Is it my imagination or did April Fools Day bring every “a-list” blogger some sense that they could be funny? I browsed through my archives and it was all lame “I work for the competition!” jokes. Please people: get over yourselves. We don’t care. Work at Starbucks for the amount it effects me and my everyday life.
Beyond that: the wedding I had on April 1 was fun. More importantly, REM played in Athens, GA on this date as a reunited four-piece. And we have the record it.
Suck it A-listers. Buck, Mills, Berry and Stipe performing Country Feedback in Athens, GA trumps all.
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The most fitting description of April Fools Day I’ve ever read described it as the day when unfunny people get to play at being funny.
I agree with dwlt. Is YOUR April Fool’s Joke that there’s this “recording” you have that is really cool, but that no one will ever have? 
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This one’s not a belated April Fool’s joke. On April 1 at the Georgia Theater in Athens, GA, the original four members of R.E.M. got on stage together to play “Country Feedback.” It was near the end of the Minus……
Did someone wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? High Schoolesque quibbles of status does not suit you.
I agree with you that the AFD jokes were lame. But, c’mon…..”My REM album is better than your lame ass joke”?
My stated thesis is that April Fools day 2006 was trumped by R.E.M. playing, not that its my album or anything.
Touche. Maybe a lack of coffee, but I guess I just tire of (what I interpreted as) school yard squabbling on the net.
The link below is not the most eloquently spoken post about what is failing on the net, but it does sum up what I thought when I read your post…..
http://www.i-marco.nl/weblog/archive/2005/09/20/the_net_is_dead_long_live_the_
As I said before, your are bang on when it comes to the criticism of the AFD stuff being lame.
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yeah, Dries, what's with that?
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The XMPP feed was really cool. Why Twitter won't allow relaying is beyond me. If twitter decentralized and did a node/hub based architecture with a good toolkit, things would be much different.
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So why couldn't a loosely coupled, queue based system using XMPP work as a twitter clone? Hash table lookups for @replies, a good OSPF type routing table for interserver communication and asynchronous messaging propagation. Lets get cracking!
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The dutch certainly like their Twitters! That's better twitter coverage than we got at most of the US shows.
[From July 2nd, Amsterdam, Netherlands | R.E.M. Tour, 2008]- #
For the past ten years "tapped for web series" has usually been synonymous for "lots of money on stuff no one will want to watch." Can Google + MacFarlane reverse this? Probably not, because they don't understand the concept of Windowing. Content is successful when not built up with expectations.
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so this reminds me that Indigo Home Automation software + native iPhone App is going to absolutely MURDER as a home automation device. IndigoIndigo has an IP protocol and Zeroconf support. Our iPod Touch in our house is already doing this using a web based interface for us. Also consider the possibilities of using the iPod to control a wider array of devices, like your home stereo (using IRTransIRTrans), your air conditioner, etc. The iPod Touch suddenly kills the Phillips Prestigo, Logitech Harmony, etc. The Touch costs less than the Harmony, but IRTrans is not that cheap.
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Crystal was a great asset to the team and it will be sad to lose her, but our loss is many other people's gains and I wish her well in Seattle!
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This is severely retarded. Honestly. In Orange County, a city with a plentiful population of people needing jobs and wanting to work and invested in their communities, a paper instead opts to crowdsource through Indian outsourcing than maybe offering to give something back to the community by crowd sourcing through, maybe parts of the city with high unemployment? Fuck. The stupidity abounds.
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So this is another in the line of REM experiments. With this one, fans can help create the animations for the tour backdrop in the European leg, through October. The animations will get assembled and shipped off to Blue Leach, who is doing the background video.
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Bill Gates = a personal hero. I love this e-mail. Microsoft is also a case of spreading things too thin.
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- ENOUGH with the parties, where is the innovation? What the fuck are we celebrating anyhow?
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