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beets
beets
“Beets is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music geeks. The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes using the MusicBrainz database. It then provides a bouquet of tools for manipulating and accessing your music.”
·code.google.com·
beets
YES API
YES API
“Develop applications using radio now playing information gathered from thousands of broadcast and online stations.”
·api.yes.com·
YES API
Columbia Journalism Review: ‘Look at Me!’ by Maureen Tkacik
Columbia Journalism Review: ‘Look at Me!’ by Maureen Tkacik
“A writer’s search for journalism in the age of branding.” In which Maureen Tkacik engages in a number of jobs she wouldn’t otherwise take to explore them journalistically and try to get at the heart of the ‘nothing economy’. This is a great piece, and I think the reactions (in the comments and in my knee, occasionally) questioning her ‘legitimacy’ and hypocrisy illuminate the very problem she’s talking about. I think the idea of injecting a journalist experience into a piece are wonderful, because so-called straight journalism is often a myth and because it can make the writing and reading better.
·cjr.org·
Columbia Journalism Review: ‘Look at Me!’ by Maureen Tkacik
Andrew McLaughlin: An Open Letter to Dr. Tarek Kamel, Minister of Communications and Information Technology of Egypt
Andrew McLaughlin: An Open Letter to Dr. Tarek Kamel, Minister of Communications and Information Technology of Egypt
Former White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer weighs in, urging Egypt’s Minister of IT to help the people of Egypt and to not ruin his legacy with a human rights violation that will overshadow all of his accomplishments.
·huffingtonpost.com·
Andrew McLaughlin: An Open Letter to Dr. Tarek Kamel, Minister of Communications and Information Technology of Egypt
NYMag: What Was the Hipster?
NYMag: What Was the Hipster?
A elegy to hipsters, complete with obnoxious photography, sort of just picks and chooses various elements of youth culture and NYC hipster party culture and starts dividing them into subspecies. I have read this through three times and still don’t get it. That may be my fault or this may just be total bullshit.
·nymag.com·
NYMag: What Was the Hipster?
AlterNet: How TV Superchef Jamie Oliver’s ‘Food Revolution’ Flunked Out
AlterNet: How TV Superchef Jamie Oliver’s ‘Food Revolution’ Flunked Out
It’s not terribly shocking that a reality show about an ignorant millionaire trying to fix a school’s lunch program with his own special menu was a costly, exploitative, and ruinous failure, but the disastrous state of school lunch programs nationwide *is* shocking.
·alternet.org·
AlterNet: How TV Superchef Jamie Oliver’s ‘Food Revolution’ Flunked Out
NYMag: The West Wing, Season II by John Heilemann
NYMag: The West Wing, Season II by John Heilemann
“Almost overnight, Barack Obama overhauled his White House and rewrote much of the script. Now all he needs is a happy ending.” On the self-examination and cabinet shuffling over the last two months, and what it could mean for the next two years. If anything it’s incredibly promising that Obama is willing and able to rethink everything and actually take the hard steps to implement a change of operations.
·nymag.com·
NYMag: The West Wing, Season II by John Heilemann
Matthew Irvine Brown: Music for Shuffle
Matthew Irvine Brown: Music for Shuffle
“I set myself a half-day project to write music specifically for shuffle mode — making use of randomness to try and make something more than the sum of its parts. Over an hour or so, I wrote a series of short, interlocking phrases (each formatted as an individual MP3) that can be played in any order and still (sort of) make musical sense.” The reference points here to electronic music (glitch and dubstep, obviously) are interesting, as are his integration of skipping noises as percussive elements and how the skip itself can be used as a musical device. Hat-tips to and reminders to look further into the work of pioneers La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Brian Eno, and John Cage.
·irvinebrown.com·
Matthew Irvine Brown: Music for Shuffle
Google Refine
Google Refine
“Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase.”
