Published by sam on Friday, 28 December, 2007
in life.
I’ve found a girl, lost a great friend, travelled something over 4,500 miles by train and realised that when I was small ‘2007′ was far away enough to be totally unimaginable; by then inventions on Tomorrow’s World would be around. I spent silly days in Korčula pulling faces and failing to guess ‘keys’ in a game of twenty questions, found the best named shop in the world in Olomouc (beats Valencia’s ‘Happy Crack’ for audacity) and was robbed of my book of everything in Rome. In Plitvice I sweated like fuck and wasn’t allowed to swim in this. In Split Kylie attempted to educate the world’s revolutionaries (look hard) and I realised that large, dark objects brushing against my legs in deep water -really- makes me panic. I played Faithless’ Salva Mea enough times to know that it’s 10m37s long and I scored 194 points in a game of Scrabble against my cousin with the word ‘beeswing’. That’ll never happen again : O.
What did you do?
this is what happens when you don’t sleep. it’s not pretty. you end up commenting on random people’s blogs* about their fabulous extensions that are so simple yet helpful.
must sleep!
/me changes into cute pajamas
*he’s kinda cute, actually. damn nerds.
This Dopplr looks like a cool service. We all know some of our Plotters buddies are all over the place… you (and we) know who you are. Thanks, Lifehacker
Since today I am a last.fm subscriber. I finally decided to subscribe, primarily for the extended radio functionality. However, in retrospect, I don’t find it as appealing as I thought it would have been. The best part is the Loved tracks station but when I am at home I wouldn’t listen to it (I have better sounding local files) and when I am at work I’d like to listen to something new. Personal tag radio is good but not all that much cooler than regular tag radio.
But, what I really love about being a subscriber is that I can see who has visited my profile. It makes me come back to last.fm a lot more frequently than normal and it also increases my activity on the site (checking out who is checking me out, etc). Wouldn’t it be a smart idea to give everyone the “recently visited” functionality and offer subscribers a significantly improve the radio?
PS: anybody have an idea how I can get the multiple tag functionality there used to be?
So Last.fm’s client finally features audio fingerprinting built in. Remember all the craziness of audioscrobbler and track moderation and all the various ways they’ve tried to make the content work.
I’d like to see, someday, a version of Last.fm (or really any service) that really works for classical music.
Classical music presents two main problems for these types of services: a) they often consist of several tracks that go together in a certain order and b) you really need to keep track of title, performer, and composer at a minimum or tracking number of plays makes no sense.
Continue reading ‘Of audio fingerprinting and classical music’
Someone should at least make a cool header for our blog if nothing else, then we could get rid of this blue … thing.
Published by n on Wednesday, 5 December, 2007
in Religion.
Reading the newspaper this morning (yesterday’s edition of the Newark Star-Ledger), I happened upon this article. It struck me immediately because current American politics would have you believe that religion is a characteristic of division, not the unity described here. Some of these quotes show the true spirit of what religion tries to teach but always messes up when the agenda enters the room. I guess there area a few perks to living in the densest and most diverse state in the country.
The way of four faiths: Ethel Road
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
BY SULEMAN DIN
Star-Ledger Staff
As Ahmed Salem searched for a place in the Piscataway area to open an Islamic school a few years ago, he noticed a rabbi outside an otherwise nondescript commercial building on a road lined with warehouse complexes.
“He’s a man of faith,” said Salem, an Egyptian scholar. “I thought: I have to talk to him.”
Continue reading ‘Is This America? I thought people were supposed to hate each other!’
Feed hungry people in 3 easy steps:
1. Go to www.freerice.com
2. Start playing the word game.
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Improve your vocabulary + Help feed hungry people = yay!
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