When my buddy Ben blogged about how awesome Pandora is, I decided they needed to know about it. They’re sending me some schwag in return! In a week I should have a sweet Pandora T-shirt to show off.
I can’t count how many bands I’ve discovered thanks to Pandora, and many of my friends have, too. That’s a company I don’t mind advertising about!
(And just so you know they’re hooking Ben up, too.)
Raleigh is officially Wide Open now as the city’s festivities have begun. I couldn’t help but notice as Big Mama E and The Cool took the Cherry Bounce stage, 50 yards from my office window. The music is kicking but quite distracting while we’re working to finish up a big project before the weekend starts. Still, its good to see all the people wandering downtown. I think officials made the right call in deciding the show must go on.
Here’s a map of festivities so you can know where to get down with thy bad self.
Here’s a great analysis of Russia’s comeback as a superpower by columnist Michael Ventura. Its also a sobering look at how far America’s influence has fallen.
Russia’s sitting pretty now and they know it. Heck of a job, Bushie!
My friend Chris O’Donnell linked to a wonderful online history of the Atari company, makers of the first wildly-popular home video games. It tells of how Nolan Bushnell, Silicon Valley legend and founder of Atari, sold the company to Warner Communications and then regretted the move when he was forced out. Warner went on to squeeze billions of dollars out of Atari but also squeezed the creativity out of it too, chiefly by not giving game developers a cut of their creations’ huge profits.
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Apropos of nothing, today’s the 12th anniversary of Hurricane Fran raging ashore. Behold my beating a dead horse.
I found this great play-by-play of the storm from a local geek who was on the scene, Jesse Ferrell. Jesse continues to do some great weather blogging, now for Accuweather. Check out his site for great info on current storms.
