Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Feb 8, 2012, 3:00 pm
PressPausePlay on Vimeo Technology and the internet has simply changed everything. There’s no way around it. Required viewing.
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Feb 5, 2012, 6:42 pm
Europe Moves to Protect Online Privacy – NYTimes.com One angle the NyTime Op-Ed highlights is how touchy Americans have been about privacy with other information like their health records and financial data. In contrast, we have left our curtains open in terms of our online data. Every European...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Feb 4, 2012, 3:28 pm
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Words in stone and on the wind Nicholas Carr argues that the “advantage” (yes, those are air quotes) of the physically printed word vs the digital is that it has typographical fixity. At the simplest and most fundamental level, typographical fixity means tha...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Feb 4, 2012, 3:19 pm
GIF: A Technical History Simen of Enthusiasms explores the mystery and history of the GIF. From a technical standpoint, the success of the lowly GIF is a mystery. Both as an image format and as a video/animation format, it’s vastly inferior to the alternatives. It only supports 256 colors; its c...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Feb 2, 2012, 3:35 pm
Information Diet | Clicks Have Consequences This is what I mean when I say that “clicks have consequences”: our information diets online have an ethical consequence to our social community. By watching video of the adorable kittens or by reading online that story about the Kardashians, you’re...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Feb 2, 2012, 3:29 pm
Coding Horror: The One Button Mystique Jeff Atwood on the problem of the iPhone of only having one hardware button. He argues that the home button has too many things assigned to it. Think about it. You use it to get out of an app, to go to the first page, to go to the search window (if you’re in...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Feb 1, 2012, 10:20 pm
5by5 | The Talk Show #77: Caviar and Champagne Super great Talk Show and feel better now hearing what he had to say about it. Must listen.
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Feb 1, 2012, 6:55 pm
Cannot be unseen. Check out the rest of the pics at Geekosystem.
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Feb 1, 2012, 12:52 pm
Average Is Over – NYTimes.com Friedman on why the middle class’s pockets keep shrinking. In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle. But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. It can’t when...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 31, 2012, 12:15 pm
Create Your Own Codecademy Courses – Codecademy Blog Today, anyone can create their own Codecademy lesson. We’re also expanding beyond JavaScript – lessons can be created in Ruby or Python too! The lessons are just as interactive and exciting as the ones that Codecademy itself has created. ...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 31, 2012, 12:13 pm
There has been a lot of news recently about Apple and their relationship to the factory workers in China. Many reports have been coming out about the worker mistreatment in these factories, the little money they earn, the long hour shifts, and the most disturbing of all, the suicides by the workers ...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 28, 2012, 8:56 pm
Ice Cube gives us a tour of LA and the Eames house. I know that this is old-ish by internet standards, but this is so full of win.
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 28, 2012, 8:46 pm
What Your Favorite Blog Says About You | Slacktory | This seems legit. Kottke.org: You read all the liner notes, even if you bought the album as mp3s. Daring Fireball: You know three ways to tell Helvetica from Arial. The Hairpin: You got Maira Kalman to draw a cartoon in your book at a reading. ...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 24, 2012, 3:47 pm
The Pirates Who Print Shoes – Modern Nerd Mick Cernis of Modernerd ponders about the future of 3D printing and is not too stoked about it. If you’ve used a 3D printer, you’ll know why printable shoes aren’t exciting. Not yet. If you’re new to 3D printing, allow me to describe the experi...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 24, 2012, 3:38 pm
The people behind the Malcolm Gladwell illustrated collection set talk about the process of coming up with ideas on a Design Matters episode. *My birthday is on May 18. via Curiosity Counts
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 19, 2012, 1:29 pm
How I Test Ideas (Or: Discerning Good From Great) — Shawn Blanc Shawn Blanc on how he goes through the process of testing an idea. I suspect many of you can relate to the dilemma of having more ideas than time. Which means that, in addition to endurance, we also need discernment to know what ide...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 19, 2012, 1:26 pm
