May 2012
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The Listening Machine
The Listening Machine is an automated system that generates a continuous piece of music based on the activity of 500 Twitter users around the United Kingdom. Their conversations, thoughts and feelings are translated into musical patterns in real time, which you can tune in to at any point through any web-connected device.
Listen here
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Think about your grandparents
Think about your grandparents. It doesn’t matter if they’re alive or dead, think about them. Think about the lives they’ve led. About the choices they’ve made and how they were affected by them.
Think about when they were born, how they grew up and lived their lives, and where they are now (alive or dead).
Now consider yourself.
You’re going to grow old and...
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How to get Netflix outside the U.S.
Netflix is a great streaming service for movies and tv shows. It’s reasonably priced, it carries a lot of great shows and films, and it works on a lot of different devices including computers, iPad, and Apple TV. But for now it’s limited to the U.S., Canada, and a few other countries.
Fortunately there’s a workaround if you want a legal way to access the great content Netflix...
April 2012
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March 2012
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Predictions for next week's iPad event
The iPad 3 event is one week away and keeping up with traditions I thought I’d make some predictions.
iPad 3 will be announced
It will have a retina display
It will have Siri
It will feature Apple’s new Maps service which replaces Google Maps
It will look pretty much like an iPad 2 (yes, it will have a home button)
It will sell very well
iPad 2 will still be available at a...
February 2012
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Playing for the love of the game
It’s sometime in the 1990’s in a school in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. We’re playing floorball. My team is losing. We’re growing silent as defeat seems inevitable.
Then one kid gets an idea: What if we just pretend like we’re winning? What if we try to have fun with it and see what happens? It’s true, we have been playing worse since it dawned on us that we...
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You Are Listening to Los Angeles
You Are Listening to Los Angeles is a simple site that mixes ambient music with live police radio from various cities (check out New York or Baltimore, for example) for an awesomely creepy effect.
Right now they are doing a Kickstarter project to raise money for an iPhone app. I’m backing it, and you should too!
January 2012
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Five people you should be following on Twitter
A friend asked me to name five people to follow Twitter. That turned out to be harder than expected because of the staggering amount of awesome people on Twitter. (Which means that if you weren’t included on this list it doesn’t mean you’re not cool.)
These five are all somebody I’ve been following for years and who have consistently given me ideas, inspiration and...
December 2011
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2011: A year in Twitter faves
MaryHChrist Mary Holy-Christ
In the middle east. Pregnant. On a donkey. FML
24 Dec
madsbrynnum mads brynnum
Udtrykket “at plante sin sæd” er ækelt nok i forvejen, men det er som om Amagermanden lige tog den et skridt videre.
20 Dec
tveskov Bjarne P Tveskov
“Give a man a fish, and you’ve fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you can sell him a ton of...
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Happy 30th, Britney
Quote of the year:
Ten years ago, Britney rang in her 20s by wearing a python to do “I’m A Slave 4 U,” a song about seething party-girl desperation that compares her vagina to a kitty cat; she rings in her 30s with “How I Roll,” a song about seething party-girl desperation that compares her vagina to a kitty cat. If you don’t think that’s artistic...
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Spotify links for Berlingske's Danish album top 10
Danish daily Berlingske posted their top 10 Danish albums of 2011.
They didn’t include Spotify links so I thought I would collect them here:
Malk De Koijn: Toback to the Fromtime
Michael Møller: A Month Of Unrequited Love
Oh Land: Oh Land
Ulige numre: Ulige Numre
Per Vers: Ego
Magtens Korridorer: Imperiet Falder
Hymns From Nineveh: Hymns From Nineveh
Cody: Under The Pillow, Under...
November 2011
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New job
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans,” my dad told me once, quoting John Lennon I think. And boy have I been making plans.
A couple of months ago I left my full-time job at Wemind to begin a new career as a freelancer. I did it because I wanted to expand my horizons, try new things, and get inspired by working with new people.
