December 2008
87 posts
I’m gonna go ahead and call this one— the latest commercial in the “I’m-going-to-go-batshit-crazy-if-I-hear-this-one-more-time” series (e.g. IO Reggaeton, Saved By Zero, etc.) is the New Zealand Tourism Board’s “Forever Young” spot.
Just saying. Carry on.
Blagojevich Names Obama Senate Replacement - The... →
Double Yew. Tee. Eff.
Pet Peeve for 2008: Clicking on a link that sounds interesting and discovering it’s a video I have to watch.
Pet Peeve for 2009: Clicking on a link that sounds interesting and discovering it’s a fucking SLIDESHARE presentation I have to click through.
Want to get rich? Code up a program that writes a relevant text summary for videos and slideshare presentations, and outputs them...
“The blogging equivalent of the Justice League of America, MBV finds five stars...”
– Internet review: MBV | Technology | The Guardian
Johnny Dee of the Guardian? I thank you much for your very kind write-up of MBV in the Guardian yesterday. And I trust that, as with most people, you have a Google Alert set up for your own name, and will thus receive this thank-you.
Cheers,...
“The requirements placed on startups by labels will squash innovation. By...”
– Coolfer: Today’s Playlist Sites Are No Boon For Labels
doiwishyouamerrychristmas.com →
I decided some time ago that I was going to make an active effort at being less snide, snarky, and/or negative. I think Justin said it best when he said, “I can’t believe that, with so much negativity in this world, people are so eager to introduce more.” Everyone should take that to heart.
Anyway, I’m telling you this now simply to confess that several times today, I have...
I didn’t know there was a RUMBLE (Rumblr?) on! Watch out, Newsweek already laid out a bitch-slap:
“…already making Tumblr seem archaic…”
FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
Techcrunch: Dead Simple Posterous Gets A Round Of Funding And Launches Group Blogs
“I’ve never understood what the hell youngmanhattanite is talking about, but that...”
– Your social circle is our class warfare. (via youngmanhattanite)
Youngmanhattanite used to be a blog about New York Media, Snark, Angst, and Bitterness. It is currently a blog about Altruism, Judaism, Volunteerism, and Rex Sorgatz.
Music Labels In Talks To Create Hulu-For-Music →
If the Majors are the ones building it, you can be sure of two things– 1.) It will suck, and 2.) It will fail.
Anyone out there clamoring for an entire site of “embedding disabled by request” videos?
(sound of crickets…)
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
“What are clients betting hundreds of millions of dollars on in spite of its...”
– Mike Arauz | Blog: $50 Million on Relationships
I hope to god someone out there is listening to him. I have this conversation with people *all* the time. Unfortunately, convincing a client to take that first step (that first “risk,” as it were) is like pressing a car sale on the...
“To use a pop culture metaphor that everyone should (I hope) understand, the...”
– Op-Ed Contributor - Extinction-Level Television Event - NYTimes.com
You know what you don’t see enough of on the internet? Pictures of guys who have mustaches that grow all the way down past their jawline, down the neck, then continue down onto their chest, eventually curling around the nipples.
VYV: Gah! Where's my supper, Neil?!
NEIL: Coming...
NEIL: Right, here it is, now eat it up quickly, okay?
MIKE: What's this?
NEIL: Uh...It's risotto, Mike.
VYV: It's snow, isn't it, Neil.
I have a friend in from out of town and we want...
Dude, isn’t that, like, a block from the Tumblr offices? They have to let you in: you have a Tumblr.
davidcho:
Please email!
Graham Smith & KGW - “I Will Own...
If you're going to repurpose other ideas in a... →
(via alexblagg)
I’m glad I’m not the only one who looked at this and immediately thought “shameless ploy for a book deal.”
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/121508bitto... →
Talk about a “Down Round—” BitTorrent just gave back $17M of funding to their VCs.
Blur to make 'dirty, nasty, filthy' new album →
Is there some bizarre, obtuse joke here that I’m not getting? Or do people just not look at posting dates? This article is from fucking March 2006.
offnotesnotes:
soupsoup:
sharingtime:noraleah:(via okimago)
Hey, STFU
The Power of Pitchfork?
What, is it scary to think of Pitchfork essentially controlling the entire span of online music? Because they practically do.
pgwp:
Four Tet’s “Ribbons” was among the picks on their list today. I’ve suddenly got all kinds of hits from Hype Machine and Elbo.ws looking for Four Tet mp3. A post of mine from September is getting as much traffic as some of my posts from last week.
I thought I just saw Sam Beam walking by the park, but it turned out to be just a bum.
“If, in the blogosphere, there is any semblance to Rickles’ style of dressing the...”
– — John Mayer (via alexblagg)
maura: i would love for mayer to be right here, but i think things have changed since rickles’ day in a few fundamental ways. the whole idea of how much the audience is allowed to be in on the joke is key; earlier in this post, mayer tells a story of rickles...
“The Pitchfork “Top 500 Songs” Book—Apparently, in the rush to become our...”
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The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Top Five Aggressively Insignificant Artifacts of 2008
Watchjstn:
Francis’ record came into the office today. It’s someone else’s. Right label, right jacket, wrong vinyl.
Shit, that fucking suuuuuuuuucks. My condolences, guys.