January 2009
46 posts
Jan 31st
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ListenWilson Phillips — Eyes Like Twins (via...
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
Jan 26th
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ListenJosh Ritter, “Right Moves” noraleah: Digging...
Jan 25th
Jan 25th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-25) →
Colbie Caillat (17)  Joni Mitchell (10)  Avril Lavigne (9)  Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins (6)  Augustana (3)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jan 25th
HeLa cells →
dailymeh: There are several bizarre aspects of this story. One is the whole immortality through death by cancer thing. HeLa is an immortal cell line derived from cancer cells taken from a woman named Henrietta Lacks. This means, if I understand it correctly, that researchers can keep this line of cells alive indefinitely, and they are all derived from the original cancer cells in Henrietta...
Jan 25th
“The house is a machine for living in”
– Le Corbusier (via iamdanw)
Jan 24th
Jan 23rd
Jan 23rd
“6.02214179 × 10^23”
– Avogadro constant Why the hell is it so hard to remember this simple number? I’ve been studying the sciences for God knows how many years and I still have to look it up. Every time.
Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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ListenDido — The Day Before The Day
Jan 21st
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“We will raise science to its rightful place”
– Barack Obama (via varelasaraiva)
Jan 20th
Jan 20th
"Going into a meeting. Call me if Obama unveils a... →
@sizemore
Jan 20th
yourmonkeycalled: “Simplicity reigns. Don’t reinvent anything or tempt fate with novelty. Aspirational cleverness—the bold bow tie, the thematic suspenders—reek intolerably.” From an awesome, short introduction to the tuxedo. Since “aspirational cleverness” is my disease, I take the point gratefully. Posted at A Continuous Lean, which, like most of my favorite things, I learned about from...
Jan 19th
1 tag
Jan 19th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-18) →
Michael Nyman (36)  Colbie Caillat (36)  Adele (21)  Miles Davis (18)  Joni Mitchell (17)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jan 19th
Jan 18th
shibboleth
wordjournal: noun • /ˈʃɪbəlɛθ/ • a word, especially seen as a test, to distinguish someone as belonging to a particular nation, class, profession etc. a slogan, jargon word, or catchphrase closely associated with a particular group and not used very much, or at all, outside of it. Can also apply to ideas, customs, and uses of language. a common or longstanding belief or custom associated with a...
Jan 17th
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Short term goals
Drink beer with less haste Turn down screen brightness a notch.
Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
Jan 14th
How the city hurts your brain →
Jonah Lehrer for the Boston Globe: City life isn’t easy. The same London cafes that stimulated Ben Franklin also helped spread cholera; Picasso eventually bought an estate in quiet Provence. While the modern city might be a haven for playwrights, poets, and physicists, it’s also a deeply unnatural and overwhelming place. Now scientists have begun to examine how the city...
Jan 14th
“All the other girls here are stars, you are the northern lights.”
– Josh Ritter — from Kathleen on his 2003 album Hello Starling.
Jan 13th
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ListenKathleen - Josh Ritter, live at Vicar Street,...
Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
Jan 11th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-11) →
Colbie Caillat (66)  Fleet Foxes (57)  Camphor (14)  Burial (12)  Delta Goodrem (11)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jan 11th
Jan 11th
WatchWatch
amyyy: Conan O’Brien plays 1864 baseball. It just gets better and better. (via scout)
Jan 9th
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Shops, Loyalty Cards and Data Portability
cartographer: Now we’ve started voluntarily collecting data about ourselves. I track all my music listening habits on last.fm, my travel on Dopplr, my location on FireEagle and my books on Amazon. Surely all this data is valuable to retailers? What if when I walk into a record store like HMV or Fopp they offer me money off and a free CD/playlist of recommended artists in exchange for my Last.fm...
Jan 8th
Jan 8th
Jan 8th
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ListenDamien Rice - The Rat Within the Grain (via...
Jan 7th
Jan 7th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-1-4) →
Worcester Cathedral Choir - Adrian Lucas (19)  Pink Martini (16)  Fleetwood Mac (12)  The Fray (8)  Georg Friedrich Händel (7)  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jan 5th
ListenSeth Lakeman - I’ll Haunt You (via...
Jan 3rd
Jan 1st
Being Randomly Logged Out of Websites When Using... →
Dan Benjamin: Are you experiencing this issue as well? Yes! This little bug has been really annoying me over the past week or so.
Jan 1st
December 2008
43 posts
Happy New Year Tumblr Friends
Here’s to a peaceful and joyous 2009 for you all.
Dec 31st