December 2009
32 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Nidaa Abou Mrad (23)
Dufus (13)
Choubi Choubi (13)
Sonia M’Barek (13)
Cornelius (13)
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Serota, Maggie. Under the stairs: Brooklyn noise... →
feelingsaregross:
When I first met Ryan Martin, he was volunteering as Genesis P-Orridge’s archivist and he hooked me up with an interview with Genesis on the eve of the release of a new Psychic TV album. Now Ryan runs his own record label where he unearths lost recordings from Genesis’ basement in addition to putting out a full roster of forward thinking artists. I interviewed him about...
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Scheiber, Noam. Upper mismanagement. →
Why can’t Americans make things? Two words: business school.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Toby Goodshank (13)
Dan Deacon (4)
Andre Campra Jeremiah Clarke Marcel Dupre Eugene Gigout Alan Hovhaness Sigfrid Karg-Elert Claudio Monteverdi Francis Poulenc Henry Purcell Richard…
Arrington, Michael. Zynga CEO Mark Pincus: “I did... →
I’m a little behind the ball on this one, but it’s still worth spreading (unlike those damn viral games). See also Popken, Ben. Mafia Wars CEO brags about scamming users from day one.
Rush Coil. 8-bit Christmas. →
Rush Coil presents 8-BIT CHRISTMAS, a full-length album inspired by classic video game music.
UPDATE: We’ve decided to donate ALL net proceeds from digital sales to Child’s Play! - a charity created by the kind folks at Penny Arcade. The organization presents hospitalized chidren around the globe with games and toys during the holiday season. This year they have raised over...
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Off to the desert next week. It’s been a long time…
The Tiobe Index. →
“The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the...
The major works of counterintuitive thought from... →
Hilton, Perez. New Sade!!!!! →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →
Kanon Wakeshima (56)
Toby Goodshank (52)
AFX (41)
Led Zeppelin (24)
Roxy Music (20)
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Lea, Richard. Tiger Woods drives sales of physics... →
It’s been a terrible week for Tiger Woods, but the golf star’s moment of madness at the steering wheel has brought a surge in sales for a book written by a science writer teaching at Sussex University.
A series of pictures released by Florida police of Woods’s wrecked SUV includes a shot of the back seat, complete with waterbottle, towel and furled umbrella. But there among...
Charlie bit me…
Unicode snowman for you. →
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Graham, Paul. Post-medium publishing. →
“Publishers of all types, from news to music, are unhappy that consumers won’t pay for content anymore. At least, that’s how they see it.
“In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren’t really selling it either. …”