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Classixx - All You’re Waiting For (Feat. Nancy Wang)

Uhhg Nancy Wang is the shit. Love her voice. Recognize her from LCD Soundsystem? This tune is super dancey. Go and groove why dont you..!

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Ill be posting a lot of the 80’s synthy tracks that ive been totally digging. Enjoy!

This one by Mitch Murder

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Things I like: Del.icio.us

I'm still married to Yahoo, though I don't want to be. Yahoo won't give me what's mine (my data), so we stay together. Once upon a time I had a Yahoo email address, used Yahoo search for everything, in addition to every other Yahoo service. I used to get excited when Yahoo released a new product. Ah, to be young and stupid again. Those days are long gone, mostly because of annoying flashing ads in Yahoo mail. Nothing ruins a website quicker than having to cover part of the screen with your hand. I guess I lack the self restraint to not get pissed off over flashing lights. There exist 2 Yahoo services I enjoy, and neither was developed by Yahoo. The first is Flickr, and the second is del.icio.us. Delicious is a social bookmarking site, and while I don't care about the social aspect of the site, I do need a way to manage my 500 bookmarks. The system built into a browser of organizing links into folders doesn't cut it for me. Too much work, too much data, and what do you do if you sit down at a different computer? Delicious lets you tag bookmarks with keywords, in an effort to make things easier to find. If I want news sites, I click my news tag and read CNN. If I want a funny site about the news, I add my funny tag to the search and I've got Fark. If I want funny, but not the news, I remove the news tag and read Dilbert, or whatever you find funny, this is just an example. The site was really just a curiosity to me until they released a Firefox extension. Before I was using Google's bookmark synchronizer to keep my bookmarks standardized between work and home. The Google offering was nice, but it only copies my Firefox bookmarks. Delicious replaces the system. Either one is a better alternative to the .Mac solution, since if you stop paying Mac, they delete your data. Now I can search through my bookmarks tags, or any notes I add to help me remember the site. I can change sorting options, display specific tags in my browser bookmark bar and they look like folders. Any new bookmarks I add with that tag automatically show up under the bookmark toolbar, plus they will show up on another computer with the extension installed. If I find myself at someone else's computer, but I need one of my bookmarks, I can always find it on the website. The tradeoff is privacy. Bookmarks aren't as personal as web searches, but they are in the same ballpark. I have no idea what sinister marketing Yahoo is scheming up using my bookmarks against me. The site's privacy policy confuses me, but from the tone it seems to be written to protect the site, not me. Compare that to Wesabe (which I plan to write about later), to see a different philosophy.

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Things I like: WriteRoom

First and foremost, this site isn't designed to take off. It is a hobby for me. In fact, I'm a bit embarrassed that strangers could be reading this. Please don't ask me why I have a blog online, I don't know the answer. One of the many reasons this site will never have any traffic (thankfully), is my abysmal posting schedule. I have about 40 unfinished posts just sitting on blogger. Don't worry, they aren't interesting. Usually I stop writing because I get distracted, and the other times it is because my brain hurts from thinking. A possible solution to the former problem lies in a word processor I stumbled upon. Called Writeroom, it simplifies typing back to the Apple IIe days. The Apple IIe days before color monitors. Writeroom covers my open windows and desktop with a solid black background to reduce distractions. I love it, but it feels odd to pay $25 for something that has no features. The feature is that it has no features? My brain hurts.

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Things I like: Buying MP3's on Amazon

I gave the Amazon MP3 store a whirl, and I came away impressed. I think I must have been getting lulled into the Apple is the best mentality*. Not only is the music cheaper than iTunes, but it is encoded at a higher bit rate. Not only is it encoded at a higher bit rate, but it is free of all drm. Not only is it free of drm, but it is cheaper! Download an album, and it automatically adds it to iTunes. This means right after downloading I can start streaming music to non apple products around the house instead of wasting a cd to strip the drm. The Amazon MP3 store seems to be the antithesis of Unbox in every way. *Apple is the best.

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