January 2012
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Jan 17th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 10th
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How a Coin is Solving One of the World's Great...
“I’m a football fan, I followed the Premier League since its inception and if I had 50p for every time someone had asked me to explain the offside rule I’d be a very rich man.” “When the coin is in circulation I hope people like it and I hope people are able to use it to explain the offside rule.” So, the coin is a visual aid meant to be used in concert with...
Jan 9th
December 2011
8 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Laika & The Cosmonauts (21) The Rolling Stones (13) Wilco (11) Florence + The Machine (3) Rob Michael (3) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 26th
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iPads and the Embarrassment Factor
News that all the graduate students in my Future of Media seminar would receive iPads for the semester generated a flurry of excitement. Some students replied with exclamation points in their email messages. Some stopped and asked when the iPads would be available. Others passed on word to classmates and seemed to enjoy the envious responses. Then something odd happened: The students, all in...
Dec 22nd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Wilco (17) Florence + The Machine (13) She & Him (7) Sons Of Bill (6) Asleep At The Wheel (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 19th
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“I studied under producer/engineer Adrian Barber for about 3 months in the late...”
– Bobby Owsinski’s Big Picture Production Blog: Aerosmith “Dream On” Song Analysis
Dec 19th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
The Beatles (20) The Rolling Stones (16) Wilco (9) Jim Campilongo (5) Corinne Bailey Rae; Steve Brown (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
Dec 9th
November 2011
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“Life is hard. If on one day you can be happy, give thanks.”
– ongoing by Tim Bray · Thanks
Nov 15th
October 2011
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
The Bottle Rockets (26) Sam Cooke (20) Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris (16) Howard Roberts (10) Robben Ford (10) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 26th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-16) →
Los Lonely Boys (18) Santana (9) The Smithereens (5) Wilco (5) The Beatles (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 18th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
The Beatles (19) Bob Dylan (4) Mavis Staples (4) Ponderosa (1) Patsy Cline (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Oct 15th
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Oct 7th
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September 2011
4 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
The Jayhawks (12) Uncle Tupelo (9) Son Volt (6) Wilco (6) Alex Chilton (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 30th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-18) →
Bob Dylan (10) Johnny Cash (9) Duke Robillard (6) Tedeschi Trucks Band (6) The Decemberists (5) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Sep 22nd
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Electric Cars, the Do-It-Yourself Way →
I would have loved to have been able to do this with my old Volvo wagon.
Sep 16th
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A Heavy Blow to The Wall Street Journal
From Columbia Journalism Review’s report on the departure of the Wall Street Journal’s Page One editor Alix M. Freedman: When wunderkind Bernard Kilgore took over as managing editor of the Journal at the ripe old age of 32, the paper did some nice business reporting, but it was narrow and formulaic, a dreary pastiche of incremental business stories—mostly government or corporate...
Sep 8th
August 2011
7 posts
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“In that sense, the storm porn was, at worst, the cheese on the broccoli. But...”
– Media Hurricane Hype? : CJR
Aug 31st
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“Until Sunday, when the storm is projected to hit, the job of the media is going...”
– How to Prepare for a Hurricane
Aug 26th
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Aug 19th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-8-14) →
Wilco (32) Matraca Berg (16) Fountains Of Wayne (15) Duke Robillard (8) Miles Davis Quintet (6) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Aug 17th
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“WHEN the album designer Michael Carney submitted his proposed cover for the...”
– As Record Sales Shrink, so Does Album Cover Art - NYTimes.com
Aug 12th
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ListenSession Americana, Highway to Hell
Aug 11th
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“I tried out Kindle Cloud Reader and holy shit, I feel like Mosaic was just...”
– Time to rethink every website in the world | TechCrunch
Aug 11th
July 2011
5 posts
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Jul 27th
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“The RIAA said it isn’t that we are making bad music, but the ‘dirty file sharing...”
– Former Google CIO: Music piracy was great for iTunes - TNW Media
Jul 26th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-7-10) →
Chris Thile & Michael Daves (16) X (11) Elvis Costello & The Attractions (8) Wilco (7) The Secret Sisters (4) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jul 12th
Jul 10th
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Jul 8th
June 2011
17 posts
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Best Roots Albums of 2011 (so far...) - Americana... →
Cahalen Morrison & Eli West - The Holy Coming of the Storm  Carolina Chocolate Drops & Luminescent Orchestrii Chris Thile & Michael Daves - Sleep With One Eye Open Gillian Welch - The Harrow & The Harvest Hayes Carll - KMAG YOYO Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Del McCoury Band - American Legacies
Jun 29th
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The Economist on Food Poisoning →
herestothehalcyon: In reference to the tainted sprouts in Germany: The question is how the O104:H4 got there in the first place? The usual route is via animal faeces that have contaminated the water used for sprouting, or from manure used directly as organic fertiliser. But both have been ruled out. By all accounts, the farm also complied with the industry’s highest standards of personal...
Jun 28th
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DIY Notebook
My requirements for a good notebook are quite simple: No lines: I get distracted by all those lines in most notebooks. I literally can’t read words on them. Or rather: there is no instant focus on the important stuff Pages should be fixed: For a while I used map full of regular printing paper, I liked it, but after a while it gets messy, the pages get scrambled up, etc. Every page...
Jun 28th
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“The good news is that The Harrow and the Harvest offers enough familiarity to...”
– First Listen: Gillian Welch, ‘The Harrow And The Harvest’ : NPR I’m listening to this now, and it’s great to hear Gillian Welch and David Rawlings with some new material.
Jun 27th
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“The Associated Press reports that during the hostage standoff(!!), Jason Valdez...”
– Legal Blog Watch
Jun 23rd
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-12) →
Ted Greene (7) Jordin Sparks (2) Robbie Fulks (1) Carrie Underwood (1) Miranda Lambert (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 23rd
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Jun 22nd
Jun 11th
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“Many people hate Bob Dylan because they hate being fooled.”
– Ellen Willis, ‘Out of the Vinyl Deeps’
Jun 11th
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“Out of the Vinyl Deeps” performs two canon-changing acts for the literature of...”
– Book Review - Out of the Vinyl Deeps - Ellen Willis on Rock Music - NYTimes.com
Jun 11th
Jun 9th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-5) →
Paul Burch (14) Muse (13) Matraca Berg (11) Warren Haynes (10) Hugh Cornwell (8) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Jun 8th
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“Are cargo pants passe? Probably. I don’t care. Need the pockets. Need the...”
– 92 Degrees | The Bleat.
Jun 7th
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“Doctors are notorious death-deniers, often more reluctant than their patients to...”
– Law on End-of-Life Care Rankles Doctors - NYTimes.com
Jun 6th
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Jun 3rd
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“I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.”
– From a 1927 letter from H.L. Mencken to artist Charles Green Shaw, via Letters of Note
Jun 3rd
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“The government is replacing its food guide pyramid with a simpler everyday...”
– Government replaces food guide pyramid with a plate - USATODAY.com Sources say the new icon will call for fruits and vegetables on half of your plate, and bacon on the other half.
Jun 1st