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My Top 20 Albums Of All Time

By admin | Published: June 27, 2010
In no order, not including compilations. Van Morrison – Astral Weeks Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska Radiohead – OK Computer The Cure – Disintegration The Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground & Nico Tom Waits – Rain Dogs The Violent Femmes – The Violent Femmes Paul Simon – The Rhythm Of The Saints Ryan Adams – Love Is Hell Elvis Costello – My Aim [...]
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Dbasr is live.

By admin | Published: June 21, 2010
I’ve officially announced Dbasr. It’s a content management system for musicians and other rich media artists. For more info, check out the home page. To contribute, go to our IndieGoGo project page.
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Twitter vs. RSS vs. Web

By admin | Published: June 21, 2010
I don’t post here much very often these days, mainly thanks to Twitter. (I also haven’t really felt like I had much to say, this past year or so.) Twitter is quick and simple, and unlike a blog post, I don’t really have to think about what I’m trying to express. (Not that I have [...]
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At A Crossroads

By admin | Published: June 11, 2010
So I’d like your advice, my dear Internet. I have a software project called dbasr that I’ve been working on for a while — several years, on and off, in fact. Weirdly enough, it’s actually probably more relevant and useful now than when I started it. I’ve rewritten the code base several times, but I think I’m [...]
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VGrid for CSS nerds

By admin | Published: June 9, 2010
Here’s a little something I just whipped up for my own uses, but you might find it useful as well: vgrid.css, a CSS style sheet for handling vertical height of objects by em, as a sort of companion to the 960 grid. It’s got vgrid_x classes from 1 to 100; if you’re assigning onscreen elements [...]
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An open letter to BP’s PR department

By admin | Published: June 4, 2010
Dear BP’s PR department: First of all, let’s get one thing very, very clear before we go any further: your company has fucked up. Not “made a regrettable error” or “inadvertently” anything. You have caused a massive unnatural disaster. Right now, pretty much everybody on the planet hates your guts. There are guys in caves in [...]
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Vaguely Mediterranean Vegetarian Barbecue Thingy

By admin | Published: May 30, 2010
Main Ingredients 2 Portobello mushroom caps 1/2 onion (your choice of color) 1 red pepper 1 cup large couscous* 2 cups chicken broth 2 tablespoons real butter 1/4 cup oil (olive or corn will work) 1/2 cup of yogurt, plain Barbecue Sauce 1/2 cup Worcestershire sauce 1 small can tomato paste (not sauce) 1/3 cup brown sugar five or six cilantro leaves Cumin Garlic powder Onion powder Black pepper Balsamic vinegar Directions First of all, [...]
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Current Status: The New Album

By admin | Published: May 1, 2010
I’ve started writing (which, since I use computers, also means “recording”) the second Red State Soundsystem album, which will probably either be called SPQR or The Big Darkness or possibly Senatus Populus Que Red State Soundsystem. (Probably not, though. But maybe.) As a songwriter, one of the biggest problems I have is getting over my abject [...]
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Gallifrey Travel Poster

By admin | Published: April 22, 2010
Here’s something from my new portfolio site, Standard Nerds: a travel poster for the planet of Gallifrey.
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120 Minutes and the value of curatorship

By admin | Published: April 19, 2010
I was delighted to find on Metafilter a link to The 120 Minutes Archive, a site dedicated to preserving the history of MTV’s long-defunct underground music show 120 Minutes, which was, back in the early 1990s, my gateway to the world of alternative music. (For example, I recorded this show from the summer of 1992 [...]
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