May 2008
21 posts
Best ISP/Cable provider in NYC?
Moving on July 1, any recommendations?
Great Day for Wesleyan →
Sunday’s Commencement Ceremony was a wonderful conclusion to my first year as Wesleyan’s 16th president. The graduate students and the class of 2008 received more than their diplomas on Andrus…
Taser Shot Cures Irregular Heartbeat of Mentally... →
Shared by Jake Levine See? We have heard plenty of stories about tasers being harmful or even deadly, but could they also be healthy and heart-friendly? Possibly, given new evidence…
AT&T Starts Reducing Early Termination Fees... →
AT&T doesn’t have to wait for the FCC to tell it to pro-rate early termination fees, they’re starting to do something similar already. Now, instead of paying the maximum fee of $175 no…
“The Internet is not a separate place a person can go to from the real world. The...”
– Modern Love - Instant Message, Instant Girlfriend - Series - NYTimes.com (via herkamer) (via peterwknox)
Dejumble 1.1.1 provides another way to get things... →
Filed under: Software, Odds and ends
Yeah, it seems like YAGTDA (Yet Another Getting Things Done App), but Dejumble actually caught my attention. Thinking Code recently created…
iPhone line forms at Apple's flagship for... →
Hilarious
BARAK OBAMA IS SPEAKING AT MY GRADUATION!!!!
NY TIMES
“And frankly, Yahoo’s stockholders and employees deserve some kind of mercy...”
– Michael Arrington - Microsoft v. Yahoo: This Isn’t Even Funny Any More
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-18) →
Spiritualized
Vampire Weekend
Sigur Rós
MGMT
Erykah Badu
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Yochai Benkler, others at Harvard map current and... →
Harvard’s world-renowned Berkman Center for Internet & Society
is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a conference called Berkman@10.
I’ll report here on today’s sessions, which were…
Wallet Hacks: Slim Down Your Wallet with Your... →
Pretty cool idea…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-11) →
Bonobo
Hot Chip
Talking Heads
The Hold Steady
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
German group patents 'smell-phone' →
Steps in the right direction, as if the loud tinny music on the subway wasn’t enough…
Digg - Is the iPhone Killing the Internet? →
Zittrain made Newsweek and, more importantly, Digg!
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-5-4) →
Christopher O’Riley
Esbjörn Svensson Trio (E.S.T.)
Yo La Tengo
Feist
Talking Heads
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
visigami - Google Code →
This is really neat, I especially like the screensaver.
“It was a one-off response to a particular situation…It was one of those things...”
– Thom Yorke on “Pricing optional strategy was ‘a one-off’” Yorke told Hollywood Reporter that the band will not likely return to the widely-hailed pricing-optional strategy it used to release In Rainbows on subsequent albums. (via artistspaid) The problem is that people are still considering this...