·code.google.com·
Google Refine
Squashed: On Those "Entitled" Twenty-somethings
Squashed: On Those "Entitled" Twenty-somethings
“Apparently people in their 20s are a bunch of entitled whiners. I also hear we’re afraid of hard work. I’m rather sick of hearing it. Of course we have a sense of entitlement—we had an understanding with the older generation. We followed through with our half of the deal. What happened? Let’s talk a bit about generational justice.” As a commenter puts it: “I’m a tired of hearing a generation that got everything handed to them (I’m looking at you baby-boomers) bungle everything up so badly and then badmouth the generation that has to clean up their mess (e.g. the national debt, the planet, the educational system, and so on).” See also my notes on that NYTimes article: http://pinboard.in/u:matthewmcvickar/b:a83c50952510
·squashed.tumblr.com·
Squashed: On Those "Entitled" Twenty-somethings
Marco.org: What I expect
Marco.org: What I expect
In spite of the potential for people being ignorant or abusive with what he writes, Marco writes because ”I’m freely expressing my ideas in public, which helps me clarify my thoughts, enhance and alter my views, and improve my writing over time. I think I’m getting the better end of the deal.”
·marco.org·
Marco.org: What I expect
plowshare
plowshare
“plowshare is a command-line application designed for some of the most popular file-sharing websites. Using plowshare you will be able to download files (and for some modules also upload, list and delete) on UNIX-like operating systems:” E.g.: $ plowdown http://rapidshare.com/files/130403982/1989_-_Castellum_honesti.rar
·code.google.com·
plowshare
Village Voice: Leave Chillwave Alone
Village Voice: Leave Chillwave Alone
On why Altered Zones is Pitchfork’s *younger* ‘sister site’, and the fundamental difference between music producers and consumers who don’t remember music before the web, never knew it was something you paid for, and aren’t as concerned with the rating of certain music as ‘bad’. I like this, but I have some big issues with this and want to return to it: 1. Altered Zones has its own set of problems, heavy among them the double-standard to which they hold DIY music. Baby bands at AZ get heaped with over-the-top praise, which at once unfairly removes them from helpful critical influence and subjects them to fame for which they aren’t prepared. As a result many are left in the dust of the Next Small Thing. 2. These music producers and writers don’t remember music before the web? I think this is patently false and that they absolutely do remember it; they generation that doesn’t isn’t reading Altered Zones yet. And what about those music producers sampling and being influenced by music that happened before the web (the 90s, the 80s)? 3. I don’t think Pitchfork is incapable of critically assessing the bands on Altered Zones; they just don’t have the time and energy for it. Which argument means I also don’t believe Altered Zones is not a filter for Pitchfork. How many bands debut on AZ or an AZ-affiliated blog, move on to the Forkcast, get a feature, and then get a bona fide Pitchfork Review? Several. Pitchfork’s own ‘The Week at Altered Zones’ pretty much is a filter by definition.
·villagevoice.com·
Village Voice: Leave Chillwave Alone
Vulture: Remembering Trish Keenan, the Extraordinary Singer for Broadcast
Vulture: Remembering Trish Keenan, the Extraordinary Singer for Broadcast
“It always feels a little silly to get too aggressively bereaved about the loss of a musician you liked — a person whose work you felt connected to, but never in the least knew. Still: Read over interviews with Keenan, and you see a thoughtful, dedicated, curious person, the kind of artist who cared enough about what she was doing that she’d actually set herself writing exercises. (One song a day, a song in a half-hour, that sort of thing.) She’d begun writing poetry and fiction, as well, and given the wealth of ideas and emotions she brought to Broadcast’s songs, I’d always wondered where that might lead — what might happen if she reached the age where music became a hassle and it was more attractive to sit down with a pen. But the work we do have from her is, for some of us, memorable enough, and well worth visiting.”
·nymag.com·
Vulture: Remembering Trish Keenan, the Extraordinary Singer for Broadcast
Bering in Mind: Being Suicidal: What it feels like to want to kill yourself
Bering in Mind: Being Suicidal: What it feels like to want to kill yourself
Jesse Bering: “I don’t think any scholar ever captured the suicidal mind better than Florida State University psychologist Roy Baumeister in his 1990 Psychological Review article , ‘Suicide as Escape from the Self.’” An exploration of the six conditions that lead to suicide — academic, informative, and imploring.
·scientificamerican.com·
Bering in Mind: Being Suicidal: What it feels like to want to kill yourself