Dirty Projectors Live

  • Jul. 8th, 2009 at 8:54 PM

Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors, originally uploaded by Wexner Center

Last night, Dirty Projectors at The Independent; this was my first time seeing them live, and they absolutely killed.

Scope

  • Jul. 8th, 2009 at 8:41 PM

Matt Webb's keynote at reboot11 is pretty great and inspiring and full of interesting things. One of those interesting things is this mention of a South Indian martial art called Kalarippayattu:

There's this idea in Kalarippayattu that you reach with your body an optimal state of awareness and readiness [p19], where you're instinctively and intuitively ready for anything, and it's as if, and I quote, "the body becomes all eyes."

Which reminds me of Roald Dahl's The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, which I hadn't thought about in years, but which I now really want to read again.

Homepage Spotlight 7/5/09

  • Jul. 6th, 2009 at 9:51 AM
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You might not know that most of the Support on LJ is provided by volunteers who are users just like you. And if you volunteered, you could be just like them. Check out this community to see how they keep LJ running and how you can help.

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  • Jul. 6th, 2009 at 9:49 AM
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Josh Neufeld has a lot going on. His cartoons played a starring role in Earth 2100, the ABC special about climate change, and his new graphic novel, A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, comes out in August. And he still finds time to update his LJ!

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  • Jul. 6th, 2009 at 9:48 AM
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Residents, visitors, French speakers, English speakers—anyone interested in Montreal is welcome here. Find out everything from where to buy a tart burner to how get around on public transit, but be sure to check the memories and tags before you post.

this has gone too far

  • Jul. 3rd, 2009 at 2:01 PM
wot? San Francisco Water does social networking?!

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Sign in to Sears and Kmart with OpenID!

  • Jul. 2nd, 2009 at 11:06 AM
A lot of the major adoption successes for OpenID have been in the tech industry, though as of yesterday you can sign in to MySears.com and MyKmart.com using an OpenID. Beyond Interscope Records offering OpenID sign in on artist sites like Snoop Dogg's, Sears is really the first major retailer adopting OpenID. More on the OpenID blog and congrats to the team at JanRain that helped make this happen:

“We’re constantly looking for ways to stay innovative in our online initiatives by identifying and implementing technologies that help our users navigate our communities with ease,” says Rob Harles, Sears’ vice president of community. “Our adoption of the OpenID technology helps simplify our customers’ online experience and ultimately helps us meet our goal of ensuring our customers have the most efficient shopping experience possible.”

Llamas and Mountains

  • Jul. 1st, 2009 at 9:25 PM

In case you were wondering why Bitte Orca is the best album of 2009, the video for "Stillness Is The Move"--complete with llamas, Siberian Huskies, and the mountains of Vermont--is proof.

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  • Jun. 28th, 2009 at 10:14 PM
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Run-ins with exes, mistaking someone for pregnant when she's not, getting caught talking about someone as he enters the room—things haven't gotten any less awkward since the last time this community was in the Spotlight.

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  • Jun. 28th, 2009 at 10:13 PM
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In RL she goes by Sarah Dessen, but on LJ this best-selling author is known as [info]writergrl. Her latest book, Along for the Ride, just hit #1 on the New York Times Best Sellers List, and you can find all the details on her journal.

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  • Jun. 28th, 2009 at 10:12 PM
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This is one team you probably don't want to be picked for, but once you've been tapped, it's nice to know you have teammates to help you out. Share your job search strategies, favorite free-time fillers, and more at this hangout for the unemployed.

Chipotle Pork Cheeseburger

  • Jun. 28th, 2009 at 4:42 PM

Chipotle Pork Cheeseburger
Chipotle pork cheeseburger, from gourmet.com

This--a chipotle pork cheeseburger--is what I'm going to eat tonight. We have leftover chipotles in adobo, and I bought some ground pork at the farmers market, and I made some mayonnaise, &c. I'm excited about this [1].

Updated 10pm: and it was good.

[1] Less so by the glass of water, though.

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