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• 2010-02-09

  

  Clarifying a couple things for the new guy.

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  Bass: how low have you gone?

• 2010-02-08

  Mercury Rev - “Chasing A Bee” (1991)

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  Steven Burns - “Mighty Little Man” (2002)

  Produced by Mercury Rev’s Dave Fridmann (prod. Flaming Lips, et al.). Cool record.

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  Just you.

  ohheygreat:

  Anyone who does THAT dance to THAT song is never, under any circumstances, EVER a jackass.

  [Everybody go read that; It’s very cool.]

  Thanks, for this, my friend. SO super-nice of you to share this. Means a lot to me.

  Truth is, I’ve got a weirdly thick skin for most of the blunter electronic darts, and, as with nuclear war, genital warts, and doomed engagements, you only really have to worry about my feelings when I stop talking about them.

  Still, thank you. Very very much.

  But, yes. Just as a human art project, I’ll admit that I love the opportunity to try my hand at aping someone else’s attack-mode persona if that’s the game of Stratego they’ve elected to crack open. I’m no Monteiro, but, sure, I do like getting my troll on as much as the next guy.

  All that said:

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  Siri: Two for Three

  Siri

  Siriously? Stunning iPhone voice recognition → almost anything app.

  I’m with Sippey; buy this, Steve. Buy this, now.

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  Why Merlin Mann (Whom I’ve Never Heard of) is a Complete Jackass

  Metafilter comment on someone called, “Merlin Mann,” who had been declared a “complete jackass” upthread:

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  Monday is a man. It always comes too soon.

  — Jeffrey Zeldman

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  Dinosaur Jr. - “Raisans” (Live at UMass, 1986)

  I will never get sick of watching this. So young. So loud. So not yet openly trying to kill one another.

  Album cut from 1987’s earhole-melting You’re Living All Over Me:

  Dinosaur Jr. - “Raisans” (Album Version, 1987)

  

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  Stbadih

  Guess there’s no autocorrect for trying to touch-type “Sebadoh” as you cross Taraval Street.

  Which I should probably regard as a teachable moment on any number of levels.

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  (via awkwardstockphotos)

• 2010-02-07

  

  luckyshirt:

  Pumped about the Super Bowl party.

  Go Lakers!

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  gist: 290059

  Updated my Quix custom commands file.

  NB: if, like me, you’ve had trouble with the bookmarklet timing out on the iPhone, try the sexy “space” trick. Meaning, when the dialog box pops up, type a space before the desired command, and the results will open in a new browser window (and, for reasons that aren’t yet clear to me, skirt my time-out bug).

  Jesus, this thing is amazing. Do try it.

• 2010-02-06

  

  Simplify fourteen harder

  I love, love, love, love love, love the internet right now.

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