Low makes a perfect Neil Young record
Low’s music has always rewarded careful listening, and its tempos have famously permitted it. Having been lumped in with the slowcore movement for their beautiful and glacial music, the band’s name conjures memories of songs that move with geological speed. But it’s reductionist to think of them as slowcore; the other ingredients in their musical [...]
It takes a very steady hand
Mac HTPC: Upgrade your Mac Mini. Video showing how to open a Mac Mini. Caution: this does not automatically void your warranty, but it sure might if you muck things up inside too badly after opening the case. Regarding my previous questions about upgrading the hard drive in a Mini, it looks like it’s no [...]
On being relative: rel=”nofollow” and semantic drift
For those that may have missed it, Google weighed in a week ago with a proposal to reduce comment spam. The proposal says that search engines should not include links qualified with the rel=”nofollow” attribute in the page rank calculations for their destinations—a move done in concert with MSN, Yahoo, Six Apart, Dave Winer, UserLand, [...]
Folkways vs. Lomax: cage match
New York Times: Smithsonian’s Song Catalog Is Available for Sale Online. Unfortunately, it’s at MSN Music, not the iTunes Music Store. Interesting choice, given the percentage of the Mac market who would be interested in Folkways recordings who are now locked out of purchasing them online (at least through September). Since the other major library [...]
All business is personal.
Hugh MacLeod pointed to English Cut, the blog of his bespoke tailor friend. Yes, that’s right: a tailor who cuts his own fabric and makes his own suits directly to measure, who blogs. So why is this interesting? From the business perspective, as Hugh points out, it’s all about strategy: “the demand for bespoke English [...]
SmartDeck: Nice, but does it squeak?
Lockergnome: MWSF – Best of Show – Griffin’s SmartDeck (Hardware). While I don’t know if an iPod cassette adapter is what I’d normally consider as a candidate for “best in show” at MacWorld, this one is making me think twice. By communicating the state of the cassette deck (paused, fast forward, etc.) back to the [...]
