Synesthesia came up in sort of a wacky conversation on Twitter. I linked to a clip from Heroes showing their take on Synesthesia. This clip, however, is a neat little 8 minute doc on Synesthesia.
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Connecticut Editor
Synesthesia came up in sort of a wacky conversation on Twitter. I linked to a clip from Heroes showing their take on Synesthesia. This clip, however, is a neat little 8 minute doc on Synesthesia.
[...]I want to recommend this piece by Stephen M. Walt on his ForeignPolicy.com blog. This paragraph in particular, along with the points about the American Civil War, are worth contemplating as we consider both Iraq as well as the issues of race in the South.
Military occupation generates resistance because [...]
We’ve been chatting on Twitter about the Newsweek Palin cover. Consensus is that it was a really stupid cover choice by Newsweek. The defenses I’ve read online for Newsweek have been pretty week. The best one, so far has come from Lindsay Beyerstein:
There’s nothing scandalous about Palin showing some [...]
Amazon’s MP3 Store’s Best of 2009 list is a really neat, diverse mix of albums from 2009. Pleasantly surprised. I bought a bunch of albums last night from the list. Among them was the latest Midival Punditz album, Hello, Hello. I checked YouTube for this track, which [...]
I know, two songs from the same album back-to-back, but I like the album. It’s different than most of the stuff I listen to, for sure. It is, however, really good. This is a cheesy song (Lerche describes it as show tune-y in the video), but it’s fun and [...]
Note: I wrote this in May. I had a larger post in mind, but ran out of time. I think I wanted to expand on some places where I was particularly blunt. Anyway, this seems worth posting as is. Hope it’s worth reading.
I love the strings in this song. It reminds me of a lot of Bollywood songs when I was a kid.
I first heard Sondre Lerche on the Dan in Real Life soundtrack. It was a great soundtrack. This is off his new album, also titled Heartbeat Radio. [...]
I’ve been reading the defenses of Roman Polanski and continue to be unswayed by any of them. All the defenses come back to the same three or four points:
Prosecutorial or judicial misconduct of some kind 50 years was an unfair sentence it was so long ago, why now? The victim wants the [...]I just had an exchange on Facebook that I feel like expanding on here. I’m going to anonymize the people, but suffice to say the person is a person I respect but with whom I rarely agree politically:
This person linked to a Politico article about Sen. Ensign receiving a [...]
A while ago, I was looking at (and tweeted about) some dude’s travel gear list and noticed a nice pair of binoculars in the pack, a pair of Pentax Papilio 8.5×21 binoculars. I saved it to my Amazon Wish List [...]
I only watched about 20 minutes of the documentary The Last Truck on HBO today, but already I want to recommend the film. It’s short, interesting, and timely. Using interviews with workers, the doc covers the closing of GM’s Moraine Assembly Plant in Ohio in December of 2008.
I don’t [...]
NBC just announced that Jenna Hagar (nĂ©e Bush) is joining NBC’s Today Show as a correspondent. I really don’t know what to say, but this post by Glenn Greenwald captures the state of our elite press pretty well. I’m going to excerpt a few chunks below, but you should [...]
You may recognize this from just about every iPhone app commercial. (actual song starts about 20 seconds into the video)
The rest of the album, Unfamiliar Faces, is pretty good. Check it out.
Part 1: Tarantino isn’t Tarantino anymore
The foundation for my reaction to this movie comes down to Tarantino himself. His most recent movies were nearly all homages to genres of film. Each film was as much about the art of film as they were about the plot and story. Basically, [...]
This month’s mix is mellower than most. Lots of the Kooks and two commercial songs: Doorway was used in the Palm Pre Facebook ad (Palm’s last/only non-f’d up Pre commercial) and Daylight is used in the Bacardi Rum ad (where the guy goes from room to room further [...]
Via @keithlam & @scottconnor, found this great essay by Paul Graham, Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule. The essay describes my challenges with being a manager vs. a maker almost to a T. I was particularly struck by these paragraphs:
For someone on the maker’s schedule, having a meeting is [...]
While watching the Orbitz commercial above, I noticed the little HRC logo on the shirt of one of the golfers. I was watching on my SlingPlayer in a small window, so I wasn’t sure if I just imagined it. A little bit of Googling later and we find out [...]
I was going through the tracks I got in one of the sampler albums that Amazon gives away for free and found this fascinating track that just stopped me in my tracks. The track is Mr. Gowrie from Charles Spearin’s Happiness Project. The album is a exploration of the [...]
I listened to a really interesting episode of KCRW’s On the Point while driving home today. The episode was about the stimulus, asking the question “With Unemployment at 9.5 Percent, Is the Stimulus Working?” It’s worth listening just to get a rundown on the state of the stimulus and [...]
