• (from @unruthless) @JoeGermuska Nice to meet you earlier this evening at #breakbreadforbrad! Thx for introducing me around. Would love to stay in touch.
• (from @harper) Come hang out with @joi and friends. (specifically @jsb) (@ Club De Ville w/ @joegermuska @kellan) http://4sq.com/62W3Wo
• (from @onyxfish) @brianboyer @ryanmark @joegermuska Woot! Good job guys!
• (from @brianboyer) Sorry the folks who did the real work aren’t here. Congrats: Jackson, Marx & @joegermuska. http://yfrog.com/1aej5j http://yfrog.com/896tpj
• RT @cjoh The Transparency Jobs Package continues to expand. Up to 10 great jobs with a great purpose: http://transparencyjobs.com/jobs/
• Sitting by projector for #incodewetrust featuring @noneck and @kachok http://sitby.us/0553/
• @foglio I think you might be interested in “The City is a Platform” http://sitby.us/event/2688/
• Nice spontaneous meetup at Annie’s w/@dkrumlauf @nurturegirl @foglio Thanks to @Rachelannyes for tweet-tipoff.
• (from @jsb) Inordinate number of guitars, moustaches and philip k. Dick novels on @southwestair 1146 mdw-> Aus.
• (from @levistahl) On the L this morning, a nurse talking to a friend shouted PINK FROTHY SPUTUM! four times. It was 6 AM. Not that 6 PM would be OK, mind you.

• Aw yeah, that’s a sinister @googlemaps bug–even the ~27,000 views LTH Forum GNR map is kinda messed up. Not sure where to file a bug.
• (from @bradflora) #sxsw image of day: 5 geeks walking in a train all staring at iPhones trusting guy in front of them is looking where they’re going.
• (from @simonw) Not one but three new ORM-level caching tools for Django were released in the past month! http://simonwillison.net/tags/ormcaching/
• (from @valdiskrebs) Thanks @JoeGermuska for pointing to http://www.sitby.us — great twitter app for planning/notifying of SxSW schedule!
• hey, @googlemaps – I found a freaky bug editing places on ‘my map’ when I’ve edited the “place details” and then go to another.
• (from @paulsmith) @JoeGermuska @dansinker To wit: http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/09/location-is-the-new-just-kill-yourself/ (in reply to this tweet)
• (from @dansinker) @JoeGermuska I guess not! (in reply to this tweet)
• @dansinker Not much different from making a movie expecting to shop it around at film festivals, is it? (in reply to this tweet)
• (from @esinclai) @JoeGermuska MMM. Breakfast Tacos! That’s on my must list for this week indeed. (in reply to this tweet)
• John T. Edge talks breakfast tacos http://j.mp/9gwiKO so I updated my Austin food & beer map http://bit.ly/cgPP2O (h/t @happy_stomach)
• (from @amandaruzin) @JoeGermuska Even with all of that, I still wish I were going. (in reply to this tweet)
• Big Media or Big SEO Spammers? – GigaOM
  “Faced with declining revenues and increasingly dismal prospects, some mainstream media outlets are adopting questionable tactics, specifically dead-end web pages stuffed with outbound links and pay-per-click ads. A liberally funded LA startup is only too quick to help them.”
  (tags: media google seo via:twitter=dansinker)
  (sources: Twitter user @dansinker)
• Excellent map humor via @MattH http://j.mp/9Rp4FC My Way – Abstract City Blog – NYTimes.com
• (from @dansinker) @JoeGermuska Lynda Barry story: In high school, my friends were the band for an adaptation of one of her books. Spent many nights with her! (in reply to this tweet)
• @dansinker My Lynda Barry story: she called my radio show exhorting me to see Fernest Arceneaux at Fitzgerald’s 4th of July Fest. I shoulda. (in reply to this tweet)
• @amandaruzin SXSW Interactive: Because hell doesn’t have enough promotional stickers http://j.mp/cPHC1W (in reply to this tweet)
• (from @tinjaw) RT @JoeGermuska: Mozilla hires @ianbicking This can only be good for the internet. Hooray! http://j.mp/95Or8k « Python as 1st class script?

