Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 9:55AM 
Quite addicted at the moment to the Sleigh Bells, even though they have neither an album nor a website. Ah, the wonders of music blogs never cease to amaze.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 12:19PM I could not be more excited for this:
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Full, downloadable HD versions of the Teaser Trailer and the “VFX Concept Test” available on the iTunes trailers site.
(Via Daring Fireball.)
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 11:45AM The Onassis Foundation posted in 2006 a very informative interview with Peter Mackridge, formerly Professor of Modern Greek at Oxford, about the relationship between academic and colloquial Greek. Definitely worth a look.
Friday, March 5, 2010 at 10:09AM Very cool experiment with typography and design by Sam Winston.
Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 9:24PM 
Popular with the kids these days, or so I hear. (At least, the kids with Google Android phones.) Get your own here: http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/
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Here’s Google Code’s own description of the QR Code which is part of their larger Google Chart API. Also, here’s an encoder that is a little more elegant and user-friendly than the one linked above: http://createqrcode.appspot.com/
Apparently, QR Codes are Big in Japan.
SFJ | in Design, Technology Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:22PM A super creepy video of a song from my favorite album of 2010 so far, Yeasayer’s Odd Blood:
NSFW: some brief not-very-tantalizing-gross-nudist-beach-style nudity involved.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 12:28PM Video is here. Probably one of the most impressive apps on the iPhone in terms of detail and comprehensiveness (iTunes link). And my kids love to listen to the songs of different birds. Beautiful and fascinating; the label "reference app" doesn't really cut it.
SFJ | in Technology Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 12:15PM Great find from the early days of Uncle Tupelo.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 11:58AM His experience is pretty similar to my own, though I’ve been pushing the edge of Dropbox’s space limits for a while. Expandrive plus some kind of hosting may be the answer. See Pick#2 here.
SFJ | in Technology Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 2:09PM Great article in the Guardian this weekend, canvassing authors for their tips on being a writer. My favorite, Margaret Atwood’s #10:
10 Prayer might work. Or reading something else. Or a constant visualisation of the holy grail that is the finished, published version of your resplendent book.
Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 11:10AM This is a completely addictive song, accompanied by an excellent video:
(Via GvB.)
Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 10:00AM NYT:
I couldn’t help noticing a theme running through the Book Review for Jan. 24. The lead review treated books by Garry Wills, whose primary academic training was in classics (Latin and Greek), and John Yoo, whose teachers at the Episcopal Academy in Pennsylvania, where I teach Latin and Greek, remember him as a stellar high school Latin student. (He graduated the year before I arrived.) There was a letter to the editor from Ralph Hexter, the Hampshire College president, one of many classical scholars now running colleges or universities. Later in the issue, Steve Coates reviewed David Malouf’s “Ransom,” a novel about King Priam of Troy.
Can we draw the obvious conclusion? If you want to make legal arguments from the right, or analyze politics from the left, or lead a college, or simply find a good story, spending a little time with Latin and Greek can’t hurt.
LEE T. PEARCY
(Via rogueclassicism.)
Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 10:00AM Typography and Rome:
(Hat tip to Jeremy Kath, M.A., C.F.A., esq., sometime scholar of Classics at Berkeley, Rome, etc., etc.)
Friday, February 19, 2010 at 5:32PM Friday, February 19, 2010 at 5:21PM This is huge. If you use Simplenote on the iPhone, then Notational Velocity for the Mac just got a whole lot more valuable. It has worked flawlessly for me so far, including Dropbox syncing (which is admittedly somewhat redundant). For a more complete survey of the options, see TUAW.
“Child-like Wonder” indeed.
SFJ | in Technology Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 11:05AM 
Great interview here with The Antlers, who put out an awesome album called Hospice last year. The track “Two” is incredible (youtube video here). I particularly like the last verse:
Well no one’s gonna fix it for us, no one can.
You say that, “No one’s gonna listen, and no one understands.”
So there’s no open doors, and there’s no way to get though,
There’s no other witnesses, just us two.
There’s two people living in one small room,
From your two half-families tearing at you,
Two ways to tell the story no one worries,
Two silver rings on our fingers in a hurry,
Two people talking inside your brain,
Two people believing that I’m the one to blame,
Two different voices coming out of your mouth,
While I’m too cold to care and too sick to shout.
Friday, February 12, 2010 at 12:31PM 
From my car window on the Key Bridge, with a bit of Georgetown U. on the right.
Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 11:28PM 
though I myself prefer to stay inside.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 at 6:58PM 
I think he’s overstayed his welcome.
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 2:55PM Excellent piece by Stephen Fry on the iPad. He was, if I remember correctly, the 2nd person in the UK in line to buy the original Macintosh.
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