August 31, 2010, 10:45 pm #

To which Bjork replied “OH ROBYN I LOVE IT YAY SPARKLES!”

Robyn - Hyperballad Bjork Cover (via r8ght)

August 31, 2010, 5:31 pm #

Pat Boone - In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy

Tracklist:

You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’
Smoke on the Water
It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘N Roll)
Panama
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Love Hurts
Enter Sandman
Holy Diver
Paradise City
The Wind Cries Mary
Crazy Train
Stairway to Heaven

pat boone - enter sandman (via fexilamos)

August 31, 2010, 5:11 pm #

“You don’t understand. Johnny Fontane never gets that movie. That part is perfect for him. It’ll make him a big star. I’m gonna run him out of the movies. And let me tell you why. Johnny Fontane ruined one of Woltz International’s most valuable proteges. For three years we had her under contract, singing lessons, dancing lessons, acting lessons. I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars. I was gonna make her a big star. And let me be even more frank, just to show you that I’m not a hard-hearted man, that it’s not all dollars and cents. She was beautiful, she was innocent, she was the greatest piece of ass I’ve ever had, and I’ve had it all over the world. And then Johnny Fontane comes along with his olive oil voice and guinea charm and she runs off. She threw it all away just to make me look ridiculous. And a man in my position can’t afford to be made to look ridiculous. Now you get the hell out of here. And you tell that gumba that if he wants to try any rough stuff that I ain’t no band leader. Yeah, I heard that story.”

August 31, 2010, 5:06 pm #

Paul Anka doing Spandau Ballet’s True

True-Paul Anka (via ajy1)

August 31, 2010, 8:53 am #

We would greatly appreciate your help in evaluating and improving your web experience.

Here’s a start guys. Don’t ask me for feedback as soon as your site has finished loading.

What I wanted to do was see if you had announced Autocad for Mac yet. I don’t want to take a survey. I haven’t even looked at the site yet.

August 31, 2010, 7:27 am #

Hannibal and Lamp Dude. (by Lane Savage)

August 30, 2010, 8:59 pm #

“The US is building generating capacity in places that don’t need the electricity. Most wind farms are located in rurual areas, where there’s plenty of land and a pragmatic attitude that welcomes wind turbines as a ‘cash crop.’…But the transmission infrastructure to carry that power to cities is missing. Wind farms rely on big tax breaks to be competitive, and right now that money is being wasted. When more people catch wind of that fact, this promising form of alt energy could be labeled a boondoggle for farm states, as corn ethanol has been.”

— Marc Gunther, A Blown Opportunity, Wired Sept 2010

August 30, 2010, 8:49 pm #

Hmm. I’ve never heard of this band.

August 30, 2010, 8:48 pm #

Here’s something that you may not learn until it’s too late.

The new iPhone is super slick. “Oh I KNOW” you iPhone 4 users say. No, I mean it slides really easy.

And people are finding out the hard way.

The antenna problem doesn’t scare me as much as this does, which is why I keep my phone in a case now.

Semi-smashed iPhone 4 (by Edward Shepard)

August 30, 2010, 5:47 pm #

Nice update to the Rdio iPhone app. Now includes the queue.

August 30, 2010, 5:38 pm #

Space Harrier - Sega Genesis 32X - HD (via marquis0r)

0:36 - AWWWwwwwww

August 30, 2010, 5:32 pm #

WTF CNN?

…

Oh. DYEing pets. Not dying pets.

August 30, 2010, 5:21 pm #

Air Dvorak (by Kyung Park)

August 30, 2010, 12:51 pm #

Dear Apple. Get rid of those tiny red dots on some windows. Nobody likes them.

Dear Adobe. Why did you use the tiny red dot?

August 29, 2010, 9:52 pm #

“I’m guessing it’s way too late, because we’ve trained two generations to believe that digital music doesn’t cost. We’ve certainly trained them that buying it isn’t fun. Shouldn’t it be fun?”

—

Seth Godin on the idea of a music access tax

Godin On McGuinness

August 29, 2010, 9:49 pm #

“There are clever minds working out how the business model of “music access” is going to work. Perhaps this year Steve Jobs, the genius behind Apple, will finally join us. Jobs is a man of decisiveness and surprises. Bono and I did a deal with him, sitting in his kitchen in Palo Alto, to launch the U2 iPod in 2004 - I still have the notes I scribbled down in the back of my diary. Jimmy Iovine was there, too, and I remember he said of iTunes, “This may be the penicillin!” Sadly it turned out not to be. Steve is the guy who has always magically known what the consumer wants before the consumer even knows it. I wish he would put that great mind and that great corporation of his to work devising a model that finally allows artists and creators to get properly rewarded for their work. Maybe he’s working on it right now. I hope so.”

— Paul McGuinness — How to save the music industry - GQ Music - GQ.COM (UK)

August 29, 2010, 5:11 pm #

“I grew up watching Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, people who were performers, not just singers. For some reason the performance style that’s cool right now is not trying too hard. But to me, if you’re going to do anything, why not try hard? It takes vulnerability and bravery, but Kevin has no fear. I mean, there’s no way I’m getting on a horse naked!”

— Solange Knowles on Kevin Barnes

August 29, 2010, 4:54 pm #

“Usually when a genre changes radically fans will blame it on the designers “dumbing down” the game for a wider audience. But in this case I think the culprit is technological advance: I think games have been simplified because of voice acting. If the game is all in text, then King Bob can have dozens - maybe even hundreds - of different lines of dialog to respond to all of the possible player actions. If the game is fully voice acted, then this is completely infeasible. Voice acting might not be the only reason games are offering less freedom, but I think it’s a major culprit.”

