Great quick video from the Decemberists’ Tiny Desk Concert at NPR: “I was sort of always under the impression that these things were done while everybody was just trying to work,” The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy says a little ways into this Tiny Desk Concert in the NPR Music offices. “I kind of like the romance of that.” The play: Down [...]
Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011) is most well known for “The Revolution Will Not be Televised” but this 1977 live gig with Brian Jackson will expose you to more of what Scott-Heron was about. You’ll find the original posting with much more info (from which I took this cover) on Never Enough Rhodes but it was also recently posted at Aquarium Drunkard [...]
Screen shown just before taking the Jeopardy online test a few weeks back. I thought about trying to screen-shot some of the actual test questions but then that would interfere with my taking the test itself. 15 seconds sounds like enough time to enter an answer but it turns out you’re really running against the clock much of the time. [...]
(via Vegan.com) Moby has released a free EP in advance of his next album.
(via BoingBoing) As someone who spends way too much time “collaborating” by way of exchanging slide decks and arguing the minutiae of bullet points, I was always a big fan of Edward Tufte’s The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (though I didn’t know a second edition was out). In honor, then, of inauguration day, here’s Obama’s famous “Yes We Can” speech [...]
Just had yet another laugh out loud moment reading Criggo and realized I’ve never posted about it. Criggo is basically Jay Leno’s Headlines routine from Monday nights as a blog, with the greater, um, latitude that blogging allows over late night tv. One recent favorite: Check them out at http://criggo.wordpress.com/
Just for fun, here’s a wordle of my dissertation, on (nearly) the 10th anniversary of finishing it: Generated by Wordle. Technically not quite based on the final version, since I can’t find the final version. I have the PDF from University Microfilms, but the only editable version I have is ~4 months behind that final version. Not sure how different [...]
Just finished reading The Transparent Society, David Brin’s 1998 rumination on the question of “Will Technology Force Us to Chose Between Privacy and Freedom.” It’s a really thoughtful book about an alternative approach to the battle over privacy based on two-way transparency, or more accurately accountability. Along the way I marked a few passages in the book. Bear in mind [...]
When it opened this summer, Vej Naturals quickly became one of the highest rated restaurants on the Boston Vegan Association database, getting an overall rating of 4.4 out of 5. (There are more photos in this review from Wicked Local Malden). Despite the glowing reviews, however, Jo and I haven’t been able to make it there yet. The location (across [...]
The Boston Vegan Association monthly meeting was this weekend at MyThai, in Brookline. Although I don’t get to as many of these meetings as I’d like (after commuting in to Boston all week the last thing I want to do most weekends is commute), I was happy to see lots of familiar faces and a significant number of new ones: [...]
