December 2011
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So As Promised, Here's a Chronological Hip Hop... →
This isn’t something I’m making any proclamations about. It’s just a little 27 song collection of hip hop songs, in rough chronological order, that I put together for our long west coast drive. Anything that’s greyed out is a song that I had locally, so you’ll have to have them on your computer to work. In the case of the Lupe songs, they’re free and available...
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Songs: Let's Go On a Wintertime Drive
I use Wintertime loosely, as it’s 52 degrees outside, at 9AM as I begin to write this post up. 52 goddamn degrees. I’m convinced at this point that nature’s just punking us now. I go outside with a light jacket, unzipped, 2 days before Christmas and I feel like something’s wrong. Something’s very very wrong. I’m convinced that this will all be made up for...
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Has Spotify Ruined Your Appreciation For The Music...
I’m just curious.
Spotify has become my main desktop music player, and has been for some time now. Obviously, as most of you know, it’s an incredible piece of software through which you can listen to just about any song under the sun, any time you want, an unlimited amount of times, without having to pay anybody a dime. If you choose to keep your money, you hear a few (admittedly...
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“If the Occupy people really want to make a point about the 1 percent, then lay...”
– - Former San Francisco Mayor William Brown, on Occupy Oakland
Oh, and there’s more!
If Occupy wants to make a real statement, it ought to pick on a real target,” Brown suggested in his column. “But then, it might prove a bit embarrassing. From what I’ve seen, half those Occu-cats have...
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What Songs I'm Loving This Week: 12/16/11
Howdy folks. It’s Friday, which means it’s time to look at what songs I’m loving this week. A couple of notes I want to get out of the way before we begin.
Next week’s music post will be my last of the year. On the 27th, I’m headed to the west coast for a week, so this little blog will go mostly silent while I’m gone. I’ll probably go into my...
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AV Club: Loud music makes alcohol taste sweeter,... →
In a study that horrible bar owners will use to justify making me want to run out of their establishments, fingers firmly plugged into my ears, screaming “GOD MAKE IT STOP” because they can’t play Pumped Up Kicks loud enough, Big Science has determined that loud music can make your alcohol taste sweeter.
The study was done in the UK, with 80 people between the ages of 18-28, and...
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Louis CK is experimenting with a great idea, and... →
Besides, if the new Beacon Theater special makes enough money, he’ll look into making another movie, and that pretty much has to be a good thing. I’m such a fanboy for this guy I should be ashamed.
Seriously, his new special’s great. A crazed fanboy of all of his work wouldn’t lie to you.
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Nokia: Attempting to identify fads in a market... →
isthattech:
So if a executive from Nokia makes a sound, and everyone is around to hear it, does it still make sense to keep listening? No, seriously, just read what this guy had to say:
In an exclusive interview with Pocket-lint, Niels Munksgaard, director of Portfolio, Product Marketing & Sales at Nokia Entertainment Global explained all: “What we see is that youth are pretty much fed up...
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Netflix wants to be like Spotify and broadcast to... →
You’ve probably never heard of it (I certainly haven’t) unless you’ve been keeping up on your 23 old tech legislation, but the Video Privacy Protection Act is a 1988 law that requires a video services company to get your permission before sharing anything about you to other parties, like what you’ve been renting.
Welp, Netflix is backing a bill in Congress that would amend...
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Awesome 17-Year-Old Girl Invents Nanoparticle That... →
soupsoup:
Zhang said the particle she designed improves on current cancer treatments because it delivers a drug directly to tumor cells and doesn’t affect healthy cells around it. The particle is also able to release a drug when activated by a laser.
Click through. Read. And cheer her on.
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“To those who might wish to “torrent” this video: look, I don’t really get the...”
– Louis CK, on his new special, Live at the Beacon, which is only available via his site. (via kaseyanderson) Amen. (via soupsoup)
YES SIR.
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What Songs I'm Loving This Week: 12/9/11
SPOTIFY. GROOVESHARK:
12/9/11 by David Rosado on Grooveshark
Purity Ring - Belispeak
Bleep blorp. I went to watch We Are Scientists rock some kind of casbah during CMJ here in New York City, and while I was waiting for them to get on stage and do so, Purity Ring went just ahead of them. They’re comprised of one girl with a lovely voice, and a guy who dances around just about the...
Theaters actually instituting "Tweet Seats" from... →
On the one hand, they’re rounding up all of a theater’s annoying people and putting them in their own little corner away from the rest of us. On the other hand, turn your goddamn phone off for 3 hours, and watch the live spectacle in front of you with your eyes. What the living hell, people?
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bestrooftalkever:
Words with Friends is a Scrabble-like game.
American Airlines declined to comment.
Baldwin is known for his bad temper.
In 2007, the actor left a nasty voice mail tirade for his young daughter, calling her a “rude, thoughtless little pig.”
He later apologized and wrote a book inspired by that incident.
The closing notes at the bottom of this NY Post article read like a...
Neo-Dysplasticism
I never thought I’d talk about myself to any great detail on this blog, but this is something that I thought I wanted to share. This is a pretty simple, true story.
One day a few months ago, at my girlfriend’s (often referred to on this blog as Lovely Young Woman) place, I was stretching in such a way that a large area of my underarm was exposed. “What’s that?” she...