Monthly Archives: July 2011

google music invite giveaway

On 31 July 2011 by matthew With 10 Comments - google, music, technology

This is a pretty sim­ple give­away. I have two…just two…Google Music invites to share. If you’re inter­ested in an invite, please leave a com­ment below. I will ran­domly select two peo­ple from all that respond.

The dead­line for this give­away is mid­night (EDT), Fri­day, August 5.

Good luck!

If you are not famil­iar with Google Music, you might want to check out the offi­cial site or read this review to learn more.

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some things i read this week

On 30 July 2011 by matthew With 0 Comments - culture

weekly reading list

Here is an abbre­vi­ated list of things that I read, or looked at, this week.

 
Doing What You Love Can Lead To More Than Just Hap­pi­ness — Gary Vaynerchuk


 
The Mur­der Of Louis Allen — Steve Croft/60 Minutes


 
Embrac­ing Oth­er­ness, Embrac­ing Myself — TED Talk by Thandie Newton

 
 
What was the most inter­est­ing thing you read, or watched, this week?

now THIS is friday music

On 28 July 2011 by matthew With 0 Comments - chillout, music

Georg Levin

Keep On Mak­ing Me High




I really like Levin’s sound. Here’s a lit­tle bonus.

When I’m With You


 
 
You can check out the rest of my Fri­day music posts by click­ing the “now THIS is fri­day music” tag below, or you can see all of them arranged in my Spring­pad note­book.

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the power of being focused

On 28 July 2011 by matthew With 0 Comments - culture, inspiration

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some things i read this week

On 23 July 2011 by matthew With 0 Comments - culture

weekly reading list
Here is a sam­ple of things I read, or looked at, this week.

• 75 Reminders For Tough Times — Marc and Angel
• Reader Story: Neg­a­tive Bud­get­ing And A Healthy Out­look On Life — J.D. Roth
• Don’t Just See; Observe: What Sher­lock Holmes Can Teach Us About Mind­ful Deci­sions — Maria Kon­nikova
• Pro­fes­sion­al­ism Trumps Tal­ent Every Time — David Saxe
• Why Gay Mar­riage Is Good For Straight Amer­ica — Andrew Sul­li­van
• The Argu­ment For Sex­ual Exclu­siv­ity — Tracy Clark-Flory
• If Your Website’s Full Of Ass­holes, It’s Your Fault — Anil Dash
• The Last Post You Will Ever Need to Read (A Let­ter to the Soul) — Nina Yau
• The Unselfish Gene — Yochai Ben­kler
• 5 Step To Cut­ting The Cord: A Guide To Can­celling Cable — Janko Roettgers
• A Wist­ful Farewell — David Daley & Emily Mus­tich
• 10 Uncon­ven­tional Book­stores For Your Brows­ing Plea­sure — Emily Tem­ple
• Read­ing: Chang­ing Habits (A Three-Part Series In The Boston Globe )

  • Part 1 > Illu­mi­nat­ing Texts — Jane Brox
  • Part 2 > How We Read Now — Amanda Katz

• I’m Sick Of Wait­ing 10 Min­utes For A “Mixol­o­gist” To Make My Drink - Jason Kessler
• Bill Cun­ning­ham New York — New York Times  (Trailer)
• What Ever Hap­pened To The New Athe­ism? — Garth Risk Hall­berg
• Boost Your Pro­duc­tiv­ity: Crip­ple Your Tech­nol­ogy — Matthew Might
• Is It Okay To Friend Your Boss On Face­book (66% Say No) — John Paul Titlow

 

What was the most inter­est­ing thing you read this week?