No one's using the lastfm grapher site right now, and it seems to throw up a lot fewer hangs and broken files. Why not graph some musical habits?

I was going to make a somewhat assy post about the arbitrary nature of both the new-year-resolution thing and the actual things I would want to resolve to do, but instead I spent like four hours trying to make charts out of my past year of movie watching.

First I made this, which was way too hard to make for what it is:


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This is entertaining; it's a site that lets you make little charts of concepts. Here is what I made in ten minutes or so.


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I'm posting this to record that I'm putting a new brassiere into rotation, so as to see how long it takes before the elastic in the straps starts getting all nonelastic. It's the grey one, future me ( Read more... )

I'm somewhat disappointed that with these livejournal quizmemes, there's no easy way to track their spread. Usually people are nice enough to mention where they got it, but it's not mandatory. I want some kind of little code that you place at the end of your post, so that you have an identifier for you and your post number, and people getting it ( Read more... )

Uh, seriously, what's the point of this crap? You got three people to record the media they consume for a week, and that's it? No analysis, no larger sample size? What the hell.
I could get better information on freaking myspace. Thank you so much, fruity New York publication.

(link from n0wak)

There was a crummy movie on last night, an 80s movie with Lorraine from Back to the Future in it. It also had Elias Koteas in it, as an extremely contrived young tough, which was sort of entertaining. Otherwise it was pretty stupid, but that was probably because it was a John Hughes piece. I was amused to find, while looking through his imdb page ( Read more... )

This pisses me off. Not the concept of tracking people and synthesizing behavior/buying patterns, whatever. That's slightly distasteful, but it doesn't upset me. I'm even interested to some extent by the idea of extrapolating from external cues what people will like. It pisses me off that the jerks that had their movie fortunes read by those ( Read more... )

Something is flawed about listening to all my music in a giant randomized pile (which is how I usually listen).
I have a poor sense of what I actually have, which may be (er... is) in part due to sheer volume, but definitely also is attributable to the acontextualized nature of any one song in the song-mass ( Read more... )