When I sit back and think about what I’m doing with my life and where I’m heading, I start to reexamine what my importance in the world is. I always seem to fall back to this question: where is the human race going? What progress are we striving for? As far as I can tell, the only thing that seems to matter in this world is who can dig shit out of the ground, efficiently turn it into some sort of product and then try to sell it to each other. This seems to be the only thing we really care about. Are we going to keep trying to do this for the next 10,000 years? Just get better at conducting commerce? Wow that’s really pathetic. And it’s boring.
About four years ago, DJ Stress called me up to bring him some punk mp3s for a gig he was doing in Westminster (ironically across the street from the cemetery where Brad from Sublime is buried). Anyway, in the other room next to where DJ Stress was spinning was this teenage band from Long Beach rocking out. Stress and I watched these kids and were totally blown away by their talent. The lead singer, Avi, had this unreal stage presence I had never seen before. He was totally on fire, singing and play guitar like a mad man.
We hung out with them after their show and shot the shit. Anyway, I heard Avi on the radio today and I was like Yay! he is getting air play…
This video is for people who have questions on how to install and use our Myspace Youtube Playlist App. It goes over adding and deleting videos as well as the autoplay function.
Our little Myspace App has been out for a while now. We just got it looking decent so I guess it’s time to expose it. This app allows you to create Youtube video playlists and have a small player on your Myspace profile. It holds up to 20 videos and you can title the videos yourself (instead of letting Youtube do it).
Basic Features:
Forward
Reverse
Pause
Play Any Video At Any Time
Autoplay (Plays automatically when someone comes to your profile)
My friend Carlos shared a post with me today from the Google blog. The basic premise is that Google is going to experiment with setting up fiber optic internet service in certain cities across the country. They plan to offer 1 Gigabit speeds for roughly 500,000 people.
However, if you read between the lines, what I think might be going on is Google is taking a stab at the other ISPs on the net neutrality front. For those who haven’t heard of the net neutrality issue: Some of your typical internet providers may one day limit internet access to those who pay top dollar, making the internet regulated in a way where only those who can afford it will get the best service. This could have serious ramifications for scrappy start up websites and lower funded, open source projects. Net neutrality is what allowed websites like Google to come about.
To me it seems like Google is taking on the challenge of becoming an ISP to beat the typical, monopolist ISPs at their own game. Not only are they going to provide an “open” infrastructure, they are planning on providing a infrastructure that is vastly superior to what any of the other competitors can release to the public. If they successfully lay down a powerful fiber optic network in a short amount of time, the other ISPs will lose their ground on the net neutrality issue. So Hooray for Google! I have always disliked my ISPs. They play in a non-competitive world and give poor service.
The key is the “open” network. Google wants to build an open network so they can share their network with other ISPs. This will kill the monopolistic system of the current internet provider model. Thus, removing the power of these companies and their ability to lobby for non-net-neutrality.
Someone sent me a link to this video and I was blown away at the entire concept. I’m not sure if they did this all live or if they mixed their tracks on top of each other. Regardless, this sh*t is nuts.
I’m going to include another video that is similar to this song that has really good lyrics:
Our buddy Solrac found an interesting solution for iphone users:
A perfect subject that came up during Mike’s recession birthday party about being raped by insane iphone charges.
I am happy to say I have signed up for a new plan:
T-Mobile + Skype + Google Voice
$43 / month total
Unlimited calling to any phone (Skype)
Unlimited text (Google voice)
Unlimited web (T-Mobile)
You sign up for T-Mobile’s $30 / month plan for 500 minutes. This is their cheapest plan. No text or web.
Then you can add $10 for unlimited web. This makes the total with T-Mobile $40.
Next, you sign up for unlimited calls with Skype Out. ($3 / month)
Finally, you sign up for google voice, and set it up to forward all texts to your email.
On your iPhone you get a Skype client so you can make calls over wi-fi. With a jailbroken iPhone you can make wi-fi calls over 3G as well. (Makes it think that 3G is Wi-Fi.) You also get a Google Voice client so you can check your texts and voicemail. You also install an optional piece of software called Prowl so that you can get real time notifications of texts that are sent to your Google Voice.
This will save me $140 per month. ($1,600 per year.)
Yes it does. Just keep the Federalies occupied with some tunes and you got an escape route! Here we have Collins rollin’ away with a bunch of stolen queso….right from underneath their noses.
Sorry Collins, I had to steal this photo. Let me know if you want me to take it down
I saw this art piece at the L.A. Artwalk last night. I busted up laughing. It’s a skateboarding reference to the old Powell Peralta / Bones Brigade skull logo replaced by good ole Morrissey stinking it up. And the best part is the overlaying text: “The Saddest Days Are Rad”.
My dream is for these two groups to collaborate together. If they could do an album together I would be the first one to buy it. If they did a concert together, I would get on the first plane out of town and jet over to the show.
I see a lot of similar themes among these two groups. They both have a thing for robots, computers and aerodynamics. Finally, they are both major innovators and huge influences in the electronic music scene and they are both from Europe.