Life as a freelancer...
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October 2011
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Tyler, The Creator jams “Fish” with BADBADNOTGOOD.
“I never did that shit, I always wanted to do that but I don’t know any musicians. Fuck yeah we’re having a moment!”
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R.I.P. Steve Jobs part 2
People keep writing beautiful, inspiring, heart-warming things about Steve Jobs after his passing. Here are some more links.
Matt Drance compares Steve to Edison, Ford, and Disney:
An era has ended, and we now sit to reflect on our good fortune for having lived in a time when a true giant walked the Earth. I had certainly contemplated his passing many times, but now that it has happened, I...
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R.I.P. Steve Jobs
As the news of Steve Jobs’ death has permeated through the web, lots of people have been writing their memories and goodbyes. I’ve collected some of them here, in random order and without much commentary.
John Gruber of Daring Fireball writes:
But the thing that struck me were his shoes, those famous gray New Balance 991s. They too were well-worn. But also this: fresh bright...
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Dear Steve,
Thank you for inspiring me. Thank you for building the tools that have enabled me to do my life’s work so far. You didn’t do it alone but you had a vision of how you thought things should be, and you had the courage to go through with it.
You put a human face on technology. Before you, computers were something for geeks, suits and labcoats. Today, the PC is truly...
September 2011
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Interview with Eric Ries, author of The Lean...
Here’s a nice little interview with Eric Ries who whote The Lean Startup (Amazon link). Ries’ methodology has helped me a lot lately when it comes to thinking about starting new businesses.
The interview is in two parts, I’ve embedded part 2. Part one is here.
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Three Mashups
Here are three new (at least to me) mashup albums to sweeten your weekend:
De La Soul and Fela Kuti: Fela Soul
Ghostface and various funk artists: Ghostfunk
Another Fela Kuti mashup, this one with Michael Jackson: The King Meets the President in Africa
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Put This On
If you’re a man and you’re interested in dressing like a grown-up (at least some of the time) you really should read these 25 pieces of basic sartorial knowledge so you don’t look dumb by Jesse Thorn of Put This On.
Also, you should check out season one of Jesse’s awesome web series, also called Put This On. Here’s the first episode:
And here are the rest.
If...
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Want to learn how to code?
If you want to learn to code and build stuff and you’re starting by asking someone else what you should do, you’re already thinking about it the wrong way. Immediately, right now, with no preparation, in the blink of an eye, you can take a huge step toward your goal by realizing that you don’t need an answer to your question.
The wrong question: “I want to learn to code, what should I...
August 2011
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Going freelance
I have a really interesting job and I’m pretty good at it. It doesn’t make me rich but I definitely do alright. It’s fun and also challenging at times. I love my colleagues. But lately going to work hasn’t felt right.
I don’t know if it’s just me or if everyone feels like this but I need to be a little scared once in a while. I need to not know that I can do...
July 2011
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Doing my life's work
When you’re on auto-pilot, no problem. You’ve done it before, so you recognize every pattern you’re in and there’s no need to worry.
But this also means you’re going the wrong way. You’re getting no new input, so you’re not recognizing any new patterns. If this is the way your life is going, you are actually actually becoming more useless. In an increasingly chaotic world, the best pattern...
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GPX route file for the 2011 Cycling World Cup in...
Yesterday I tweeted a question about finding a GPS app for iPhone that lets you draw a route to follow because I want to try and ride the route the riders will follow for the 2011 Cycling World Cup in Copenhagen.
Thanks to Søren Johannesen I came across MotionX-GPS, a GPS app that accepts route files in the GPX format. The World Cup website has a link to a Google Map of the route where I...
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Trouble On My Mind
This video is an example of why I’m really excited about where rap is going right now. OFWGKTA mastermind Tyler, The Creator joins one of my favorite rappers of the last couple of years, Pusha T, for an ironic take on the traditional cars-and-women rap video.
