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Here are some things that have happened lately that are good:
Reissues of two previously unavailable early Mountain Goats albums, Zopilote Machine and Nothing For Juice, are now available. These are great if you are already tuned in to John Darnielle's taut no-fi frequency; if not, last year's We Shall All Be Healed remains the best intro. (Though if you go download "Sinaloan Milk Snake Song" you just might end up disagreeing with me and thinking that those older albums make a plenty fine intro, too.) A new album, The Sunset Tree, looms next month as well.
JD Lasica and Marc Canter, working with the Internet Archive, have opened the doors on their Ourmedia project -- free hosting for video and audio files. I'm looking forward to playing with it.
Google Maps is here, and doesn't seem to be going away, and it's just really good. And you know, what's good about it isn't exactly the same as what's cool about it. I mean, it's fun to use the "Ajax"-powered thingies and slide the map around by grabbing it. But what makes it where I go now when I need to find something is that it's much easier to read than the older services -- which I assume will now frantically scramble to catch up. (It also claims not to work in my Opera browser, but in fact works just fine -- though the scrolling is smoother in Firefox.)
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What could be a better diversion for two robot-besotted five-year-old boys than San Francisco's annual Robolympics? We went Saturday, spent about an hour watching the "two bots enter, one bot leaves" arena combat in the gym at SF State, then wandered over to the more peaceful confines across the way where swarms of Aibos wandered the stage.
This was Matthew and Jack's favorite. No wonder: The sword lights up, the bot does Mifune moves -- this snapshot doesn't really do justice.
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Apologies -- I've been digging into the work of actually writing some chapters of my book, and something had to give. Since the kids still expect to be tended and entertained, the blog had to be left neglected and bored. I could hear its whimpers from the corner, but I had to harden my heart. (The kids scream louder, anyway.)
Conveniently, I no longer need to explain the deep psychological reasons behind my choice not to blog a whole lot of the work of my book, because Steven Johnson has said it all. Johnson has a new book coming out next month, Everything Bad is Good For You, a defense of pop culture that I am looking forward to reading as a reward to myself once I finally finish the half-dozen books on software disasters I am working my way through.
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