From the monthly archives:

December 2005

Earworms of 2005

December 29, 2005

David Gans just posted a great list of songs from 2005: http://playback.trufun.com/2005/12/earworms_of_the.html I’ve listened to so much great music over the last year that it would be impossible to compile a complete list of great earworms, but here are a few that I thought are also noteworthy: Conservative Christian from Todd Snider‘s latest studio release [...]

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Kottke: Best Links of 2005

December 29, 2005

I have to plug Jason Kottke’s best links of 2005. What a great list of links, many of which I’ve not seen before. Enjoy and happy new year! http://www.kottke.org/05/12/the-best-links-2005 I especially love the speech Steve Jobs gave to the 2005 graduating class at Stanford.

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Coolest Web Apps of 2005

December 22, 2005

Now is a great time of year for best of lists. As we reflect over the last year and look towards next, one can’t help but wonder what cool things are around the corner. 2005 was a great year for innovation on the internet. With the semantic web coming to fruition and all of the [...]

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Recording Guitar With Garage Band

December 20, 2005

Due to the popularity of this post I’ve created a site dedicated to GarageBand Guitarists. Check it out for more helpful content: I’ve been noodling around on the guitar for years. I’m not a great musician but I definitely have a decent repertoire of songs I’ve written or learned over time. Lately I’ve been using [...]

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Congratulations Del.icio.us!

December 12, 2005

It was announced last week that Yahoo! has aquired the hugely popular social bookmark tagging site Del.icio.us. I’ve been using Del.icio.us for quite some time now and am absolutely enamoured with it. In addition to providing me with a great way to store and organize my bookmarks, del.icio.us helps me to find the best content [...]

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Archive.org Grateful Dead Update

December 3, 2005

I have to give an update to this post because things are getting very interesting. I’m streaming January 24, 1971 Seattle Center Arena, Soundboard from archive.org as I’m writing this. It has been decided that downloads of audience recordings and streams of soundboards will be made available on archive.org. A statement on archive.org’s website reads: [...]

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