It’s just so much fun. Pusha T’s Re-Up Gang are usually unironic unapologetically hardcore gangsta rappers; they incapsulate the genre...
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30
I’m turning 30 tomorrow. 30 is the birthday of bucket lists and I’d be lying if I said I haven’t been considering how my life is going. To sum up: Almost perfectly. I just moved in to a great new apartment with the girl of my dreams. I have a fantastic job with inspiring colleagues and interesting assignments (and I’ll have even more great challenges to talk about soon,...
April 2011
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The Mark of Cain; free documentary about Russian...
The Mark of Cain is a documentary about Russian prison tattoos. Meet the Slaves, the lowest caste of criminals who often have the word Slave tattooed on their face against their will, the Goats, prisoners who work with the guards and often end up spending long periods of time in solitary confinement to avoid physical contact with the other inmates, and the Thieves-in-Law, the highest ranking...
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You should listen to my new podcast
If you understand Danish and you like music you should check out this new podcast I’m doing with my good friend Robert Nagy. Each day until this year’s Roskilde Festival we’re listening to a track from one of the acts on the poster and discussing whether or not to go listen to them live. Check it out!
fan•boy |ˈfanˌboi|
marco:
noun
informal derogatory: a term used to describe people who bought a product that competes with the one you bought, which is probably more popular than your choice, for reasons that you wish to discredit or diminish because you’re secretly afraid or upset that you made the wrong choice.
ORIGIN from fan + boy.
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Add vodka to your simple syrup for longer shelf...
I like to keep a bottle of simple syrup in the fridge so I always have some ready when I’m making cocktails. It’s extremely easy to make simple syrup, just mix equal parts sugar and water. But it’s not much use if you pull the bottle out of the fridge and there’s mold in your homemade simple syrup.
Today I learned a trick that should help avoid that: Add a tablespoon of...
March 2011
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The Understatement: Digital Subscription Prices... →
understatementblog:
Here are the annual prices of a variety of services, all of which allow users to access the service from the web and across multiple devices with a single unified subscription. See if you can pick out which one is the outlier:
Full sized chart
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Girl Walk // All Day
I know I just posted about some great Kickstarter projects but I just stumbled upon another one that deserves all the attention it can get. It’s a 71-minute dance music video set to Girl Talk’s album All Day which the creators are going to release for free on the Internet and screen at a series of dance parties around the world. That’s a lot of the things I love the most: Free...
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How to make your own custom iPhone ringtone or...
Did you know that you can convert any song in your iTunes library to a custom ringtone or alarm tone for free on your Mac? It takes a few steps but it’s not hard at all. Here’s how:
Find the song you want to convert and press command + I or choose Get Info in the File menu. Go to Options.
A ringtone can only be 30 seconds long as far as I know. So choose which 30 seconds you want. I...
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February 2011
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A couple of great Kickstarter projects
There’s so much good stuff on Kickstarter right now! I thought I’d share a couple of the projects I’ve backed recently that you guys might want to check out and back as well.
Gary Hustwit of Helvetica and Objectified fame is funding his new documentary Urbanized through Kickstarter. It’s about the design of cities and it looks at “the issues and strategies behind...
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How To Gift a Playlist in iTunes
Ever want to make a sweet mixtape for that special someone but didn’t know how to send it to them? Gifting a playlist in iTunes used to be easy but for some reason Apple decided to make the feature a little harder to discover. It’s still there, though.
Here’s how you do it:
Make your playlist and fill it with those sweet love songs or whatever you want to send
Click on the...
January 2011
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WatchI can’t stop thinking this is a good idea.
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Paleo Diet: Day 1
So I kind of started my Paleo diet yesterday, although I really didn’t because I had ice cream yesterday evening. I didn’t know it at the time but the reason I had ice cream is that I’m addicted to sugar. Well, actually addicted might be too strong a word because scientists don’t really know what to think of it but certainly something is going on. Let me explain.
In case...
