Trey Anastasio performed “holding his acoustic guitar and wearing his heart on his sleeve” for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts.
Set List
- “Sleep Again.”
- “Summer of ‘89.”
- “Backwards Down the Number Line.”
There are many things Apple and Google could fix, but saying the app stores should be better is like saying the yahoo directory needed work… “We’re in the App Store and we get no downloads” = “my book is on Amazon but no-one buys it.”
[The Internet] makes dumb people dumber and smart people smarter. If you don’t know how to use it, or don’t have the background to ask the right questions, you’ll end up with a head full of nonsense. But if you do know how to use it, it’s an endless wealth of information. Just as globalization and de-unionization have been major drivers of the growth of income inequality over the past few decades, the internet is now a major driver of the growth of cognitive inequality. Caveat emptor.
– Kevin Drum, via MR.
Happy 2015!
Marian Call’s ode to Die Hard will probably be the only Christmas song I ever post here.
Christmas in L.A. (Yippee Ki Yay).
Warning – explicit lyrics! Because it’s a movie quote of course.
Via Jason Snell.
Basically everyone is dressing like me.... I now look like every single fucking hipster dad in America.... Through the grunge era I was always a little bit too preppy. But now the thing about this lumbersexual bullshit, there’s a little bit of prep.
– John Roderick, Roderick on the Line #134: A Minimum of Eels
If a writer has kept me hooked on a long westward cross-country drive and blows a tire at the Nevada-California border, I rarely hold a grudge. I bail out on most writers back in Scranton.
– Dwight Garner, on the Serial Podcast Finale
Yes, journalism has always been messy, but the speed with which it’s generated, aggregated and distributed may now be overwhelming us.... Paradoxically, in the age of oncoming vertically integrated digital-media companies it may become easier, and certainly faster, to ignore the facts.
– Kontra, in Stop the Presses!
Change is hard, in our own lives and in the lives of nations. Change is even harder when we carry the weight of history on our shoulders. Today we are making these changes because it is the right thing to do.
– Barack Obama on ending the United States embargo against Cuba
I love Comet Cafe.