October 2009
27 posts
Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
New single released...
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I’ve found something surprising recently: that the pirate tradition is alive and well up and down the East coast of the United States. In small sailing towns, talking to sailmakers, woodworkers, and others that work around the water, I’ve seen many men in their 40s with a small accoutrement that seems in stark contrast to their uniforms of L.L. Bean, sober haircuts, and sun-crinkled...
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Against Moneyball →
Whatever happens in the National League and American League Championship series unfolding over the next week or so, one outcome has already been decided—the effective end of the theories of Moneyball as a viable way to build a playoff-caliber baseball team when you don’t have the money. That no doubt sounds like heresy to the millions who embraced Michael Lewis’s 2003 book, but...
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Sharing Nicely - Yochai Benkler →
On Shareable Goods and the Emergence of Sharing as a Modality of Economic Production: The first three Parts are dedicated to defining a particular class of physical goods as “shareable goods” that systematically have excess capacity and to combining comparative transaction costs and motivation analysis to suggest that this excess capacity may better be harnessed through sharing relations than...
Al Green - I Want to Hold Your Hand (Beatles)
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Is ATT Wireless Data Congestion Self Inflicted? →
It appears AT&T Wireless has configured their RNC buffers so there is no packet loss, i.e. with buffers capable of holding more than ten seconds of data. Zero packet loss may sound impressive to a telephone guy, but it causes TCP congestion collapse and thus doesn’t work for the mobile Internet!
This is a pretty geeky article about packets across networks, but it’s important as...
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“Don’t think just because the Droid runs Android it’s going to be truly open. ...”
– Chris Dixon, If Verizon’s Droid is Good, It’s Bad for the Wireless Ecosystem
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“Nothing matters more (and this is not hyperbole) than the stocking of...”
– Eva Brann
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“The semi-literate young talk grandly in a cunningly careless incomplete way:...”
– Eva Brann
Perhaps also true of entrepreneurs.
copycats:
What’s My Name? by The Hot 8 Brass...
Bon Iver + St. Vincent - Roslyn
via courtneyc
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Power Law Distribution: The Web Version
“This data comes from a new report put out by Arbor Networks, who has just completed a two-year study of 256 exabytes of Internet traffic data, the largest study of global traffic since the start of the commercial Internet in the mid-1990’s.
The biggest trend to come out of Arbor Networks’ report is clearly that of the Internet’s consolidation. Today’s Internet is...
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Putting America's Diet on a Diet (Jamie Oliver) →
“In the years since, that laddish charmer [Jamie Oliver] has morphed, somewhat unexpectedly, into a crusading community organizer. “Jamie’s School Dinners,” his award-winning four-part series, exposed the shameful state of school lunches in Britain and made for riveting television — he and the school cooks working feverishly to prepare dishes like tagine of lamb that the students either...
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Against Transparency →
Lawrence Lessig, The New Republic
“How could anyone be against transparency? Its virtues and its utilities seem so crushingly obvious. But I have increasingly come to worry that there is an error at the core of this unquestioned goodness. We are not thinking critically enough about where and when transparency works, and where and when it may lead to confusion, or to worse. And I fear that...
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“I have tried to confront greatness directly: to ask what makes the author and...”
– Harold Bloom, The Western Canon
Vampire Weekend - Horchata
This is where Vampire...
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Google and the Future of Books →
Robert Darnton, New York Review of Books
Darnton is the Director of the Harvard University Library.
copycats:
Hello Brooklyn by Mick Boogie (ft/ Lil...