January 2012
3 posts
December 2011
5 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Philip Glass (10)
Elbow (4)
Miike Snow (1)
Passion Pit (1)
Dada Life (1)
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November 2011
4 posts
The Real Zack Morris: The State of the Art is... →
zackarymorris:
… I could go on and on and on about how a $700 iPad has about as much to do with revolutionizing computing as a TV hospital drama does with revolutionizing medicine. It’s all a farce, a sham. It’s giving candy to starving children. …
“Science is the act of exploration.
Science is the greatest of adventure...”
– Tomorrow’s guest, Brian Greene, during his appearance on The Colbert Report (via leagueofwhimsy)
“When I muse about memes, I often find myself picturing an ephemeral flickering...”
– Douglas Hofstadter (1983)
October 2011
8 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
TV On The Radio (3)
Hall & Oates (1)
MSTRKRFT (1)
The Temper Trap (1)
Lana Del Rey (1)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
The Nightwatchman (9)
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (3)
Calvin Harris (2)
David Guetta (2)
James Blake (2)
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“Even though the government has a monopoly on violence, violence cannot solve...”
– Jacob Appelbaum
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
Elbow (5)
Dizzee Rascal (2)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2)
Lady Gaga (2)
Fredrik (1)
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September 2011
1 post
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-18) →
The Cure (6)
Theophilus London (6)
Simon & Garfunkel (5)
Hot Chip (4)
The Jesus and Mary Chain (3)
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July 2011
2 posts
“The filter bubble phenomenon, I think that noun is applied to the idea that a...”
– Tim Berners-Lee (via azspot)
June 2011
1 post
conorjh: bash script to get Dublin Bus RTPI from... →
I was even lazier and wrote a little Python script to do it. (Requires Python 2.6 for the json library). I put it in a gist, but annoyingly Tumblr prevent you from embedding gists (wtf!), so here it is:
import urllib
import json
def main(location = "westland+row/00495"):
data = json.loads(urllib.urlopen("http://dublinbus-api.heroku.com/stops/%s"\
%location).read())['data'][0]
if...
April 2011
4 posts
Third Floor Espresso : Tumblr: The Loft Book Shop... →
thirdfloorespresso:
Around about a year ago my fiancée and I visited Chapters Book Shop on Parnell Street to have a look for something inspiring to read on our holidays. We had been told to seek out a young man called Rob who apparently had quite a talent for recommending books based on your own personal…
Excellent. Now all that’s needed is a pizza oven (a la blue bus) and there...
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Is that blogging?: The ethereal, digital... →
The ethereal, digital replacement technology for the printing press happens to have come of age in a time when the unfortunate ideology I’m criticizing dominates technological culture. Authorship — the very idea of the individual point of view — is not a priority of the new ideology.
The digital flattening of expression into a global mush is not presently enforced from the top down, as it is...
March 2011
3 posts
February 2011
6 posts
themonkeysyouordered:
Please stop buying pianos.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-13) →
Fredrik (6)
David Jalbert (5)
Loscil (4)
Philip Glass (2)
Spoon (2)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-2-6) →
Jens Lekman (13)
Brian Eno (10)
Philip Glass (10)
Efterklang (4)
David Jalbert (3)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
Philip Glass (24)
Brian Eno (20)
David Jalbert (12)
The Cure (7)
Toro y Moi (6)
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January 2011
6 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
Brian Eno (12)
Bruce Springsteen (5)
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (5)
Eurythmics (1)
MGM Studio Orchestra (1)
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September 8th, 2008
themonkeysyouordered:
These giant cups of coffee and tea should help us be more productive.
December 2010
6 posts
The New Yorker: SantaLeaks →
newyorker:
The New Yorker is off for the holidays, but we’ll leave you with this confluence of current affairs and Christmas:
SantaLeaks: an analysis of more than a hundred thousand documents recently leaked by a disgruntled elf has revealed several surprising facts about the North Pole’s most famous…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
Bonnie “Prince” Billy” (5)
Sigur Rós (3)
Jónsi (2)
Boards of Canada (2)
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (2)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-5) →
Beach House (14)
Tycho (13)
Why? (5)
Nina Simone (3)
Snow Patrol (2)
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WatchMost Complaints In One Minute
Give Me Something To Read: Give Me Something To... →
givemesomethingtoread:
This was my first full year at the helm of Give Me Something To Read, and to mark it, I’ve compiled this list of the best articles and essays I posted through 2010 (limited to those that were actually published in 2010). Best, obviously, is subjective, and what this list comprises is a selection…
November 2010
18 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-28) →
Tycho (42)
Loscil (27)
Daniel Lanois (7)
Jurassic 5 (5)
Fleet Foxes (3)
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