I got REM’s latest: Accelerate:
It’s good but honestly part of what may REM great back in the day was they had a new sound. Well, that was 20 years ago. Good stuff but not novel.
Month: April 2008
Bling for the Blog
I’ve been adding some bling to my blog. I started with the easy slideshow widget:
which you get to directly from “Settings — Layout”
Then I found out about using clocklink.com
which you can add with the
and use the html that clocklink.com provides.
My final bit of bling was going to amazon.com and going to your account. You can add various widgets. I decided to add my favorites. It also inspired me to get an associate account so I can link directly to products.
Guggenheim: Cai Exhibit
We went to the Guggenheim yesterday (10 min walk and Credit Suisse has a corporate membership so it’s free). Usually I think the building ends up being more interesting then the exhibit but this exhibit of work by Cai
was really interesting.
He uses Chinese themes to contrast the failures of both Western and Chinese cultures.
For example, this represents both the Cultural Revolution’s ruinous attempt with the great leap forward but also Western’s society’s preference for the obvious.
Cai is into explosions as art. There were lots of videos of things being ignited and exploded. This installation is a great use of the Guggenheim. It’s a static view of a car being blown up.
Recent additions to the Mac
In the constant quest to have the latest and coolest toys, here are some things I’ve recently added to my Mac.
– Chax adds some nice features to iChat:
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The next cool addition was Perian</a. which adds a bunch of codex for QuickTime. In particular, it plays .avi files.
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I also added TinkerTool which provides a graphical interface to setting various defaults. It provides a simpler way of doing what I mentioned in this blog entry
Pete Ware 