September 2008
104 posts
“The thing with me. I can’t stick musicians. I’ve thought about this....”
– mark e smith congratulates himself and takes a swipe at those sellouts in pavement
love Lucinda, what an amazing album, the quote is...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-28) →
Bad Religion
Misfits
Melt-Banana
Hüsker Dü
Boris
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Nardwuar: Why do you think people think you hate vancouver or winnipeg? You...”
– Henry Rollins interview with Narwuar the human serviette.
so good. currently fixating on punk/hardcore back...
catching up on tumblr. love this track.
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Apple Picking
Not many are listed here under “Apples” but surely more of the greenmarket farmers let people come pick. I think locust grove is one of the best apple producers at the greenmarket and though they’re not listed here, I bet they’d let a small group come for apple pickin’
http://www.cenyc.org/greenmarket/pickyourown
juliakaganskiy:
It’s apple picking season! I...
This is, in many ways, the weirdest thing...
Void - Authority (Takes 1 and 2). How to alienate...
Which Celebrity Has the Worst Band? →
Madonna
(via yvynyl)
“No matter how cool is your interface, it would be better if there were less of...”
– Vitor Lourenco — Interface & Visual Designer (via jeffturner) (via whitneymcn)
gbattle:
Coming straight outta Gothenburg,...
“I was thrilled and grateful, I like to say that America is like my distant uncle...”
– Novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on winning a MacArthur ($500,000 in pocket money).
“Google is terrible at making interfaces, HTC is terrible at making sleek and...”
– (via jschwa)
I more than happy to give up sleek hardware and apple-aping interfaces in exchange for control plus more work on my part. I want power, flexibility, choice, openness. Fuck beautiful design with strings attached.
“At one board meeting, when Mr. Kalin presented a long list of fancy new features...”
– This was my favorite part of the NYT profile of Union Square Ventures. Many founders bristle at the thought of someone crossing off all their exciting new features, but I’ve seen more startups die sporting a thousand shallow features than those that had a handful of deep, coherent, &...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-21) →
Jean Grae
Jeff
Don Sugarcane Harris
Bad Religion
The Long Winters
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dump - 1999 (Prince Cover). Dump is James McNew of...
barefootjukebox:
Notown Blues-Black Lips
“The people who ran the financial firms chose to program their risk-management...”
– How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers (via cartographer) (via danw)
Ha. Let’s remember the interests represented by this quote from RiskMetrics (my former employer). So what you’re saying Gregg is that they built in the wrong assumptions (because they’ve disclosed them to you?),...
been meaning to post a track from this album. hank...
gbattle:
Kronos Quartet interpretation of Miles...
“// Holy God, why do you forsake me!! Give me the strength to overcome all...”
– 4am slap-happy code comment by a (spelling-challenged) former colleague
best twitter exchange of the day
brady: @fredwilson Nyt reporter is waiting for u at the front of the expo floor
fredwilson: @brady tell her i'll be there in five mins. i've yet to post a song to tumblr today and i don't feel right until i've done that.
Dauntless Elite - I am a Ninja, My Life is Lonely...
“By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by...”
– Paul J Tillich, quoted by Jane Jacobs in The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Clownsuit - colorful and simple interface slapped on an otherwise intimidating...”
– uknown but in usage since at least early 90’s on usenet.
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll...”
– Howard Aiken, IBM engineer (via factoryjoe) (via msg)
