What Does Occupy Wall Street Want But Our Attention?

02/Oct/2011

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Declaration of Independence, 1776

Over the past 14 days, I’ve been watching the protests by the group that calls itself Occupy Wall Street, that started in New York City and have slowly spread across the country. They seem to be gaining a decent amount of momentum (not relative to the Middle East), but I cannot seem to find their central purpose. Read More…

Favorite Songs of the Last Few Months

13/Jun/2011

I was playing around with ways to search my past Tweets, and came across the service, Searchtastic. It does a great job searching the tweets of a specific Twitter user for keywords.

I used it to search my past tweets for the #SOTD hashtag. I think that hashtag is wildly egotistical, even far more so than Twitter is in general. Who cares what song I’m listening to today? Evidently I think everyone who follows me on Twitter does, so I continue to do it. I’ve been doing it for a while, but am not nearly as good at remembering it as I would like to be.

Using the Searchtastic results, I compiled what I think are the best Song of the Day entries from the past few months (in no particular order). Hit up the results after the break and tell me what you think of my choices, and what you would’ve added to / removed from my list (I LOVE discovering new music).