Category: General

Removing Twitter Weekly Updates

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At first I thought the weekly dump of my tweets would be something useful and interesting.  Not only to myself, but to anyone who stumbles across this site.  (Hi Mom!)

After having it up and automagically posting for a month, it looks ugly and has no real value.  If you want to follow my small bursts of wit and random links, follow me on twitter.

Side note;  The Weekly Updates are the most trafficked articles on the site.  I have no idea why.

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Obama Wordle

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Using Wordle I created this. 

It’s President Obama’s Inauguration speech, with the words that he used more frequently appearing larger.  Initially, I used a rough palette based upon this poster.

I then exported it as a pdf from Wordle.

Then I looked for a palette that was a bit closer to the original poster.  I found this one on kuler and munged it a bit in Illustrator.  If you click the image above I have a nice desktop background ready size available for your use.

While I’m not normally a politics nerd I watched the whole ceremony today and felt two distinct emotions.

Relief and hope.

Top 10 for 2008

According to iTunes these are the top 10 songs added to my library in the last year. This doesn’t count all the tracks I’ve played on my antique CD player.  Which would greatly skew these results if added.

  1. Electric Feel – MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
  2. Dashboard – Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
  3. A-Punk – Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
  4. You Don’t Know Me – Ben Flolds – Way to Normal
  5. Don’t You Evah – Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Damn Robots Fault)
  6. How Deep is Your Love – The Bird and the Bee – Please Clap Your Hands – EP
  7. Time To Pretend – MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
  8. Oxford Comma – Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
  9. Supermassive Black Hole – Muse – Black Holes & Revelations (Thank you Allison!)
  10. Oh What A World – Rufus Wainwright – Want One

So some of these songs came out earlier than 2008 which doesn’t make this list entirely accurate in calling it the best of 2008, so with another smart playlist I have the top 10 songs from 2008 according to iTunes.

  1. You Don’t Know Me – Ben Folds
  2. Something Good (Van She 08 Radio Edit) – Utah Saints
  3. Pork and Beans –  Weezer
  4. Electric Feel (Justice Remix) – MGMT
  5. Soviet Connection – Michael Hunter
  6. Loose Lips – Kimya Dawson
  7. Lost – Coldplay
  8. No Sex For Ben – The Rapture
  9. Viva La Vida – Coldplay
  10. Here’s The Thing – Girl Talk