This could be beautiful
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Testing wordpress for iphone
July 22, 2008
Blue Hill at Stone Barns
July 20, 2008
I’m eating monoagriculture from Koo Koo Roo right now and dying over this review of Dan Barber’s new restaurant/farm (via Marginal Revolution). The vegetables look crazy.
Between him and David Chang, it seems like pork is the most important protein in America right now.
As deeply gladdened as I am by the food-raised-on-site concept, I’m bummed that it seems like true food, untransported unfucked-with nutrient-rich produce, is increasingly the entitlement of wealth. The solution is not an increase in the production of cynical, bad for the environment and third world countries* industrial organic but perhaps victory gardens.
*Poor farmers in countries like Africa need to be able to maximize their arable land with modern pesticides and genetically modified crops but if they do, they can’t export it to Europe. Also, lowering production yields elsewhere, a signature of organic farming, drives up the price of staples worldwide.
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Easily my favorite new-to-me blog is
July 19, 2008
Big Contrarian. Jack Shedd is a good, concise writer with interesting opinions and link choices.
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Gifter 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch
July 10, 2008
I don’t know if you guys are used to me being proud, but let me take a moment: Gifter, the iPhone application Louis and I have been working on for the past four months to help with gift-buying has gone up on the iTunes store - you can go to our website and click the download link to get it when you have version 2.0 of the iPhone or iPod touch firmware. Louis has done an amazing amazing job with the code and UI design, and we’re just getting started - this is 1.0 and we’re going to be adding new features and merchants all the time from here on out. Yeah!!
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Obama on Lil’ Wayne
July 10, 2008
The most amazing July 4th blog post of all time is not mine
July 4, 2008
but I will link to it: Cabel “Sassy” Sasser’s fireworks packaging photo shoot. WOWZERS
yeah motherfucker!
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BUYING
June 28, 2008
Kaws X Yue Minjun
Anybody in Taipei?
ALSO: very very rare interview with Kaws up at I-D Magazine (he worked over their most recent issue) - he seldom talks to any media outlet.
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THE FUCKING OCEAN IN SLATE!!
June 23, 2008
John’s band is listed in today’s Slate.com Why Do Bands Give Themselves Unprintable Names? article. The Fucking Ocean have indeed released a very good record, it’s La Main Rouge on Double Negative Records, and if you don’t have a copy you should nab one from iTunes or DNR right now!
Too fucking right
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Litwack technology rrrrrroundup
June 11, 2008
The Amazon Kindle: Okay, I bought one. I totally love it. I’m in love with it. It’s strange, it’s simultaneously crude and advanced at the same time: crude because eink is a young technology - the background of the page is light grey instead of white, and refresh takes a second when it should be instantaneous. It’s four-color greyscale. The design makes it seem a little retro, as well - 80s science fiction angles. But it’s futuristic because it’s changing the way I read - now I have my Kindle with me when I read magazines, so if I read an interesting book review I can download the first chapter instead of forgetting it or filing it away forever. It’s like a minor superpower. It’s a good little device, and the cellular modem, plus the deal Amazon cut with Sprint and their online store, make it great.
iPhone 3G: I’ll take three, but I’m not ecstatic about it. 3G is great, and I don’t mind paying $10 more a month for much faster data, and A-GPS is nice, but there were a few other little incremental improvements I would have liked - a better camera, most prominently. That said, the iPhone is still the second most important tool I own after my laptop, and still the best phone ever made. I think I’ll sign up for MobileMe and push everything around. In fact, thanks to the PC syncing features, I might buy a cheap cheap cheap light small Atom-based PC laptop to compliment a Mac Pro instead of a MacBook Air. If only they’d done an online version of Pages.
white like the light / never like the night
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News story of the day
June 7, 2008
70s Wonder Woman Discovers Dead Body. Celebrities - just like us!
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Tha Carter III
June 7, 2008
I basically don’t have it in me to talk about this whole album, so let me focus on just one track for a second:
13 - Nothin’ On Me (featuring Fabolous and Juelz Santana)
Fab - whatever. JUELZ* turns in an ISO 9000 certified BURNER, I think - “You’re sloppy like seconds / obey me like peasants / or get opened up like presents” and then later “I’m a shark / y’all just koi fish / what else / octopus / what else / oysters.” With his cleverness and clear delivery he sounds to me like an orthodox inheritor of Jadakiss - the pinnacle of mixtape rap in the year 2000, and I mean that as a compliment. So then, after a noodling autotune chorus, Wayne staggers in with a good line (”It’s Weezy / F you - now you gotta have a baby”) and proceeds to - freestyle, I guess, for a minute and ten seconds. For someone who seems obsessed with sports references and competition (elsewhere: “even the referee / thinks I need an Espy”) Wayne seems uninterested in one-upping Santana. His portion of the song is flawed, deeply flawed, not what you’d expect to make it onto a highly anticipated album that was supposed to become a classic or reinvigorate hip-hop or whatever. Wayne is fucking around, and it’s that exposed roughness that makes you either love or despise him. His great commonality with Jay-Z (track two; Jay seems to be making fun of him) is their relaxed sprechstimme style of delivery and at the end of the song when he turns the autotune back on and slows down, gangster-whispering “I got everything / you got nothing / you ain’t got nothing on me” he sounds like - my turn to free-associate - an inverted Tracy Chapman. Soo woo, damu.
* “Santana was arrested outside of his Teaneck, New Jersey home in March 2008. After being pulled over for driving with a suspended license, a search by police of Santana’s Bentley found a bag of marijuana, 29 hollow-point bullets and $19,500 in cash inside a plastic bag filled with Jolly Rancher candies.”
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