New NPR music site looks sharp

Lots of streaming music, great aggregation of stations, including Seattle’s own KEXP

Now more open to everyone

It’s with no small amount of pride that I got to write the mea culpa inviting Firefox, Safari and, yes, even Opera users back to msnbc.com

Alpha Channel is our new “this is what we’re working on” blog

Launching to showcase the redesign work, eventually this will be our ongoing work blog. My colleague and officemate Ben Tesch did the conceptual and design work on this one, which is why it looks awesome.

Build a machine capable of feeling and make it fall in love with you, then abandon it for six months in a closet without an internet connection and only top 40 radio as company. Take the hundreds of sad love songs it writes and sell them under a variety of pseudonyms to A-list stars. Before you retire to your own island, unplug the machine so that no one ever discovers your secret.

—Paul Ford, who has 99 other ways to say I love you

Tumblr 3.0 is here

I dig the new features, though I’m not quite sure what to do about the channels part. Seriously time to design a bloody template, though.

How the candy lobby got an extra hour of daylight on Halloween

Apparently, moving daylight savings time past Halloween is something they’ve long lobbied for and only the completely ill conceived Energy Policy Act of last year was able to deliver.

So they’ll sell you a double bed, and give you privacy and endless champagne and then say you can’t do what comes naturally?

—Tony Elwood, Singapore Air passenger, displaying with stunning clarity the sense of entitlement that comes with flying first class. Singapore Air has politely asked passengers in the first class “suites” not to engage in any mile high antics.

Filter del.icio.us dailies from RSS feed using Yahoo pipes

Because all my friends seem to want to aggregate their Twitter/Del.icio.us/Flicker/whatever feeds into their blogs when all I want is the goddamn good stuff

Saul Williams and Trent Reznor talk to Vulture about “The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!"

Amazingly, this is the first album I’ve been excited about in months. Also, Trent was an OiNK user and says he paid $5,000 for In Rainbows.

Mozilla Prism

“Prism isn’t a new platform, it’s simply the web platform integrated into the desktop experience. Web developers don’t have to target it separately, because any application that can run in a modern standards-compliant web browser can run in Prism.”