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Where friend Tom Wironen works (or used to, apparently). Manage The National and Nicole Atkins.

Spaced repetition! "Designed to help you remember facts (such as words and phrases in a foreign language) as easily, quickly and efficiently as possible. To do this, it tracks how well you remember each fact, and uses that info to schedule review times.

How to create an iPhone ringtone.

"Clearly, you and I should be up there."

"Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers."

"This is the best invention of all and I can’t even hardly believe someone has finally taken the time to invent this. You’ve probably seen this at any local pizzeria located within an audioanimatronic aviary."

"...would he be instituting the most open and participatory executive branch our nation has seen, directly following the most closed and secretive? ... Oh, the answers are: yes, sure, and of course."

"Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes. Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or 'scenes' can occasionally generate."

The mayor of La Paz, Bolivia, has instituted a program where in teenagers dress up as zebras and act as crossing guards. This helps solve the problem of dangerous traffic in La Paz. This is great. Absolutely great.

A "free browser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7, IE6, and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process."

Invaluable for troubleshooting web development in IE. Wish I'd known about this before today!

For your next "flavor tripping party." "It's called the 'Miracle Fruit' because it can alter the taste of sour items. Miracle Fruit is also easier to say, and spell, than its official name — synsepalum dulcificum." $90 minimum order, though.

Thanks, as always, WFMU. "Here my friends are 100 tracks to burn on 4 discs to play at your next social gathering."

On the "cognitive surplus" we're going through, and how interesting and valuable all this new engagement and experimentation with technology is.

They use scripts and human verification to check the legality of Limewire transfers originating from college campuses.

Advice on samplers, audio interfaces, drum machines, etc.

For future reference?

Oh no. Read the synopsis. What is this, Ghost World meets Fear & Loathing?

Beautiful, deadly.

"Despite his initial reaction, he decided to dig deeper into this case, and he uncovered a bug that had been sitting in the code of all BSDs (including Mac OS X), including a lot of old releases. He confirmed the bug was already in 4.2BSD, released in Aug

"I'd much rather rely on a subset of trusty old HTML than expend brain cells trying to remember the fake-HTML way to make something bold, or create a hyperlink. HTML isn't perfect, but it's an eminently reasonable humane markup language."

Excellent and quirky nature paintings.

For future reference. Skateboard okay, snowboard okay, skis okay, bicycle $100, surfboard $100.

Nice, quirky line drawings. Also a musician: see the 'Little Wings' and 'Be Gulls' links in the impossible navigation.

"Anyway, here is A Completely Unscientific and Random Sampling of a Very Small Percentage of Tracks Submitted to This Enormous Project, Some of Which Are Kind of Bad, But I Like Them Anyway."

"HR753 is 23.5 light years away and only 5 months from the outer surface of your light cone — your ever-growing sphere of potential causality — which began its expansion from Earth on April 14 1985."

"Almost fifteen years after my mandatory military duty ended, I went back to several Israeli army bases, using the medium of photography as a vehicle to re-enter this world."

"As much as that sounds like a euphemism, it isn’t." What happens when you order pubic lice from LoveBugz, "The FanSite of the Lousing Lifestyle."

About thirteen minutes of The Field doing his remix of The Honeydrips' "Fall from a Height" while !!! jam out over it. One of those times I want to say, "that's the best thing I've ever seen." Add this to the surefire-cheer-up list.

Nice function for renaming the current document, then automatically switching to the renamed version.