I Just Read About That…

SOUNDTRACK: JUNIOR SENIOR-D-D-Don’t Don’t Stop the Beat (2003).

Junior Senior is this bizarre dance band from Denmark. They have a new album coming out that has gotten good reviews, so I went back to listen to this debut. This CD has a nice memory for me as being the CD I was listening to on either the day I started a previous job or the day I went to pick up my stuff after being laid off from said job (the latter day being even better than the former); for some reason I can’t recall which day it was. At any rate, this record is a crazy mishmash of dance and grungey rock with lots of shouting and repeated choruses and fun fun fun. It’s like a raucous straight and gay orgy condensed into 35 minutes. It’s pretty much impossible not to like unless you really don’t like dance music. And, the songs are short so they never overstay their welcome. Go Junior! Go Senior!

[READ: Ongoing, Fall 2007] Rule the Web.

This is the kind of book that I can’t say I’ve actually “read”, and I know I won’t read everything in it. Nevertheless, it is AWESOME! Frauenfelder is the creator of a fantastic site called BoingBoing which is constantly updated with wonderful things. At my previous job, where I had scads of free time, I used to visit BoingBoing constantly. Now, I’m too busy to read even my own site. But I still have a great fondness for BoingBoing.

Anyhow, Rule the Web is an exceptional compendium of useful information for making the most of your computer and the internet. I’ve never been so excited about a computer book before. I consider myself pretty tech savvy, and I am blown away by how much cool stuff is in this book. I’ve already tried six of the tips in the book and each one has been fantastic. Check out all these great pieces of information, all in one place!:

Getting a free web counter
Adding discussion boards to your web site
Free online photo editors
Finding unlisted phone numbers!
Seeing deleted websites!
Preventing popup ads! and, even better, blocking all ads on web pages! (Thank you Firefox)

and that’s just the first three chapters.

There’s also a website with updated information and podcasts and all sorts of hoo-ha. I can’t say enough about this book. Thank you, Mark Frauenfelder.