Moneydick: archive

I heartily recommend that everyone try out Scrabulous on facebook. It’s more fun than you think.

Well you probably missed it, but November 21st was ‘No Music Day‘ in Scotland. I like the idea:

It’s meant to make people appreciate music the day before St. Cecilia’s day (the patron saint of music). I highly recommend reading the comments on this whole thing I pasted below. My favorites are bolded.
I doubt [...]

Let’s call ‘movement memes’ internet-based attempts to create a socio-political movement. At first glance, ‘Not for Commercial Use’ appears to be an outgrowth of the anti-corporate control sentiments in the Creative Commons system created by Lawrence Lessig that that helped shape wikipedia, internet music, and repositioned archive.org as a free media depository. But maybe it’s [...]

     I’m worried that It’s been at least two months since I’ve posted in text-only mode. This may mean I rely too much on images or videos to do my explanatory work—or maybe something worse—that I’m too afraid to create something myself. And this brings me to my point. If I’ve learned anything from blogging these [...]

At a $200 price tag, this baby dino can do tricks, act scared, happy, or sad, and sense light sound and movement. I hope the theme song on video below becomes an internet sensation. It’s hilarious: They plant the little pleo-bot in the arms of unsuspecting cute fiends who pet and cuddle with this computer [...]