A while back when I was bored I made a little tool that turns a Tumblr dashboard feed into an RSS feed that can be imported into Google Reader (or whatever other feed aggregator you might be using) for easier reading.

Using Yahoo! Pipes wasn’t an ideal solution, but an easy one to set up and share. It has lots of bugs and, after a month or two of eating my own dog food, I decided to try again, this time with a little bit more web nerdery in my back pocket.

So I created one that uses PHP and XSLT to make a very nice, pretty Tumblr dashboard RSS feed. Then I put it on Github using the best open source license I could find so that anyone who wants to play with it or download it can.

The only problem is you have to be nerdy enough to have a place to host this thing for yourself. I’d tell you where mine is, but it’s a secret.

Future plan: make one of these to aggregate Facebook notifications so I can stop going on Facebook too.

If this summary of last month’s listening habits isn’t an indication of my Jekyll-and-Hyde-esque music preferences, I don’t know what is. The obsession with Flying Lotus has returned, I discovered the crass d&b of Venetian Snares, I learned how to look past Neil Young’s nasal vocals — both on his new record and Harvest, an old classic — and enjoyed a new non-rock Lil Wayne record.

1. Dabrye – “Special (feat. Guilty Simpson and Paradime)” (Two / Three)
2. Deadmau5 – “Reward Is More Cheese” (Reward Is More Cheese)
3. Bobby Bare Jr. – “A Storm – a Tree – My Mother’s Head” (A Storm – a Tree – My Mother’s Head)
4. The Two Man Gentlemen Band – “There’s Something in My Trousers” (¡Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta!)
5. The Two Man Gentlemen Band – “Me, I Get High on Reefer” (¡Dos Amigos, Una Fiesta!)
6. Venetian Snares – “Posers and Camera Phones” (My So-Called Life)
7. Venetian Snares – “Ultraviolent Junglist” (My So-Called Life)
8. Broken Social Scene – “World Sick” (Forgiveness Rock Record)
9. Flying Lotus – “Camel” (Los Angeles)
10. bellflur – “Gasoline Heaven” (Asleep.Asleep.)
11. Neil Young – “Heart of Gold” (Harvest)
12. Neil Young – “Old Man” (Harvest)
13. Manchester Orchestra – “Shake It Out” (Mean Everything To Nothing)
14. Lil Wayne – “What’s Wrong With Them (feat. Nicki Minaj)” (I Am Not a Human Being)
15. Lil Wayne – “Gonerrhea (feat. Drake)” (I Am Not a Human Being)
16. Neil Young – “Hitchhiker” (Le Noise)

Listen up for a few of these songs here (or if you have Rhapsody, the whole thing is here):