Sunday, July 16th, 2006
I trusted two, I don’t remember why. I bought Spiritualized’s “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space” and Yo La Tengo’s “I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One,” one from Music Millenium and the other from Everyday Music (both in Portland). Those were significant music decisions to me, and those are great albums. [...]
Joe, Music, Portland, Rock |
Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Most blogs have a blogroll, that list of links to other blogs and sites and stuff that matters. It’s more or less a list of links, and kind of sits there on the page. I used to have that, too, before this site went under.
I’m going to do it again, but I’m going to do [...]
Friends, Joe, Site Stuff |
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
I caught up on the last four months of posts from Information Aesthetics, this blog about “data visualization and visual culture.” Here are the highlights (link to the site followed by IA’s description and link to the IA blog post):
DrugQuilt: A dynamic data visualization of the brand name & generic drugs the US Food & [...]
Awesome, Internet, Joe, Links |
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
We test the limits. Democracy’s a big experiment with whether humanity can govern itself and stuff. It’s debatable what’s happening with that experiment now, but heck that’s the experiment. I kind of wish Columbus had been born like 200 years earlier and stuff and the U.S. got launched a couple centuries earlier, ‘cuz it’s hard [...]
Joe, U.S.A. |
Monday, July 3rd, 2006
I have to work tonight which is lame. Lameness only exceeded by my having to work tomorrow night, and that lameness is only exceeded by not getting time and a half, or time and a anything extra. But America wasn’t founded just so I could complain about shit. No, America was founded so we could [...]
Friends, Joe, U.S.A., Winston-Salem |