Artistic Ennui Is on the Menu
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Can digital musicians, artists and other media creators free themselves from the tyranny of popular software design? Commentary by Momus.
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We turned off share.opml.org yesterday, for good, as far as I know. It was a good idea, but we never got it together to make it the powerhouse I wanted it to be.  Now that Google and Bloglines both have discovery mechanisms for feeds that you might like, based on what you and others like, there would only be a future for SYO if it were a thriving and growing community, and it isn't.  Normally, I'd leave a site like that running indefinitely, but this one needed its own server, and I wanted to cut my server expenses now that my S3 bill is going up, serving some very big JPEGs and generally being the back-end for a community that is growing, the people using FlickrFan. If there's a big demand to bring it back, we can -- but that's going to require cash flow to go with it. At this point, I don't think it's a good investment for me. Still diggin!
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In praise of the full entertainment meal. By Steven Johnson from Wired magazine.
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Pixar's latest looks good but it's undercooked.
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LET'S be pretentious for a moment, hmm? What is the truer art: painting or music? Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the oils or the ivories?.
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The steakhouse seems to have lost its sizzle.
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Food, friends, and elf figurines add up. Here's some advice on how to handle the holiday tab.
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Recently, meetings-with-food have come to feel like yet another symptom of an overstuffed day.
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The Obama Express. My latest piece on Huffington.  If you like it, please feel free to pass it on.  "cheesecake"
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The realty space is being disrupted.
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Dead end? You bet. The game is going nowhere? Oh baby, you got it, and in a hurry.
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Sometimes, the two concepts can blur.
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The famous painting isn&#39;t exactly the type most people want in their home. The image is too grim and full of existential angst.
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Sometimes the biggest rewards are hiding out of sight.
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Calling all rehabbing starlets: Jean-Marc Houmard of Indochine has cordoned off a significant section of his beverage menu for nonalcoholic drinks.
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So I'm watching a new Subway commercial (the sandwich store, not the New York commuting purgatory), and the company has a new sandwich. The descriptive term is "overstuffed." Other call-outs I remember include "feast" and "satisfying." Unfortunately for Subway, these words don't take away from the visual impact. These things make the actors look like they're trying to stuff a football into their faces. One girl was eating a 'wich that was literally bigger than her head. In Normalville, we call that biting off more than you can chew. And when that happens in real life, you should take smaller bites â¦ or outsource.
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The stock's case of ennui isn't over yet.