Late again, so this mix is just a quick rundown of mostly new additions and infatuations. The Virgins album is clearly my favorite purchase this month. I’ve had a couple of different songs that I play every day either to or from work. You could do worse than giving [...]
Here’s the analogy that keeps coming up in my head as I try to summarize my thoughts.
Politics is like chess, especially at the presidential level. It takes skill to plan out the next 18-24 months in the future, especially as other potential candidates & their allies are all jostling and [...]
I want to use this space to completely rip this movie which, quite honestly, may be the worst action movie ever made. Instead, I will simply summarize my reaction this way:
When you go see Transformers, bring your iPhone, Blackberry, or laptop. Surf the web, answer emails, do whatever until you [...]
There’s something just “right” about this remix. I started looking for this because of a tight mashup by DJ Earworm that features Whatever Lola Wants and Promiscuous by Nelly Furtado. Check that out. It’s actually a really good mix. In fact, most of DJ Earworm’s stuff is really [...]
Update: I have no idea why the Amazon widget keeps screwing up the mix – this is the best I was able to get tonight, will look at it some more later.
May continues the spring feel. I almost forced myself to have a pair of songs per artist. I [...]
I had this in the Feb/March Mix, from some free (or maybe not) compilation for this year’s SXSW. Good song, and the disco clothes really just work.
[...]Want to expand on two recent Facebook interactions that have gotten some criticism from my more conservative friends.
First one was about a tweet, my comment on a recent Krugman article:
Krugman’s column about California sounds about right to me. Our perception of taxes is warped by Republican spin: http://is.gd/DOOE
140 characters is [...]
I’ve turned off the nightly digest. If you want to follow my Twitter feed, you should either follow me at Twitter or friend me on Facebook.
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I rarely do this, but I’m basically copying the post from Ritholtz’s blog:
“American Casino is a powerful and shocking look at the subprime lending scandal. If you want to understand how the US financial system failed and how mortgage companies ripped off the poor, see this film.”
–Joseph [...]
On the shuttle from parking for my sister’s med school graduation. Say congrats to @swirlysu ! [twitpic.com] #
[...]Yet another reason I wish I lived and worked in the Bay Area: [nosql.net] (via @evan) # Funniest thing I’ve read, tweeted by @juliablue , about her healthier eating: W00t! Fr00t! # Eliza Dushku has been posting pics and tweets while on a trip in uganda. Worth following. [...]
Late lunch today. Trying the fat free balsamic. Tiny bit afraid. [twitpic.com] # programmer/coder peeps, stackoverflow.com is a good resource. iPhone, Rails communities are decent, with good answers. # I’m overcaffeinated again…. argh… cant. sit. still…. make it stop! # Awsome! RT @SaraBareilles: I’m going to be on my [...]
How many songs do you recognize? You can download the track for free from DJ Earworm’s site.
[...]Last mention tonight: Can a tv/movie series “sell out” – new Star Trek movie felt like a fav. band that got popular. feels ‘off’ to old fans # RT @doctorow Trek makes not a shred of sense but fun nevertheless. Time travel idiot plot + continuity ridiculousness + nostalgia [...]
Sometimes a simple whim can become art. Kudos to the young woman who did this. It’s a neat little video.
(via Commanda.net)
[...]Think I’m going to go see Star Trek at 4:30 at the Palace 17. # Just saw star trek. Feels like something familiar has been ripped away intentionally but without malice. Unsure how I feel about it. # Looks like express is trying something interesting with their brand [twitter.com] [...]
Here is the tweet I sent while the credits were rolling:
Just saw star trek. Feels like something familiar has been ripped away intentionally but without malice. Unsure how I feel about it.
In the hour since, I figured out a few things about what I liked and didn’t like about the [...]
The more I think about it, the more impressed I am with @twitterific ’s new UI. Some interesting concepts. #yam [is.gd] # don’t agree with Bill Simmons & others who think Manny tarnishes the Sox World Series wins. All of Baseball had a problem. Era tarnished. [...]
Paul Pierce suddenly looks overrated at this point in his career. That or he’s just having a bad few weeks… # Holy Crap! @sportscenter is reporting that Manny Ramirez is going to be suspended 50 games for failing a PED test… wow # if manny’s explanation is true, the [...]
How’d I get on the 8am to midnight shift yesterday? Paying for it today. # ProPublica has put all of the financial disclosure forms for Obama’s nominees online: [is.gd] # odd observation – considering ESPN’s employee demographics, on Twitter I follow nearly as many female ESPN employees as male [...]
Twitter shuts down StatTweets: [tr.im] (via @scottconnor) # RT: @juliablue: @sujal Couch-to-5K, brought to my attention by @emgian: [tinyurl.com] # Related to the graph I posted last night. Income growth since 1976 explained clearly: [is.gd] # Let’s try again: Related to the graph I posted last [...]
