ICWSM 

A plea for descriptive subject titles on blog posts

This doesn't apply to LiveJournal, but I wish blogs made better use of descriptive subject titles.With the exception of a handful of LJs (e.g. jwz)...

pure 90's gold

These new jack swing mixes totally made my day, perhaps they will make (or break) yours as well...parts: 1 | 2 | 3Also, Radiohead is tonight for th...

Santiago Salazar mix

Testing out my new earbuds with this bangin' new mix by Santiago Salazar...tracklisting hereSounds fantastic! I'm hoping he'll play SF or Seattle ...

headphones & Decibel!!!

I'm not sure if wood makes music sound better, but damn, they do make headphones look a lot cooler...I found these while doing some headphones rese...

Test

Nokia N95, initial thoughts

Nokia contacted me via Flickr (I imagine because 90% of my photos there are uploaded from my 3 year old Nokia 6682) and asked me if I'd like to pla...

some updates...

-- I went sailing on Saturday for the first time, it's really fun... especially when you think the boat is going to tip over. Thinking about takin...

the funniest thing I've seen in ages

Colbert just debuted it seconds ago...

Benga/Skream & my love affair w/ dubstep

Benga and Skream killed it last night in SF. This was my first dubstep show, and as someone who's been a rabid fan of this music for the last few ...

Silicon Valley language pet peeves

Writing in all caps and using excessive business speak have widely been driven home as no-nos... but here are some more recent language phenomenons...

ah, sweet satisfaction!

ah, sweet satisfaction!, originally uploaded by ario_j.Satisfaction is telling the 17 y/o who was pleading for my spot in line to bacdafucup as I p...

Daedalus & other stuff

daedalus killed it!, originally uploaded by ario_j.Just had to mention that Daedalus delivered a fantastic set last night using what I think is cal...

Metal Gear tour comes to SF & Quiet Village this weekend

There's apparently a Metal Gear tour going around with a few dates in the states... SF is one of them:"The final leg of the North America tour, hel...

Awesome art opening & Metal Gear'ing up!

Whoa, this totally came out of the blue... Eliot Lipp, Jel, Daedelus, Deru, Odd Nodsam... sign me up! (RSVP here)-- Rafting is a whole helluva lot...

amazing

Cat Power, originally uploaded by leah pritchard.My Chan crush aside, I must say that this is one of the best concert photos / portraits that I've ...

M + 8 + 3 = awesome

Wow, I saw the best show I've seen in SF thus far last night, courtesy of M83. They destroyed!-- Started off with an ambient intro with just Antho...

ArioShow #1 - Intro

inspired mainly by Jessie and Ben's videos... I decided to take the plunge and try this out.A few other points:-- Didn't realize I had this vid set...

Dr. John Medina's "Brain Rules" talk

A long-term project of mine came to fruition last month as I had the privilege of hosting my ex-professor, Dr. John Medina, for a talk at Google. ...

Help me raise money for diabetes research!

This coming Sunday, I'll be participating in the Tour De Cure cycle in Napa Valley...I'm trying to raise money for my team and so here I am, shamel...

Finding Quality Mixes

Two years later, I find myself still addicted to that one Dixon mix.Minimal techno by itself gets really boring to me after awhile and house usuall...

goodbye outside world after June 12th.

First there's all the GTA 4 craziness and now this?Why couldn't these have come out during the winter!!?

the Antonov: world's largest airplane

I love this graphic that compares the worlds largest airplanes...The tail span of the Antonov is the same as a 737's wing span!

several mini updates, statements, & questions

-- Seeing Meat Beat Manifesto tonight (but don't know anyone else that's going). I dig the new album... curious to see what kind of set list Jack ...

How to enjoy a concert performed by Autechre

For those of you attending or on the fence about attending an Autechre concert (tonight in Seattle or sometime the future), please look at this pho...

