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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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 9, 2009, 11:40 am
The video above is for Modest Mouse’s song” The Whale Song” from the EP No One’s First and You’re Next. Everything But The Game: The Art and Motion of The Beatles Rock B...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 8, 2009, 11:59 am
The Berlin Reunion Germany celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a spectacular show featuring two massive marionettes, the Big Giant, a deep-sea diver, and his niece, th...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 8, 2009, 11:57 am
Dance With the Devil Josh Max was at a low point in his life, but then he discovered death metal. I was carried off into a boiling sonic river of brutal, obscene, blasphemous noise that blasted me l...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 5, 2009, 1:20 pm
The Last Days of the Polymath A polymath, a person who knows a lot about a lot, has always been a rarity. The most well known being Da Vinci. But as the article demonstrates, throughout history there...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 5, 2009, 11:30 am
Violet Blue guest posting over at Laughing Squid writes: Comedy is truth: While some of us scratch our heads and wonder how an environment for jobs like “social media guru” and pay-per-Tweet adve...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 4, 2009, 12:30 pm
In Praise of Doodling HiLoBrow on the magical-ness of doodling and its etymological history. “In its modern sense, doodling is surrealism and abstract expressionism’s dour bachelor uncle —...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 2, 2009, 11:09 am
Music Machinery points to a new stream of metal that’s been developing, Whalecore: Whalecore is a sub-genre of Southern Rock widely influenced by Heavy Metal, Metalcore, and Progressive Me...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 1, 2009, 5:57 pm
I’ll be joining in on the the reading of Bram Stoker’s Dracula with the Infinite Summer community. Infinite Summer started as a project last June to read Infinite Jest and has grown into ...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 1, 2009, 12:18 pm
Comments: Size Does Matter Lukas Mathis of Ignore the Code, set out on a experiment to study the relationship between comment length and comment quality. He made some interesting graphic charts that ...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Oct 1, 2009, 12:17 pm
Kevin Kelly pointed to this amazing collection of photos by Rachel Sussman of the oldest things living in the world.
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Sep 30, 2009, 2:10 pm
See those magazines? No, it’s not a dentist’s waiting room. Those are mine and they’re just the ones on a coffee table in my living room. Yes, there’s more. But these I’...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Sep 29, 2009, 4:24 pm
The Gangs of Rio John Lee Anderson writes in the New Yorker about the gangs in the “favelas” of Rio de Janeiro. The above link takes you to an audio-slide with striking photos of the gang...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Sep 28, 2009, 1:04 pm
Why Are some CD’s longer than Others? Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution offers some thoughts in response to a reader about the different lengths of albums across different genres like rap, met...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Sep 28, 2009, 1:02 pm
The Formula for Happiness It’s supposedly simple: Happiness = P + (5xE) + (3xH). P stands for Personal Characteristics, E stands for Existence, and H represents Higher Order needs. Life coach ...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Sep 27, 2009, 7:54 pm
Questioning Accidentalism Nicholas Carr refutes the idea that progress in media technology is “accidental”. When you describe an event or a thing as an accident, what you are doing is dr...
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Jay C. posted an article on Tape Noise Diary - Sep 25, 2009, 4:05 pm
Following Simen of DailyMeh’s suggestion, I went through my archives to highlight some posts from 2008. Like he wrote: I encourage everyone to dive into their archives, online or offline, diari...
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