Category Archives: links

Ear Training

Something I'd Like to Try

January 22, 2010 | 4 Comments
Nathan posted a few days ago about a bunch of stuff he wants to do bet­ter includ­ing doing more ear traing­ing. Hon­estly, that site is pretty awesome–they play inter­vals and you’re sup­posed to guess which one it is. I played it for a while and sucked at it. But it’s some­thing I think I could really work [...]
Also posted in Uncategorized, music | Tagged | 4 Comments

10 Free Christmas Albums

for your holiday pleasure

November 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
To kick off the hol­i­days, I’m post­ing a list of free Christ­mas albums, all of which are free or ‘pay what you want’. Most of these are cour­tesy of Noise­trade, which offers you the option of telling 5 friends or pay­ing what you want for an album. With my apolo­gies to your 5 friends you’ll be [...]
Also posted in music, web | Tagged , , , , | 2 Comments

From Ars Technica’s Windows 7 Review

January 12, 2009 | Leave a comment
Here’s the money quote from Ars Technica’s review of Win­dows 7; I’d say this pretty mcuh sums it up: If you don’t like Win­dows Vista’s Start Menu, you won’t like Win­dows 7 much. The fish wall­pa­per is quite splendid.
Posted in links | Leave a comment

Awesome Photos of England, CS Lewis’ House

May 22, 2008 | Leave a comment
My friend Aaron is in Eng­land right now. And he’s post­ing pic­tures to his Flickr stream of the trip, includ­ing his tour of the inside of CS Lewis house. For­tu­nately, there’s an RSS feed, so you can sub­scribe to the stream and get it in Google Reader and not have to won­der when he’s post­ing a new pic.  I [...]
Posted in links | Leave a comment

An Open Letter to Tuscany Restaurant in Decatur, IL

April 7, 2008 | Leave a comment
Dear Tus­cany, I’ve come and vis­ited you before and always enjoyed it.  But I wanted to tell you–I came today and had the tortellini spe­cial, the one with the alfredo sauce and red peppers. And it was phenomenal. You make Pasta­bil­i­ties look like McDon­alds and Olive Gar­den like Wendy’s. Thanks for hav­ing me over–I really appreciated it. Sin­cerely, Jake ‘I Just Blogged About [...]
Posted in links | Leave a comment

Finding Raiders The Adaptation

February 6, 2008 | Leave a comment
Just to follow-up on my pre­vi­ous post about Raiders of The Lost Ark: The Adap­ta­tion, you can find it on bit­tor­rent sites here and there. Do a bit of search­ing; you’re good with the google, I’m sure.
Also posted in web | Tagged | Leave a comment

They Might Be Giants Podcast

January 31, 2008 | Leave a comment
A lit­tle while ago, I sub­scribed to the They Might Be Giants Pod­cast. It’s not quite as irreg­u­lar as the Wilco Pod­cast, but it’s pretty bad–you never know when a new one will pop up. Recently, the pod­cast was a song, “Never Go to Work”. I lis­tened to it and thought it was awe­some. Jonah concurred. I [...]
Also posted in music | Leave a comment

Brian McLaren Interview

January 27, 2008 | Leave a comment
Today, I lis­tened to Brian McLaren on the Nick and Josh Pod­cast. He was talk­ing about his new book, which I’m read­ing: Every­thing Must Change. Here’s the quick overview: What are the world’s biggest prob­lems? What does Jesus have to say about them? Trans­la­tion: we ought to be work­ing to elim­i­nate poverty and injustice. As he talked, [...]
Also posted in open source | Tagged | Leave a comment

Color Generator

October 8, 2007 | Leave a comment
Here’s a handy tool: you take the main image for the web­site you’re build­ing, and put it into this pal­lette gen­er­a­tor, and it pulls the main col­ors out for you and gives you the hex codes for them all. It’s not rocket sci­ence, but it’s eas­ier than using one of those dang lit­tle color picker thingys.
Also posted in web | Leave a comment

Woot-off Today

October 5, 2007 | Leave a comment
Just so you know, today (10÷05) is a woot-off, which means you should leave woot.com open in a tab of your browswer and refresh it every so often to see if some­thing cool shows up. Enjoy.
Posted in links | Leave a comment

Font Credits: