I’ve just purchased Radiohead’s new album “In Rainbows” (no, I didn’t order the discbox, just the download) and I’m currently listening to it. Ordering was nearly as easy as purchasing music from the iTunes Store which is definitely a plus. After registering an account (no activation email) and entering your credit card infos you get the link to some zip file which contains the songs as mp3 files (160 kbps, some people are complaining about the quality, I don’t. It’s okay for me for the price I’ve paid).
I did it only halfway through the album by now but from what I can say now it’s great. Their sound is quite different compared to the last few albums, I would classify it among OK Computer and Amnesiac. If you wanna have a better sound quality, wait for the discbox or till the album is in stores by next year. And if you’re looking for some cover artwork, see John Hick’s thread and the comments.
Taken in Stockholm, Sweden.
Original image on Flickr.
Assembled by Last.fm:
- Nick Drake
- Moby
- Snow Patrol
- Elliott Smith
- Bernard Fanning
- José González
- The Cardigans
- Norah Jones
- Wilco
- Jeff Buckley
Not including the music from my iPod.
Via kottke.org
Happy new year, by the way!
Sometime ago – nearly two years in a few weeks time – I wrote about Ikea modding, back then still in German. Well, as a fellow reader of my blog you know that I love browsing Flickr for photos tagged with ‘loft’. Today I stumbled over some pretty cool loft-workplace pictures and visited the guy’s blog (don’t ask me for the url, I really can’t remember) and suddenly I found myself on ikea hacker. Great blog, some really good ideas and I can’t wait to go to the Ikea store in Vienna after I come back.
I accidently stumbled over Cole’s photos over at Flickr and read about his project, Flagr in his profile.
Flagr is a place where you can share locations on a Google Map (well, that’s just the main idea). So you can for example mark your favourite Café, your home, places you have been and think that they might be interesting to others or you can show where you’ve done your Flickr images. However, the Flickr integration has not yet been implemented (and with Flickrs’ own plans there will be an active competition) but it’s really easy to include your shots or links to your photo pages.
Another startup with a great idea, powered by Ruby on Rails.
I told you a few days ago that I’ve bought some literature. However, the only thing I’ve read in the last days was a paper about operating systems (170 pages, approximately). I still have to write five tests or so.
As you can see on the left I’ve kept my promise and took some photographs the last few days with the new camera of my parents (Canon Ixus 55). Pretty neat thing, whereas I still wanna buy a DSLR. My semester ends in three weeks, maybe I’m gonna get me a little present.
The photo to the right has been taken with my Powershot A80 through my Tasco telescope (70mm, ~900mm focal length and a 37mm eyepiece, I think).
Of course I knew that Coupland’s newest book would be released here in Europe at the beginning of June. But I forgot it, somehow, completely.
Today I entered my favourite bookshop, had a look at the English books section and, tada, there it was: jPod. No 20 seconds before I bought it and went out of the store to get a coffee and start reading. And I have to say that I’m quite impressed. I’ve been impressed by Microserfs and it’s still one of my favourite books. jPod seems to be similiar, which is great, at least in my opinion.
jPod
Originally uploaded by Wishingline.
I think that I shall never see
A graph more lovely than a tree.
A tree whose crucial property
Is loop-free connectivity.
A tree which must be sure to span.
So packets can reach every LAN.
First the Root must be selected
By ID it is elected.
Least cost paths from Root are traced
In the tree these paths are placed.
A mesh is made by folks like me
Then bridges find a spanning tree.
Found on Wikipedia – originally by Radia Perlman.
