While I’m on the sub­ject of the cloud, I thought I should men­tion the web ser­vice Drop­box, which offers 2 free giga­bytes of online stor­age that can sync across com­put­ers, phones, and pads.

I don’t use it for huge files, but it’s great for work­ing on doc­u­ments across mul­ti­ple com­put­ers. It’s also good for trans­fer­ring music, pic­tures, and short video clips.

If you sign up from this link, they will expand my stor­age, so don’t be shy! Shame­less.

It’s been a pretty great week for music. New Arcade Fire– always good news. They are releas­ing a new album in August. The album’s title track, ‘The Sub­urbs’, is also it’s first single.

Ratatat’s entire LP4 has leaked. Right now my favorite track is ‘Sun­blocks’. It sounds pretty much like every­thing Ratatat has ever done, which isn’t a bad thing.

Lastly, Kanye West plans on releas­ing a new album this year. I’m not expect­ing much, given his epic down­fall into what­ever you call the state he is in right now (suck?). His first sin­gle, ‘Power’, actu­ally isn’t too bad. You can give it a lis­ten below. What do you think, is it too late to give Kanye a sec­ond chance? Prob­a­bly.

Arcade Fire — The Suburbs

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Ratatat — Sunblocks

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Kanye West — Power (Feat. Dwele)

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Side rant:

I think it’s time for iTunes 10. We are mov­ing into the era of the cloud. Google already offers cloud ser­vices for the basics (Gmail, Gcals, Gdocs), and a lot of peo­ple watch more TV online than on TV (Hulu, Net­flix).

But what about music?

There are a few juke­box style stream­ing ser­vices (Groove­shark, Spo­tify), but most peo­ple still pre­fer to stick with their iTunes library, me included. The prob­lem is, iTunes doesn’t do what it should. I see no rea­son why iTunes can’t stream my music library to my iPhone or iPad. If AirVideo can stream a 24 giga­byte file of The Fel­low­ship of the Ring, then a few songs should be noth­ing. I also want iTunes to sync libraries across com­put­ers. This wouldn’t be that hard to do over wifi. If I down­load some songs on my lap­top, I shouldn’t have to down­load them again on my desk­top. Google Chrome does an excel­lent job sync­ing book­marks across com­put­ers, and it’s time for iTunes to do the same thing for music.

Appar­ently Google is devel­op­ing some kind of cloud based music ser­vice, but it prob­a­bly won’t work well with Apple prod­ucts. Also, I’ve invested so much time into adding album art and lyrics for my 13,398 songs I would hate to have to start over. If my music is mov­ing to the cloud, it’s going to have to be with iTunes. Here’s hop­ing June’s Stevenote is about more than just the new iPhone.

Get a load of this! In a recent inter­view with The Lon­don Times, J.K. Rowl­ing revealed that she is work­ing on Vol­ume One of a new Harry Pot­ter series called The Auror. This will surely come as a pleas­ant sur­prise to the many fans who thought Harry Pot­ter and the Deathly Hal­lows was the last we would hear from Pot­ter and the gang. [via Lon­don Times Online] get off the couch hairy ass!!

I’m finally let­ting go of “Sum­mer Title” and replac­ing it with some­thing more per­ma­nent. Also, WoodyJANG*com is now offi­cially just WoodyJANG. and yes, you have to empha­size the ‘woody’ when you say it. That’s how I can tell you’re talk­ing about the blog and not me.

I’m try­ing to think of a way to incor­po­rate that pink back into the new header.…

These are just per­sonal picks, not pre­dic­tions. I would be pleas­antly sur­prised if any of these won. Also– FUCK SANDRA BOLLOCKS

BEST PICTURE: Dis­trict 9
DIRECTING: Quentin Taran­tino — Inglou­ri­ous Bas­terds
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE: Jeff Bridges — Crazy Heart
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: Carey Mul­li­gan — An Edu­ca­tion
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Woody Har­rel­son — The Mes­sen­ger
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE: Mo’Nique — Pre­cious
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: In the Loop
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: A Seri­ous Man
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: The White Rib­bon
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM: Up
ART DIRECTION: Avatar
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Harry Pot­ter and the Half-Blood Prince
COSTUME DESIGN: The Imag­i­nar­ium of Doc­tor Par­nas­sus
FILM EDITING: Dis­trict 9
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Food, Inc.
MAKEUP: Star Trek
ORIGINAL SCORE: Up
ORIGINAL SONG: “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” — Crazy Heart
SOUND MIXING: Star Trek
SOUND EDITING: Star Trek
VISUAL EFFECTS: Avatar
DOCUMENTARY SHORT: China’s Unnat­ural Dis­as­ter: The Tears of Sichuan Province
ANIMATED SHORT FILM: A Mat­ter of Loaf and Death
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM: Instead of Abra­cadabra
A lot of these I chose because I like the title…

[via Giz­modo]

Sev­en­teenth cen­tury scholar James Ussher cal­cu­lated through pre­cise cal­cu­la­tions bible inter­pre­ta­tion that the Earth was cre­ated in 4004 b.c.

His com­peti­tors, after dou­ble check­ing his cal­cu­la­tions, were able to deter­mine the exact moment of Earth’s cre­ation: 9 a.m. on Octo­ber 23^rd, 4004 b.c.

That makes Earth 6013 years old today! Happy Birth­day Earth! (who cares if they were off by 4.5 bil­lion years or so…)

Check out this great arti­cle from WIRED about the MJ. No, not michael jack­son, No, not michael jor­dan, No, not spi­der man’s girl
[Wired]

Thanks a lot GOOGLE… Jerk. [via Huff­in­g­ton Post]

I have one Google WAVE invite left, and I’ve decided it should go to the most poetic geek.
If you’re read­ing this, then I’ve already invited you, so go away.
The rules are sim­ple: Write a com­ment with a haiku about some­thing geeky or tech­nol­ogy related. The best haiku by the end of the week (12AM East­ern, sun­day night) wins the last invite

UPDATE: Okay, Aaron wins. even though he already has one.