Here is some required reading to get a clearer picture. Why SOPA and PIPA must Die – Andy Baio SOPA and PIPA – Khan Academy (That’s the video that’s embedded above.) Defeating SOPA and PIPA isn’t Enough – Jeff Atwood
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 18, 2012, 3:04 pm
Lana & Me: Our Dark, Abusive, Co-Dependent Relationship on the Content Farm | HIPSTER RUNOFF Hipster Runoff on Lana Del Ray, music writing and criticism, the indie music writing blogosphere, content farms, Gawker, and tons existentialist buzzwaves. Cultural criticism on the internet is dying beca...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 18, 2012, 2:40 pm
Herpderpedia is a Front Row Seat to Wikipedia Blackout Confusion | Geekosystem this new internet ban bullshit is going to shut down wikipedia and craigslist WTF??!!!! FUCK YOU OBAMA!!!!!!! Of course there are people out there that have no idea about the PIPA/SOPA blackouts. Some people will go to ...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 17, 2012, 1:43 pm
Douglas Rushkoff – Blog – CNN: Why I am learning to code and you should, too Douglas Rushkoff on why everyone should learn to code. …[W]e now live in a world with apps, networks, and stock market trading algorithms that we use, even though desperately few of us understand how they work. And...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 17, 2012, 12:00 pm
Some days ago I read a blog post from The Story’s Story that inferred that one of the reasons the 99 per centers are 99 per centers is because they watch too much Television. I thought that to be an interesting premise and wondered how much truth there was to it. I did what every well meaning net ...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 16, 2012, 3:02 pm
What if the Pixar film Up was made in 1965 by Disney.
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 16, 2012, 2:28 pm
The 10 Most Hated Companies in America – 24/7 Wall St. Guess who made it to number one: Facebook currently has more than 800 million users. Any company of this size is sure to have some detractors. Compared to other leading social media sites, however, Facebook has the lowest customer satisfacti...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 15, 2012, 2:10 pm
The Flip Side of a Big Audience | Smarterware Gina Trapani on being known on the web. She’s not talking about fame per se. At least not the Perez Hilton web-to-mainstream-fame level, but about the receiving-a-lot-of-email level famous. Having a big audience means you’re a commodity, and you ge...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 14, 2012, 12:12 pm
Over at The Story’s Story, Jake Seliger argues that the 99%’s are the 99% because they watch too much Television and is surprised that time spent watching Tv is not considered a factor when speaking about income equality/inequality. Seliger writes: In all of the contemporary reports and newspap...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 9, 2012, 3:03 pm
This is in a rare place of being extremely funny and extremely serious. Just watch it.
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 9, 2012, 11:24 am
A long sentence is worth the read – latimes.com Author Pico Iyer argues that we need the long sentence to pull us away from the fast stream, always now world of the web. Yet nowadays the planet is moving too fast for even a Rushdie or DeLillo to keep up, and many of us in the privileged world ha...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 7, 2012, 2:49 pm
Have artist names been getting longer? « Music Machinery Paul Lamere of Music Machinery used the Echo Nest API to figure out the trends in long artist names. He found some interesting data: Here are the longest artist names and their start year: 51 2010 Tim and Sam’s Tim and the Sam Band with ...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jan 6, 2012, 5:31 pm
Internet Access Is Not a Human Right – NYTimes.com Chief internet evangelist at Google Vinton G Cerf on why making access to the internet a human right, is kind of a bonkers idea when you think about it. …echnology is an enabler of rights, not a right itself. There is a high bar for something ...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 5, 2011, 8:27 pm
Whatever has been said and is going to be said about Steve Jobs passing away, Apple themselves have put it best: Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear fri...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Sep 25, 2011, 12:59 pm
A List Apart: Articles: Being Human is Good Business I’ve been thinking a lot about customer service and if it’s possible for big companies to actually be any “good” at it. And by big companies I mean big-box-type-franchise-everywhere-in-the world type of companies. Because while I do belie...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Sep 18, 2011, 7:55 pm
YouTube Founders Aim to Revamp Delicious – NYTimes.com I’m so happy those guys decided to save Delicious. Delicious is a true web gem.
