Saturday, January 1, 2005
From TalkLeft came a link to this disturbing New York Times article about the treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay. Nestled on page 2 was this paragraph:
Military officials who participated in the practices said in October that prisoners had been tormented by being chained to a low chair for hours with bright flashing lights in [...]
On Pitchfork's home page, Ryan Schreiber notes that the Pitchfork website is undergoing a redesign, which will be completed next Monday.
I've been designing the site myself since starting it up in 1995, purely out of necessity. It's been functional, but otherwise not much to look at. This time, we've actually hired an honest-to-god design team: [...]
For my birthday, I decided to buy a MP3 player. After much consideration (I considered Neuros' strange dual player combination, as well as the Rio Karma), I finally decided on an iPod. The fact that part of my digital music collection is in AAC format was the biggest draw. While I did have fifty of [...]
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
I was initially hesitant to reveal my birthday, as I feared that one of my various online accounts' sole security question was "What is your birthday?" After some thought, I could not think of any, which suggests that even if it were an issue, any such account would probably not be that important.
Saturday, January 15, 2005
The news feed needed no modifications, the size of the script grabbing album reviews actually decreased substantially, and the "We Are the World" feed (now pointing at the Track Reviews section) uses a hack, but they all work.
Update: Official Pitchfork Feeds
Thursday, January 20, 2005
As I become exposed to more music, I become increasingly certain that one's personal experiences determine what type of music one likes. If I had not grown up in Willingboro, an almost stereotypical example of the American suburb, I think the fact that four of the tracks on The Arcade Fire's album Funeral contain the [...]
To celebrate the end of final exams (at least for me), I upgraded to a nightly build of Wordpress. I do not really like everything about this Kubrick theme (non-liquid layout, the title header is too big), so expect some more minor changes.
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Given Seymour Hersh's article in the New Yorker about US Special Forces operating in Iran (as they operated in Iraq and Afghanistan before the countries' respective invasions), I found this typo (or perhaps, Freudian slip) in this New York Times article about Congressional concerns about the use of military intelligence units disturbing:
In general, Democrats and [...]
Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Intersession is a weird time at Harvard. Unlike the normal amount of activity that characterizes student life here, there is nothing important (at least, nothing important in the academic sense) that needs to be done. As a result, I am trying to get various other stuff done.
The modified CSS for this blog's theme is still [...]
Thursday, January 27, 2005
While the iTunes Music Store recognizes that "Big Pimpin'" is not a track on 2003's The Black Album, but is actually from the 1999 album "Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter", one must wonder where the young Apple employee who made the iTunes screenshot found on the Playlists page went wrong. I suspect [...]
In many ways, it would be wrong if the District Attorney for Los Angeles decides to seek the death penalty in the case of Juan Alvarez, the man who killed 11 people by trying to commit suicide by train. Unfortunately for him (and of course, the passengers on the train), he decided at the last [...]
Saturday, January 29, 2005
Renzomatic's comment reminded me that I had not read KCNA in a while. Recalling that creating a RSS feed for Haaretz increased the frequency with which I read the publication, I decided to do the same with KCNA. A quick search found a Bloglines feed that has not been updated in almost a month, and [...]
Phil Ringnalda, disturbed by a dream he had about RSS, asks how people who remember their dreams can live normal, productive lives. As a member of that exclusive group which regularly remembers their dreams, I felt compelled to respond, especially as Ringnalda's question brought to mind part of one of the dreams I had last [...]