Technology is enabling corporations to be more agile, which shortens the boom-bust cycle
FedEx spends millions to keep five empty planes in the air every night, so they can make good on shipping guarantees. Companies can keep less stock, and in the limit, the economy would stabilize completely. (via kottke) #
TV on the Radio is playing a surprise show at the Troubadour tonight
Tickets are at ticketmaster.com, or you can try your luck tonight at the door #
Javascript tagging autocompletion demo
Using comma as a separator/complete key seems much more intuitive for people who don’t spend half their day in a bash shell. Solves that whole multiple-word tag problem, too. #
The incinerator mastered our hearts
I have more to say. That’s what the internet is for, right? I have a feeling this won’t be the last of it, either.
The new Broken Social Scene record is absolutely amazing. I’ve been listening to it since it leaked, but it didn’t really hit me until I bought it today… I still love buying records. I love holding them. I love liner notes and beautiful packaging. There’s something about transferring art digitally that’s not quite right, even though it is wonderfully more socialist—it seems to become less valuable when you can copy it and delete it at will. That’s the fucking point, of course, so I hope this isn’t a problem for kids born in this century, in the culturally digital age. I hope they don’t think of music as a product. I’m going to try and help. But I still love owning beautiful things.
The album comes with the best liner notes I could have asked for. Each song has a list of notes—“try to fix the ending,” “convince the others it’s a dance party,” “blame the president for destroying our marriage.” The six-panel digipak has a phrase on the inside (a Canadian tradition from Godspeed and its offspring): “we hate your hate.” It resonated with me as an anthem for the enlightened people of my generation, for whom toleration is used with less moderation. Nothing new, I guess—Kevin and Charlie are Francis Scott. We’re pills, and bathtubs, and seventeen year-old girls. #
Yahoo! has acquired Upcoming.org
I say this to people a lot, and they never believe me, but Google really only has one competitor that has it together on the same scale. It’s Yahoo. Congrats to Leonard and the whole crew! #
Zack de la Rocha is performing with a band called Son de Madera this Friday at the Natural History Museum
Lectures on sustainable building and green architecture will be followed by a performance by Quetzal, then Zack. #
How strange that the first definition for “drawing” in my dictionary is to remove, as in drawing blood. As if the art of putting down a likeness on paper was, in fact, the sterile removal of lead from a pencil. #
Hi, I'm Chris Kampmeier. On this website, I attempt to aggregate all the stuff I produce on the internet in one linear timeline.
I blog, post links to things found elsewhere, and copy over my pics from my flickr photostream.
I'm on upcoming.org, audioscrobbler, and twitter.
I write about Ruby, Rails, and other delights at <3!
I now work for Rupture in San Francisco.
You can email me at chris@kampers.net.
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