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Thumbtack Microphone

I’m considering this for my new Ipod Touch- $13.

http://www.switcheasy.com/products/ThumbTacks/ThumbTacks.php

PTI finds to new ways to increase ad revenue

At least I’m hoping that’s their plan.  All this week on Pardon the Interruption, they have cut back to the studio (usually after the first commercial) for about five seconds or so.  We have learned that Tony’s never been on a cruise, that Wilbon frequently looks disinterested, yelling over to statboy about the best neighborhood in the five boroughs, and even seen some banter with the guest before the ‘Five Good Minutes’  segment.

I would guess that  most people catch the show as I do, by Tivoing and watching later- so if you aren’t paying attention as your fast forward, you might not have even noticed.

Each night, I’ve googled, read wikipedia, etcetera, looking for someone else who’s discussing this- only finding a Tivo Community post today that referenced it.

If you’ve missed it, it’s worth not going to three arrows on the fast forward- stick to two and you’ll catch it.

The History of Portable Music in One Photo

via Wired.

Japanese Cigarette Case?

For some reason, the meaning of the lyrics seemed to click today- it’s about cocaine, right?

bring me my japanese cigarette case, put the mirror to my face, let all my memories be gone….

Just checked on the web- I guess it was pretty obvious to everyone.

It’s on gagagagaaggaggga, by Spoon.

“List” Thursday Continues- London Beers, 2006

My wife and I went to London for a week, travelling there on Boxing Day (12/26).  Here’s a list I kept on my Treo of beers I drank while there (I kept the list so I wouldn’t double up on any beers by mistake, although I did drink several of the same beer because I liked it):

kronenberg 1664
strongbow cider
timothy taylor landlord
peroni
staropramens
boddington topped w/ lemonade
guinness (2nd time)
greene king ipa cask
old spec cask
tiger (chinese)
budweiser budvar
Youngs winter warmer cask
peetermans artois
san miguel
stella
cruzcampo
carling
guinness
youngs fullers pride cask

Sorry, no reviews……

Top Albums, 2001-2003 (more lists from the past)

Here is another list I carried around on my Treo/Windows Mobile/Blackberry for the past few years.  My Top albums for 2001, 2002, 2003!

2001:
1 radiohead – amnesiac
2 spoon – girls can tell
3 dave matthews band – lillywhite sessions
4 john mayer – room for squares
5 dismemberment plan – change
6 white stripes – white blood cells
7 unwound – leaves turn inside you
8 black rebel motorcycle club – BRMC
9 prefuse 73 – vocal studies
10 jeff buckley – live a L’olympia
avalanches
prefuse 73
red house painters
bjork vespertine
strokes
shins oh inverted
sigur ros
royksopp

2002:
sonic youth murray street
wilco yankee hotel foxtrot
sigur ros ()
RJD2, Dead Ringer
Interpol, Turn on the Bright Lights
French Kicks, One Time Bells (1st half of album)
Radio 4, Gotham (1st half of album)
Neko Case, Blacklisted
Notwist, Neon Golden (Thanks to Ang & Mike for buying this at my request in Amsterdam last year)
Plus Minus, Self Titled Long Playing Debut
Roots, Phrenology
Secret Machines, September 000
Spoon, Kill the Moonlight
The Books, Thought for Food
And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Source Tags & Codes
Enon, High Society
counting crows hard candy
ini center of attention
qtip kamaal

2003:
sufjan stevens, michigan
decemberists, castaways
dave matthews, some devil
cat power you are free
postal service give up
tv on the radio ep
outkast
jay-z black album
strokes?
broken social scene
m83
shins chutes
prefuse 73 one word & extinguished
manitoba
radiohead hail to the thief
books lemon of pink
stars heart
super furry animals
madlib

Essential Reggae, a work in progress

reggae essential (not including the obvious Marley collections)

jimmy cliff- harder they come
trojan box sets
gregory isaacs- s/t
johnny clarke- rockers time now
toots & maytals- funky kingston
junior murvin- police & thieves
upsetters- super ape
steel pulse- babylon the bandit
rockers meets king tubby in a fire house
glen brown & king tubby- termination dub
horace andy- in the light
children of jah
keith hudson- pick a dub
augustus pablo- east of the river nile
burning spear- marcus garvey
ethiopians- all the hits and more
upsetters- eastwood rides again

Sleepy Albums (yet MORE lists I carried around)

sleepy albums
seefeel – succour
Slowdive – Pygmalion
Her Space Holiday – Manic Expressive
Avey Tare and Panda Bear – Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished
guthrie – imperial
m83 – dead cities
tangerine dream-phaedra
klimek- milk and honey

Driving Albums (more lists I carried around)

I have a few lists that I’ve made on my Treo, and it was my aim to go back and add a comment in Itunes so that I could make smartlists to cull these out.  One problem I came up with was that I couldn’t define that a search variable would return the entire album (in order), which is a feature that a pre-Itunes window program had (what was the name of the nullriver program that worked with the Ipod before Apple launched Itunes for Windows?)
That is a feature that Itunes still lacks- you should be able to have a smartlist that looks for a variable, and then have the option to return a few complete albums (instead of songs) for that variable.  Define the results with the usual parameters- at random, last played or imported, etc.

Anyway, here’s the list- don’t read too much into it, as it was probably something I did in ten seconds one day.

driving albums
jayhawks tomorrow the green grass
tortoise tnt
new pornographers mass romantic
postal service give up
shins oh inverted world
big star radio city
spoon girls can tell
streets original pirate material
jay-z blueprint
james brown 20 all time greats
new order substance
clash london calling
notwist neon golden