One of the strangest flash animations I’ve ever seen, and as a bonus it includes the phrase “Super Para Magnetic Effect.”
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Indy custom radio
Via BoingBoing, Indy Custom Radio from Ian Clarke (the designer of Freenet). A music client which downloads freely-available MP3’s, plays them, and allows you to rank them. It takes these ranks, and (much like Amazon and Netflix progressive suggestions systems) the more you rank, the better the match for what you like.
I’m trying it out, and we’ll see how it goes. It will be interesting how quickly it can learn my preferences, as well as what sorts of music will actually pop up. Right now it doesn’t require any login or anything, so I’m guessing that the “preferences” are stored locally to the computer. Would be nice to be able to carry those prefs from one computer to the other, either via a login or some other authentication setup. Would also be interesting to increase the “folksonomic” quotient by making the preferences more transparent, and being able to actually view others “tags” or rankings. Also be interesting to see which songs are getting 5 stars, etc….could very easily to a top 50 from the data, using #’s of people who are ranking each song, combined with the actual 1-5 ranking.
Had a phenomenal weekend, working a lot but enjoying some of the great weather. Got to go on a good hike on Sunday with Indy and Bets along Shakerag Hollow…the wildflowers are unbelievable. There must be a dozen species blooming along the trail, and there are entire hillsides of trilliums. Pictures will follow soon.
This week = Stress and things of which we may not speak. We’ll see how it goes.
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AAAAaahhhhhh!
Doesn’t this look like it eats souls? Or like Yoda’s evil cousin?
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EPIC 2014
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So very cool
From BoingBoing, I so want one of these. I don’t even wear a watch, but I’d make an exception for any one of these:
From TokyoFlash, home of incredibly cool watches from Japan. Who knew such watches even existed? For reference, $1US = roughly 100 Yen….so you’re looking at from just over $100 to nearly $200 depending. That’s nuts, but they are beautiful.
So I was riding in to work, listening to a little Metallica, and noticed that James stole lyrics from himself in order to write the theme to their latest album, St. Anger. I give you:
Lyrics from Damage, Inc., off the album Master of Puppets (1986)
Fuck it all and fucking no regrets
Never happy ending on these dark sets
Lyrics from St. Anger, off the album St. Anger (2003)
Fuck it all and fuckin’ no regrets
I hit the lights on these dark sets
Have no idea why I only just noticed that. Or even why it is particularly interesting. 🙂
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Exciting news
As of last night, I’m officially a moderator for Ourmedia.org, the new collaboration between the Internet Archive, Bryght, Creative Commons, Socialtext, and TuCows (among possible others). I’ll be helping them identify copyright/fair use issues in uploaded content, and contact users and such regarding those issues.
I don’t know if I can adequately express my excitement at helping out with such an ambitious project! With an advisory board composed of the biggest names in digital IP and online culture (Lessig, B0yle, Kahle, Rheingold, Gillmor, Searls) this is going to be huge.
I’ll blog more as I find out more about my role.
Found this on my trek around the intarweb today…an absolutely insane resource for 622 different music videos. I’m especially fond of the Perfect Circle video for Counting Bodies Like Sheep.
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Eating the ice cream…
Had a really interesting weekend, with more play than work. Friday was poetry night with the Spanish Club at Sewanee, where Betsy read some wonderful stuff by latino/chicano/puertoriqueno/ poets, while I read a couple of pieces from Jorge Luis Borges. Borges is a person that doesn’t get enough credit in the library world (other than the ubiquitous quote in all libraries “I have always imagined that heaven is a type of library”). He invented the an idealized, infinite library (The Library of Babel) that has been a very influential metaphor in literary circles. In addition, of course, he was a librarian at the National Library of Argentina.
The title of the entry is from one of his poems, where he opines “I’ll eat more ice cream, and less beans” in thinking on how he would change his life. This weekend was, as I said, all about ice cream.
Saturday we had drinks with friends Andrea and Will, and then more snacks and discussion with Ruth, Jason, and Nicky. Sunday we spent the afternoon on Tim’s Ford lake at Angela and Paul’s house, with an international crowd of Spaniards, Canadians, Columbians, and Americans. With cava flowing, amazing food, and perfect weather…well, it was the first of what I’m hoping is many wonderful spring days.