http://www.mnftiu.cc/2010/01/07/reader-criticism-of-my-facebook-friends-demographic-profile/

http://www.mnftiu.cc/?p=2179

Longtime blog-reader (and Facebookophobe) JKK was lurking on my Facebook page and offers this criticism:

Dude I know you may want to hide your friends after realizing Facebook’s nefarious plans but for my eyes it’s too late! I already noticed something about all your friends — namely, it’s a Facebook sausage factory. Yes, you have a few female friends sprinkled about, but basically you all are doing some serious BRO-IN’ OUT. Are you going to use your “wall” (or whatever the fuck it is, I’m not on Facebook) to arrange a kegger and wear baseball caps backwards and wrestle to express your mutual affection?

What can I say? I’m a guy’s guy. I love barbecue, beer, and sports– IN THAT ORDER. I wake up listening to Foghat and I rock ‘n’ roll all day and I don’t use conditioner when I wash my hair. I’m a 100% he-dude. So it’s no wonder that most of my Facebook friends are dudes.

Look, here’s a photo of me with my friends:

We were at a release party for a new kind of buffalo wing. It was awesome! I remember, I drank eleven cups of Jack & Coke, my favorite drink. Then Tony and I got in a fight about who was the greatest boxer of all time: Mike Tyson or Horseface Jones. Man, that was a funny argument. We got thrown out of the bar and then we kicked a car just for the heck of it and the car alarm went off and we started laughing so hard. Then we repressed our emotions for years and now we’re all in therapy. NO GIRLS ALLOWED!

As far as I know, the Nexus One (HTC Bravo or Dragon) is now the fastest phone on the market at 1GHz. The next fastest phones are other HTC phones running Android and the iPhone at 600MHz, followed by a gaggle of phones at 528MHz including Nokia's flagship N900.

Back in the early Winmo days, this would be enough to get me salivating. That's enough raw speed to do an awful lot of stuff! The Nexus One was natively designed with a GSM radio system and it supports the maximum data rates offered by HSDPA networks. You can even use the GSM radio in conjunction with the WiFi radio to make a mobile WiFi hotspot. As if that wasn't enough, this phone ships with Android, so it's designed to be customized, fiddled-with, and hacked. Sold, and done one better!

The Nexus One also has a 5MP camera with an LED flash... that means there's no need to carry a point-and-shoot anymore. The camera is also able to tap into the Qualcomm's video circuitry to shoot 720p video. Expectations met and exceeded again, in my book.

There's finally a 3.5mm headphone jack on phones again, which eliminates my need to carry an iPod or some other music device. HTC was also nice enough to include a microSD card slot too, which means that I can upgrade the device memory (unlike ANY Apple device).

Software is a no-brainer. As a friend put it, "there may be 100,000 iphone apps and 60,000 Android apps, but only about 10% of either are really any good." Yes, you can get the light saber app for Android too. Device sync is also a no brainer today, so I'm not worried about that.

The big minus is that there is no keyboard, so I'm going to need to see what it's like to work without one. Given all the other features, I'm ready to write off the keyboard. As soon as those paychecks start coming in, I'm hooking up a Nexus One!

Now Feeling: dorky

Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret

dom mino / unknown coordinates / schole
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chihei hatakeyama / the secret distance of tochka / boid
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Elisa Strozyk

endwise + k1Lka / atmosphere: proton radio / 01/10
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sublime porte / atmosphere: proton radio / 01/10
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http://www.mnftiu.cc/2010/01/06/now-im-all-freaked-out-about-facebook/

http://www.mnftiu.cc/?p=2178

Great, I just listened to that radio show and now I’m mad at Facebook! Let’s all reconvene on Friendster– it’ll be fun, like an abandoned beach nobody knows about with leftover cans of Bud.

If you want to hide your friends list from cyber-stalkers, just click the little pencil by your friends list and un-check “Show Friend List to Everyone.”

More information here.

http://www.mnftiu.cc/2010/01/06/breaking-facebook-on-radio/

http://www.mnftiu.cc/?p=2177

The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC is talking about Facebook … Facebook is becoming less private … they know everything … they’re gong to bundle us and sell us to advertisers … ARRGGGHHH why did I wait until Facebook sucked to join???

