together even a short film without their influence.
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