Seattle week o' fun

I fly in today at 5:30 and have no idea what's going on tonight or this weekend. Please fill me in peoples.My shortlist of things to do this week:...

Tendonosis: the bane of my knee's existence

Yesterday, I went to a knee specialist at Stanford Medical Center to get a second opinion on the knee pain I've been experiencing ever since the ma...

No Country for Old Men

Don't read this post if you haven't seen the movie.I imagine reading the book would add a lot to the experience (particularly with regards to putti...

Design Conferences Galore!

I couldn't attend CHI or SXSW this year, so that sent me off to research other possibilities. The fruits of my labor are below. I'll be attending...

"Ghosts" video collab?

Would anyone in the bay area be interested in collaborating on a video to submit for this?more info here and here.I can provide:-- an old, 1st gen ...

photoshop for audio

Holy dear God of all audio editing...Big thx to Jeff for sending me this... he sez:it may not look like much to the less techy, but the ability to ...

NIN ups the ante, big time!

Trent's been teasing fans on his blog for awhile now about something "big"... well, here it is...http://ghosts.nin.com/main/homeNine Inch Nails pre...

more of the Maus

I have some "real" updates to post soon, I swear... but in the meantime, here's some Maus-a-roke...Those negative press quotes from my last post ab...

John Maus is the man

I've kept quiet about this album for long enough. It is time to come clean and shout out the praises of...bio:"Maus is a core member of Ariel Pink...

retribution

Apologies if that last clip busted your eardrums and/or speakers. These should make up for it...Damn I miss Lady Miss Kier and Towa Tei! I associ...

happy sunday!

for all you remaining Hillary supporters out there...

I was hanging out with a married couple over the weekend who plan to vote for Hillary and the main argument from the wife was something like, "I ca...

Toolbar 5 & miscellany

-- For the 3 of my readers who still use Internet Explorer, try out my first released project at g00g...No Ario cameo sadly, but maybe for the next...

hi lj

I don't have much to say here lately, but you are in my thoughts. For now, please enjoy this:

kauai sunset

kauai sunset, originally uploaded by ario_j. I had an amazing day learning how to surf and hanging out with jamzjamz. I actually managed to ...

Ario tiene un secreto. Un secreto muy importante.

Durante los últimos meses, he estado practicando mis 3 años de la universidad española por la escucha de la estación local de reggaeton cada vez qu...

ario's favorite albums of 2007

The end of my '07 got crazy busy and I haven't found time to post on LJ much as you may have noticed, but I did want to get my albums of the year p...

no mo' del.icio.us up in here

By popular demand, I'm decoupling my del.icio.us feed from my LJ. If you're still interested in getting the links, you have 3 ways to do so:Direct...

My del.icio.us bookmarks for 12-8-2007

Stock Photography: Search Royalty Free Images & Photos | iStockphoto.com this is a great site for finding tons of illustrator designs. Do...

My del.icio.us bookmarks for 12-7-2007

The Morning News - The Laptop Club click the Next button to scroll through the various designs. Way cool! (tags: children kids design lapt...

My del.icio.us bookmarks for 12-6-2007

Posts tagged with Speedreading | Ask MetaFilter get to reading quicker yo (tags: metafilter reading advice tips how-to)

My del.icio.us bookmarks for 12-5-2007

HEMA - online winkelen wow, now that's what I call a webpage! (tags: rube-goldberg interaction design webdesign humor) CleanScores.com :...

My del.icio.us bookmarks for 12-4-2007

Welcome! - BoomShuffle.com site that lets you make online playlists and share them with friends. Catalog seems pretty limited though. (tag...

My del.icio.us bookmarks for 12-3-2007

Ride Safe with iHome’s iH85B » My Digital Life i've seen one of these in person and it sounds pretty good... just wish it used a rechargable b...

My del.icio.us bookmarks for 11-30-2007

Streetsblog » The Bogotá Transformation: Vision and Political Will great example of bicycles being integrated into mass transit (tags: cycl...