February 2012
6 posts
January 2012
20 posts
2 tags
A year later, Silkroad is stronger than ever
From Wired’s article last year “Underground Website Lets You Buy Any Drug Imaginable”:
About three weeks ago, the U.S. Postal Service delivered an ordinary envelope to Mark’s door. Inside was a tiny plastic bag containing 10 tabs of LSD. “If you had opened it, unless you were looking for it, you wouldn’t have even noticed,” Mark told us in a phone interview.
Mark, a software...
APC Recette Lavage Denim
Recette extremiste
Garder son jean sale le plus longtemps possible. 1er entretien: nettoyage à sec. Lavage suivant: faire tremper son jean environ 1h dans un mélange d’eau et d’un peu de WOOLITE NOIR, rincer, l’enrouler dans une serviette éponge et étendre pour sécher.
Recette semi-extrémiste
Faire tremper son jean environ 1h dans un mélange d’eau et de WOOLITE NOIR,...
meme-meme: Thank god it's over. For now. →
meme-meme:
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Shorts: California is a Place
kateimbach:
I just stumbled across California is a Place, watched all of these VERY beautifully shot shorts back to back and fell in love hard. The shorts feature skaters using empty pools in the back of foreclosed Fresno homes, Mariachi singers in LA, old ladies on a synchronized swimming team and more.
I loved Uppercut the most, it’s about a real life fight club for emasculated deskbound...
Jazz Club Makeout →
dglsplsblg:
“Friday night, a bottle of wine, my wife and I relaxing in front of a fire, this music set is perfect. thank you.” ~ spirithiker.
Really enjoy these comments on my 8track mixes. Nothing like sharing great music.
Music sharing is an inherent and positive value within us all.
Debt matters, but not that much →
First, families have to pay back their debt. Governments don’t - all they need to do is ensure that debt grows more slowly than their tax base. The debt from World War II was never repaid; it just became increasingly irrelevant as the U.S. economy grew, and with it the income subject to taxation.
Second - and this is the point almost nobody seems to get - an over-borrowed family owes money to...
“I discovered 8tracks.com online 2 or 3 years ago and it changed my life forever...”
– comment from the appstore.
December 2011
9 posts
AZspot: GoDaddy Alternatives →
azspot:
In response to queries incited by GoDaddy SOPA love.
Exploring these recommended registrars:
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NameCheap
I see comments scattered about questioning why anyone would be using GoDaddy. Well, when GoDaddy burst on the scene, years ago, they offered a steep discount over what…
GoDaddy sucks.
"Colours are brighter when the mind is open."
A. Alarcon
November 2011
22 posts
“If you were subjected to extra security measures during a previous trip to the United States (due to another person sharing your name, for example), the American authorities should have provided you with a redress number.”
Some “additional” information needed by the “authorities” when filing my trip back to US.
Planning for the End of the Era →
If you follow the “Accelerating Change” school, you should invest big, now, before other investors catch on. Ray Kurzweil, the leading advocate for this position, says: “Given that the (literally) short-sighted linear intuitive view represents the ubiquitous outlook, the common wisdom in economic expectations is dramatically understated …. But the law of accelerating returns clearly implies that...
Watchvnsavitri:
How Did They Install the Most Amazing Window Ever Created By Humankind? Find out here.
Screw the politicians and bankers… another group of people are doing something really amazing
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Music Study 11/16
Today’s music study
Focus on tone production
Play the same mode over different scales
Listen for the relationship between melody and mode
Never make a sound without meter
Work on thumb/index picking
@tylr spent the weekend with me in paris. While...