- Skip business school and earn the “personal MBA” by reading the books on Josh Kaufman’s 77 best list. Sweet. Seems I’m already on that track. Oh wait, Pitchfork’s News and Iris Murdoch aren’t on Kaufman’s list?
- Thrillist sends you a daily email and tells you how to be cool, regardless of what city you live.
- New Death Cab video for “Cath…” One of four songs on the new album that are absolutely outstanding (the other three being Grapevine Fires, Bixby and No Sunlight).
- Blackberry etiquette reaches all time low for Boston rental agent:
Hi we can definetly set up a time for Saturday I just have a couple questions to see if I have any other listings that might work for you what is the maximum you guys can spend on rent what parts of town would you like to be in anything you can tell me about what your looking for would be very helpful thanks and I hope to hear back from you soon
- Sub Pop, the best record label around, turns 20 years old! I wish they would do another free iTunes sampler. Last year’s was superb, and Brooklyn Vegan linked us to their Single’s Club, but it’s $75, and my AT&T bill is too much to afford that. Damn.
- 25 well designed book covers. Cool. [EW via Kottke]
- Oobject is “…like a Billboard chart for gadgets”
- Google’s treading on Second Life’s territory with Lively, a new avatar based virtual world app due out later this year. [WSJ]
- Wind power guy T. Boone Pickens (who happens to have the best name I’ve ever seen) is using Facebook to drum up support for his interesting campaign.
- Mad Atoms wonders what will happen when the record store clerk – an iconic fixture in society – finally dies. Some potential replacements include sushi chefs or the “long haired asshole” at Cinefile.
- My Morning Jacket is going Ryan Adams on us (har har funny prolific musician joke har) by working on a follow up to Evil Urges a month or two after it came out. Nice.
Coming soon – these daily links are getting a little too disorganized for my OCD tastes, so all 5 of you that read this are going to start seeing a breakout of links between miscellany and music stuff. Don’t be alarmed.
According to AT&T, Ms. Suspicious “has nothing to hide,” so she certainly won’t mind when AT&T and their traitorous telecom buddies trash the Constitution and violate her right to privacy!
- Jay-Z opens up his headlining set at Glastonbury with Oasis’s Wonderwall following comments from Noel Gallagher that hip hop “doesn’t belong” at the festival. Buuuuuuuurn.
- Where the hell is Matt? is not my latest Where’s Waldo attempt, but something better:
Matthew Harding spent 14 months visiting 42 countries in order to produce “Where the Hell is Matt?”, a four-and-a-half minute video featuring Harding (and anyone else he could rope into it) doing an incredibly silly, high-energy dance in some of the most breathtaking scenery around the world. This may be the best four minutes and twenty-eight seconds of your week.
- LeRoi Moore, saxophonist from the Dave Matthews Band, was injured in an ATV accident on his farm in Virginia on Monday. He was initially listed as in serious condition at a Virginia hospital, but has since been upgraded to fair. Jeff Coffin, the double-sax playing troubadour from Bela Fleck and the Flecktones will fill in indefinitely while LeRoi recoops. This marks the first time since 1993 that the band has performed a tour without one of the five founding members. Looking forward to seeing you back, Roi! Send eCards via the band’s site.
- Yum! A $30 TV dinner, available in New York. [NYTimes via Consumerist]
- In today’s glass half-full moment, a useless survey finds that 91% of Japan won’t be buying the new iPhone 3G when it hits their market later this summer. Sounds bad for Apple, except when you consider that 9% will, and that’s about 11 million people. [via Macrumors]
- Interesting marketing campaign for laundry detergent. Send samples wrapped in a t-shirt, then instruct the recipient to wash the shirt to demonstrate stain removing power. Hope it actually works. [Frederik Samuel via Kottke]
- Gawker surveys New York bloggers and media gurus to figure out how exactly to break into the media industry. This is New York specific but I think it applies to all “cool” jobs anymore:
“-Claim you’re an expert in “New Media.” No one knows what the fuck it is anyway.
-Don’t say “Web 2.0″
-Do say “I subscribe to [X] feeds…”
Sad that you have to BS about all these changing web platforms in order to seem “skilled.” Other good pointers and full text here.
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