(h/t GAS)
Friday Fifteen – Songs in My Head
(in no particular order)
- Bang Your Head – Quiet Riot
- Slick Black Cadillac – Quiet Riot
- Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door – Guns N’ Roses
- Electric Avenue – Eddy Grant
- Paper Planes – M.I.A.
- Machine Civilization – World Order
- Snake Charmer – Bag Raiders
- Rebellion (Lies) – Arcade Fire
- Modern Man – Arcade Fire
- Walking With the Beggar Boys – Elf Power
- Hustle – Tunng
- The Boy With the Arab Strap – Belle & Sebastian
- Annie Lennox – Backwards and Forward Remix
- Parov Stelar – Libella Swing
- Communist Daughter – Not the Kid
(image courtesy of Leo Reynolds)
Friday Fifteen – Random Crap
- Very excited to be attending the WordCamp KC conference in June.
- Anxiously waiting for the Froyo update for my Motorola Defy to emerge from testing.
- I’m not sure why, but I think I need one of these sporks.
- Love this article on Smashing Magazine about choosing typefaces.
- I’ve really get a lot of encouragement from Ron Edmonson’s blog. Specifically the posts on leadership. I’m not really in an official leadership position, but it’s good to read about someone who is and seems to be doing it right.
- Bought my first Kindle book from Amazon — The Tangible Kingdom. I don’t own a Kindle. Been reading it in my phone. I like it. The book and the medium.
- Been doing some sheetrock work in my basement. Getting ready to start mudding. Fun. If anyone knows where I can find some staples for a Craftsman 9-68447 stapler, let me know. I’m annoyed that I can’t find them locally — not even at Sears.
- Sanford Uni-ball Vision Micro pens are my favorite.
- Branding with a typeface alone is fascinating.
- Love this picture that Stephen Altrogge posted this week.
- I like reading the FresHome blog. Motivates me to do projects at home.
- Shooting machetes with a slingshot. ’Nuff said.
- Who doesn’t need a drill-powered pencil sharpener?
- Need some mobile WordPress tools? Check this. I’m using the Smooci 2 theme and Mobile Smart switcher plugin.
- Gotta end with the dog fart compilation. (Not to be confused with this)
Everybody Poops
Here’s the original.
Thoughts on the Amazon App Store, Cloud Drive & Player
I’m so giddy about what Amazon has released this week — the Android App Store, Cloud Drive and Cloud Player.
- There’s little doubt that Amazon’s core competency is selling.
- A free paid app every day deal is absolutely going get a lot of Amazon Android apps on Android phones. Amazon has just inserted themselves as a major player in the Android app marketplace.
- The installation of the Amazon App Store app was a little on the complicated side, but once it’s pants were on, it made gold records.
- MP3 purchases from Amazon don’t count toward in your cloud drive space. Brilliant.
- The whole 20G of space for free for a year when you purchase an MP3 album is killer smart. Totally impressed. I’ll probably buy it when my year is up.
- The Cloud Player MP3 upload tool is pretty slick and is chugging right along on my computer at home.
- Weak playlist creation the Cloud Player is my only gripe so far. I like to create my playlists by Artist. I have to add them to playlists one by one, which is kind of a pain. A little drag -n-drop action would be sweet.
- The Cloud Player works well on my Google CR-48. That thing needs a win right now. More about that later.
- Love the Cloud Player integration with my Android phone. Finally a decently priced (free) stream of my own music without having to sync my phone and my computer.
- If they every develop a cross-platform Cloud Drive desktop synchronization tool, they could give Dropbox (affiliate link) a run for their money.
What do you like about what Amazon rolled out this week?
And when’s the Amazon Android tablet coming out?
// Now playing: Heaven by Warrant
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