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David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails in 1995

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:42:53 +0100

David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails in 1995

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:42:26 +0100

David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails in 1995

"No caveats now: Windows Phone 7 is a waste of time and money. It’s a platform that no carrier,..."

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:44:40 +0100

“No caveats now: Windows Phone 7 is a waste of time and money. It’s a platform that no carrier, device maker, developer, or user should bother with. Microsoft should kill it before it ships and admit that it’s out of the mobile game for good. It is supposed to ship around Christmas 2010, but anyone who gets one will prefer a lump of coal. I really mean that.”

- Windows Phone 7: Don’t bother with this disaster

"We had a lot of fans when Warner were paying for radio play, and people would say to us ’you fell..."

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:42:24 +0100

“We had a lot of fans when Warner were paying for radio play, and people would say to us ’you fell off our radar’, which actually meant ‘I only pay attention to what people tell me to pay attention to’. I don’t need those people. I need the people for whom this is valuable to the point of necessary.” — Kristin Hersh”

- Muse in a material world - The Irish Times - Fri, Jul 16, 2010

"I don’t think you can devalue real music, but it was only a matter of time before the CD itself was..."

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:39:30 +0100

“I don’t think you can devalue real music, but it was only a matter of time before the CD itself was devalued – it’s just a piece of plastic. It’s not a valuable object in itself, because music can only be measured in terms of its impact. I embraced that by giving music away, but many people want a shareable, tangible object they can hold. For me, it has to be intrinsically valuable, and a book still can be.” — Kristin Hersh”

- Muse in a material world - The Irish Times - Fri, Jul 16, 2010

"And so continues one of the biggest constants in software development: the unerring sense among..."

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:17:12 +0100

“And so continues one of the biggest constants in software development: the unerring sense among developers that the level of abstraction they’re current working at is exactly the right one for the task at hand. Anything lower-level is seen as barbaric, and anything higher-level is a bloated, slow waste of resources. This remains true even as the overall level of abstraction across the industry marches ever higher.”

- http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/copland-2010-revisited.ars/2

ART && CODE Symposium: Hackety Hack, why the lucky stiff

Sun, 16 May 2010 00:56:21 +0100

ART && CODE Symposium: Hackety Hack, why the lucky stiff

TED: Gordon Brown

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:48:16 +0000

TED: Gordon Brown

TED: David Cameron

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:47:35 +0000

TED: David Cameron

"The thing that bothers me most about the iPad is this: if I had an iPad rather than a real computer..."

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:25:12 +0000

“The thing that bothers me most about the iPad is this: if I had an iPad rather than a real computer as a kid, I’d never be a programmer today. I’d never have had the ability to run whatever stupid, potentially harmful, hugely educational programs I could download or write. I wouldn’t have been able to fire up ResEdit and edit out the Mac startup sound so I could tinker on the computer at all hours without waking my parents. The iPad may be a boon to traditional eduction, insofar as it allows for multimedia textbooks and such, but in its current form, it’s a detriment to the sort of hacker culture that has propelled the digital economy.”

- Alex Payne — On the iPad

Video

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:32:05 +0000

Wow. It's been ages.

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:52:48 +0000

I really should write something, or something.

Help me organize my music.

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:01:40 +0100

nostrich:

cleversimon:

I have 45 GB of music in my iTunes library. You may consider that massive or miniscule, but you have to agree it poses a bit of an organizational problem.

I don’t really use the Genre tag; maybe the solution lies there. Maybe I should spend a weekend constructing playlists (but what kind of playlists?). Or maybe you have a better idea.

How do you keep your music library organized?

My advice regarding library organization is always unpopular and always ignored, but hear me out here: delete most of your music.

From Love and Rockets (via alancfrancis)

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:39:20 +0100

From Love and Rockets (via alancfrancis)

Chewing is over-rated.

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:26:24 +0100

Chewing is over-rated.

Amanda Palmer

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:17:27 +0100

Amanda Palmer

"Yet when asked by the authors if Mr Cameron wrote a memo or had to report back to the office about..."

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:04:33 +0100

“Yet when asked by the authors if Mr Cameron wrote a memo or had to report back to the office about his trip, Alistair Cooke – in 1989 his boss at Central Office – said it was “simply a jolly”, adding: “It was all terribly relaxed, just a little treat, a perk of the job. The Botha regime was attempting to make itself look less horrible, but I don’t regard it as having been of the faintest political consequence.””

- Cameron’s freebie to apartheid South Africa - UK Politics, UK - The Independent

I’ve had to mark all the Isaac and Hope pics as private...

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:23:17 +0100

I’ve had to mark all the Isaac and Hope pics as private after some dodgy activity.

If you have a flickr account that has some actual pictures of your own, and you don’t have 200 favourites of kids in the bath, I’ll more than likely add you (if you are keen to see cool pics of my kids :)

"One of the fantastic things about Twitter clients is how easy it is for users to jump from one to..."

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:24:48 +0100

“One of the fantastic things about Twitter clients is how easy it is for users to jump from one to another. Just type in a username and password and off you go. It’s possible for anyone to write a Twitter client nowadays and have the opportunity to completely blow everyone else out of the water. It’s very exciting. Very democratic. And it certainly seems like everyone and their mother is trying to do just that.”

- An interview with Tweetie creator Loren Brichter | Software | Macworld

Photo

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:03:59 +0100