February 2009
36 posts
Jonathan is thinking, and so has put on a Brian... →
“If API users can be held liable it threatens how the internet works.”
– Tech entrepreneur Michael Robertson (MP3.com, MP3Tunes) on the fact that EMI are suing not just Seeqpod, but Favtape, which doesn’t even host any illegal files itself.
Even if you don't like what I tweet... →
…you might like these sub-140 character gems of wit and/or insight by the people I follow, otherwise known as my Twitter “favorites” list. I tend to gold-star like it’s going out of fashion.
Jonathan prefers Galette Day as a pretentious... →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-22) →
Lou Reed (98)
Roxy Music (14)
The Birthday Party (7)
Magazine (3)
Death in Vegas (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
An idiot somewhere is £14,500 poorer →
Soma FM now on Tumblr →
3 random (poncey middle class) things I like
Books with titles like: “1001 [noun]s to [verb] before you die”.
Hardback coffee table books with pictures of graffiti or industrial design.
The condiments and spices aisle in Tesco Metro.
Seriously.
Found this in an old notebook of mine:
The serendipity of an iPod’s shuffle mode can often make life seem somehow cinematic. It turns mundane everyday occurrences into moving moments from particularly well-soundtracked films. Not today however. The 18:17 Virgin Trains service from London Euston to Liverpool Lime Street is not a good match for funkmaster George Clinton’s “Erotic City”. Unless there was...
Things art school will do to you, part 247
Make you start referring to movies as “pieces of cinema”. Which is fine if it’s the latest Francis Ford Coppola epic, but less so when it’s the straight-to-DVD American Pie: Band Camp.
"I've said it once before, but it bears... →
I’m on that there Twitter thang that all the cool kids are doing these days. But I was into it before you, since when I was at the first Captain Beefheart practices. I told him “you’ll never make it that way, don’t do it like that”.
10 indie points to anyone who gets the references herein.
Searches on the term "offshore software...
Just one of the many exciting facts I learned today.
Interestingly though (seriously), this isn’t just attributable to “the economy an’ that” - it’s been on steady decline throughout the past 4-5 years. Wonder why? I know web services (hosting etc.) are much more readily available now, but developers themselves..?
It’s not like the advent of Web 2.0 suddenly...
Hark, musicians! →
Want to get your music synched on TV/adverts/games etc? Then these 6 tips should help.
Egregious: \i-ˈgrē-jəs\ (adjective)
somethingchanged said:
I just used this is a work-related email and thought you might like to too. It means, “conspicuously bad.”
I’ve heard it a fair bit on the West Wing DVDs I’ve been devouring recently, and consequently looked it up. Gonna try and use this in a work e-mail by the end of the week, pretentious git that I am :-)
More conversational brilliance from my office.
Further to the sparkling dialogue we witnessed this morning, I’ve just heard the best start to an anecdote EVER from one of my colleagues:
“I was well pissed off, ‘cos I was eating a pasty, and the police were in the way…”
You know any story that kicks of with that is going to be a winner.
From the same raconteur and wit who bought us this Wildean quip:
...
Brief exchange in my office. We don't get out...
Co-worker 1: What the hell's that?!
Co-worker 2: Quiche.
Co-worker 1: Oh.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-15) →
Parliament (9)
The Twang (9)
Roy Ayers (4)
Donald Byrd (4)
The Kinks (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Who is on Twitter? →
people who are just back from a really awesome run
people who are involved with “computers”
DJs
DJs at the airport
DJs who are drunk
people who don’t have anyone’s email address
people who are mad at television
people who have forgotten how to email
people who have forgotten how to text
people who are involved in “social networking” and optimizing the power of re-Tweeting and...
Jaydiohead - 99 Anthems
Mash up of a track from...
Jonathan loves the new Lily Allen record and has... →
Ask the A&R… →
“Talent scouts” from major labels and a publisher spill the beans (anonymously, of course) on how the music biz works.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-8) →
Brian Eno (36)
Chris T-T (12)
Kate Bush (9)
Nirvana (8)
The Police (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple,...”
– Charles Mingus (via tmblg)
Don't ask why I was on this Wikipedia page →
But I found this mildly amusing:
Some Catholics who still attend church services may still think of themselves as “lapsed” if they have not participated in Catholic sacraments or if they only attend special Masses like Christmas and Easter. These are colloquially referred to by such terms as Chreasters, C&E Catholics, Poinsettia & Lily Catholics, CEO’s (Christmas and...
A New Yorker would have to make $123,322 a year to have the same standard of living as someone making $50,000 in Houston.
(via andrewglennflavin and the daily news)
Ouch.
Jonathan likes puns. They are their own reword. →
“Talking about one year venture capital returns is like talking about the score...”
– Fred Wilson
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-1) →
Morrissey (117)
Nirvana (15)
Idlewild (6)
The Lightning Seeds (3)
The Beautiful South (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz