March 2009
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WatchSpeaking of live shows, I can’t believe I’m just now posting about Grandcrew, an awesome site (founded by one of my best friends) that offers high-quality full-length concerts for free, with track by track navigation! Most concerts are filmed in France (they do the filming), but they are expanding throughout Europe. If you are a band, a label or a venue and you want your concert filmed...
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How to get more people to visit and follow your...
Sorry for the long post, but I need your help to get Tumblr’s attention. I’ve highlighted the important parts in bold if you don’t have time to read everything.
I love Tumblr’s community/social networking features: liking, reblogging, following and the ability to find other tumblelogs via the Directory, Radar and Map. These features help drive traffic to your site. The...
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WatchBrothers Grimm “Little Red Riding Hood” (Tomas Nilsson Remix). Music by Slagsmålsklubben.
Inspired by Röyksopp’s Remind Me.
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WTF just happened on Lost?!!
ho.ly.shit.
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The Best Music from SXSW 2009
These bloggers have done some serious listening to help you find the cream of the crop:
Paul Ford of the Morning News has Six-Word Reviews of 1,302 SXSW Mp3s. He also did this last year.
Prefix Mag shrinks Paul’s list down to 3 handfuls.
The Romp picks out the best bands under every letter.
If you don’t feel like reading and just want to download all the files, get the SXSW...
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To people who complain about having too many posts...
I follow sabino. He reblogged a post by pinupsundae who lists this as one of the things that irks her about Tumblr:
People who post stuff I’m interested in, but on a scale of like 10 pages a day. That’s dashboard flooding. I only follow about 45 people, I like to not have a million pages to catch up on every day.
Dashboard flooding? Seriously? You do realize that you made a conscious decision to...
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Investors in the U.S. economy being destroyed... →
John Gruber from Daring Fireball offered some eye-opening links to posts about the state of our economy. He quoted this excerpt from a post by Philip Greenspun:
This evening’s New York Times was worrisome. An inset box showed that the S&P 500 had fallen 4.25 percent for the day, wiping out roughly a year of investment returns. A few months ago this would have been the top story. Today,...
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Does your doctor send you letters to communicate...
So I’ve been training for the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run and hurt my knee in the process (nothing serious, just slight pain). I went to see a new Primary Care Physician to have it checked out. She recommended I get X-Rays first and come back a week later for a checkup. When I went back, their computers were experiencing technical difficulties, so she could not view the X-Ray results. She...
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10 Foods You Should Buy Organic →
HowStuffWorks has a list of 10 foods that are worth spending more money on:
Meat
Dairy Products
Eggs
Coffee
Peaches (and other fruits with thin skins)
Potatoes
Peppers (and other veggies)
Leafy Greens
Baby Food
Anything you eat a lot of
and 10 that aren’t:
Asparagus
Avocados
Bananas
Broccoli
Cabbage
Kiwi
Mango
Onions
Papaya
Pineapple
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“Instead of paying upfront or taking loans with repayment schedules unrelated to...”
– Eliot Spitzer (yes, the former governor of NY) proposes “smart loans” for higher education in this Slate article.
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How to filter your Facebook News Feed
Facebook recently rolled out a new Home Page with a real-time stream of your friends’ posts. While the new features are welcome, the new design is not, but that’s for another post.
If you have hundreds of active “friends,” you will want to filter your news feed to weed out the info you’re not interested in at any given time. You do that by creating Friend Lists. If...
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WatchI want to go to there.
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The Five Corners Quintet - Trading Eights
The...
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Tap DC World Water Week: March 22-28 →
In 2007, the Tap Project was born in New York City based on a simple concept: restaurants would ask their patrons to donate $1 or more for the tap water they usually enjoy for free and all funds raised would support UNICEF’s efforts to bring clean and accessible water to millions of children around the world.
Growing from just 300 New York City restaurants in 2007 to over 2,300 across the...
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How to land a six-figure book deal
Simple. Post a recipe for sausage stuffed and wrapped with bacon, aka the Bacon Explosion, or come up with a site called This is why you’re fat. This obsession with outrageous food is baffling. Just check out these impressive stats for the latter site:
* On February 1, we came up with idea, bought the domain name, designed the blog and began creating an image archive from the crazy food...
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Kat Edmonson - Lucky
25-year-old jazz singer from...
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How Much Water Does Pasta Really Need? →
Interesting experiment by Harold McGee. Click the link for the results.
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Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation - Now... →
On Monday, March 30th, one of the best annual events for DC Foodies comes around for the twenty-first time. Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation is an epicurean dream: food from more than 40 of Washington’s best restaurants, a wine bar, and killer cocktails. It’s also a fundraising event from which 100% of ticket sales go to benefit local anti-hunger organizations. Good...
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