What a lovely calm day. No visitors to my site today and I am quite pleased. Today has been utterly relaxing and I can’t wait for the nightfall to bring fun.
I had a thought today while scratching my dog: Do dogs itch? Thus explaining why they like being scratched? Or do they like the human connection? I’d be interested to see an experiment that let dogs have access to a machine that let them scratch themselves at will. Would they prefer the machine scratching over human scratching?
Vampire Weekend just released a new video for their song ‘Holiday’. It looks like Sofia Coppola directed it, although I don’t think she did.
Arcade Fire has announced the title and date of their upcoming album. Called The Suburbs, it will be released August 3rd of this year (be sure to check out the source link for the cover-art) I’ve added it to my Music Release list page for easy referencing. Also two songs from the album have been released. You can listen to them by following this link.
Apple’s stock has overtaken Microsoft’s today. The news is running like wildfire through tech-blogs and large publications such as The New York Times. Did you ever think you’d live to see the day that Apple was worth more than Microsoft? And to think, in 1997 Apple was on the brink of bankruptcy…
The Gulf Oil Spill is horribly depressing and damningly scary. On YouTube right now they’re advertising across the top of their website a link to a live-feed of the oil spill, underwater, as its happening. Words can’t express my emotions. My sorrow is deep.
Hey, so, I realize that I’ve been making a lot of posts about music, mostly album reviews. I’ve been having a great time listening to these albums, writing the reviews and hearing feedback from you. However my ability to stay up-to-date and organized in terms of release dates has been sorely lacking.
There’s a lot of artists and musicians pumping out material on a daily basis and without some sort of organizing mechanism I know I’ll go bonkers trying to remember when a new album is being released. So I did what I always do in these situations: I got organized.
Have a look at the new page on my website, Music Release List. It’s a list of upcoming albums that is organized in a pretty swanky table. I’m going to update it with albums and artists that I like and with information as I find it. Share it with your friends too! I hope to make it a useful resource. Enjoy! 
I’ve been playing around with web design and development since I was thirteen years old. That was when I picked up a copy of HTML & CSS For Dummies. It was also the time of Geocities and HTML3.01. So many things have changed since then and I’ve done my best to change with them.
That is why I feel that now is a great time to begin offering my skills and services to everyone. There’s only so many hours in a day that I can spend learning obscure CSS tricks and neat HTML work-arounds.
So, allow me to introduce my web design, web development, general new media service company to you: inipsa.
It is a word that I made up, one that I hope can find its own meaning as it matures. So please click over to inipsa’s website (which I designed) and see if I can help you. Let’s make something!
Everyone seems to be talking about TV nowadays. Everywhere I turn I’m seeing new technologies being created to alter how people currently use and interact with their TV. I can’t say this is bad news – technology tends to improve what already exists.
Let’s take a look at what’s new in TV-land nowadays:
If I had told you five years ago that you would be able to watch your favorite television shows for free and when you wanted you would have thought I was nuts. Yet how time has changed things.
Hulu has been around for just over two years (launched March 12, 2008) and it has drastically shifted the way people watch (or don’t watch) TV. Before Hulu you would have to stay in on weekends to see the new Saturday Night Live episode, or wait for it to re-air. Now you can watch the full episode online, when you want, and how you want.
Although Hulu still limits how you can watch its videos expect those limitations to be changed in the future. There have been rumblings of a paid Hulu-subscription being launched that would (hopefully, probably) include entire back-logs of seasons.
A Tel Aviv startup that spun off from the XBMC project (Xbox Media Center), Boxee hopes to be the center of your TV experience. Although Boxee doesn’t allow for live TV it does pretty much everything else.
If you’re a fan of podcasts, videocasts, or web-shows then Boxee is for you. Through applications built for Boxee you can enjoy new episodes of Revolution4 podcasts, FunnyOrDie videos, or CollegeHumor.
And, if you already have a large collection of digital content Boxee makes the process ridiculously easy. Point your Boxee software to where your media is and you’ll be streaming it to TV in no time.
Announced just last week, Google TV is Google’s take on augmenting the television watching experience.
Through the use of the Quick Search Bar you will be able to search the web while watching TV. By using a smart interface and staying out of the way of live TV, Google TV has the potential to bring about major changes in how we currently watch TV.
The future is only going to get brighter as current technologies improve and new technologies are invented. Right now the software being made to improve TV seems highly competent and promising. What I’m looking for is a promising hardware solution. My AppleTV only gets me so far and I’m not looking to put a hole in my pocket.
Ratatat is set to release their fourth studio album LP4 on June 8. Thanks to NPR you can listen to all of it today – for free. Head over to NPR’s website and enjoy the tunes.
This is fresh news from last week: Google announced an upcoming product called Google TV. It’s Google’s try to make TV better. Imagine watching a TV show and wanting to look up an actor name: you activate Google TV that hovers over your show and lets you search for the actor’s name and then go to his imdb.com page or Wikipedia page. Simple, fun, and hopefully useful. Check out Gizmodo’s thorough overview and then watch Google’s promotional video that’ll show you how awesome Google TV may be.