November 2008
50 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-23) →
Pussy Galore
The Shangri-Las
The Concretes
MU
Why?
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does this technology exist?
midomi is supposed to do this, but I haven’t tried it
josephweisenthal:
jaimeleighfairbrother:
And if not, I’d like to suggest it.
I’m tormented all the time by songs I know or once knew but cannot remember. Like, I will know five notes or a chorus but no lyrics. Or it might be a song without lyrics. And I need to know what the song is so that I can download it. So, if there were...
Let Me Google That For You →
excellent. and less incendiary than JFGI
gbattle:
thedailywhat:
An all-purpose response to all Internet questions.
(via.)
This is the best utility ever. I cannot count the number of times I would have used this. Brilliant.
uptime explained
99.9999 % uptime ^^ ^^^^ || |||| || |||+--- you're lying || ||+---- you're a telecom carrier || |+----- you're amazon.com (not aws) || +------ typical startup |+-------- typical startup +--------- you're twitter c. 2007
props to twitter for turning their ops around
The King Khan & BBQ Show - Love you so →
khan is fantastic, love this song, love his throwback sound. (via whitneymcn)
The New Yorker - Letter from Central Texas: By... →
newyorker food issue is out and contains important scouting reports from the field.
josephweisenthal:
carolineanne:
shaneguiter:
In discussions of Texas barbecue, the equivalent of Matt Damon and George Clooney and Brad Pitt would be establishments like Kreuz Market and Smitty’s Market, in Lockhart; City Market, in Luling; and Louie Mueller Barbecue, in Taylor—places that reflect the barbecue...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-16) →
Black Lips
Black Mountain
Black Pus
Black Eyes
Black Dice
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BUGS: The entire reason this program exists is a crock.
– man 5 mailer.conf
To skip the bullshit, enter the first 10 digits of pi and then press pound. Para...
– Calling customer service at my dream ISP (via huge)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-9) →
Pixies
Big Black
Goes Cube
Comets on Fire
Slint
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Things that are pretty cool
whitneymcn:
That I can call my 94 year old grandmother at 11:30PM on election day, absolutely certain that she’ll still be awake.
That she answered the phone with “I’m so glad I lived to see this day.”
Brothers and sisters, I wanna see a sea of hands out there, let me see a sea of...
– J. C. Crawford’s barn-burning intro to the MC5’s “Ramblin’ Rose” (click through to hear Crawford’s classic street preacher intro)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-11-2) →
Lightning Bolt
Sahara Hotnights
Boredoms
Jay Reatard
The Concretes
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