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Top 10 albums I slept on in 2006
After browsing through a mountain of year-end "Best of" lists, it occurred to me that I missed a staggeringly large amount of new stuff this year. Based on reviews alone, here is my top ten albums that I slept on in 2006. I am making it my personal quest to hear each one of these before New Years Day.
- Mission of Burma — The Obliterati
- Benoît Pioulard — Précis
- The Knife — Silent Shout
- Belle and Sebastian — The Life Pursuit
- Boris — Pink
- Califone — Roots & Crowns
- Silversun Pickups — Carnavas
- Peter Bjorn and John — Writer's Block
- Beach House — Beach House
- Clipse — Hell Hath No Fury
- The Hold Steady — Boys and Girls in America
Also, I know there are 11 albums on here. It was a rough year.
Technorati Tags: music top 10 listsPlease rush and get your free copy of John Hodgman's "The Areas of My Expertise"
You know John Hodgman. He's the PC from those new Mac ads. He's on The Daily Show and This American Life. He's also perhaps the funniest person alive. His book, "The Areas of My Expertise" is brilliant. And now you can download the audio version, narrated by Mr. Hodgman himself, which is even more brilliant. It's like 1300 CDs worth of John Hodgman. It is brilliant.
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Technorati Tags: book humor itunes john hodgmanNew blog bling: Snap Preview Anywhere
Last night I added a new little bit of fancy to the site here. Snap Preview Anywhere is a screenshot preview of outbound links from the site. On the sites where I've seen them in use I've found them to be pretty handy, and they don't add much weight to the page since they are only called when you mouse over a link. Another nice feature is that when you mouse over a link that is not in the Snap database, it seems to pull it into their database on the fly. And for those of you who aren't the most super technical, it is a pretty painless copy and paste to get it for your own site. To see the previews really shine, mouse over the links in the "Elsewhere" section of the sidebar.
Technorati Tags: snap search blogs web2.0I have yet to measure this with a stopwatch but I estimate that about 17 hours of my day are spent sitting in front of a computer screen. So it is only natural that I would be excited about a service like Twitter, where you can basically tell people what you are doing at any given moment by IM, text message or web. For the past couple of days I've been a little obsessed with the Public Timeline which is exciting in the same way the Blogger "recently updated" section was when there were only a few hundred users. I hear this is getting big out in places like SF and NYC, so I am going to make it my New Years resolution to become the undisputed Utah King of Twitter. Feel free to check it out, make me your Friend, and prepare yourself for a breathless string of messages along the lines of "Mark is mangling Javascript", "Mark is cursing Internet Explorer 6" and "Mark is googling computer+monitor+radiation+levels". You know you can't wait.
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