- Lifehacker – Windows 7’s Best Underhyped Features – windows 7
Will Windows 7 make up for Vista’s shortcomings? These features will be a factor (especially the last one!).
(Via lifehacker.com ) - Secure Your Wi-Fi While Traveling – Wired How-To Wiki
“Research conducted at airports and in-flight with various airlines around the world has revealed that the common practice for these services is generally to simply leave the connection open unmonitored and unchecked, in short, easy pickings for any cyber-criminal. These open networks are no safer than open houses. You lock your doors before leaving for a vacation, so why treat your computer or network any differently?”
(Via howto.wired.com ) - Lifehacker – Clean Up and Revive Your Bloated, Sluggish Mac – Mac OS X
Gina Trapani with some good tips on “cleaning up your digital house” on a Mac.
(Via lifehacker.com ) - “Revenge of the Nerds” Producer Inspires Innovative Shopping Cart-Shelter for the Homeless
If he could put together a talent show that defeated the Alpha Betas, you knew he could come up with some other cool stuff…
(Via blogs.sfweekly.com ) - Evernote Blogcast » Blog Archive » Evernote for BlackBerry Is Here
Evernote for Blackberry Released!
(Via blog.evernote.com )
Arts + Letters Links for Thursday, May 14, 2009
Stuff I Thought You’d Like!
- The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
“The Story of Stuff” looks at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.
(Via www.storyofstuff.com ) - Opinionist: Ethan Coen’s Offices
From Ethan Coen, Offices is a series three brand new one act meditations on corporate culture. (Runs through the end of May at the Linda Gross Theater)
(Via Gothamist.com ) - The Waikikis – Remember Boa-Boa 7”
(Via cicodelico-obscure-grooves.blogspot.com )
- “ARE YOU READY, BLACK PEOPLE?”: NINA SIMONE’s all-time knockout performance at the Harlem Festival, 1969 | ARTHUR MAGAZINE – WE FOUND THE OTHERS
Five YouTube clips which appear to form the whole of NINA SIMONE’s blazing knockout masterpiece set at HARLEM FESTIVAL ‘69
(Via www.arthurmag.com ) - The Greatest Reunion of 2009 Has Arrived: Kajagoogoo Reforms After 25 Years…
Kajagoogoo re-forms….opening a wormhole back to 1983 and reigniting the arms race for who could have the spiky-est mullet.
(Via www.thedailyswarm.com )
Arts + Letters Links for Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Links of interest!
- Stream Dark Night Of The Soul – Stereogum
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse’s Dark Night Of The Soul project includes contributions from Black Francis, Julian Casablancas, the Flaming Lips, James Mercer, Iggy Pop, Vic Chesnutt, Gruff Rhys, Jason Lytle, Nina Persson, and Suzanne Vega — and some visuals by David Lynch.
(Via stereogum.com ) - “Xtra Salty” R. Lee Ermey Military 12 inch figure
Having trouble staying motivated? Until the “Mickey Goldmill Alarm Clock” gets released, tide yourself over with an “Xtra Salty” R. Lee Ermey Military 12 inch figure (you filthy maggot).
(Via Amazon.com ) - Top 5 David Lynch Mashups: Pics, Videos, Links, News
I would have rather seen the David Lynch Version of “Dirty Dancing”…
(Via www.buzzfeed.com ) - A List Apart: Articles: In Defense of Eye Candy
Attractive things may actually work better.
(Via www.alistapart.com ) - Justice Department Probe Slams Bush Lawyers Over Torture Ethics
A new Justice Department report about Bush lawyers who legitimized torture techniques is “devastating”.
(Via The Daily Beast – Blogs and Stories )
Arts + Letters Links for Monday, May 4, 2009
Some links that I thought you’d enjoy!
- WFMU’s Beware of the Blog: The Crime Lounge
The Crime Lounge is an archive that compiles “secret agent sounds” from the spy heyday of the nineteen sixties. So far, seventeen different and elaborate comps of spy music can be found there — James Bond, Lalo Schifrin’s scores from the Dirty Harry films…you know…the good stuff.
(Via blog.wfmu.org ) - McSweeneysBooks: “Jokes for People With Body-Image Problems Tied to Low Self-Esteem”
By Dan Kennedy — Q: What has two arms, two legs, and a weight more or less proportional to its height? A: Absolutely fucking nothing.
(Via Twitter) - Outing Sanctimonious Celebs
Caryn James on Barry Levinson’s new documentary about the mingling of politics and Hollywood.
(Via www.thedailybeast.com ) - Cicodelico’s COLORAMA Vol.12
His latest compilation of street-funk, fuzz&vibes, library-grooves, + psychedelia
(Via cicodelico-obscure-grooves.blogspot.com ) - May 16: Away We Go by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, Directed by Sam Mendes
Screening / benefit at BAM of a new film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida for 826NYC — which runs the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Store and tutoring space on Fifth Avenue.
(Via onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.typepad.com )