Odd music post

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I spend a good deal of time listening to Slacker.com internet radio, here is some oddities that I like and since I don't have the ability to embed LaLa links the current best I have is amazon MP3 store links.  Suck on that Apple.

LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

Broken Social Scene -Forgiveness Rock Record
Holy Fuck - Latin
Chloé - One In Other

Broken Bells - The Hight Road
Fuckbuttons
Thievery Corporation FT Notch - Amerimacka
Ted Leo and the pharmacists - woke up near chelsea
Florence and the Machine - Rabbitheat "Rize up"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fancy
Doves - Kingdom of rust
Gil Scott-Heron - Your soul and mine

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Holy fuckbats Cholé is terrible, I must have been out of my mind when I wrote that down.

Making yogurt

I have been jealously reading urbanfarmhub.org for a while now, and think that this post onmaking yogurt seems like fun.

I don't have a sources of fresh milk, but am still envious of the idea of artisan style home made foodstuffs. Seems like an excuse for a fancy book or two.

The Complete Guide to Making Cheese, Butter, and Yogurt at Home: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply seems like a good start for this. I have made some homemade butter before from heavy cream, and a mixing machine.

Another book that caught my eye though is How to Make Homemade organic Yogurt in Your Crockpot. I have a crockpot and can follow instructions.

Oil Spill Live stream

I am posting this so I can find it quickly, but also so I don't have to tolerate that stupid live updating social stream widget.

Live Broadcast by Ustream.TV

Facebook, Privacy and the Alternatives

A crazy amount of digital ink has been spent lately taking Facebook to task, and demonizing Mark Zuckerberg, calling for a boycott of the site in response to the privacy changes.  (Random side note Engadget hasn't said a peep about this it seems, either that or they pulled the content.)

The boycotting and leaving Facebook is an interesting cunundrum given that Facebook actually provides some value to many of its users.  That value may just be satisfying their voyeur needs into the lives of their "friends", but it is a way to maintain some level of contact with those that are far away from us.  Every now and then you learn things that you might have not known, or encounter very odd situations with divorces or fighting couples.  Is any of this useful, valuable, or worthwhile?  I don't know that it isn't.

I thought that this was an interesting alternative design to counter Facebook's Monolithic scale, the idea is to give you a higher degree of control over what you share.  I think that they certianly choose the best possible time to launch, but given the time it will take them to get off the ground it likely will have fallen off of people radar by then.  People have short attention spans and the news doesn't know what a follow up report is, so I don't expect to ever hear about this "Alternative" again.

Biotower project

image via Philips

The idea of a biotower in your home helping you grow herbs and vegetables is interesting.  The idea that many if anyone would be interested in growing fish to eat in their home seems less likely to me.  I will give them that it is an interesting design.  I would prefer to see some options on how you configure it, maybe there is a way to grow sea life like lobster and clams. 





via gizmodo

Windows 7 toy

image via ehomeupgrade

I am sure the implementation of this will be crap, but why does everyone just come out with reference designs now. It seems like everyone wants someone else to license and manufacture the products that they develop, rather than developing and manufacturing. The idea of having a smart picture frame that supports DLNA and has a touch screen interface to browse through your media in any room seems like a no brainer, but as far as I know this product has yet to be released.

Square TOS seems agressive

I was reading the Terms of Service on Square

Emphasis mine. Does the section we are not responsible if we get hacked seem like they are reaching in there TOS? I cannot image that this would hold up in court, and if it did I think that TJX wishes that they had this in their contracts.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL SQUARE, ITS PROCESSORS, AFFILIATES, AGENTS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, SUPPLIERS OR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THIS SERVICE. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL SQUARE BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE, LOSS OR INJURY RESULTING FROM HACKING, TAMPERING OR OTHER UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS OR USE OF THE SERVICE OR YOUR ACCOUNT OR THE INFORMATION CONTAINED THEREIN.