Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 19, 2009, 7:11 pm
Charlotte Gainsbourg, an actress I only knew from the film The Science of  Sleep, but also happens to be a singer- songwriter, collaborated with Beck on this song called “Heaven Can Wait”...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 19, 2009, 6:59 pm
Fight Club Fight Goes On The film Fight Club is celebrating its ten year anniversary. A special collectors Blue Ray edition was released for the occasion. People have reported that it comes with a P...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 19, 2009, 6:56 pm
Flesh of Your Flesh New Yorker profiles Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals. Foer was just nine years old when the problem of being an “eating animal” first presented itself. One evening...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 17, 2009, 1:33 pm
Youtube Direct is a new platform with the intention of letting news organizations get direct access to the Youtube community. You can read more info about it here.
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 17, 2009, 1:32 pm
Oxford Word of the Year The New Oxford American Dictionary has officially added unfriend as a verb meaning “to remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook̶...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 17, 2009, 1:26 pm
Your Brain on Books Scientific American interviews Stanislas Dehaene, author of The Number Sense and Reading in the Brain. Dehaane talks a little about what happens in the brain when we read and how ...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 12, 2009, 6:39 pm
The video uses clay animation. It’s like Gumby gone haywire. Fabulous creepiness. via
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 12, 2009, 6:36 pm
What Maketh a Bro? How might we come to a more objective definition of “douchebag”? Perhaps the key lies in studying the term’s closest relatives. Take “bro.” On UrbanDictionary.com, bro h...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 12, 2009, 6:34 pm
Eleven Myths of De-cluttering Key things to keep in mind when one is getting rid of crap. Number six is just classic: 6. “I might get that gizmo fixed.” Face it. If you’ve had somethi...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 11, 2009, 6:59 pm
Justin opened a Twitter account in which he literally posted shit his day says. Now he has a TV deal.
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 10, 2009, 8:26 am
The Golden Age of Infinite Music BBC News article by John Harris about how the web has broaden listeners tastes and choices. I had a long chat about music with the 16-year-old son of a friend, and m...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 10, 2009, 8:16 am
People With Mental Illness Enrich Our Lives Fantastic work by Darryl Cunningham. via
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 8, 2009, 3:11 pm
Gladwell for Dummies A strong critique to the “Gladwellian” thought. via The Chessboard Killer Oldish GQ article that scared the crap out of me. It profiles Russian serial killer Alex...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 5, 2009, 2:44 pm
I linked to this video in the previous post, but I think it deserves it’s own space.
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 5, 2009, 2:43 pm
dancing about architecture. Over at Daily Meh, Simen wrote a fascinating post about music writing and criticism. The post sparked my neurons and for the most part I agree. But on a philosophical lev...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 5, 2009, 2:39 pm
Fred’s technique is similar to Liu’s, but instead of painting himself, he uses large photographs. He goes to various spots in NYC, take a photo, then returns a few days later with a poster...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 4, 2009, 7:46 pm
The Questionable Value of the Real Time Web No matter what web enthusiasts and “real time” evangelists preach, there’s just a lot of info you don’t really need to know right t...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 4, 2009, 7:44 pm
Oh yeah! The pic is from a Threadless T-shirt. via
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 3, 2009, 3:11 pm
NaNoWriMo: A Pep Talk and a Warning As always, Merlin Mann offers some excellent cutthroat advice on writing. The hounds are out this month, guys, and they smell your fear and self-doubt. So, shovel...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Nov 3, 2009, 3:07 pm
Maggwire Here’s another voting based aggregator that’s calling itself the “iTunes of Magazines”. Like Rex, I have no idea what they mean by that. Perhaps they see themselves a...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 30, 2009, 5:21 pm
Let me start by saying that this is a totally non scholarly review. I have no idea of why or how it fits in the literally canon. I wasn’t paying so much attention to its religious undertones/ove...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 29, 2009, 12:12 pm
I assumed that it was going to happen sooner or later, but I never thought it was going to be so easy to falsely report someone as dead. Earlier this week, social media sites had found that Facebook ...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 29, 2009, 12:11 pm
Meet the Wiki Reader Some school teachers will probably ban this, but this is pretty darn cool. via
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 28, 2009, 12:01 pm
Holy Taco created this flowchart to help you with your spiritual confusion. via
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 28, 2009, 12:00 pm
Confessing that you had a GeoCities page, is like confessing that you liked Poison in the 80’s, but it’s hard to deny that it was an exciting time. Poison and GeoCities. And without the ch...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 28, 2009, 11:56 am
N+1 Magazine takes a look at the recent trend in literary fiction that’s concerned with all things brains and neurology. The last dozen years or so have seen the emergence of a new strain withi...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 28, 2009, 11:53 am
