December 2010
New Year’s Day - Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good...
– Mark Twain (via aatombomb)
I don't know how much Sleigh Bells I have to add...
Stop trying to play Maps and The National.
GROOVESHARK!
Stop playing that damn “Hank and Cupcake” song. I know they probably paid you a lot of money for it to show up every five minutes, but I have “Frowned” it a million times. STOP PLAYING IT!
Give me something to listen to.
Please?
Listening to Weird Tapes on Coleman's...
I swear I’m hearing a Zelda sample.
Watching Red Dwarf, eating curry, thinking of...
Meet the Ethical Placebo: A Story that Heals →
The medical establishment’s ethical problem with placebo treatment boils down to the notion that for fake drugs to be effective, doctors must lie to their patients. It has been widely assumed that if a patient discovers that he or she is taking a placebo, the mind/body password will no longer unlock the network, and the magic pills will cease to do their job. Now, however, a group of leading...
sleepy
A Brief Synopsis of MM2K10
armm:
This year’s game centered on the theme of “Battle of the Bands.” Teams were asked to come up with band names and make stickers or flyers to advertise their band with. Puzzles throughout the night were usually somewhat musically themed- and, unlike most previous games, solved puzzles gave a music-themed passcode in order to gain the location of the next clue, rather that solving to gain...
Midnight Madness 2010 is over.
1st: Pinky and the Brains
2nd: The Resistance
3rd: He’s a Wizard (us)
GG, all.
I'm in Hot Springs.
Where the game begins…
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Carol of the Bells
Austin DeVries
(soundcloud.)
▶ The Hood Internet x Metric by hoodinternet →
On repeat.
Woah.
Android Market update. First thoughts: nice.
Trying out Chrome to Phone.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
Foals (21)
Sleigh Bells (16)
Ra Ra Riot (15)
Metric (14)
M.I.A. (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
iveacceptedit asked: how is hunter pryor doing? -austin
When young, I remember clearly how my father told me why our country was so...
– Steve Wozniak, in an open letter to the FCC on net neutrality. Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer, Inc. with Steve Jobs and created the Apple I and Apple II series computers in the mid-1970s.
Read the full letter here.
(via theatlantic)
Best LittleCo of 2010: Tumblr →
azspot:
Tumblr launched back in 2007, but this year it really took off in terms of growth - crushing its nearest light blogging rival, Posterous. Tumblr achieved this growth at surprisingly low staffing levels: just 16 employees, with an estimated 20 before end of 2010. It’s got plenty of money behind it, though. The company has raised $40m. $30m of that was raised this month from existing...
iveacceptedit asked: how is hunter pryor doing? -austin
4 guys in a basement building an app are the new rock band, reaching tens of...
– will.i.am in an NPR interview (via grantjonah)