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Can it be learned from a book, a CD, and a video?

Well, out of the blue, I received a very interesting email from a real-life bandoneonist and instructor who has a very interesting method for sale. I’m intrigued. I’m amazed. Could it be done this way? I have had quite a lot of musical training, so…
Coincidentally enough, a few days ago my five-year-old received a toy [...]

Feed Those Cheers

I’m hooked on 43 Things, 43 Places, & All Consuming, all products of the brilliant and busy team at The Robot Co-op. I think the best feature shared by all these sites is Cheers, a simple positive feedback device that makes it quick and easy to show your appreciation for what another person has [...]

Your 43 things on your blog

43 Things now comes with a javascript include for any web site. It’s a very simple way to list your things and link to them individually. I’m not sure where I’ll put this list permanently but for now I’ve stuck it on the about page as well as in this entry.
In addition, the Robots have [...]

Salon succumbs to paranoia

Amazon’s 43 Secrets written by Salon’s Katharine Mieszkowski is a speculative piece of crap. In this period of national fear-mongering, Mieszkowski takes advantage of the tinfoil-hat set’s thin skin to press the notion that a multi-billion dollar corporation, Amazon.com, is secretly funding a startup with the intention of gathering personal data on individuals “confiding their [...]

43 Things tag search bookmarklet

I created a bookmarklet for searching 43 Things tags. You can highlight a word on a web page, then click the bookmarklet to invoke the search. It’s quite excellent that the Robots have included Flickr and del.icio.us tag search results.
Drag this link to your bookmarks bar. Or, if you like, here’s the code:
javascript:e = %22%22 [...]