In Defense of Ebook Readers Marco Arment defends the single use of ebook readers like the Kindle which is “just for books”. There are strong opinions floating around that if these devices...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 27, 2009, 10:17 am
Stephen King will team up with Scott Snyder for a comic book series called American Vampire. King’s story is bound to create some controversy to keepers of the vampire mythology canon. King’s...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 27, 2009, 10:14 am
Facebook created a submission form so users can report the death of a friend and memorialize the user’s profile. This got me thinking that perhaps it’s a good idea to write in your will yo...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 27, 2009, 10:10 am
Fight Club: The Return of Hobbes In the film Fight Club, the real name of the protagonist (Ed Norton’s character) is never revealed. Many believe the reason behind this anonymity is to give “...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 26, 2009, 3:39 pm
Pic is part of Michael Lavine’s book photo collection called Grunge. via
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 26, 2009, 3:32 pm
Interesting perspective on self-centeredness by Simen of DailyMeh. …realizing that you have an original thought is the anti-thesis of self-centeredness; it’s the natural consequence of the wo...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 26, 2009, 3:12 pm
Social Networks and Symmetrical Information Snarkmarket has been running a theme thread on the ambiguous nature of online social networking. And what I mean by ambiguity is that no one is really sure...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 23, 2009, 11:13 am
Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are Merlin Mann’s video ramble just shook my existential marbles. I don’t know what else to add other than to trust me, find a fre...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 22, 2009, 10:53 am
Why Snark Works I would have agreed with this argument, but only if it was titled When Snark Works. Flippancy works best for people who already agree with you in principle. Jokes and references have...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 22, 2009, 10:52 am
Time Travel Through the Brain Technology Review has a photo essay of how the brain has been visualized for the last 100 years. The above pic is a hippocampal neuron and it’s one of the sexiest ...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 20, 2009, 1:43 pm
According to this blog from Primera Hora, one of the Puerto Rican online local newspapers, We’re the Wild Things Are is not showing in Puerto Rican theaters until January. The reason for the del...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 20, 2009, 1:40 pm
The What and Why of Blogging The new and revised Technorati has been running its yearly feature called State of the Blogosphere. This year they did all kinds of surveys accumulating a myriad of data ...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 19, 2009, 3:14 pm
Chuck Klosterman Out with a New Essay Collection, Talks Seriously About Laugh Tracks In an interview with The Wall Street Journal promoting his new book, Eating the Dinosaur, Klosterman talks about h...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 19, 2009, 3:10 pm
The Flaming Lips will be recording the secret soundtrack of The Wizard of OZ, or as it’s better known, Pink Floyd’s seminal album Dark Side of the Moon. The Lips version of Dark Side is...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 19, 2009, 2:58 pm
Op-Chart Some researchers are suggesting that we need to add to the human development stages. Babies born in developed countries today are predicted to live to the age of 104. The researchers suggest...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 18, 2009, 5:52 pm
*Today’s links deal with management. Self management and organization management as well. This was totally coincidental. The Pmarca guide to Personal Productivity Jed Christiansen has been pos...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 15, 2009, 11:39 am
I’m just one chapter ahead of schedule, but I think I’m going to speed it up a little to finish it before October 31st. I’m planning on watching some vampire films that day based on ...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 13, 2009, 11:52 am
No description occurs to me other than cute. via
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 13, 2009, 11:47 am
Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists Steve Pavlina once wrote, that “studying SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to be a better blogger, is like a bad poet concluding that the key to great poetr...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 13, 2009, 11:35 am
Not Sure if I get the Goal of Magazines Playboy appears to be utilizing this Simpsons gimmick just 2 try to sell magazines to ‘people who usually aren’t interested in Playboy’ since showing C-l...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 13, 2009, 11:32 am
Lawyer’s Unemployment Benefits Yanked Over $1 A Day From Blog If you get paid by ads, those are legitimate earnings that you have to report in your taxes. But technically, a Blogger is not a le...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 12, 2009, 12:42 pm
If you have 10 minutes to spare, sit down, relax, and let the bullets do the talking. Either you will be mesmerized by all the different shapes and sizes of bullets spectacularly crashing into concret...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 12, 2009, 9:00 am
One Nation Under God The painting was done by Jon McNaughton. The above link takes you to the artist’s page and gives you a better picture of the characters portrayed. If you mouse-over to the...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 12, 2009, 8:53 am
A Quest to Read One Book a Day for 365 Days The headline made me think for a second that this was another one of those bogus speed-reading claims, but Nina Sankovitch has a rule for this to be possib...
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