memeblogging

A Musical Baton

I had seen this meme popping up all over my NetNewsWire subscriptions. I wasn’t quite expecting to be asked to participate but Daniel J. Wilson passed me the baton so here goes!

Total volume of music files on my computer

41.82 GB (8,840 tracks) at home, 19.27 GB at work. There’s some overlap though. And, actually, if anyone knows of a good tool to reconcile several iTunes libraries, I’d be real happy to hear about it!

The last CD I bought

Last time I bought physical CDs, I bought a bunch of them at once:

  • Blueberry Boat by The Fiery Furnaces
  • No Roots by More >

200 things

200 Things (inspired by a Backup Brain entry)

Things I’ve done are in bold. This had been on my to-post list for a while…

  1. Bought everyone in the pub a drink
  2. Swam with wild dolphins
  3. Climbed a mountain(Grande Rochette, La Plagne, French Alps, though I started pretty high up already…)
  4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
  5. Been inside the Great Pyramid
  6. Held a tarantula
  7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
  8. Said “I love you” and meant it
  9. Hugged a tree
  10. Done a striptease
  11. Bungee jumped
  12. Visited Paris(it’s kind of hard not to when you grew up a mere 10 km away from it)

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NetNewsWire and MarsEdit

Ranchero has finally released public beta versions of NetNewsWire 2.0 and their new blog editor, MarsEdit. I have been using both for a while now: the software I used to post that I couldn’t mention in my Meme Propagation Test post was in fact MarsEdit! Of course, this post is also posted via MarsEdit.

While both softwares are still in beta, they’ve become essential to my daily routine. The built-in browser in NetNewsWire and its ability to remember tabs from session to session makes it worth it by itself and resulted in me not using Safari for news reading anymore. I used to open More >

More on Bush

Election time goes ever closer. Rational Bloggers (though arguably one could qualify them of bloggers with a liberal/democrat/environmentalist bias) try to cut through the media machinery that seems geared towards belittling Kerry’s character and try to show Bush’s in a truer light.

Daniel Wilson points us to a letter to the NYT editor which equates Bush to a PowerPoint person. Tufte argues, in a Wired editorial, that the standard PowerPoint presentation elevates format over content, betraying an attitude of commercialism that turns everything into a sales pitch, that its pushy style seeks to set up a speaker’s dominance over the audience… Seems almost like More >

Missile balloons!

Engadget

Microsize Boy from the album The Attraction to All things Uncertain by tweaker

Ripping ethics

Should I rip this?

Boing Boing Blog

iLeader

The mini iLeader travels the world! Read all about it in Wired and then go take a look at the pictures (there’s a lot of them in different photo albums).

Linguistics and its application to politics

In a society dominated by talking points, it’s about time the Democrats take greater control over the language that they (and their opponents) use to debate issues. According to George Lakoff, conservatives have framed the debate and the Democrats by a smart use of language and investments in getting their message across and widely propagated thus advancing their agenda much more efficiently than Democrats do (or at least used to). Very interesting article. Be sure to read the follow-up article posted recently in UC Berkeley NewsCenter. Take also a look at the Rockridge Institute website for more information.

More on the same subject by More >

Tricks of the Trade

I’m a pack rat for bits of information I will probably never use. So obviously, I find posts like Tricks of the Trade over at The Morning News totally essential!

Boing Boing Blog < Gadgetopia

Backfire The Chaff from the album Staggering Statistics by The Staggering Statistics

Knowledge management via bookmarks [part 1]

Motivation

As noted in a previous entry, writing a bookmark manager had been on my mind for a while. I haven’t had time to really sit and write down what I was planning on doing. The idea itself wasn’t very clear to start with and the existence of online bookmark managers (del.icio.us, spurl, hyperlinkomatic, I’m probably missing others…) doing more or less what I thought about doing didn’t really make me feel the need to press forward with this endeavor.

Recently, however, posts on the subject have appeared in weblogs that I read. First, it was Buzz Andersen announcing that he just released More >