May 2012
6 posts
April 2012
11 posts
WatchNaf short video I made of cycling across the Williamsburg bridge yesterday.
March 2012
2 posts
January 2012
3 posts
December 2011
5 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-11) →
Philip Glass (10)
Elbow (4)
Miike Snow (1)
Passion Pit (1)
Dada Life (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
November 2011
4 posts
The Real Zack Morris: The State of the Art is... →
zackarymorris:
… I could go on and on and on about how a $700 iPad has about as much to do with revolutionizing computing as a TV hospital drama does with revolutionizing medicine. It’s all a farce, a sham. It’s giving candy to starving children. …
“Science is the act of exploration.
Science is the greatest of adventure...”
– Tomorrow’s guest, Brian Greene, during his appearance on The Colbert Report (via leagueofwhimsy)
“When I muse about memes, I often find myself picturing an ephemeral flickering...”
– Douglas Hofstadter (1983)
October 2011
8 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
TV On The Radio (3)
Hall & Oates (1)
MSTRKRFT (1)
The Temper Trap (1)
Lana Del Rey (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23) →
The Nightwatchman (9)
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (3)
Calvin Harris (2)
David Guetta (2)
James Blake (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Even though the government has a monopoly on violence, violence cannot solve...”
– Jacob Appelbaum
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
Elbow (5)
Dizzee Rascal (2)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (2)
Lady Gaga (2)
Fredrik (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
September 2011
1 post
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-18) →
The Cure (6)
Theophilus London (6)
Simon & Garfunkel (5)
Hot Chip (4)
The Jesus and Mary Chain (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
July 2011
2 posts
“The filter bubble phenomenon, I think that noun is applied to the idea that a...”
– Tim Berners-Lee (via azspot)
June 2011
1 post
conorjh: bash script to get Dublin Bus RTPI from... →
I was even lazier and wrote a little Python script to do it. (Requires Python 2.6 for the json library). I put it in a gist, but annoyingly Tumblr prevent you from embedding gists (wtf!), so here it is:
import urllib
import json
def main(location = "westland+row/00495"):
data = json.loads(urllib.urlopen("http://dublinbus-api.heroku.com/stops/%s"\
%location).read())['data'][0]
if...
April 2011
4 posts
Third Floor Espresso : Tumblr: The Loft Book Shop... →
thirdfloorespresso:
Around about a year ago my fiancée and I visited Chapters Book Shop on Parnell Street to have a look for something inspiring to read on our holidays. We had been told to seek out a young man called Rob who apparently had quite a talent for recommending books based on your own personal…
Excellent. Now all that’s needed is a pizza oven (a la blue bus) and there...
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Is that blogging?: The ethereal, digital... →
The ethereal, digital replacement technology for the printing press happens to have come of age in a time when the unfortunate ideology I’m criticizing dominates technological culture. Authorship — the very idea of the individual point of view — is not a priority of the new ideology.
The digital flattening of expression into a global mush is not presently enforced from the top down, as it is...
March 2011
3 posts
