February 2012
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“Calibre, which is cross-platform ugly beyond belief”
– TidBITS Entertainment: Introducing Bookle, an EPUB Reader for Mac OS X
So accurate. Calibre has been super-useful, but…
January 2012
16 posts
Watchpauseandplay:
I WANT MY (OLD) MTV: “Fade to Grey,” Visage (1980) - DOWNLOAD
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“This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this...”
– The Rev. Martin Luther King (via merlin)
best with OMD playing behind it.
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Everything I know about Iowa and rock music, in 15...
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“We will Pentagon fail at 12 o’clock.”
– Terrorist code, or badly translated Google Voice message? You decide.
December 2011
20 posts
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“Jason: You know how iTunes, and digital music in general, has made it so we...”
– The Sixteenth Day of Mellowmas: Adorkablemas | Popdose
A Proposal for Yang et al.
Yahoo needs to revive Geocities, but like… *ironically.*
Total Tumblr killer.
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Hey.
There’s no tumblr dedicated to the Hoodoo Gurus, I don’t think. Can you guys fix that? I’m in a “Tojo” mood.
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Endangered Species
When the internet is ruined by The Machine, you’ll be sorry you didn’t snatch more weird stuff for your own dirty little stash. Spoof your MAC address, jump on the neighbor’s “linksys,” and search the usual places for “Rare Hits of the 80s Vol. xx,” where xx is a whole number 1-54. The stuff that isn’t great is so bad it’s great.
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I guess Songparts has sorta fallen off, but I made...
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WatchHm.
slicingeyeballs:
Video: They Might Be Giants, ‘Electronic Istanbul (Not Constantinople)’
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November 2011
22 posts
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Cockpit View
Yesterday I ran across an article about a Lord of the Rings game for the 2600. It was allegedly completely coded, but not released before the great crash of ‘83. Now it’s rediscovered and downloadable. So I did. Alas, it wouldn’t work on the emulator I was using.
That’s not the point. The point is, I started playing the original 2600 Asteroids. I must’ve been nearly...
"Destination Moon"
I don’t think I’ll ever be lower-limb-crippled in a hospital room (heart disease, dementia, cirrhosis maybe), but if I am… Please play TMBG to inspire me. Maximum volume please, like “get arrested” loud.
Theories
Proclaimed_Big Shot Chronicles_ the best yesterday. ipod throws “Nine Lives to Rigel Five” at me on the drive in, then “Where They Have to Let You In,”* while I’m at my desk. Revenge of The Catalog.
*BONUS: I just typed that as, ” Where They Have to Let You Sin.” Which sounds like a great song, if not a S. Miller one…
