January 2010
58 posts
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Listen The Emotions - “Blind Alley”. The...
Jan 31st
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Listen Big Daddy Kane - “Ain’t No Half...
Jan 31st
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Listen GZA, Inspectah Deck & Masta Killa -...
Jan 31st
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Listen whitneymcn: Dave Brubeck Quartet - Blue...
Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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“My momma told me never throw a stone and hide your hand.”
– Jay Electronica in “Exhibit C”.  Every MC needs to hit reboot, sleep or shutdown after hearing this track.  There is still no other option.
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Listen Greazy Meal - “Funk #49” - Live. A...
Jan 30th
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Listen The Black Keys - “Funk #49” -...
Jan 30th
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Listen James Gang - “Funk #49” - The Music...
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Jan 28th
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Listen Heart - “Barracuda” - Little Queen....
Jan 28th
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“Netbooks aren’t better than anything.”
– Steve Jobs, just now.
Jan 27th
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“Peace, enlightened beings. This is what you and I were put on earth to achieve....”
– Fake Steve Jobs, on the Apple unveiling.
Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Listen Grant Green - “Mozart Symphony #40”...
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Jan 25th
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“Just one, the best one.”
– Cuban world chess champion José Raúl Capablanca in response to “How many moves ahead can a grandmaster see?” Kudos to @cdixon for pointing out this great article by Garry Kasparov.
Jan 25th
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“I revolve around science.”
– Ghostface Killah - “Criminology”.
Jan 24th
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“As we have reached critical mass among websites participating in [comScore Media...”
– Linda Abraham from comScore discussing the crumbling authority of analytics. gbattle sez: If you work in the internet biz and this inflationary reporting “revelation” is news to you, you are an unmitigated idiot.  The entire classic internet analytics industry is a woeful joke.  The...
Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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“Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it....”
– Judge Alex Kozinski, dissenting opinion in the White v. Samsung Elec. Am., Inc., 989 F.2d 1512 (9th Cir. 1993) ruling. Amen, brother.
Jan 23rd
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Listen Apache - “Gangsta Bitch”. R.I.P....
Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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“You must eat your own dog food, but no so much that you get high.”
– Andy Weissman to me, just now.  I will one day publish a book of “Weissman Wisdom”, a NYT Bestseller for certain.
Jan 22nd
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Listen Idris Muhammad - “Theme For New York...
Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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“Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put...”
– Elliot Spitzer in the pre-Dupree days.  This advice is a great way to keep your nose clean and your inbox at zero.
Jan 19th
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Listen Idris Muhammad - “Loran’s...
Jan 18th
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Jan 16th
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Listen The Pretenders - “Don’t Get Me...
Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Listen Funky 4 + 1 - “It’s The...
Jan 14th
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Jan 9th
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Bit.ly Pro Tempore: The Biggest Lesson In One...
So, it’s been exactly one month since I joined on to help Team bit.ly roll out their bit.ly Pro product.  The response to the product has been massive, with requests in the thousands across huge brands and individual bloggers alike, all from a singular blog post.  Needless to say, I’ve been mega busy.  I was tapped for the gig because 1) I had spare cycles to burn and 2) I had stuck my...
Jan 9th
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