I’ll be honest and say I hoped it was more like My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Pt II than it is. It’s present form sounds like Byrne and Eno some 30 years later-much more mature, sophisticated, and relaxed. Byrne’s vocals sound great s does the production Eno provides. I have a player for it on the right side which you can listen to songs on and copy too if you like. I’m enjoying this. Only wondering if David Byrne’s building was played on this any where? If you know please shoot me a blip. - Mark Forman via Bookmarklet
Right in the Pacific Heights ‘hood of San Francisco you’ll find some strange retro-futuristic dome: Probably the only one of its kind, the sound theatre called Audium is a sound-sculptured space that’s been around for over 30 years. It’s a venue of musical experimentation with its physical space being one of its main instruments. The peculiar architecture borrows from early futuristic icons such as Flash Gordon episodes! The music you encounter inside is composed by eighty-year-old songwriting genius and Audium creator Stan Shaff, playing a cross between Philip Glass and something you might have heard if you’re into deep-sea scuba diving. Now imagine yourself seated in a pitch-dark room being flooded with multiple layers of soundscapes wrapping around your body… and 174 speakers guide you into a heaven of noise, composed by Mr. Shaff himself. PingMag spoke to Stan Shaff after one of his biweekly performances. - Mark Forman via Bookmarklet
I lived around the corner from this place for years and never knew what it was. - Andre Maltais
Like, totally embarrassing to let the world know that I still, even after the gerbil incident (wait, was that a different dude?) and knowing that he’s so totally gay that I’d fling my naked body at George Michael if he rang my doorbell. - Mark Forman via Bookmarklet
If you ask graphic designers how they got into graphics in the first place, a lot of them will tell you about their favourite album covers or something else visually related to music. Enter London-based Tom Hingston: For over ten years, he has been designing quite a lot for music, from flyers for the legendary Blue Note club to Massive Attack’s covers. So for today, PingMag asks Tom about visualising sounds. - Mark Forman via Bookmarklet
Watch... Now, I'll have to fight off all these women with a stick. - Outsanity
She definitely added a level of class that was absent from my FB. Anna, it's time for you to post something new to my wall so my friends will think I know attractive people. - Pete Delucchi via fftogo
Cannot like this enough or agree more. edythe is wonderful! - Abby Martin
no-no-no-no... Chris, you have very augmented view - Polly is more than just "FF user=edythe" - she is perfect combination of taste, style and smell for new. - silpol
Edythe/Polly is a voice of sweetness and light in this crusty world. - Donna Mugavero
Really lovely person with fantastic music taste! - Emma
I've got so many great folks in my stream it's an embarrassment of riches. I'm going to highlight some of you as I go along. Thanks for such great material! - Chris Baskind
I love Anna :) We're gonna get married and have a bunch of Yoda babies :) - Mona N.
Anna's my girl. She's lucky I'm married, if not i'd have to hunt her down and make her mine. I'd have to take out Cee Bee and Mona first. I know this. - Carlos Ayala
Yeah, the text to speech suprised me here when I Uttered for the first time in ages yesterday, and it was just a reply to someone's post. Totally funny, ha. - jjprojects
and here I thought you were just channeling your inner chumby... - Mark Forman
I also tried emailing a video shot on my N95 to Utterz. It worked well, I really like that functionality. More and more networks seem to be offering that, it's cool - Utterz, Phreadz, 12Seconds, Flickr and others too I guess. - jjprojects
One of the things that I like about Utterz which puts it above the rest, is the all inclusive functionality-- all forms of media, PLUS, it posts to dozens of other places. Everyone else does this piecemeal thing. And of course you can have social and threading and groups if you want. They should be the model others copy. - Eric Rice
“After being away from news all day, I really don't want to deal with reading everyone's last philosophical rant on Chrome. I'm using it, it's fine, whatever.”
I am more interested in your presentation. :) How are you loving LA? I was just there last nite! - Daynah
Well you just missed the Chrome hooplah and got here JUST in time for the RNC talks. Joy! - Mona N.
