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Ryan Sholin

Tag: Culture

  • Reading Rudy Rucker

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    My three posts this afternoon have all been strictly anti-establishment, so I thought I’d lighten the mood by sharing something I’ve only begun to discover… Rudy Rucker is a painter, a science-fiction author, a photographer, a cinematographer, a collector of gnarl, and a Professor in the Computer Science department at SJSU. He’s listed as “recently…

  • Podcast Functionality In iTunes TODAY

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    Bad Apple lets you use iTunes (Windows only for now) to find, download, and listen to podcasts. The iTunes relase of a month from now, today! Still mucking around to see if there’s some sort of alerty subscriptiony thing here, which there doesn’t seem to be – but it’s still WAY quicker/more pleasant than using…

  • Art, disintermediated

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    Unofficial audio guides for the MoMA in NYC. Awesome – it’s mp3s of discussions about individual artworks – load ’em on the listening device of your choice, kick it over to the Museum, and hear real live human beings talk about the paintings, without the stuffy museum-ness of paying for the headphones/listening to the same…

  • All Your iPod Are Belong To Us

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    So I have been the proud owner of a cute little iPod thingie for a couple weeks now, and I must make a confession: it’s half-full with music that my friends make. Yeah, I’m listening to a few podcasts, too, and some necessary and crucial items (Grey Album, live Ween and Wilco shows) — but…

  • Good Ol’ Boys

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    To all those who have asked me the question, re: blogging, “Is anyone making money at this?” I am not getting paid $100,000 to blog about the Dukes of Hazzard for a year…but Christopher Nelson is. Check out CNN/Money on the subject, as well as Steve Rubel’s post. Couldn’t they just have hired some marketing…

  • World Photo Day

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    World Photo Day ended at 5pm Pacific (midnight GMT), but you can still upload an image you captured anytime on June 1st. I pocketed my digital Point & Shoot on the way to the Santa Cruz Farmers’ Market (I fully believe that apostrophe belongs there) and grabbed a few images. I ended up posting this…

  • Writing old and new

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    Another new link on the sidebar: Other Writing, as in non-blogging. For now, there’s a few assignments from the semester of grad school I just finished, including my first unpublished journalism and a few book critiques. I also included one of my favorite things from my undergraduate years – an essay about the night I…

  • Free Kodak

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    What’s the next “democratic tool” that will put the means of communication in the hands of those who previously faced more barriers to self-expression?

  • The beginning of the end for fossil fuel

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    Two Words: Porsche Hybrid. Yeah, it’s not a flashy sports car, yet, but it is another high-class (read: overpriced) SUV: the Cayenne. Reuters is reporting Porsche is looking to have it ready around 2008 or 2009. Better late than never.

  • Just like real people

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    photo by Ryan Sholin We had a real live weekend out here, including Sith, hiking in Big Basin Redwoods State Park (pictured), barbecue with friends, and even a little beach time. To quote one of the aforementioned friends: “We just remembered that we live near the ocean.”