August 2011
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“X5’s Stockholm-based staff of 10 producers has churned out more than 5,000...”
– The Internet’s $10 Million [Classical] Mix Tapes (WSJ)
Most of me is strongly to opposed to all of this, as I’m so firmly rooted in the tradition that certain elite artistic directors, musicians, and musicologists should be determining what the “most essential Chopin...
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Urban Chickens: Frugal Fad or Pricey Pastime?... →
The conclusion is that they don’t present a significant cost savings, though I don’t think that most people are doing it to be frugal, anyway.
Luckily, my insane bird phobia has prevented me from ever considering such things.
(link via infinitezest)
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Morton's Delivers Man Steak At Airport After He... →
I love this.
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“What irritates me is not that people steal music, but that they steal so much of...”
– gabriel kahane: On Spotify, digital music, and how we listen now
As someone with 50 gigs of music that I ripped from my college music library and have hardly listened to, this statement rings true. Though what I like about Spotify so far is that I am actually finding myself listening to some of...
Beyonce's baby more popular than Osama bin Ladin's... →
“According to Twitter’s Global PR team, Beyonce’s baby reveal at 10:35pm ET gave Twitter a record bump of 8,868 tweets per second. That means that Beyonce’s VMA moment received more mentions per-second than the Women’s World Cup, Japan’s New Year or Osama bin Laden’s death.”
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Sims on Facebook is World's Fastest Growing Social... →
I was obsessed with The Sims in 2002, so this is something I can’t help but like. For the first time, I understand the Facebook game phenomenon.
G2G…working on building a new room…
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Me: If [redacted] and [redacted] get married, I wonder what kind of wedding they'll have.
CR: Whatever kind she wants. Like all weddings!
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Banana Snap →
(via carlovely)
I love this. Here’s something for all of you NYC shut-ins to practice this weekend!
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tattoo artist with a music degree...
Me: Was that Sailor Jerry flash that that guy at the convention had in his book today? Why would he include that?
Andrew: Everyone does it, and it's good. It's like playing Mozart.
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“Also, if by some miracle the assaulted lady is reading this, you’ve got a lawyer...”
– INFINITE ZEST: Second City Employee Confesses Rape To UCB Comedy Audience in NY, A Reaction
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Hurricane Irene: New York Transit System Prepares... →
capitalnewyork:
peterwknox:
It takes at least eight hours to shut down the nation’s largest mass-transit system, Walder said. The MTA’s network of rail, subway and bridges stretches from Long Island’s East End to the Hudson Valley and up the Connecticut coast.
The subway system is especially vulnerable to flooding. On an average day, 13 million gallons of water are pumped out of it.
Walder...
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"Anything but Country": applying factor analysis... →
When it comes to a “this” vs. “that” distinction in musical taste, it doesn’t come down to “country” vs. “everything else” – it comes down to “sophisticated” vs. “everything else.” If someone really wants to give an all-or-nothing response to the favorite music question, it would probably be more accurate for him to say he likes anything but the high-brow stuff. Or, conversely, anything but the...
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For Ticketmaster: Choose Seats Next To Your... →
Useful application for social data, though I’m not completely comfortable with seat maps being provided after the event.
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“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– STEVE JOBS, in a commencement address at Stanford, 2005.
(via the Wall Street Journal)
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Big Changes to American Express’s Blue Cash Card... →
Somehow I missed this memo at the end of April, about my top choice Amex card. I’ll have to look into this further and see if it makes sense for me to switch to the new rewards.
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I'm home sick today,
and planning to actually spend the day being sick, rather than sickly answering e-mails and sickly cleaning up the house, like my non-stop brain is telling me to.
What should I stream on Netflix?
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Tumblr Buddies, Year TWO! →
-ashleychristy-:
It is that time again.
I am opening up enrollment for the second cycle of Tumblr Buddies!
For those of you new to the program, think of it like Secret Santa, but all year long! Everyone loves to get mail, and from the feedback from last year, everyone loves SENDING mail just as much.
Everyone…
I really love this idea, and was about to just sign up, but instead, I...
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“THIS BUILDING IS TOTALLY…SECURE.”
– Emergency announcement in my office building right now. I was nervous there for a second.
Earthquake?
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“La la la la, oh, what’s this, a cooking article? OH MY $&@*%&%!”
– Me, lounging on the couch reading this week’s New York Magazine right now
I dare you to view this slideshow.
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Link Building for SEO on Tumblr →
(via loganabbott)
Ha! I never thought about the fact that each “like” you leave on someone else’s Tumblr becomes a free backlink. Moderately trashy SEO strategy.
This is even more incentive to block the insane number of Spammers liking posts on Tumblr lately, though does blocking it actually do the trick in that case? It looks like the likes still go towards the like count,...
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Cat fights, unchanged by the economy for all of...
Me: Why do cats fight, anyway? What's their problem?
CR: They don't even own stocks. I don't know, Adrienne.
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Zoku: Berry Mojito Pops →
zokuhome:
Makes 6 Pops
INGREDIENTS
1 cup (4 oz) fresh raspberries ½ cup (3 oz) blueberries ½ cup (2 oz) blackberries 2 oz light rum** ½ cup simple syrup* 8-10 fresh mint leaves
*The amount of simple syrup you use will vary depending on the sweetness of the berries **For a non-alcoholic Pop, do not add the rum
To do list.
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“When there is a red light here, you really just have to stop.”
– Jose Martinez, biker who witnessed another biker being fatally hit by a cement truck yesterday on Delancey and Bowery (Gothamist)
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