I want one of these to be dealer at poker night.
Here are some records I’ve enjoyed and can recommend from the first half of 2009.
Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
Son Volt – American Dust Central
Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
Booker T – Potato Hole
Tim Easton – Porcupine
Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses – Roadhouse Sun
Mark Olson and Gary Louris – Ready For The Flood
Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey and The GrooGrux King
Steve Earle – Townes
Todd Snider – The Excitement Plan
Ah, the memories!
Google Voice is finally sending out invites to the public, starting with the people who requested them long ago. I’ve been using the service for a few years, since the Grand Central days, and am a big fan. Here are my top 4 reasons why everyone who uses a phone should sign-up today:
- Free long distance calling. Call into your account from any phone and Google allows you to dial out to any U.S. phone number for free. And because I have my Google Voice phone number as one of my 5 T-mobile favorites, I get totally free calling from my mobile phone. Plus, Google is offering very cheap international calling.
- Visual voicemail with transcription. When I get a voicemail on my account, I get an email that lets me play the message and includes a transcription of the message. The transcriptions aren’t perfect, and at times are pretty funny, but you can get the jist of the message without listening to the call. This is a great time saver.
- Android and iPhone GV Mobile application. This free application for my T-mobile G1 phone allows easy access to my Google Voice account including managing call-backs for free calling.
- One number for life. Choose your Google Voice phone number carefully, especially the area code – it may be your number for life. I don’t give out my home or mobile number to personal or business contacts. I give them my Google Voice number, which routes calls to whatever phone I happen to be using. It can even ring multiple phones simultaneously.
Biggest wish? I hope the online Google Voice interface get fully integrated with Gmail, but only as an option.
More information on this amazing work of passion can be found on Chris Webber’s blog.
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I have a great new find to report, the band Minky Starshine and their debut album “Unidentified Hit Record.” As the blog Captains Dead extols:
just about every track on here is hook-laden power pop goodness that, in a perfect world, would and could dominate the airwaves of your local top 40.
Agreed.
Give it a listen. There is a 89.4% chance it will make your day. You can thank me later.
John Daily is a national treasure. Thank you John for having the balls to tell the king – to his face – that he has no clothes. Journalism plays a crucial role in our democracy and in capitalism. Unfortunately so much of what is touted as journalism today, especially on TV, is purely entertainment. Its goal is ratings and making money, alone. CNBC is to journalism, as Scientology is to religion.
Turn off CNBC. For the good of the people, the economy, and the country, it needs to die. If TV is the only way you get news, try PBS. Or The Daily Show.
Here is the unedited Daily Show interview with Jim Cramer of CNBC on March 12, 2009.
