September 2011
August 2011
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-28) →
Yellow Ostrich (26)
deadmau5 (18)
Johnny Cash (15)
Built to Spill (13)
Curt Boettcher (11)
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Call and Response
I really like this playlist of response songs I made today. Obviously, I could have made the entire things just Hip Hop. Or just You Were Right.
Got any suggestions for additions?
As it happens, over the very same time frame, I wrote a series of stories...
– There’s a Reason Fox News Keeps Attacking Gawker
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-21) →
The Magnetic Fields (25)
Jay-Z & Kanye West (17)
Jack Johnson (16)
Nick Drake (14)
Yellow Ostrich (13)
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Meet the HP Compaq 8200 Elite All-in-One PC! It’s got ports, and stuff. It...
– This All New HP Death Rattle Can Be Yours For Less Than One Stack
So, look, sure. You can go ahead and Like it, or Fave it, or Star it or Heart...
– Why Do You Like Bad News?
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-14) →
Bon Iver (60)
Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez (37)
Paul Simon (35)
Washed Out (33)
Scala & Kolacny Brothers (26)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
And it’s not like HP gave it the old college try. They gave TouchPad six...
– So Will TouchPad Buyers Get Full Refunds?
Why the Cable Guy Can't Keep an Appointment Like... →
Like most days, there was a protest in San Francisco yesterday where people said...
– BART Riders Have No Right to Free Speech, Says Spokesjerk
People keep asking me if I enjoy my new gig at Gizmodo. And the answer is yes. Yes I do. I hope that’s obvious.
I think - at least in the beginning - there were people in London who acted out...
– London: Riots or Revolt?
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BRYCE DOT VC: What We Really Mean by Wanting to be... →
brycedotvc:
So maybe the valley doesn’t actually have a reality distortion field at all. Maybe they’ve figured some things out about what it means to build a 21st century economy. To build an economy that not only welcomes, but seeks to invent the new. An economy that welcomes the weird. An economy that sees risk not as a liability but as an asset that yields a more valuable return than just...
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One last note: tech stocks may well have held up because we’re in a tech...
– What a Market Crash Means for Your Gadgets
The Making Of Longshot Magazine Number Two →
longshotmag:
Wendy’s art is so good, it deserved its own domain. You’re going to love this.
Seriously. http://newyorkmade.me is just great.
What makes this a New Orleans iced coffee,” he asked, as he accepted his...
– Why Hackers Write Computer Viruses
Standing on the rooftop of Gawker Media with some of Longshot’s web team,...
– I came, I saw, I coded.
I’m sure your head is aching today from all the times you stood up too quickly...
– The Book Bench: A Little Light Debt Reading : The New Yorker
Whoa. Longshot gets a writeup in The New Yorker’’s Book Bench blog. I’m kind of floored. All the moreso because I’ve now got my very own Newyorker.com keyword.