Monthly Archives: July 2008

It really is.

Timeless lessons are there.

Lots of bullshit is in there too but I guess the key is to forgoe the supposed morality of it and look for ideas.

I’m actually gonna put in some ‘bible time’ in my calendar in the next few weeks to start going through this text again. This time though, without the prejudices and extreme (no doubt emotion driven) views I would have developed at various points in the past – both for and against it. I’m glad to report that I’m now at a less emotional nexus and sufficiently developed intellectually to be able to look at this without any as many subjective overheads.

I suspect that as with atheists and bible thumpers alike, the middle of the road, trying-to-be-objective-and-optimistic types like me, will get something out of the experience based directly on what we go into it with.

For the overzealous god ‘fearers’ among us, this isn’t your cue to start msging me words of encouragement or whatever. I just made a timely discovery on my own time. Nothing more. Nothing Less. After all, the great Flying Spaghetti Meatball mightn’t like it (Jah Pastafari bitches!).

holy bejeesus. Two of my favourite music websites, Last.fm and Muxtape now have integration.

last.fm muxtape integration

The integration allows users of muxtape who have a last.fm account to scrobble the tracks they listen to on the former to the latter.

Muxtape blog

Why is this cool?

Well it means that muxtape are buying into the notion that openness and interoperability are the future and the notion of trying to secure absolute user loyalty on the web in closed eco-systems a la microsoft (damn, do we love blaming these guys for everything bad or what?) is a wasted one in 2008.

More practically speaking, that translates to me having one more website I can frolic on without feeling that weird feeling that I’m ‘wasting my listening.’

Don’t laugh, I’m dead serious.

I’ve so conditioned myself (though in true, 21st century “i’m-not-to-blame-for-my-own- problems” style I should say last.fm has conditioned me.) into a sort of investment frame of mind where I feel like all the scrobbling I’m doing with last.fm is contributing to something, one scrobble at a time.

If only I could adopt this frame of mind for actual investing and money management. Kyosaki would be proud I’m sure.

Whenever I happen upon another website, no matter how cool it is I find my interest waning for no reason other “I can’t scrobble it.” (Deezer do you see me looking at you?)

My whole quirk is pathetic. I know. Somehow I doubt I’m the only one like that though…. right?

Anyhow, scatter brained tangent come full circle – Muxtape is a great site. Its simple but it just works.

Its a site that allows you to put upload tracks into a playable list (errr… playlist?) that can be shared with other users. I imagine that muxtape might be right up your alley if you’re one of those sentimental types who:

  • actually remember the 80’s and early 90’s;
  • know what the very idea of music sharing meant in that era (complete with notions of uniqueness, effort and sincerity);
  • still hold a grudge to the internet for how its shattered those notions since the chick you would have probably made a mixtape for doesn’t need you anymore thanks to things like pandora and youtube.


All I gotta say is: Helvetica to the weeeeeeerl!