• Jan/Feb @imbibe and Feb @bonappetitmag covered Austin so I made a google map http://j.mp/cgPP2O BA made this with 4square http://j.mp/9rUCLp
• Mozilla hires @ianbicking This can only be good for the internet. Hooray! http://j.mp/95Or8k (in reply to this tweet)
• (from @jchernandezjazz) #photo #jazz US sax “HAPPY BI-DAY MR ORNETTE COLEMAN !”+videos http://bit.ly/axGd3h @peterjmacdonald @sonics_ @joegermuska @cmetz @ticuslot
• Wow, I’m gonna like it that much more! RT @EllenMalloy Door are open at Big Star!!!!! Spring has started!!!!!! http://yfrog.com/6ze1uj
• The other side of transparency. Lots of chatter asking why the Department of Education needs to buy shotguns. http://j.mp/chzSJ7
• (from @chronicbabe) @h3athrow, hey there j school friend! long time no talk! @joegermuska and i have you in common. hope you’re well!
• (from @dansinker) @JoeGermuska Thank god! I have been at a loss without my spring training news! (in reply to this tweet)
• RT @h3athrow Enough about Corey Haim. Granny D died. http://j.mp/b08v3v
• @dansinker I’m on that for ya. Should be fixed any moment. (in reply to this tweet)
• (from @jeremybowers) @JoeGermuska You mean, tomorrow? Or later this afternoon? ;-) (in reply to this tweet)
• @jeremybowers I’ll remember that next time you tweet looking for regex help :^) (in reply to this tweet)
• RT @destinationout Ornette Coleman is 80 today. Give yourself a gift & listen to Ornette! #happybdayOC
• Missed the photo, but I swear I just saw a guy in my neighborhood using a husky to pull a stroller. I don’t think there was a baby in there.

• (from @justinmassa) some cool stuff in the google apps store, including map tiler. @juggernautco @scottrobin @joegermuska – maybe .pdf TIF map solution?
• Sorry friend. No archives this week. You’ll have to tune in Kenny G in your dreams!
• (from @jeremybowers) @JoeGermuska I regard you suspiciously now. Regex ninjas cannot be trusted. (in reply to this tweet)
• (from @amandaruzin) @JoeGermuska Delayed radio show update, or texting the wrong number? (in reply to this tweet)
• I’m afraid it may not have gone, but I won’t be home for a few hours to see… :P
• @jeremybowers I really like regular expressions. For reals. (in reply to this tweet)
• (from @greatwightsnark) Magnetic Fields show last night preceded by elk poutine & rabbit salad at the Gage. I’m a sucker for the twee & offbeat, in music and meat.

“Conference of the Birds” is my weekly radio program on WNUR-FM. It airs on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 am Chicago time (UTC-6). And, of course, when technology cooperates, you can just come here for the archives.

I’m sorry to report that the archiving process for this weeks show failed: iTunes has this annoying licensing screen which must be accepted every time you upgrade, and I performed a routine upgrade but didn’t launch it before going to the show.  So when Audio Hijack started iTunes on schedule, it was stuck waiting for that screen to be cleared.)

No worries: this show wasn’t as much fun as last week’s.  I did get to share a few new things I’ve acquired: William Parker’s take on Curtis Mayfield’s music, which I’ve wanted to have since they were announced for last year’s Chicago Jazz Festival, and Wheedle’s Groove, a collection of vintage Seattle soul and funk. (I saw a nice documentary connected to this compilation last Sunday at the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival.)  The track I played was by a group called Cold, Bold and Together, which is where Kenny G got his start, as well as Philip Woo who went on to play with Roy Ayers.