December 2010
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This Is My Bruce Sterling Appreciation Post
1. Bruce Sterling’s essay on diplomacy, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, The Blast Shack:
Julian Assange doesn’t want to be in power; he has no people skills at all, and nobody’s ever gonna make him President Vaclav Havel. He’s certainly not in for the money, because he wouldn’t know what to do with the cash; he lives out of a backpack, and his daily routine is probably sixteen hours...
November 2010
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My Favorite iPad Apps
A good friend just got her first iPad and she asked me for a list of my favorite iPad apps. Here are the apps I find myself returning to again and again:
Instapaper. It’s probably my one favorite app/web service.
Twitter. Great interface, maybe the best Twitter experience on any device out there.
Simplenote. I sync Simplenote on iPad and iPhone with Notational Velocity on my Mac so I...
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Women and TEDxCopenhagen
When we set out to create this year’s installment of TEDxCopenhagen we had a short meeting where we discussed what we wanted to do this year. We brainstormed about the theme, possible speakers, venue etc. One of the things we talked about was that we wanted to have a reasonably equal amount of men and women both as speakers and participants. Not because of any sense of political correctness...
August 2010
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Going On and Off Zoloft
You know how bad it hurts when you slam your finger in a door or hit it with a hammer? My whole body felt like that for about a month. My eyes, my brain, my body and skin, everything hurt like that. I actually have a hard time accurately describing how bad it hurt, I don’t have the adjectives. It was fucking excruciating. I think the pain of fire would be pleasantly distracting compared to...
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Please Support LocalWiki
With the decline of local newspapers and the rise of the Internet, we are faced with a disturbing situation where it’s easier to find out what’s happening on the other side of the world than it is to get important information about our own communities.
We can change this.
We have an amazingly promising effort to improve the way our local communities get and exchange information. The...
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Malicious Script Exploits Ignorant 4chan Users
Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center is being a bit passive agressive:
Here at the MMPC we suggest that you do not follow the instructions of random pictures that you see, especially if the instructions involve altering the file in any way, and then running it. In fact, we would suggest just not running random .HTA files at all.
The exploit hinges on a pretty interesting bit of social...
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DJ SVESKE: The Epic Techno Mix →
5 hours of techno including some laid-back tunes and some pretty heavy stuff as well.
Track list:
Sude 2 (Original Mix) - Donor & Truss
Who Is That - Terrence Dixon
Fiesta - Cobblestone Jazz
Come Home - Yousef
End of July - Subfossil
Buffer Ruffer - Booka Shade
Grillen Im Park (Bart…
I’ve made a thing. Check it out, and I’d love to hear your comments.
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On Open Innovation
Traditionally innovation has been about a few bright people solving a problem or developing a new product. Innovation used to be about control and about predicting the future. In a world of increasing complexity and connectivity this is no longer possible. Consumers’ tastes change faster than ever, new technologies emerge at an increasing pace rendering our R&D efforts obsolete and the...
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The Proposition 8 Ruling (in simple language)
squashed:
On August 4, 2010, Federal Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that California’s Proposition 8, which prohibits California from recognizing same-sex marriage, is unconstitutional. The ruling was stayed pending appeal—which means that nothing will happen until a Federal Appeals court reviews it. As you might imagine, it will be appealed. The ruling itself is 138 pages long. I’ll...
July 2010
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No democracy can or should fight a war without the consent of its people, and that consent is only meaningful if it is predicated on real information.
Eloquently put in L.A. Times’ editorial on Wikileaks and the War Logs. (By the way, if you’re in Denmark, check out the news on TV2 at 7 o’clock tonight where I’ll be trying to say something intelligent about Wikileaks.)
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Darryl Cunningham Investigates
Comic artist Darryl Cunningham is writing/drawing a book on science. He’s made early versions of three chapters available: The moon hoax, homeopathy and the MMR vaccination scare. It’s great stuff so far, can’t wait to get my hands on the completed book.