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Sep 15, 2011, 10:23 am
Episode 57 of Mac Power Users (Power Text Editing) was an awesome episode. For a person that loves goofing around with text editing apps, it is absolute nerdom. One thing I loved about the episode was that they cleared up the difference between text editing and word processing. There was a nice reca...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Sep 4, 2011, 5:53 pm
Why keeping up with RSS is poisonous to productivity, sanity I agree with most of what Marco pointed out over at his blog where I originally found the Ars Technica article. It’s really easy to lose yourself with the unread count. You want to give every feed you subscribe to the attention they des...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Aug 30, 2011, 9:43 pm
Timothy Ferriss, Silicon Valley’s Self-Help Guru : The New Yorker “Every generation gets the self-help guru it deserves”. (Via MeFi)
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Aug 25, 2011, 9:17 pm
Your stereotypical 90′s indie band. Original Fortune front cover pic via GigaOm
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Aug 4, 2011, 4:04 pm
Tiger Mom » Design You Trust – Social Inspirations! Even the heading can’t truly convey it.
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Aug 4, 2011, 4:04 pm
‪The Internet in 1995 on MTV News‬‏ – YouTube Wow. 16 years ago Moby had hair. (Via Waxy)
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Aug 1, 2011, 8:46 pm
I own a late 2007 white MacBook. It’s the plastic 13″ model which sadly has been killed. I bought it in early 2008. It has started to yellow out of course. It’s original battery died on me not too long ago, and the MagSafe charger is starting to quirk out. In sum, it’s the first Mac computer...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jul 2, 2011, 8:20 pm
Another reason why I’m loving meditation more and more is how hilarious it can get. Picture me sitting in half lotus position, concentrated following the breath. The exhales and the inhales. Counting the breaths. Going around my body and really feeling it and all of sudden I hear voice that says, ...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jun 29, 2011, 9:57 pm
From the Macintosh User Manual (via Back to Work)
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Jun 16, 2011, 7:57 pm
I’ve been practicing meditation for a while now. I was partly inspired by this wonderful podcast, from my favorite internet peoples ever. If I’m not mistaken, I think it was Dan Benjamin who mentioned the book Mindfulness in Plain English, a book that has helped a great deal in getting me starte...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - May 18, 2011, 12:32 pm
Been alive three decades and four years. If I take look back and compare it to how things are now, I think things turned out pretty damn great. I’m a happy camper. Right now I love all of you.
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Mar 7, 2011, 6:54 pm
The past week has been a whirlwind of activity and stress. I applied for a job transfer last January and this past Sunday(February 27) I got the call with the approval. The job is in Florida. I have, as of now, 9 days left. Anyone who has gone through the moving project knows how stressful it can b...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Feb 25, 2011, 11:58 am
Heather Armstrong, Queen of the Mommy Bloggers – NYTimes.com Heather Armstrong, author of the blog Dooce, gets profiled on NYT Magazine. I’ve never been a follower of the blog, but my impression about Dooce is that it’s more than a “mommy blog”. As Kottke observed, it comes from a time wh...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Feb 22, 2011, 12:27 pm
The Technium: Possibilians vs Agnostics Over at The Techium Kevin Kelly linked to this presentation that David Eagleman gave at Pop Tech. What Eagleman says about “Possibilianism” is more of a re-branding of skepticism, but the talk is great. I still say that I’m an agnostic, no matter if peo...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Feb 21, 2011, 1:55 pm
Well, Actually – Miguel de Icaza How using that phrase in conversations to correct a point gets you into douchebag territory. While being technically correct is the best kind of correct, what you don’t realize is that while you enjoy the triumph of your well-actually, everyone around you is se...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Feb 20, 2011, 11:22 am
Portrait of a Small Town Simen of Enthusiasms (previously known as Daily Meh) makes a photo essay of a small town in Norway. Loved the picture of the ecological farmer caressing the “kind as they come bull”.
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Feb 18, 2011, 2:59 pm
The new Radiohead album, The King of Limbs, is available today to purchase and download. The digital download was released one day ahead of schedule. The physical disc will be in stores in mid March. The video above shows Thom York doing a post-Idioteque dance (don’t know what to call it) to the ...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Feb 17, 2011, 3:17 pm
Confessions of an Apple Store Employee – Apple Store Tips – Popular Mechanics Favorite part of the story was about homeless people coming in to listen to death metal and turning it up really loud on the Bose speakers.
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