Jakob Dylan’s Women and Country album feels good on the first listen. There’s no trying too hard, no songs with the familiar country, singer songwriter tropes. It’s paced well, with diverse arrangements. Nothing But the Whole Wide World and Holy Rollers for Love stand out.
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Jakob Dylan – Women and Country
Jakob Dylan’s Women and Country album feels good on the first listen. There’s no trying too hard, no songs with the familiar country, singer songwriter tropes. It’s paced well, with diverse arrangements. Nothing But the Whole Wide World and Holy Rollers for Love stand out.
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Five for Fighting – Slice
Five for Fighting’s Slice is more of the same piano pop balladry but with different lyrics. Safe, digestible and unoffensive.
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Brett Favre is like the Internet
In a great example of divergent thinking, Kottke collects a series of tweets by Tim Carmody comparing Brett Favre’s career to that of the Internet. In 1995, Favre wins the MVP, the Packers get to the NFC Championships, and Windows 95 brings the internet & graphic interface to the masses.
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Of terminology and semantics
Debates over terminology and semantics are for archivists and academics. If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them. –Ryan Freitas
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Extreme Photography
Extreme Photography: The Hottest, Coldest, Fastest, Slowest, Nearest, Farthest, Brightest, Darkest, Largest, Smallest, Weirdest Images in the Universe… shows the physical and technological limits of photography. From volcanoes, Antarctic exhibitions, outer space, thermal, infrared, x-ray, MRI, examples are given as to the potential of the application, its practicality and a little bit of how-to thrown…
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Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
Mumford & Sons Sigh No More paces a contemporary blend of folk, Americana, blue grass and rock across 48 minutes of diverse instrumentation. Starting slowly with the title track, Sigh No More, the song builds into a foot stomping jam. The lead vocals seem raw at time, but powerful and emotive with four part harmonies…
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Words
Follow along to the Words. Excellent use of transitions and word association.
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Bob Dylan – Christmas in the Heart
Christmas In the Heart, by Bob Dylan, is at times reverent (Little Drummer Boy, O’ Come All Ye Faithful, O’ Little Town of Bethlehem), fun (Here Comes Santa Claus) and comical in a lounge act, what the hell kind of way (The Christmas Blues, Must be Santa, Christmas Island). Sure, Christmas in the Heart contains…
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iPad a tool to help those with autism
Random, assorted specification lists can’t prepare for possibilities like this. A family in California is finding that their son with severe autism may be benefiting from interactions with an iPad. So when Leo took it in his small hands as if it were an old friend, and, with almost no training, whizzed through its apps…
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Susan Orlean discusses the iPad
Susan Orlean discusses, at length with Glenn Fleishman, her use of an iPad. She candidly describes her use with the insight of an anthropologist–observant not only on the physical, but the social and much broader social contexts: And while you can do that with your phone, it is so much more visual, and almost tactile…