“The e-cigarette cartridges tested by the FDA can hold between 0.5 and 1 ml of liquid. The FDA testing found 1% DEG in one of the cartridges. It would take 100 of the 1 ml cartridges or 200 of the 0.5 ml cartridges to yield 1 ml of DEG. Therefore a 150-pound user would have to consume between 6800 and 13600 cartridges in a single day to take in a toxic level of DEG. On average, an e-cigarette user consumes one cartridge per day.”

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In the Eighties I used to be hardcore into making those knotted friendship bracelets, remember those? I would get super skinny pearl string, and use about twenty strings instead of the normal eight or ten. So my knots would be really tiny and precise, and I could make more intricate patterns. I would often work with black string as I’m doing now, working patterns into the blackness that you could only see if you held it a certain way under the light. And why would I do this? I don’t know, it was just what we did in those days. Anyway, here’s the video that I sooo wish I could’ve seen 27 years ago! Amazing how easy it is once you see somebody do it up close like that. Over and over again, at various angles, rewinding when necessary… ;-)

(Update: this post got deleted by a buggy plugin; I had to recreate it. Sarah had posted a comment that got deleted along with the original: “ugh! but the music! and the super bendy thumb! I can’t watch.”)

This salad gets its pleasant crunch from ramen noodles, almonds and sesame seeds. “It’s my most asked-for recipe,” says Edith Frost from Mountain View, California. “An adaptable main dish, it works well with chicken or turkey, too.”

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Managing passwords on the go is about to get easier, now that 1Password for iPhone has hit the App Store [iTunes link]. The release features secure notes, wireless sync to your Mac, and all the credential-caching fun you expect from the full-size tool — in a handy pantsable format.

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Albany, CA is a sleepy little city that is part of the East Bay just north of Berkeley. A mostly ‘middle class’ (for the SF Bay Area) kinda place where people raise kids without the fears of many modern urban dwellers. It has a conservative 1950s feel to it, and from what I hear the cops there like it that way. Strangely enough, it is home to some amazing talent and subversiveness. Maybe that is not strange at all.

Here’s some examples I have experienced.

This past weekend I played on a session with Drag City artist, Edith Frost. It was a nice song titled, My Euphorbia and was recorded for a possible future DC comp that apparently has something to do with the tracks being performed live. Those in attendance were Edith, Wil Hendricks on standup bass, myself on guitar, Val Esway and Heather Davidson on backup vocals. Edith and Wil (via Chicago) live in Albany. [...]

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… which will be here too soon… which is why I can’t even stop to tell you about my recording session with Edith Frost… or the amazing set that Joe Rut played tonight at the Bazaar Cafe…. there is more, more, more, …

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Led by guitarist Nathaniel Braddock — also of Edith Frost, The Zincs and Ancient Greeks — the group started off covering the best of traditional Congolese musicians. They’ve since gone on to create their own signature blend while …

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A very pretty poster designed by Sean Ingram, for the 2006 show I did with the Zincs at the Record Bar in Kansas City.

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Windows/Linux/Windows Mobile: It’s not the whole world-knowledge shebang, but Pocket Wikipedia drops 14 million and 24,000 images onto your PC or Windows Mobile device. The articles are hand-picked to cover the widest array of material you can fit into 175 MB, and the interface is condensed to offer quick searching and indexing on mobile devices.

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I’d like to announce the general availability of a project that I’ve been working on in my spare time for the last few months: whoisi.com.

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