January 2012
1 post
“The competition for most startups is not the 10 other companies that are doing...”
– Silicon Valley may be too smart for its own good | VentureBeat
Jan 22nd
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December 2011
5 posts
The Dangerous Effects of Reading | Certain Extent →
davidtate.org I am work­ing out of a mas­sive office build­ing in one of those lit­tle com­mer­cial com­pounds this week. The entire area has all sorts of nice things – a paper-printing shop, cof­fee, sushi, bur­ri­tos, dry clean­ers, even food carts most days.…
Dec 31st
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
John Denver (46) The Beach Boys (17) She & Him (14) Nirvana (12) Low (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 27th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Darwin Deez (42) The Smashing Pumpkins (17) She & Him (12) Sufjan Stevens (10) Bing Crosby (9) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 14th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
Los Campesinos! (1) Radiohead (1) The Mountain Goats (1) Death Cab for Cutie (1) Mr U (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 11th
“Edible clay by no means exhausted the region’s culinary creativity. To be sure,...”
– How the Potato Changed the World | History & Archaeology | Smithsonian Magazine
Dec 10th
November 2011
2 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
Childish Gambino (14) M83 (4) Brian Eno (3) The Beach Boys (2) Glenn Gould (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 21st
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) →
M83 (8) Benoît Pioulard (4) Cults (3) Dirty Projectors + Björk (3) The Decemberists (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 9th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
The Mountain Goats (76) The American Analog Set (1) Cut Copy (1) Wilco (1) Pretty Girls Make Graves (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nov 1st
October 2011
6 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
Wilco (4) Jens Lekman (3) Nirvana (2) Damien Jurado (1) K’NAAN (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 25th
“Jobs’ relationship with Bill Gates goes back the furthest and is the most...”
– from 60 Minutes (via putorti)
Oct 25th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-16) →
The Mr. T Experience (16) Tegan and Sara (15) Azure Ray (12) Lykke Li (7) Tindersticks (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 18th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
Loney, dear (32) The Mountain Goats (13) Tap Tap (12) Withered Hand (12) Camera Obscura (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 14th
“To say we should have been better prepared or organized is to miss the...”
– Rethrick Construction
Oct 12th
September 2011
7 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
Lily Allen (12) Wild Flag (3) The Faint (2) Low (2) Belle and Sebastian (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 28th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-18) →
Belle and Sebastian (7) Grandmaster Flash (5) Islands (2) Sleater-Kinney (2) Death Cab for Cutie (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 20th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-11) →
The Sugarcubes (20) Modest Mouse (4) Elliott Smith (4) Weezer (3) Andrew Bird (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 16th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-4) →
The Mountain Goats (17) Andrew Bird (13) R.E.M. (5) Talking Heads (4) Sleigh Bells (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 10th
Timpanogos →
Sep 8th
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Sep 8th
284 notes
Kill Math →
Which is the premise of this project, of course — people don’t use math. But everyone seems to believe, if only math were taught better, they would use it! And my position (and the entire point of the project) is: No. Teach the current mathematical notation and methods any way you want — they will still be unusable. They are unusable in the same way that any bad user interface is unusable —...
Sep 2nd
August 2011
7 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-28) →
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (7) Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks (5) Guided By Voices (4) Bright Eyes (3) Pavement (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 31st
8 tags
Aug 28th
67 notes
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-21) →
Jay-Z & Kanye West (16) Bright Eyes (2) The Mountain Goats (2) Neutral Milk Hotel (2) Eric’s Trip (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 24th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-14) →
Television Personalities (10) Wolf Parade (3) Telefon Tel Aviv (2) Damien Jurado (1) Sufjan Stevens (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 17th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-7) →
Santigold (12) Wolf Parade (6) The Drums (5) Damien Jurado (4) Talking Heads (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 12th
Aug 5th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-31) →
The Magnetic Fields (3) Buddy Holly (2) Beyoncé (2) Eels (1) Camper Van Beethoven (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 3rd
July 2011
3 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-24) →
Flight of the Conchords (22) Tap Tap (13) Mission of Burma (8) Yo La Tengo (6) Pavement (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jul 26th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-17) →
Camera Obscura (43) Julie Doiron (9) The Feelies (7) Withered Hand (6) M. Ward (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jul 20th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-10) →
The Magnetic Fields (5) Talking Heads (3) Guided by Voices (2) Eddie Vedder (2) Los Fabulosos Cadillacs (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jul 12th
June 2011
5 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-26) →
Weezer (4) Bon Iver (4) Pavement (3) M.I.A. (2) Yo La Tengo (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 28th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-19) →
Darwin Deez (26) The Mountain Goats (10) Sigur Rós (3) The Ting Tings (2) Julie Doiron (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 24th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-12) →
The Lower Lights (18) Libbie Linton (12) Midwife Crisis (6) Modest Mouse (3) Belle and Sebastian (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 22nd
In Defense of Flogging - The Chronicle Review -... →
America now has more prisoners, 2.3 million, than any other country in the world. Ever. Our rate of incarceration is roughly seven times that of Canada or any Western European country. Stalin, at the height of the Soviet gulag, had fewer prisoners than America does now (although admittedly the chances of living through American incarceration are quite a bit higher). We deem it necessary to...
Jun 14th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-5) →
The Smiths (15) The Lower Lights (15) The Mountain Goats (13) Sun Kil Moon (5) Yeah Yeah Yeahs (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 6th
May 2011
8 posts
The three-day weekend: a dream deferred - The... →
May 25th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-15) →
The Mountain Goats (14) Modest Mouse (3) Arab Strap (2) Mount Eerie (2) Talking Heads (2) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
May 21st
“To recap: Goldman, to get $1.2 billion in crap off its books, dumps a huge lot...”
– Rolling Stone Mobile - Politics - Politics: The People vs. Goldman Sachs
May 15th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-8) →
Andrew Bird (28) The Mountain Goats (8) Okkervil River (7) The Thermals (6) Talking Heads (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
May 11th
January 2010: Kurt Andersen on the Large Hadron... →
In other words, it’s one of the most awesome scientific enterprises of all time, even though it looks like a monumental folly. Or else, possibly, the reverse.
May 8th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-5-1) →
St. Vincent (22) The Lower Lights (17) The Cure (17) Withered Hand (16) Dr. Dog (14) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
May 8th
May 4th
“It was decided that any effort to work with the Pakistanis could jeopardize the...”
– CIA director Leon Panetta, giving some insight into the supposedly robust counterterrorism partnership between the U.S. and Pakistan. (via officialssay)
May 4th
April 2011
4 posts
Apr 30th
1,423 notes
“The Maya also produced texts painted on a form of paper manufactured from...”
– Maya civilization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thanks so much Spanish priests.
Apr 16th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-10) →
Jens Lekman (24) The Lower Lights (24) Simón Díaz (18) Libbie Linton (17) The Mountain Goats (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Apr 12th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-3) →
The Mountain Goats (10) Peter Bjorn and John (6) Songs: Ohia (5) Jens Lekman (4) Mount Eerie (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Apr 7th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-27) →
The American Analog Set (28) The Walkmen (12) Belle and Sebastian (12) The Decemberists (12) Withered Hand (11) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Apr 1st
March 2011
13 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-20) →
Withered Hand (39) Midnight Oil (25) Band of Horses (20) The Lower Lights (17) Libbie Linton (12) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mar 25th