Will somebody please tell me what the next internet innovation will be, so I can get on it ahead of everyone else???

Pavel Platonov

richard skelton / landings / type
boomkat
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lindstrøm + christabelle / real life is no cool / smalltown supersound
boomkat
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Betsy Vanlangen

magda + heartthrob / live @ t bar, london / 31/12/09
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noah pred / plasmodium podcast 015 / plasmodium radio
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Beth Cavener Stichter

social construct / body measures / test the rest
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akiko kiyama / artist of the month / electronicmusic.pl
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perc / 045 / clr podcast
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Limaçon release party this Saturday!

limaçon / tarry not / thoughtless music
which one mp3

http://www.mnftiu.cc/2010/01/05/my-first-facebook-controversy/

http://www.mnftiu.cc/?p=2176

Ladies and gentlemen, we knew it would only be a matter of time before a take-no-prisoners iconoclast like me stirred up trouble on Facebook.

Look at this comment from a long-lost high school classmate:

you need some pictures on fb! what good is one shot looking up your nose?

Ouch! That’s supposed to be my “semi-professional” photo! I will have to ponder adding more photos to my Facebook. Maybe I will, maybe I won’t. Who knows? It’s all part of the emotional rollercoaster that is Facebook!

(One thing I don’t understand is, if you’re my Facebook friend, do you see EVERYTHING that people write to me, or only the things that are written to me by people you’re ALSO friends with on Facebook? Basically, what I want to know is, can you all read my email?)

http://www.mnftiu.cc/2010/01/05/new-friends/

http://www.mnftiu.cc/?p=2175

Looks like I got some new friends last night while I was busy sitting on the sofa reading Raymond Carver’s biography (executive summary: homeboy drank).

I will accept all these friendships and then set out looking for more friends!

I LOVE FACEBOOK

http://mike.teczno.com/notes/nyc-trip.html

Next week, from the 10th to the 15th, I'll be in New York, with a very quick side trip to DC. Anything interesting I should be doing with a smallish amount of free time later in the week?

I think 2009 measures up as quite possibly one of the worst years on record - for a lot of people, I know, but it really sucked for me. I couldn't have survived it without my friends! I was so glad to be with all of you this New Year's eve (although some of you managed to escape... hopefully Las Vegas and Los Angeles were exciting!)

May 2010 bring much prosperity and joy to all of you! And to me, perhaps a job...

Now Feeling: hopeful

http://www.mnftiu.cc/2010/01/04/i-made-lots-of-friends-on-facebook-today/

http://www.mnftiu.cc/?p=2174

Whew! My “accept-a-new-friend-button-pressing finger” is all worn out. My first full day on Facebook was great. Maybe tomorrow I’ll post some stuff on my wall. (I joined Facebook in part to promote all my new projects, once I come up with some new projects.)

If you’re a blog reader who isn’t on Facebook, don’t worry … this blog is still my #1 favorite spot on the internet. It’s the greatest thing going. But also I love Facebook. And twitter. And true/slant. And worldsgreatestcomedian.com. And urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com. I love all my babies.

Okay, that’s enough for today. Happy New Year to all, and to all a good night!

http://phs.abstractdynamics.org/2010/01/ranking_2009_albums.html

1. Sunn O))), Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord)
2. The xx, xx (Young Turks)
3. Emeralds, What Happened (No Fun)
4. Black to Comm, Alphabet 1968 (Type)
5. Benzo, The Dust/The Tapes: Mania Remixes (Sex Tags Mania / Laton)
6. Demdike Stare, Symbiosis (Modern Love)
7. Kevin Drumm, Imperial Horizon (Hospital Productions)
8. Lukid, Foma (Werk)
9. Moritz von Oswald Trio, Vertical Ascent (Honest Jon's)
10. Monolake, Silence (ml/I)

11. Pepe Bradock, Confiote de Bits (K7)
12. September Collective, Always Breathing Monster (Mosz)
13. Beak>, Recordings (Invada)
14. Mapstation, The Africa Chamber (~scape)
15. Ben Frost, By the Throat (Bedroom Community)
16. Ethernet, 144 Pulsations of Light (Kranky)
17. Fuck Buttons, Tarot Sport (ATP)
18. Fever Ray, Fever Ray (Rabid)
19. Mocky, Saskamodie (Crammed)
20. DJ Sprinkles, Midtown 120 Blues (Mule)