@daynah i always love LA, heh. We have a diverse panel on Thurs, I think I might be the gaming/social media angle... the removal of devices entirely and just the real life existence within data.. that's kinda hot. - Eric Rice
heh talk about getting gitty over the latest shiny, the name is fucking chrome! - sean percival
bling bling I got some chrome for your bling; you put the chrome in your bling, and then you bling bling bling. Diggitiy. - Pete Delucchi
Dude - why weren't you at PAX?!?! (Or were you?) - TDavid
Tdavid: never heard of it before gnomedex - Eric Rice
I really wish I knew what is so hot about the google toolbar. I have seen many requests/complaints that it doesn't work for Chrome. Maybe I have been missing out? - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
You're not the only one @Rahsheen. There is no need for the Google toolbar anymore. The browser blocks all of the popups and offers a ubiquitous search field. What does the toolbar really give you that's worth the install? - xero
Xero u might be onto something there.. - Mark Forman
Crap . . . now I want to see Magnolia - Lindsey Smith
I think it's kind of the same as he is in real life. - Rochelle
Magnolia's one of my top 10 favorite movies and it's Cruise's best performance outside of Rain Man - Akiva Moskovitz
One of the movies I really liked Tom Cruise in. That and Born on the 4th of July. - Rodfather
Cruise has a lot of good movies . . . its impossible to pic a fav ;) - Lindsey Smith
Tom Cruise is pretty weird all the time.. - Mo Kargas
He's just like he is in that Scientology video that was released on the internet... ... he's so out there in this movie. Vanilla Sky is up next. (i've seen it before just bits and peaces... and the ending) - Brandon
He works his natural weirdness in Magnolia. Method acting! - Donna Mugavero
replace <Magnolia> with <every aspect of life, the world, and anything else you can possibly think of>; edit: he is extremely good in Magnolia. :) - Pete Delucchi
ooooooone is the loooonliest number that you'll ever see - Josh Haley
Was it TJ Mackey in that movie? Seymour Phillip Hoffman great as usual. Great cast and picture all way around. Isn't LA really like that? :P - Mark Forman
@Josh I'm still kicking around here. I've just been a little quiet for the past week. Taking some time to watch a lot of movies & listen to all kinds of music. My brain needs a break from the Internet. - Mark Wilson
@MW good for you. One day I will muster the courage to do the same - Josh Haley
what if the page hasn't refreshed yet, and I'm at the bottom, and I'm reading this post and other people have commented on it, but there's no way for me to know if there are any other comments above the one that I'm making right now? *breathes quickly* - Pete Delucchi
Yeah. I often find that someone has commented either right before me or at the same time as me... Nothing you can do about it. Roll with the punches, Shey. Thanks. :-) - Lisa L. Seifert
Think you need to check your spelling on A...you're in Canada right? - Mark Forman
I haven't read the comments here, but I think it's important to make a distinction for when someone posts while you're writing your re– nevermind. - Mark Trapp
The FF guys should make the commenting more AJAXy, but that could cause a rift in the space-time continuum or something - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
What if the page hasn't refreshed yet, and I'm at the bottom, and... - Josh Haley
Sometimes I forgot what I wrote or other people wrote, and I feel like I need to say the same thing all over again, as if I were in some giant, I don't know, echo chamber or something, and I don't think someone might have already mentioned that, but it's been so long since I looked up at the comments, it's probably there by now. - Pete Delucchi
What Pete said. I commented on a Michael Buckley post before anyone else (or so I thought); I refreshed, I was 7 down. Grrrr. - Helen Is SOOO Not Of Troy
Sometimes I forgot what I wrote... wait.. oh.. ummm yeah.. well then... Ditto. - Christopher Welle
I don't know Shey man - sometimes there are comments in the 40+ range and frankly people don't hae the time to sit, review & reconsider their point before they rush off to their next meeting or whatever... - Zee at WeDoCreative
AJAXWars, on a chrome session near you. - [ zu ]-eBailey
For those interested along these lines, worth checking out Nina Simonds' books, etc. (based in part on uses of herbs + spices from traditional Chinese medicine & Ayurveda; tasty too!): http://spoonfulofginger.com/pa... - Casey
"Pears are especially delicious when combined with calvados – somehow, its appley flavour enhances their taste. Serve this with the apple pie (see recipe below). Save ½ egg white for the apple pie recipe." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
"Brian Rakowski walks to the whiteboard in a small conference room in Building 41 on Google's Mountain View campus. A lanky, gregarious man in his twenties, Rakowski is the product manager of a top-secret project that's been under way for more than two years." - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet
Congrats on the great article, Brian. - Bret Taylor
@john: alleyinsider is the last source i will trust as to whether it is going or not going to happen. But, really, as @slippy says, choice FTW! The rest will just pan out. - Ashwin Bharambe
That picture is great. It looks like a band photo. - Andrew Burd
Internets are the new rock'n'roll, Andrew, didn't you hear? - Slippy Lane
The photographer, Joe Pugliese, has a great website: http://www.joepug.com/ In fact it's so great I haven't got round to reading the Wired article yet - Adewale Oshineye
Enjoyable read except for this completely bizarre paragraph -- "Not long after that, Brin and Page came by to check in on the furtive beginnings of their browser. "I remember sitting at my desk, which at the time had a stuffed snake running along the back of it," says Pam Greene, an engineer on the team. "Sergey was bouncing on one of those exercise balls, watching Darin give a demo, and petting the snake." - Osi
"The snake, called Mr. Bigglesworth, seemed to purr softly in Sergey's lap, providing a calming influence during the demo. However, when one of the tabs crashed, taking the browser with it, Sergey's voice took a more strident turn. "I have gathered here before me the world's best developers," Sergey began, "and yet each of you has failed to kill Internet Explorer. That makes me angry. And when Sergey gets angry, Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset. And when Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset, people die!" - Karim
Sergey then pressed a nearby console button that retracted Darin's chair into the floor below. A flash of flame could be seen as the screaming developer vanished from the conference room. - Karim
Somebody help me!" Darin pleads. "I'm alive, only very badly burned!" This proves to be very distracting, and after being interrupted several times, Sergey picks up his phone, and reports the situation to a henchman. "I'll go deal with it," he assures Sergey. "If someone opens the retrieval hatch, I can get out," Darin explains. At this point, the hatch opens. Darin is at first grateful, but then a gunshot
