February 2010
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Anil Dash: Free Publicity: Who do we help? →
Anil points out that the Obama Adminstration is doing a lot more good for the world than Apple right now. If you missed his blog post earlier this week, it’s great and worth a read.
I love cool stuff as much as the next guy. What leaves me at a loss, though, is how many otherwise sane and sensible people give their time and energy freely to help support a company like Apple that, despite its...
“It’s hard to know how to mourn a recluse — all we have is the absence of an...”
– Sam Anderson: A Second Chance for J.D. Salinger
Read all of J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories. →
Including the never-collected “Hapworth 16, 1924” (requires NYer digital edition subscription). My favorites: besides the books, I’ve kept all of these stories in a big text file on every computer I’ve owned since 1994.
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Bijan Sabet: Music startups are showing the way →
Bijan talks about how music startups are out-innovating anything the labels come up with (i.e., the so-far underwhelming Vevo.) Examples: We Are Hunted, TheSixtyOne and The Hype Machine. Those are hip choices with lots of great free, new music, but I love being able to listen to nearly anything I want anytime, so I’m also a fan of Mog (think Rhapsody meets Pandora, for $5 a month), and...
WatchThe End of the Show Song
Conan closed early and sang out his penultimate show Thursday night to accommodate a full credits roll of the cast and crew.
(Spotted by both Brian Stelter and my wife)
“Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you...”
– Conan O’Brien (via editorlisa, dpstyles & david)
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YouTube's Music Discovery Project →
I was surprised to find out a little while back that lots of kids use YouTube as a free music service by making playlists of their favorite music videos (or in many cases, simply songs that have been uploaded as a video with a static image) and playing them in a background window or tab (after realizing this, I was able to VJ a recent Next New Networks / $99 Music Videos party with a playlist of...
TED Blog: The Haiti tragedy: How you can help →
Photo: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Numerous members of the TED community have sought to find a way to help victims of the Haiti quake. We believe one of the organizations best placed to make an immediate difference is Partners in Health. They have operated medical facilities in Haiti for more than two decades and have numerous people on the ground. (We had the honor of working with them as part of...
Haiti Earthquake: link roundup, day two →
Essential coverage from around the web from Boing Boing.
People of Earth: Conan's full statement
I’m just re-posting Conan’s full statement here — possibly the best-written thing ever released on PRNewswire — for my own use and for anyone who hasn’t gotten to read it yet (here’s more on the statement from veteran NYT late night TV beat reporter Bill Carter).
This whole situation is sad and fascinating, and Carter’s great and sadly out of print (but...
“Show business is high school with money.”
– Martin Mull, quoted by David Letterman tonight.
“Harry Reid is a 70 year old guy from a town where they probably don’t have...”
– Columnist Mike Barnicle, on Morning Joe this morning, where they’re talking about how preposterously old-fashioned and out of touch Reid must be. So funny, but my apologies to Searchlight, Nevada.
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