I should also point out that Alice Coltrane’s “Los Caballos,” built up on some very fat analog keyboard sounds, was locked in my head for several hours after the show.  (For another celebrity sighting, I learned that the timbales on that tune, credited to “a friend,” were played by Carlos Santana, according to his own website.)

Conference of the Birds will not be on next Tuesday, as I’ll be at SXSWi.  I am still looking to swap with someone later in the week, but that’s not set up yet.

Artist: “Track” – Album (Label)

William Parker: “People Get Ready” – The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield Live in Rome (Rai Trade)
Cold, Bold and Together: “(Stop) Losing Your Chances” – Wheedle’s Groove: Seattle’s Finest in Funk & Soul 1965-1975 (Light in the Attic)
Ornette Coleman: “Job Mob” – Of Human Feelings (Mango)
Dave Sharp’s Secret Seven: “Africano” – Seven (Vortex)
Francis Bebey: “Rwanda” – Nandolo/With Love (Original Music)
Totó La Momposina ys sus Tambores: “Curura” – La Candela Viva (Real World)
Ry Cooder & Manuel Galban: “Échale salsita” – Mambo Sinuendo (World Circuit)
John Zorn: “Mow Mow” – The Dreamers (Tzadik)
Unitrio: “Like a Cat In The Snow” – Page 1 (Altrisuoni)
Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams: “Libeccio” – Motor City Scene (Bethlehem)
Yusef Lateef: “Eastern Market” – Yusef Lateef’s Detroit (Atlantic)
Tobias Delius 4tet: “Salmon and Bear Suite” – Toby’s Mloby (BVHaast)
George Adams/Don Pullen Quartet: “Trees and Grass and Thangs” – Decisions (Timeless)
Kenny Dorham: “Riffin’” – ‘Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia, vol. 2 (Blue Note)
John Surman: “Hilltop Dancer” – Brewster’s Rooster (ECM)
Jason Stein’s Locksmith Isidore: “Stevenesque” – Three Less Than Between (Clean Feed)
Trio 3 + Geri Allen: “Swamini (for Alice Coltrane/Turiyasangitananda)” – At This Time (Intakt)
Alice Coltrane: “Los Caballos” – Eternity (Sepia Tone)
Ben Goldberg: “Wazee” – Go Home (BAG Production)
ROVA Saxophone Quartet: “Juke Box Mambo” – The Juke Box Suite (Not Two)

• (from @onemoreryan) @ryanmark @brianboyer @onyxfish @joegermuska Your blog makes me much smarter. Really, thanks for such thorough walkthroughs. (in reply to this tweet)
• UPDATED: Sunshine Portal signed into law « New Mexico Independent
  “Rue said the so-called “Sunshine Portal” will be more than a Web site for centralized, convenient and freely accessible information about government finances. He said it will allow citizens the access they need to do their civic duty of overseeing government.”
  (tags: newMexico transparency opengovernment)
• The Minimalist – Chicken Pot Pie as a Cobbler – NYTimes.com
  “Chicken pot pie, like so many other dishes, was a way to stretch chicken by encasing it in less expensive, more filling dough. Although in restaurants the dish has gone through something of a renaissance, not many people make it at home, maybe because it seems like too much work. This version is different, using a far simpler procedure. “
  (tags: food recipes)
• Ellipses give grammar teacher pause http://j.mp/bZWFaE I disagree–explosion of typed language merits evolution. Not all xprmnts right but…
• @kumar303 In the doc they talked abt pimping out Kenny G’s clothes (& showed awesome band uni dsgns) Roy Ayers took anothr member Philip Woo (in reply to this tweet)
• “Some imaginary friends you never outgrow.” http://j.mp/99nGo6 Steven Strogatz on complex numbers (with pretty pictures!)
• @googlemaps I much appreciate the streamlining of ’save to my maps’ but it would be nice to be able to add notes, links, tags while saving.

