2010-08-15 (Sunday)
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Links
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Instapaper: Simon Reynolds (Phil Gyford)
I put all those Simon Reynolds articles in a folder in Instapaper and here’s the RSS feed. (I’m phil@gyford.com on Instapaper, btw, but don’t use it a *huge* amount.)
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Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture | Reynolds: The History of Our World: The Hardcore Continuum Debate
More Simon Reynolds to read after that last lot, looking back at debates over The Hardcore Continuum. (via Beyond the Beyond)
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Energy Flash
More from Simon Reynolds on “the Hardcore Continuum”.
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The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music: Issues
Search the page for links to seven articles (and an introduction) by Simon Reynolds from 1992-2005 on the “hardcore continuum”.
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When Internet businesses don’t work out as planned… | Ask MetaFilter
I’m fascinated (and horrified) by this kind of “Internet business” which… does nothing but SEO, “content generation”, ads, auctions… what’s it *for*?
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BeaTunes ~ build better playlists
Interesting metadata editor/finder for music in your iTunes library. Can also do some kind of Genius-like playlist creation.
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LRB · Rebecca Solnit · Diary
If you’re feeling too happy, well worth a read. “A bayou redneck told him: ‘Osama fuckin’ bin Laden could not have imagined, planned or executed more devastation than BP has.’”
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This Window: Close It - Safari 5 Port of Helvetireader
Helvetireader as a Safari Extension, yum. The version of Helvetireader I’d been using was quite old; the latest one is gorgeous.
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The Online Photographer: The Best Photography How-To Books
Excellent, a short list of practical photography book recommendations by someone who knows their stuff.
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DecisionLab » FacilitationCamp
Next Friday and Saturday in Vauxhall. Might be interesting / useful? (via @wendyinfutures)
Tweets
@yoz Yes! Oh.
I now own 84cm of comics and graphic novels, 93cm of magazines. Hmm, sounds like a lot, put like that, but it's great progress.
Now, why would this cardboard box, designed specifically to hold documents, be a few millimetres too narrow for these folders? Grr.
Maybe this is the last time I'll ever remove the perforated tractor-feed strips from the sides of old printer paper. Progress!
@Zoonie It'd never have crossed my mind to occur to me to consider for a moment that Toy Story 3 contained extended peril. Kids are weird.
@chrislunch You're a better man than me. I'm just now putting my (admittedly much-filtered) pre-digital life into labelled folders.
Although it's been raining, it looks like I'm still supposed to water the *indoor* plants by hand.