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Grooveshark email: How we built a music service without, um, paying for music

jarred — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:32:49 +0000

“In our case,” Simantob continued, “we use the labels songs till we get a 100 million uniques, by which time we can tell the labels who is listening to their music, where, and then turn around and charge them for the very data we got from them, ensuring that what we pay them in total for streaming is less than what they pay us for data mining. Lets keep this quite [sic] for as long as we can.”

Sigur Rós: Were just four dudes in a band

jarred — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:12:11 +0000

“When we play together were in our own space,” Hólm says. “We zone out from each other completely. Our music is all about the very tiniest, most minute details and they must be played exactly right or it will sound different, wrong.”

bryanforbes/kardashian-calc – GitHub

jarred — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:06:29 +0000

“A Kardashian is a unit of measure representing 72 days of marriage. See how many Kardashians you have been married for using the form to the left.”

Jamie xx – Space Bass

jarred — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:40:17 +0000

A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs

jarred — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:28:47 +0000

“Even as a feminist, my whole life I’d been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I’d thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.”

Blumenstein Ultra Fi – Orca

jarred — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 05:24:58 +0000

Walking: North Ryde to City

jarred — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:44:50 +0000

3.5 hours / 17km

“The Year of Hibernation” by Youth Lagoon

jarred — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:32:12 +0000

jarred/kaleidomaniac – GitHub

jarred — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:59:56 +0000

Badass kaleidoscope-like backgrounds for any webpage using CoffeeScript

Samsung Overtakes Apple as World’s Biggest Smartphone Seller

jarred — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:54:30 +0000

“Samsung has come out with products that appeal to all the different form factors and specifications out there,” said T.Z. Wong, a Beijing-based analyst at researcher IDC. “That is a strategy they have executed very well.”