the following albums have been in heavy rotation over the course of 2011. these were all released last year. (i believe) this is presented in no particular order and i’m sure there’s stuff that’s been in correspondingly heavy rotation which missed the list. mason jennings :: minnesota we’re big mason jennings fans in our house. that a mason jennings album should be in heavy rotation is really of no surprise to anyone....

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in the mid-90s someone gave me a copy of engines of creation. this blew my mind. well, more accurately, that, plus a copy of neil stephenson’s the diamond age, blew my mind. nanotech is still a ways off from realizing the vision laid out in either of these books. but we’re starting to see the nascent forms of this kind of create your own product with the emergence of low cost stereolitho gear and and micro-manufacturing....

this is possibly the best reasoning i’ve seen someone use to argue for the use of android - Scripting News: Why I use Android. personally, i find the OS and the devices running it to be something of a petri dish and for and element in my life that i depend on, as much as my phone, i’m not quite to the point where i’m willing to tolerate the nature of the OS and its corresponding apps marketplace....