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Gold Plated Cheese

May 31st, 2006 by Jeremy Johnson | No Comments | Filed in music, reviews

dangermouse

Everything Danger Mouse touches turns to gold. The most recent CD i’ve been enjoying is Gnarls Barkley / St. Elsewhere (released this month). Gnarls Barkely is the combo of Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse. Together they put together a soul/funk/R&B/hip hop/beats extravaganza that can’t really be labeled (and therefor can’t really sell well…).

He is also behind DangerDoom which is a Danger Mouse/MF Doom/Adult Swim mash-up. Yes, you even hear from Space Ghost.

Never before have I tracked down a producer to see what’s hot in music. Everything he’s involved with turns out really great. But enough gushing…

If you haven’t checked out Danger Mouse head to the website to listen to some samples.

Bookmarks – Social, Clips, Tags, Notes, Categories, oh my.

January 31st, 2006 by Jeremy Johnson | 3 Comments | Filed in reviews, technology

I recently decided to move as much of my life online as possible. One thing I had a hard time with was my Bookmarks. I’m a bookmark junkie. I currently have over 6,500 bookmarks from the past 4 years. They are loaded on my laptop in a program called URL Manager Pro. Not a bad little program, but not online (I have a upcoming post about why I’m moving online).

There are a lot of different bookmarking online apps.

  • del.icio.us:
    No private bookmarking
  • furl.net
    I started here, I imported my bookmarks (all 6,500 of them) and they imported correctly, but they did not keep any of the tags/folders and stripped the page titles. Also the search was not that great
  • spurl.net
    Next tried spurl, which looked great! I imported my bookmarks, was able to mark them private or public – they said they would send me an email when the import was complete, that was more then a week ago…

simpy.com

After browsing eHub for more solutions I came across simpy.com. Again, tried importing – and yes, it took all 6,500 – simpy even made tags from my folders. Simpy has privite/public features, del.icio.us integration, tag management and a bunch more. The site is ugly as sin, but it gets the job done. It even has a notes feature where you can highlight text on a page, store and tag it for future viewing. It also has a great search feature that also searches the homepage content for all the bookmarks.

So here I am, finally an online home for my bookmark addiction.