It’s that time of year again. Here’s my list for the Top 10 Albums of 2007. These aren’t necessarily my favorite now… instead, this list reflects how much I liked these albums over the course of the year at the peak of my obsession over each one.

Justice: †
Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You [...]

I’ve been reading up on copyleft licenses. I’ve been tackling the question of whether the GNU FDL (GNU Free-Document License - the license for all content at Wikipedia) is compatible with more proprietary licenses? In other words will it be possible to straight-up copy all Wikipedia content and drop it into Google Knol? [...]

Wow! The Lost in Translation whisper is finally revealed. Part of me wishes I had not seen this so be cautious if you’re a big fan of the movie. But still, this is really cool.

I got this viral email today. I’m sure it has been making the rounds in the Boston area, and I thought I would give it a more national audience.
Subject: FW: God
Three quarterbacks, Manning, Romo and Tom Brady, go to heaven to visit God and watch the Celtics play a game. God decides [...]

I just discovered tonight that my blog’s WordPress template had malicious javascript in it that did evil things involving stealing data via an ActiveX control in IE 6 and earlier.
1. My apologies to anyone that was affected.
2. If anyone else notices that their WordPress template is doing *very bad* things to IE users, you [...]

Sarah has a poignant post about how Mark Zuckerberg’s apology for the Beacon controversy is very reminiscent of his apology a year ago regarding the News Feed. Yet, as Fred points out, Facebook’s News Feed was a powerful UI innovation — likely the most important UI innovation since del.icio.us popularized tagging.
So, is Beacon [...]

Hot Chip is only playing two shows in the US on their latest tour. One in LA and one in NY. Tickets for the NY show at the Highline Ballroom went on sale at 1pm on Saturday. I pinged the Ticketmaster server at 1:02pm… and they were all sold out. Total [...]

Scoble’s musings on why enterprise software isn’t sexy takes a narrow view of enterprise software. The enterprise software that really excites me is the stuff that’s aimed at consumers initially, and then consumers bring the software into the enterprise from the bottom up, solving their individual problems first and being adopted by the organization [...]

Check out this visually arresting series of photos from killer concerts during 2007; it’s well worth your time. These snapshots appeal to that little corner of the mind (everyone has this corner, I’m sure) that says, “Kick your chair back against the wall, quit your job, find the closest crowded street corner, and rock [...]