Joe's Homepage

My blog. A collection of links, videos, pictures & text pertaining to music, tv, books, food, computers & the news. My blog is powered by tumblr, a very simple yet oddly addictive blog publishing and hosting service.

segfault.org was a nerd satire site, based on the style of slashdot that was popular in the late 90s and early 00s. It was founded and run by the internet's Leonard Richardson and Scott James Remnant. segfault accepted reader submissions and they were kind enough to publish about a few by yours truly.

last.fm is streaming music site on the net. It's recommendation engine is second-to-none. Every month or so I create a new playlist for your listening pleasure, sometimes based on a theme, sometimes not. I also occasionally write journal posts about music or iTunes software that I've written. Speaking of which, here's a an applescript that generates a last.fm playlist based on an iTunes playlist.

News You Can Bruise is Leonard Richardson's excellent blog. leonardr is a very talented writer, musician, and programmer. crummy.com is a veritable goldmine of daily minutiae, in-jokes, game reviews, quirky songs and genuinely useful free software.

My favourite comic, bar none. Achewood is hard to describe so I'll let Wikipedia handle it: "[Achewood] portrays the lives of a group of anthropomorphic stuffed toys, robots, and pets...The comic's humor is most often absurdist, sometimes branching into the surreal."

Planet Gnome has nothing to do with statues of little men that live in your garden. Instead it's an aggregation of blog posts by developers involved with the GNOME Free Software Desktop Project.

Man, Kongregate is a great idea. It's a site that hosts and showcases Flash games. You know, the ones you end up playing when you've got Friday-itis. They let pretty much anyone upload their games for free and then they let anyone else play the games. Kongregate also share their ad revenue with developers Awesome. Check out Desktop Tower Defense.