21. Atom TM, Liedgut (Raster Noton)
22. Vladislav Delay, Tummaa (Huume)
23. Jon Hassell, The Moon Dropped… (ECM)
24. Elm, Nemcatacoa (Digitalis)
25. Lokai, Transition (Mosz)
26. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest (Warp)
27. Pixel, The Drive (Raster Noton)
28. Redshape, The Dance Paradox (Delsin)
29. Shackleton, Three EPs (Perlon)
30. Ras G, Brotha From Anotha Planet (Brainfeeder)

Honorable mention (aka other albums that could conceivably sit anywhere in the lower half of the above ranking, given my mood at the time of listmaking): Ras G, Brotha from Anotha Planet (Brainfeeder), Untold, Gonna Work Out Fine (Hemlock), Black Jazz Consortium, Structure (Soul People Music), Ben Klock, One (Ostgut), Peverelist, Jarvik Mindstate (Punch Drunk), Atom TM, Muster (Rather Interesting), Lusine, A Certain Distance (Ghostly), Circlesquare, Songs About Dancing and Drugs (K7), Broadcast & Focus Group, Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age (Warp), White Rainbow, New Clouds (Kranky), Emeralds, Emeralds (Wagon/Gneiss Things), Leyland Kirby, Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was (History Always Favours the Winners)

Album title that best summed up 2009, if not the '00s in general: Leyland Kirby, Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was (History Always Favours the Winners)

Discovered too late for listmaking but might well have placed really high if I weren't too lazy to retabulate now: Atlas Sound, Logos (Kranky)

Didn't listen to enough to form a proper opinion, probably to my own detriment: David Sylvian, Manafon (Samadhisound)

2008 albums that would have made my best of '09 had they come out this year, which I initially thought they did: Grouper, Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (Type)

Just getting around to checking out: Oneohtrix Point Never, Rifts (No Fun)

Best tail-end of '09 discovery: John Talabot and his remixes for Delorean, Zwicker, Aufgang and Al Usher

The hype be damned, some of this "glo-fi" shit is actually pretty promising: Memory Cassette, Neon Indian, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, CFCF, Teengirl Fantasy, Gold Panda

Gear trend of 2009: modular synthesizers

Softsynth of 2010: U-he's A.C.E. (Any Cable Everywhere virtual modular)

http://www.mnftiu.cc/2010/01/04/i-like-making-friends/

http://www.mnftiu.cc/?p=2173

I made friends on Facebook today! It’s awesome. I even updated my status to say, “I like making friends.” (I think it’s my status … it might just be a message on my wall … still learning all this stuff … be patient, my friends …)

http://www.mnftiu.cc/2010/01/04/so-many-questions-about-this-amazing-new-era/

http://www.mnftiu.cc/?p=2172

I wonder if I can transfer my blog to Facebook’s social network? If I do that, does everyone on Facebook have to read my blog, whether they want to or not? Because I would really like that.

http://www.mnftiu.cc/2010/01/04/friend-requests-accepted/

http://www.mnftiu.cc/?p=2171

Just accepted my next round of social-venture-capital funding (ie Facebook friend requests) … accepting friends left and right … current projections show 100 Facebook friends by end of week … incredible growth … explosive … let’s do this … Facebook 2010, the future is now …

http://www.mnftiu.cc/2010/01/04/i-joined-facebook/

http://www.mnftiu.cc/?p=2170

My first official internet-related act of the new decade was to JOIN FACEBOOK! I am freakin’ SO PUMPED ABOUT THIS!

I was always one of those people who was like, “Naw, I’ll never join Facebook … it’ll probably go bankrupt in 6 months and then it’ll be abandoned …” but now I realize: Facebooks aren’t going anywhere. Everyone loves their Facebooks.

So now I am the proud owner/administrator of a Facebook page called “David Rees” (named after me). I am accepting ALL FRIEND REQUESTS FOR THIS WEEK ONLY. 10% DISCOUNT IF YOU USE CODE “MNFTIU.”

You can see it all here– on FACEBOOK!

(I’m still not totally sure how it works … it might be that you can’t see anything because you’re not listed in the computer as my friend. But if you want to be my computer-friend, send a request and I’ll honor it within 30 minutes or your next request is free.)

