December 2009
35 posts
“We kicked off the decade stoked on purist, backward-looking rock ’n’ roll; we...”
– The top 25 albums of 2009 | Music | Best of | The A.V. Club
This is from the Bitte Orca review (which came in at #5).
I’m not sure that is the #5 album of the year, but AV club certainly broke down our indie rock decade into one sentence that’s awful hard to argue with… and...
So they banned getting out of your seat in the final hour of a flight, which doesn’t really address anything.
Why don’t we at least ban something that would have made a difference on the last flight. For example: fishing around in your underpants for… anything.
Even before all this new airport security.
I just asked this on aardvark, but I’m curious because I’m about to go on several flights:
Whenever I fly on an airplane with my (infant) daughter, they make me provide her birthdate. I know they’re just doing it so they can charge her when she’s 2 years old, but is that legally required information? Can I tell them it’s none of their business and still get on the...
“Santa just stopped by…”
– nbd
A lot of my “new york” friends don’t seem to be celebrating christmas… What gives?
Lil Wayne
I really enjoyed the NY Times profile on Lil Wayne today. In case you missed it this morning, here are some of my favorite parts:
“Collecting a competent crew has been all but impossible in hip-hop in recent years.”
One song “could just as easily come out of the mouth of Chad Kroeger of Nickelback.”
“By the standards of contemporary radio rock, it’s passable,...
Old Blue
Wife: (to baby) You've got Old Blue, I don't know what you're complaining about.
Me: What's old blue?
Wife: That green thing she's chewing on.
“Another day, another Rackspace outage.”
– Rackspace Goes Down. Again. Takes The Internet With It. Again. (via jonathanmarcus)
Rackspace continues to amaze me. The entirety of their schtick is their uptime and service. But every developer absolutely must have contingency plans for total failure.
Once you assume that the whole ship is...
marco:
Lip dubs, in general, are boring, arrogant, and unwatchable. Sorry, Zach.
This coming from a guy who builds a site where the single biggest meme is “Gratuitous Picture Of Yourself Wednesday.”
It’s hardly Capitol Records’ fault that a bunch of internet people think they should be exempt from the terms that their beloved bands agreed to when they signed with the label, and...
I call her Grablr
For whatever reason, a bunch of people have been sending me kind emails in the past few weeks on topics such as “what ever happened to grabber?” “I signed up for the gobbler beta ages ago, did it ever launch?” “I’m reminded of gaffer, is that still around?” and other such queries.
Well, no, Grablr still hasn’t launched… but it’s still up...
Streaming will never stop downloading →
muxtape:
“Why would we voluntarily increase our reliance on expensive, scarce wireless bandwidth delivered by abusive thugs when we are awash in cheap, commodity storage that grows cheaper every day and which we can buy from hundreds of manufacturers and thousands of retailers?”
“Hard problems can’t be solved with technical denialism.”
Isn’t it fairly hardcore denialism to suggest our...
“Just an idea: next time you see something you like, write the person who made it...”
– Favrd.