• (from @onyxfish) @brianboyer @ryanmark @JoeGermuska If you guys haven’t see this Onion decline-of-newspapers piece, its a winner: http://onion.com/a7BbDy
• I didn’t foresee iPhone app when we started @oyez prj 15 yrs ago! Get Top 100 con law cases including audio. http://www.pocketjustice.com
• Only caught one at Chi Int’l Music Movie Fest but a pretty good one: “Wheedle’s Groove,” on Seattle Soul/Funk scene 1965-75.
• (from @Bombacharger) Too heavy for the morning. Loved, loved, loved the gravel and haze of his music. http://bit.ly/9v9bRP
• (from @johntedge) Best read on new Oxford American food issue. David Shields of Univ of SC said to me, ‘That’s a South with a future.’
• (from @sarahconner) Good question: RT @JoeGermuska bc their parents are “living in open discord w Catholic teaching” Do they kick out kids w divorced parents?
• (from @magicalthinklet) i wanna see a Buckerpark fight between a hipster gang and a Northface fleece gang. it would be amazing.
• @sarahconner because their parents are “living in open discord with Catholic teaching.” Do they kick out kids with divorced parents too? (in reply to this tweet)
• (from @dansinker) Words can’t describe where I am right now. http://twitpic.com/176wwz
• (from @brianboyer) @JoeGermuska Nice! They do like to eat here… Was thinking of making a Vietnamese run for lunch today. (in reply to this tweet)
• @brianboyer There’s this… http://j.mp/cfcKsn (in reply to this tweet)

• @deezthugs yeah, dude, I was readin the book when I tweeted before. http://j.mp/48MOza And thinking of you re the surveillance paranoia :-) (in reply to this tweet)
• (from @Bombacharger) @JoeGermuska Prev owners left the flag flying, kid in the Navy and all. (in reply to this tweet)
• (from @deezthugs) @JoeGermuska Have you seen python’s nltk? (in reply to this tweet)
• This weeks OTM frames earlier tweet: must teach people “1984″ and “Lord of the Flies” or face the risk of living them http://j.mp/dAnDEx
• Please note that I would prefer jobs for people teaching people over people teaching computers. But one would lead to the other.
• Reading on natural language processing, thinking there could be a lot of jobs for “professional understanders.” Better than flippin burgers.
• History Detroit 1701-2001: Origins of Detroit Street Names
  (tags: detroit history via:twitter=matth)
  (sources: Twitter user @matth (Matt Hampel))
• @rocketlass was this a sudden or gradual change? (in reply to this tweet)
• Happy to see #longnow and #opengov worlds intersect directly http://j.mp/bDEnvG Looking forward to the podcast.
• Detroit Journal – Seeking a Future for a Symbol of a Grander Past – NYTimes.com
  “Preservationists, business owners, state leaders and community activists are taking what feels like a last stab at saving the 97-year-old Michigan Central Station before it goes the way of New York’s Pennsylvania Station or, more locally, Tiger Stadium and countless other pieces of old Detroit that have fallen to the wrecking ball in recent years.”
  (tags: detroit history architecture preservation)
• (from @maximolly) pulling myself out of bed to the calls of a murder of crows. off to run my 5k in culver city!

• @ginatrapani sorry to have missed the lunch. Come back soon! (in reply to this tweet)
• Actually, though, I’m going to begin observing #AfricanMusicFriday on the way home with this newish VoodooFunk mix http://j.mp/bA2mrU
• Why didn’t anyone tell me it was #AfricanMusicFriday until now? @jsb @cbracy @afromusing I observed on Tuesday http://j.mp/bUmUKL (in reply to this tweet)
• IHOP ad from 1969 will melt your brain – Boing Boing
  “Jesus Christ on a jetpack, what the hell is this?”
  (tags: advertising video weird)
• @kumar303 you’re too kind. And we are guilty as charged. We will aim to placate the @testinggoat (in reply to this tweet)
• (from @kumar303) @griggheo that’s an all-star team (@JoeGermuska+) over there at the Trib. A little light on testing advice though ;) @testinggoat says baaah (in reply to this tweet)
• @jsb Did you see my recent photo? http://j.mp/bjacQT (it’s a little graphic, but if you don’t like pigeons…) (in reply to this tweet)
• @Bombacharger and flyin Ol’ Glory, you patriotic sonuvagun! (in reply to this tweet)
• (from @jonahlehrer) “The Wire” has made movies like “Brooklyn’s Finest” totally unappealing to me.I now crave a moral complexity that isn’t possible in 2 hours.

