Entries published in
April 2008

While posting Alconic's audio cassette nostalgia to the Shufflesome Blog, I remembered a photo i took, which led me to more tape nostalgia:

View large at Flickr.

A tape, from Béla Janssen's Frühlingsknacken.

Links to monthly archives allow you to page chronologically through entries of a blog. The links are usually presented as a list that grows ever longer: April 2008, March 2008, February 2008, etc.. I found this a bit boring, and made a graph to present this information as a visual indicator for my posting activity. See the graph in action on the home page of alexome.com.

“One more urban myth from Mom and she's added to blocked senders.”

Source: DailyCandy.

I love to look at this newspaper-like presentation. Interesting comments about it at typesites.com.

This checklist will, I hope, make people review their messages, before posting to the StudentNetwork Yahoo! Group. Sifting through messages that are off-topic, or that lack information, is just... i don't even know a word for that. Boring? A catastrophic waste of brainpower. If anybody reading this would like to help out moderating the group, contact me.

I started an experiment in participatory pricing yesterday, based on unique visitor statistics compiled by Mint. Let's play.

Women have power over men. They choose whom to mate with. Why don't they use this power to boycott soldiers? In the name of peace, why not deprive a man of sex?

There is much to love about this piece by Jonathan Harris. The blue and red tint, the subversive holy ambience, the pun on the bible (my interpretation), the symmetry underlying the ruination, the opposing forces of decreasing clarity of details and increasing revelation of flesh toward the center, the sly act of scripting this story in advance, the simultaneous depiction of phases that people who attend art events move through, the apparent confusion blended with the intractable, destined paths on which we converge, the foreboding of sex and shattered dreams.

Why does Google meddle in already troubled waters? Who is Google? What is water? I demand the immediate, irrevocable, irrefutable and irresistible renaming of the Persian Gulf to Cherished Gulf! Some people will still prefer Persian Gulf, though.

Granted, shuffling music is not much different from going linearly through music. An array of songs is always consumed one by one, whether you are a careless shuffler, a frequent skipper, a gapless album fanatic, a 400+ playlists junky, a constant rewinder, a grouping expert, or a singer-songwriter yourself. There are simply various modes of listening, of progressing through audio, of wading through emotional airwaves. The terms conflate in meaning and the question simply becomes: How do people feel, when listening to music?

Why? It's fast, it looks good, it has an option to “Seek Original”, which Flickr's own advanced search does not. And compfight gives you a broad overview of what people associate with—say: “shuffle”, or “nano”.

Via bittbox.

I know people who use fake names at their workplace. In America, in racist America, this is what you do when your name sounds outlandish. Helen, or Jacob just sound more familiar I guess, and what's in a name anyways. You'll sell yourself for whatever it takes, right?! If other people want to define or create your appearance, than you let them. Just give yourself up. Just brain off.

WTF!

In the recent issue of Warrior of the Light, issue 169, Paulo Coelho writes: “The war is now entering its 6th year, ...”

Is this still a war? Are we looking at a war or at an occupation, and does the difference matter? Should Americans be asking the question whether the war should end, or whether the occupation should end?

Randi Rhodes got suspended for ..for what? For using strong language. For ranting against Hillary Clinton. For being too outspoken to bear by somebody else. In short, for nothing. I was dissappointed to learn that.

One thought on that: A faint glint in a clear sky is hard to miss. The dust and fuzz of the broadest glitter can be very distracting.

Keeping in touch with people is not my forte. I don't need the daily blabla, but realize that i want to get better at this and follow-up with people whom I haven't contacted in a while. Often you just know whom you should talk to, but with a growing contact list in Address Book, I want to get some computing power involved in facilitating this task.