Markus Leitsch

markus guentner / doppelgeanger / sending orbs
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arne weinberg / alpha & omega / aw-recordings
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Edina Tokodi

bvoice + khz / don't joke on elevators / human resources
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guy gerber / my invisible romance / supplement facts records
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marcel knopf / dusty dance / mo's ferry productions
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It's hard to designate any one event as the catalyst for your whole life as you know it. 10 Years ago today I moved to Seattle. Good move.

http://mike.teczno.com/notes/music/top-2009.html

These are a few of the tracks I added to iTunes in 2009 and listened to the most. Not all of the music is new, but it's all got a date-added between 2009-01-01 and 2009-12-31 and a fairly high number of plays, so that's good enough for me. This post would be a one-line perl script if I used last.fm.

(Here are the MP3s below as an .m3u playlist)

1. Pet Shop Boys: Love Etc.

Shawn makes no apologies for hating the Pet Shop Boys, but this is the new track I listened to the most this year, so there you go. They've been a favorite band of mine for about ten years, mostly because I like pop music and I like their lyrics. This track is also a stand-in for Lady GaGa's Poker Face which I don't actually own, but find completely fascinating. Pop music!

2. Zomby: Where Were U In 92?

This track is an amazing signpost to the hardcore rave music of the early 1990's, but it's entirely modern and produced by someone too young to have had firsthand experience of that scene. I found it via k-punk, who has this to say:

That's why, whatever its intentions, whatever its official status as a side-project, Zomby's Where Were U In 92 amounts to a refreshingly honest libidinal confession, an admission that British dance music is still haunted by the hardcore continuum. Think about why it's impossible to have imagined a Jungle producer in 92 do Where Were U in 76: it isn't only that 92 had so broken with the whole frame of reference of sixteen years before, it's that the headlong rush into the future precluded such retrospection.

3. Moderat: A New Error

This is one of those tracks that Shawn brings to the office that makes me have to put down whatever it is I'm doing for about ten minutes. The bass here, heard over a good pair of speakers, is deep like the best of Sleeparchive.

4. Laurent Garnier: Wake Up

I include this because it's part of the two-disc Logic Trance 2 compilation, something from 1994 that I finally reacquired this year. Most of the collection is loaded with floating, detached trance music that hadn't in all cases found a dancefloor yet. It's all deeply nostalgic for me, found through my roommate Paul who helped form a lot of my musical tastes as I was hitting escape velocity from industrial music. The whole compilation is a classic, this track from Laurent Garnier is a taste.

5. Depeche Mode: Wrong

The video for Wrong is like a terrifying bad dream. The song is some of the darkest anything I've heard come out of Depeche Mode, incredibly abrasive and confrontational.

6. Venetian Snares: Sajtban

I saw Venetian Snares play perform in Oakland with Otto Von Schirach, and loved the performance. Again, abrasive and confrontational, but also fast and squiggly.

7. Slayer: Angel Of Death

Another one of those memories dredged up from my youth, this one from Brian, the slightly white-trashy headbanger dude who lived up the street from me in San Jose when I was 14. Other bands I got from Brian include Obituary, Death, Godflesh, and Entombed. He also owned all the Iron Maiden EPs that were just Nicko McBrain funny-talking apropos of nothing. I've started pulling out some of this old metal lately, fixating on some of the more experimental or weird bits that fit cleanly with my later electronic tastes. Angel Of Death pretty much just rocks the fuck out.

8. Sam Cooke: Chain Gang

On a completely different trajectory, Sam Cooke is amazing. The ooh-hah beat of Chain Gang is astonishing.

9. Birdy Nam Nam: The Parachute Ending

I don't recall where I found the video for this, but it's a lovely piece of very French-seeming animation that instantly reminded me of Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea. It didn't even register that the "Birdy Nam Nam" in the video title was the name of a band or that this was a music video, and I wondered why the music wasn't included in the credits. Dur. Excellent techno track though.

10. Blaqstarr: Hustress (snippet) feat. Rye-Rye

I'm not sure why this is here. I got interested in Blaqstarr tangentially through bingeing on The Wire for a few months, and this short slice of omnious hip-hop sound collage is incredibly interesting.