The a capella group Duwende has made their recent album “Collective” available for free download. I’m still working my way through the disc, but the four tracks I’ve heard are certainly worth the time if you like original a capella or pop music. (Found via Acapodcast episode #42) Tags: a capella, album, download, free, Music, [...]

At this point I think the inherent advantage of acquiring recorded music solely through the means of traveling to a brick and mortar storefront, perusing the incredibly over complicated system to locate likely albums that I might like to purchase, physically bringing the stack of shiny plastic to the cashier with my own hands and [...]

I think I spent about 10 hours listening to live music yesterday. It might have been 11, but it’s hard to remember precisely at this point. There is one particular good, and one particular not-so-good observation I have from yesterday however. Good: SPF30 sunscreen, applied early enough, does actually keep me from roasting my skin [...]

This weekend is the final half of the Twin Cities Hot Summer Jazz Festival, which has quite a few local and national jazz acts performing on mostly free stages in and around Peavey Plaza in downtown Minneapolis. I have been to at least some portion of each of the last four festivals and have been [...]

I’ve been enjoying all sorts of stuff from Infodoodads this week but this one is probably the most interesting to a broad audience: Graphically explore the popularity of baby names over time with real census data. Tags: pop

Found a fun game (via Game|Life) called Scribble 2: Tags: game, pop

Jones soda is switching to cane sugar in 2007! (Found on The Soda Pop Blog, who I don’t always quite agree with but most of the relatively small group of people who are covering a topic I am highly interested in are generally worth reading.) Tags: pop, Soda

My autographed copy (#219!) of Thomas Dolby‘s “The Sole Inhabitant” concert DVD arrived in the mail today from CD Baby and I spent a really great evening getting through the contents despite a couple of little flaws in the package. The main content is the concert from September 28th 2006 at the Berklee Performance Center [...]

Some things should be linked to because they are probably talking about you. Right this moment, that link is to Charles Stross talking about where SF books need to go to regain marketshare. Even if you don’t care about reading SF anymore, there is a central core that is a very interesting analysis of what [...]

Popular Science has rated Minneapolis as the “Top Tech City”. Tags: pop