From the monthly archives:
Me with my hand up. (I asked Laura how people respond when they catch her taking pictures of them.)
Kottke’s coverage. (Note that Jason’s commenters have started a good dialogue about photoblogging, covering some of the same questions discussed last night.)
After all the talk of the squares that Laura and clarson use, it’s refreshing to see Rachelle go in a different direction.
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The next 15 shuffled songs on my iPod:
Midnight Blues, Detroit Cobras
Harlem Love Theme, J. J. Johnson and His Orchestra
Midnight Jam, Joe Strummer
Depot Depot, Tom Waits
99 Problems, Jay-Z + DJ Danger Mouse
Bunch of Lonesome Heroes, Leonard Cohen
The Caretaker, Johnny Cash
The Northeast Corridor, Ted Leo
Mondo Bongo, Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Till the End of the Day, The Kinks
Readymade FM, Pizzicato Five
Little Sunflower, Tito Puente
Putty (In Your Hands), Detroit Cobras
Unhappy, OutKast
Evolution, Cat Power
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Lauren moblogs Anil Dash moblogging the photobloggers. I love living in the future. The photography was excellent, but alas, I got no cookies. I did get to chat briefly with Jake and Mike, though, and that was cool.
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New York City Architecture: A Field Study
Two snarky points about the Course Info page: First, you can bring two subway tokens to each class, but they won’t do you much good. Second, the Tauranac book might provide detailed bus and subway maps, but the book is dated 1979, and so they’ll be only a little more helpful than the subway tokens.
Snark aside, any of these walks would make for a great spring Saturday, I think, and the reading list looks excellent.
[via thingsmagazine]
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Jon Udell offers a nifty web tool. Install one of his bookmarklets for your local public library. If you’re browsing a book site, say at Amazon.com or All Consuming, you can click the bookmarklet and a window will pop-up displaying the book’s availability at your local library. Note that not only U.S. libraries are supported.
[via muxway]
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I’ve been invited to join Orkut, and I’ve tried to register a username, but every attempt I make craps out. I enter a username and jump through the first couple of screens, and then I get an error screen that the server’s acting up, so I quit and come back in a few minutes. I try the username I’ve just used, and it says that one’s registered already, but when I try to log in with that one, I can’t get in. I have now blown through nearly every username that I normally try: mdietsch, mtdietsch, dietsch, michaeldietsch, michaeltdietsch, sodietschy.
What an annoying, useless piece of shit. It might be alpha software, but it’s hard for me to believe that anyone would willfully publish alpha software THIS buggy. And this is from Google people?
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Opening this Friday at the NYPL is an exhibit of art deco bookbindings from Paris, in the early twentieth century. From the press release:
French bookbinders led the world in their craft in the earlier part of the 20th century — especially from the 1920s to the 50s — and fostered the designer-bookbinder movement that took firm root in several other countries. The most influential of these were Legrain and Adler, who between them created some 525 bindings for the French bibliophile, couturier, collector, and philanthropist Jacques Doucet.
The exhibit has a
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In his piece “Even Some Subway Riders Who Got the Word Got a Little Lost,” Michael Luo writes of subway riders contending with this week’s service changes. About midway through the piece, he notes:
Confessing complete befuddlement, Ivan Parmar, 21, a real estate agent from Borough Park, Brooklyn, stood at the downtown B and N platform at Herald Square yesterday morning, next to a Metropolitan Transportation Authority poster that read in part, “Sometimes you have to go backward to go forward.”
Indeed. I haven’t fully explored Herald Square since the change, but when I rode through that station on the downtown B train yesterday, it pulled in on the 6th Avenue platforms. (That is, it pulled in on the same platforms as the F, V, and D trains.)
The N, Q, and R use the Broadway platforms. I can’t imagine why there would be a B and N platform anywhere in that station.
[article via Subway Web News; snide comments entirely my own]
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This morning, while waiting on the uptown B/D platform at Broadway-Lafayette, a woman approached me and pointed to the empty B/D tracks.
“Good morning! Can you tell me, does this train go to 14th?”
“No,” I said. “It skips 14th. The F and the V stop at 14th.” She rolled her eyes, tightened her mouth, and said, “What?”
“The B and D are express trains. They skip 14th and 23rd.”
“I want the 6!”
As the D began to enter the station, I replied, “You can get a downtown 6 upstairs, but you can’t get an uptown 6 here.”
The D slowed to a stop. The woman watched the cars move past, scanning the windows for a conductor. “Oh, never mind!” she said, as I entered the train.
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Cribbed from blueplaidshirt and Robot Johnny, here are the first 15 songs, at random, from my iPod:
Big Exit, P. J. Harvey
Beetlebum [Live], Blur
Lonely, Tom Waits
Streets of Sorrow / Birmingham Six, The Pogues
Huff All Night, The Donnas
Lullaby of London, The Pogues
Sulk, Billy Bragg
Television, The Playwrights
Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones
Killer Joe, Tito Puente
[None], Ted Leo
Venom, Hybe
I Saw Your Shoes, Cowboy Junkies
Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Carole King
Redemption Song, Joe Strummer
I’m probably going to figure out a way to list 15 random songs in the sidebar to the right, rather than list two CDs I’ve just bought. I buy music so infrequently that new discs just sit in that sidebar and crust over.
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