Archives
Categories
- Header image by smaedli.
Meta
Monthly Archives: July 2007
Album of the Week
The album of the week is Tegan and Sara’s The Con.
Posted in Rhapsody
Leave a comment
2008 Presidential Election Candidates on the Issues
I’m not sure how useful it is to boil down political positions to a series of checks and X’s but I think it’s funny that Ron Paul is against everything except ANWR drilling and border fences.
Posted in Politics
Leave a comment
New Backpack
37signals have released a new version of Backpack and it’s pretty spiffy. Search is awesome and the increased draggability is nice. However, they seem to have screwed up the one feature that I’ve been waiting two years for: moving things … Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet, GTD, Productivity
Leave a comment
Kanye West Can’t Tell Me Nothing Video
It just keeps getting better with every shot.
Posted in Music
Leave a comment
Album of the Week
The album of last week was The Knife’s Silent Shout.
Posted in Rhapsody
Leave a comment
Comments on Mass. IT Policy Due Tomorrow
The Massachusetts Information Technology Division recently announced its intention to add Microsoft’s OfficeOpen XML specification to its list of approved open formats. The ITD created a firestorm in 2005 when it announced that the state would standardize on ODF as … Continue reading
Posted in Free Software
Leave a comment
Connector and Slingshot Open-sourced and Free
Joyent’s Connector web-based groupware has been open sourced. You now have a few options for open source, web-based calendar and email. I’m sure Chandler Server will be nice when it’s finished, which should be any year now, and Novell has … Continue reading
Posted in Free Software
Leave a comment
Organic farming could feed the world
Ivette Perfecto of the University of Michigan in the US and her colleagues found that, in developed countries, organic systems on average produce 92% of the yield produced by conventional agriculture. In developing countries, however, organic systems produce 80% more … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Food, Health
Leave a comment
Album of the Week
It was a pretty mega week for album releases with new stuff from Bad Religion and Interpol, among others, and unreleased recordings by Nick Drake. The album of the week, however, is They Might Be Giants’ The Else.
Posted in Rhapsody
Leave a comment
Net Radio Rates
Tim Quirk details how the new Internet radio royalty rates will cripple Rhapsody’s radio stations. The rates take effect in two days and it seems that the only thing you can do about it is contact your representatives and try … Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet, Copyfight, Rhapsody
Leave a comment
Robot Wisdom auxiliary
Jorn needs to break down and make a link blog. These monthly mega-posts show up in my feed reader and are too much to process in one sitting.
Posted in Blogs
Leave a comment
Album of the Week
I’ve decided to revive the album of the week since it helps keep me looking for new music, something I’ve been lax in lately. It’s been a while so here are three excellent albums for you to listen to: The … Continue reading
Posted in Rhapsody
Leave a comment