December 2009
17 posts
Movin' on up
I’ve moved desks to our company’s second office just up the road. (By way of explanation, I work for an environmentally-related company, so we live in a environmentally-friendly building. We ran out of space in there and hired some office space 100 yards away.)
I’ve been dreading it, but it’s really quite nice. The office is fairly sparsely populated, so I can get on with...
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Cecilia/Amanda - Elliott Smith
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"We're taking the head..." →
My pal Rob, who I once shared a house with, suffers from somniloquy - sleep talking. Here he shares with us the diary of his subconscious by way of overnight sound recordings.
“Lights All Askew in the Heavens / Men of Science More or Less Agog Over Results...”
– They certainly don’t write headlines like they used to.
(via The Atlantic’s wonderful article about Albert Einstein’s visit to the US in 1921)
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My $62.47 Royalty Statement: How Major Labels Cook... →
“Tim Quirk was the singer of punk-pop outfit Too Much Joy, signed by Warner Bros. in 1990. Now he’s an executive at an online music service, giving him insight on digital sales data and just how labels fudge their numbers.”
This quick excerpt is equal parts disappointing, unsympathetic and yet wholly expected of the industry:
Back in 1992, when TMJ was still a going concern and...
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20 Things Worth Knowing About Beer - The Oatmeal →
Fabulously informative and brilliantly illustrated.