Monthly Archives: February 2005

Ones to Watch (Feb 2005)

In this recurring feature, we present you with 10 tracks by some of our favorite rising acts. RHAPSODY Link

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“A Scanner Darkly” trailer

The trailer for A Scanner Darkly is online. I try not to get excited about movies before I’ve seen them anymore, in order to avoid setting myself up for disappointment, but it’s hard to resist with this one.

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Album of the Week

The album of the week is Kings of Leon’s Aha Shake Heartbreak.

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Neal Stephenson’s Past, Present, and Future

I finally got around to reading the Reason interview with Neal Stephenson. It is quite obvious to me that the U.S. is turning away from all of this. It has been the case for quite a while that the cultural … Continue reading

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Celebrate Black History Month 2005

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Daily Show on Bloggers

onegoodmove has the Daily Show bit on bloggers’ role in the Jeff Gannon story. Very funny.

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Kottke goes pro

Jason Kottke is quitting his job to blog full-time. He’ll support himself with reader donations. Normally, I’m not very enthusiastic about people trying to make money off of their personal blogs. To be honest, very few blogs seem good enough … Continue reading

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R.I.P. Jimmy Smith

The man credited with creating “soul jazz” and bringing the organ to jazz died recently. RHAPSODY Link

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Kubrickr

The new header image is courtesy of the awesome Kubrickr tool, which lets you search for photos on Flickr and then automagically crops the one you choose for use with the Kubrick WordPress theme.

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Clarke rips Microsoft over security

Ouch, Richard Clarke on Microsoft security: “Given their record in the security area, I don’t know why anybody would buy from them.” Why, indeed?

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Concord debuts $99 slim digital camera

For $100 you can now buy a tiny digital camera that’s way better (5 megapixels versus 1.2 megapixels) than the one I bought three years ago for $300.

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Album of the Week

I’ve got three albums for you this week to make up for last weeks absence. Your Rhapsody album is LCD Soundsystem’s eponymous album. We also have They Might Be Giants’ latest kids’ album Here Come the ABC’s, available as DRM-free … Continue reading

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Hitchhicker’s Trailer

Amazon has the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trailer. Maybe this movie (or it’s sequels) will finally popularize the origin of the title of this website.

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Hula calendar server

Nat Friedman announced the Hula calendar server project yesterday. Jamie Zawinski has the story of how he helped turn Hula from a stodgy “enterprise groupware” server to a sexy calendar and mail server focused on getting college students laid.

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Oh, what incredible irony

I’ve been reading Home Comforts and the author recommends some books on storage and organization. One of them was out of print but I found a used copy from an Amazon zShop and ordered it. Today I got this hilarious … Continue reading

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