• (from @MattH) @brianboyer @joegermuska @onyxfish D3 on rightsizing Detroit http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124328751
• (from @MattH) @joegermuska seventh and washington sign hit photo via a2cam http://bit.ly/cqiCZZ shows the car and the sign … via @vielmetti
• @imbibe I thought sure you were talking about Chicago’s new @RevBrewChicago http://j.mp/cgzpQV (in reply to this tweet)
• My friend @lili_czarina has a cool job. http://j.mp/a9MYfe Looking forward to the Matisse exhibit at the Art Institute.
• (from @ignotus_mago) @JoeGermuska Elize Gilkyson’s cover of Dylan’s Love minus zero at http://j.mp/cGTCtQ – thanks for the link (in reply to this tweet)
• (from @milesraymer) @JoeGermuska Next Stop . . . Soweto, Vol. 2: Soul, Funk & Organ Grooves from the Townships 1969-1976. Out 5/8 on Strut. Total bangers. (in reply to this tweet)
• @milesraymer details on “vintage SA township funk & soul” plz? (in reply to this tweet)
• (from @chriscyvas) @JoeGermuska ooooohh sounds sweeeeet! (in reply to this tweet)
• (from @MattH) @onyxfish @JoeGermuska http://exogen.github.com/nose-achievements/ via @chairkicker (in reply to this tweet)
• btw, to whomever left this John Coltrane Live in ‘60, ‘61, and ‘65 DVD on my desk… thanks!
• (from @maura) Who wants white chocolate Reese’s Eggs?? GROSS. #whitechocolateisanabomination
• (from @seankmcginnis) RT @brianboyer: This worries me in so many ways. http://www.repentamarillo.com/map.php h/t @JoeGermuska
• .@ryanmark “Cheeses, etc.” belongs on the #rollingstonemenu @amyguth @kevinthepang http://j.mp/9e5DtB (in reply to this tweet)
• “Folk covers of familiar songs…Because in the folk tradition, music belongs to the community.” http://j.mp/cGTCtQ mp3blog via @veryshortlist
• (from @h3athrow) @JoeGermuska I’d forgotten that. Great idea. (in reply to this tweet)
• (from @x684867) RT @brianboyer: This worries me in so many ways. http://www.repentamarillo.com/map.php h/t @JoeGermuska
• (from @kkjschmidt) I agree. RT @brianboyer: This worries me in so many ways. http://www.repentamarillo.com/map.php h/t @JoeGermuska
• @elizabethriley Baconfest tix go on sale at noon. http://bit.ly/94N4F2 I believe you were asking. (via @happy_stomach )
• (from @brianboyer) This worries me in so many ways. http://www.repentamarillo.com/map.php h/t @JoeGermuska
• @anselm Don’t know much about Amarillo, but I guess I’m a little surprised that there are eleven sites where occult witchcraft is practiced. (in reply to this tweet)
• “We need to recognize & honor this work…Unsexy but heroic, & I use that word deliberately” http://j.mp/aDzSjR @judell about @onyxfish!
• (from @mmorowitz) My least favorite new technology word is “webinar”. You can’t help but sound stupid when you say it.
• 75 Stars | Mother Jones
  “Why not form new states within the jurisdictions of the existing megastates? Why not divide in order to rule? … With 25 new states in the union, the Senate would be far more representative of the American people. The citizens of the nine largest states, who today send a mere 18 senators to Washington, would soon have a total of 68 senators to defend their interests against senators from microstates like Vermont and Wyoming.”
  (tags: usa government democracy)