January 2012
2 posts
Mislabel, a nostalgic musical hangout →
So about 10 years ago I used to stream audio from winamp to a shoutcast server. Then a bunch of listeners would hang out on IRC and talk about music, and internet stuff, what have you. Well.. I was missing that kinda time-wasting, so I setup a little thing on Mislabel. It’s just a chat room, with a shoutcast relay! 1 person can DJ at any time, and everyone in the room can listen. It feels a...
A FFFFresh DJ Set to Kick Off 2012
Trapper Keeper by Neonarcade on Mixcloud
December 2011
1 post
10 Albums That Made My 2011 Awesome
Time once again for me to dig through my last.fm history and itunes play counts to bring you all my picks for the best music you may have missed. Top 10 countdowns step aside and new, clearer categories are named for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!
Best Head Nod Grooves Samiyam - Sam Baker’s Album
Best Guitar Based Album Grails - Deep Politics
Best Hope for American Electronic Music...
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
3 posts
Why getting credit cards off the server, and into...
Since I started reading about Stripe.js last week, the deeper I look into this API, the more I’m convinced that this is going to be huge. Stripe is poised to be the Square for coders. Just like any small business can get up and running with an iPhone, and one of those little white block readers.. now any decent developer can get crackin and quickly, securely, and simply add credit card...
September 2011
5 posts
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by... →
An awesome read. Highly recommended.
We need a better thing for seen links!
I posted on Twitter today asking if anyone had an idea for what to do in this situation:
- A friend of yours sends you a link to awesome cat video, etc
- You saw said link yesterday/last-week/4-seconds-ago and enjoyed it
- Your respond with a default “old / seen in / haha”
- Your friend is now a bit insulted, even though they only sent it to you to share common interests,...
An End of Summer DJ Set
Here’s Dreadnought, a mix I’ve been meaning to do all summer. Check out more of my stuff on Soundcloud
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
August 2011
7 posts
You are what you buy (or maybe you buy what you... →
Interesting on SO many fronts. But yea, Olive Garden? Seriously??
I guess the Facebook platform is working.
Even ol’ data-sensitive me has 31 apps authorized to use my Facebook data. The real shocker is that I actually WANTED each of them to be there. Sneaking around with my demographics and behaviors behind my back. Strange.
Ten essential tools for MySQL admins →
Nice find, willolbrys
Bye bye Dropbox, Hello SugarSync! →
I had to stop using Dropbox this weekend. Not because they weren’t great (because they were) but only for larger storage options over 100GB. SugarSync also has a nice streaming audio player for iOS! Bonus!
July 2011
12 posts
“Good design is innovative. Good design makes a product useful. Good design is...”
– Dieter Rams
How to Be Happy Anytime →
Awesome post! He touches on the positive aspects of mindfulness. It may sounds a bit rosy, but being mindful and positive like this really can do wonders for your creativity and productivity.
“Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity,...”
– Dean Acheson (via Alex)
How Cognitive Fluency Affects Decision Making →
Really compelling insights here..
Cognitive fluency—or disfluency—plays a subtle, yet influential role in judgment and decision making. Research has shown that many aspects of design can impact fluency, or the feeling of mental effort—including the style and size of fonts, figure-to-ground contrast, wording and terminology, pronunciation, and others. In general, anything that affects the...
“Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas. A human being is a part of the...”
– Albert Einstein
May 2011
4 posts
A spot-on post by Adam Wohl (MIR) →
adamwohl:
The following is an expurgated version of the presentation I made last Friday, April 29th, 2011, at the Brandcenter at Virginia Commonwealth University to the Brandcenter Masters students, undergraduate VCU advertising students, faculty and local professionals. While I spoke about my past and…
WatchThe Past 3 Years of My Life (beamed directly into your eyes)
WatchErik Wolpaw’s Lecture at NYU Game Center
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Remember that age is discretely tied to cultural...
At first I was very surprised, but upon further reading & reflection, I’m totally fine with the fact that a great deal of people online between the ages of 13 & 17 have no idea who Osama Bin Laden is. This makes total sense since most of them were young enough that 9/11 wouldn’t have registered as a real event for them, plus the spent most of their youth living through the...
February 2011
4 posts
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
– Aristotle
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8 Things Game Design Can Fix In Our Jobs
I play a lot of Starcraft. I play at least 10 hours a week, sometimes more if I’m doing well. What is it about our favorite games that make them occupy so much of our brains for noticeable chunks of the day? Jane McGonigal’s new book, Reality is Broken, points to real tangible (and scientifically proven) reasons why for the past twenty-plus years, people have been gravitating into...
Do not covet your ideas
“Give away everything you know and more will come back to you. You will remember from school other students preventing you from seeing their answers by placing their arm around their exercise book or exam paper. It is the same at work, people are secretive with ideas. ‘Don’t tell them that, they’ll take credit for it.’ The problem with hoarding is that you end up living off your reserves....
December 2010
5 posts
Landmarks of Lunacy →
Klaxons release five tracks that were originally intended for ‘Surfing the Void’ but never made the cut. Now released for the world to enjoy. These are FANTASTIC.
My Obligatory End of Year Music List
This year, instead of doing top 10’s or best of genre lists, I’m just making up some categories that nicely contain the winners in each of those categories. A bit recursive, but enjoyable regardless!
Best Album to Make You Feel Like You’re 16 and Making Out The xx - xx
Best Album to Ponder Quantum Mechanics To and Best Album Cover Klaxons - Surfing The Void
Best New Band...
November 2010
2 posts
On Game Design & Gamification
I’m a huge gamer. I play tons of games, easily 10-20 hours a week, for the past 15+ years. Lately, there’s been a huge swell of interest in game design in my current field of work, advertising. As the social revolution washes over us all online, and the traditional media types used for advertising (tv, newspapers, magazines) all evolve in new and interesting ways, brands, companies,...
October 2010
4 posts
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me,...”
– Chuck Close
“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of...”
– Plato (via theessentialman)
“The CIO should not think of him or herself as the chief information officer, but...”
– Jonathan Reichental