Some of you may know that I organize my music in a way unlike most programs that do it for you. Generally speaking, this is how it comes together: I have a folder called ‘mp3′, and in this folder I normally have ‘music’, ‘christian’, ‘comedy’, and ‘albums’.
In the ‘music’ folder are the individual mp3 tracks that have not come from owning the CD. For example, I have “Aha – Take On Me” in there, but I do not have the rest of the album that that track comes from.
The ‘christian’ folder is essentially the same as the ‘music’ folder, except that the tracks are all Christian artist singles. I separate the secular and the Christian tracks because it makes it easier to make a “clean” playlist for whatever reason.
In the ‘comedy’ folder are the albums from comedians. Pretty simple.
And finally, in the ‘albums’ folder there are the complete albums that I have on mp3. These include both secular and Christian artists. The reason why I don’t make a separate folder of albums for each like I did with the individual tracks is because my brain is not wired to be so complicated and multi-layered.

Anyway, I mention all of this because recently, in the past year or so, I have created a completely separate folder called ‘to move’ that houses all of the yet-to-be-sorted files and folders that I accumulate over a non-determined amount of time. This folder serves as a sort of quick-access route to files (mostly movies and mp3s) that I may need to listen to — to decide whether or not to keep it — or watch. Over time, the files that have piled up have gotten quite exhausting to go through. I have this problem of accumulating mounds upon mounds of data in such a way that I become overwhelmed by the fact of just having this insane amount of files to give my time to.

In a sense, I guess I suffer from modern digital overload; too many things trying to grab my attention without very much time dedicated to the things that need my attention.

Even so, I find myself still creating what could be labeled as “to move #2″ here in Australia. I’ve come across so much music during my time here that I am just starting to have trouble sorting through it all. I’m only in my apartment for several hours of each day and I try my best to give at least one album a good few listens before I head out again, but that’s just becoming harder and harder to do.

Here I am in Australia and of all the things I could be worried about, I am worried most about having to keep a second ‘to move’ folder. Heh. :P

Giant Negroes, from the New York Times.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ANDREA AND JORDAN FOR THEIR ENGAGEMENT! :)

Hmm! The New York Times has a pretty large version of the famous sailor and nurse kiss in Times Square. LIFE magazine still has the jury out on who the sailor actually is though, despite evidence of it being Glenn McDuffie.

At the time of publishing this post, k10k.net seems to be down. :O
This is the first time I’ve ever seen this happen.

Google has an official cheat sheet for “power searchers”. But their own cheat sheet doesn’t include every single nook and cranny of the Google search engine. That’s where the Google Cheat Sheet PDF comes in handy. Or try the Google Quick Reference Guide.

“FIRST!”, says Greg Packer. This man is nuts.

It sounds like first-impressions aren’t always good to go by, especially when it comes down to denying a signed copy of the first edition of Harry Potter from a then-unknown author named J.K. Rowling. Hahaha! Sucker!

At the end she picked up my copy of her book and reached for a pen. “Would you like me to sign it?” Something happened then. Maybe the waiter came to take away the empty coffee cups, maybe I realised that I had to rush. Maybe her daughter started to cry. (Writing this, I may too.) I picked up the book and left without her signature. Back at the office my producer asked me how it went. Had I got her to sign the book?

“No point,” I said, confidently. “When you’ve read as many books as I have, you know instinctively when something is going to be a hit. You mark my words. We won’t hear of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone ever again.”

I bet this guy was slapping himself silly when he realized that Harry Potter was going to be as big as McDonald’s. Oh well!

French webdesigner Mathieu Badimon has some fantastic interactive work up at his lab page. I love how the user is able to change some of the orientation of the main lab page by dragging the black levers on the edges of the browser window. Give it a try, and then check out his work.

If you have the Greasemonkey Firefox extension installed and you use Gmail a lot, you might be interested in installing the one-click conversations Greasemonkey script. The script adds a small little icon next to the names in an email so that you can easily jump to all of the conversations you’ve had with that contact. The only way to do this before was to go to your Contacts list and click the person’s name or to do a search yourself. This script makes it a lot easier AND a lot more convenient.

Process Enacted by RIT student Jordan C. Greenhalgh is an amazing piece of stop-motion video work involving 987 Polaroids with no computer compositing. It’s very impressive when you realize how much thought and work had to go into making this look as good as it does. More info at The Chase Factory.

OMG! It’s a CHROME Nintendo DS Lite caese mod for $40 USD!!! This is totally crazy and awesome and fantastic and magnificent and beautiful and wonderful!!!! [via]