—

The Escapist : Experienced Points: Voice vs. Choice

Did I play RPGs because I was miserable, or was I miserable because I played RPGs?

August 29, 2010, 1:59 pm #

“

Worry isn’t work. Being stressed out isn’t work. Anxiety isn’t work. Entertaining a sense of impending doom isn’t work. Incessant internal verbal punishment isn’t work. Indulging the great unknown fear in your own mind isn’t work. Hating yourself isn’t work.

Work is the manifestation of value, and anyone who tells you that a person whose mind is 50% occupied with anxiety is more likely to manifest value is a person who isn’t manifesting much.

”

— Worry isn’t work (Worry isn’t work)

August 28, 2010, 10:22 pm #

I swear this actually exists. Now I almost kind of have proof.

August 28, 2010, 5:17 pm #

Well then, here’s your answer. I trust that this debate is over.

August 27, 2010, 7:15 pm #

reddit's official statement on prop 19 ads : blog

Reddit is owned by Conde Nast and sells ads to marijuana legalization advocates. Conde Nast has stated they don’t want to benefit financially from this issue. Ok - so reddit gives the ads away for free.

August 27, 2010, 5:40 pm #

Where The Dirty Hipsters Are

August 27, 2010, 5:11 pm #

August 26, 2010, 8:52 pm #

FerretHandJobs.com

it has come to our attention that the domain name “FerrethAndJobs.com” may be misread by some.

August 26, 2010, 5:52 pm #

OLD SPICE ODOR BLOCKER BODY WASH IS TOO POWERFUL FOR STALLONE!

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

via REDDIT

August 26, 2010, 5:51 pm #

Woah - when did this happen?

You can use Genius mixes in iTunes DJ now.

August 26, 2010, 5:43 pm #

THIS GAME IS HARD AHHHHHHH!@#!@$@#%^%^#$&

August 26, 2010, 5:33 pm #

“Alcoholism is the only disease you can get yelled at for having. ‘Damn it, Otto, you’re an alcoholic.’ ‘Damn it, Otto, you have lupus.’ One of those two doesn’t sound right.”

— Mitch Hedberg

August 25, 2010, 6:00 pm #

AppleInsider | Piper: Sept. iPod, iTV announcements likely to boost Apple shares

OMZOGZ BUY APPLE STOCK RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT NOW NOW NOW!!#!@#

August 25, 2010, 5:42 pm #

Imagination Music & Lights (via matthewb2007)

They basically pitched this one up a bit and looped 2 beat sections of it.

August 25, 2010, 5:41 pm #

Tiger & Woods - Gin Nation (via peteronji)

I love this track, but…

August 24, 2010, 7:46 pm #

I hadn’t heard Triple Quartet until now, but between this, Three Tales, and You Are (Variations) it feels like post-2000 Reich is the antithesis of Music For 18 Musicians Reich. Post-2000 Reich has an evil mustache and goatee.

August 24, 2010, 7:19 pm #

“The time had come to shift over to a strategy that would be more effective. The lawsuits were obviously controversial in the media, but the reality was that most people had no idea that what they were doing was illegal at the time of those lawsuits. We did all sorts of surveys. We tried PR firms. We did everything to look at how to begin to change the culture of using illegal P2P. We realized that 1) none of the messages resonated, and 2) most people had no idea that what they were doing was illegal, let alone thought it was wrong. That completely flipped overnight when we started the lawsuits. It made an enormous impression and we were constantly generating dinner conversations about what you may or may not do with your computer. We think it would be very good if there were more such conversations about all the other things that can be done inappropriately with a computer. So we think it had a tremendous impact by very clearly searing in the minds of the public that maybe getting all of this stuff for free isn’t legal after all.”

—

Cary Sherman - president of the RIAA’s board of directors.

DOWNLOADING SOME BULLSHIT - An Interview With the President of the RIAA - Vice Magazine

August 24, 2010, 7:07 pm #

“

People are raised to believe that they must enjoy music and that there is something deficient in them if they don’t have strongly held beliefs about what they like, why they like it, and what it means. Similar to spirituality in a religious society, liking music is de rigueur, deviance is not tolerated, and deviants are despised and cast out.

Of course, most of those who don’t especially care for music don’t think of themselves in such a way. They like to hear “Brown Eyed Girl” or whatever Lil Wayne song has been bashing out their brain in heavy rotation for the past six months. But this doesn’t betray a latent appreciation of music. This is just a longing for the familiar. Wanting to hear 50 Cent when one is standing in a nightclub means one feels antsy or uncomfortable and wants reassurance that everything will be all right. It has nothing to do with liking music.

”

— ON THE MISUSE OF MUSIC - Vice Magazine

August 24, 2010, 6:47 pm #

“

…as much as we enjoy blasting 3D Mario into space and navigating him around 3D orbs, a quick glance at sales figures makes one thing clear. We like Mario best when his world is flat. We still, apparently, prefer running from left to right.

The most recent NPD numbers for July tell a fascinating tale. Sitting in the #4 spot, SMG2 sold 193 thousand copies in North America. That brings its total sales to approximately 1.7 million here (3.5 million worldwide). Impressive figures, to be sure, but less than half of the original Super Mario Galaxy’s sales (4.6 NA, 8.8 worldwide).

”

—

The world is flat

The galaxy games are critically acclaimed, but I couldn’t get past how sore my neck got playing the first one for a half hour.

August 24, 2010, 5:21 pm #

Time Management 360

August 23, 2010, 7:25 pm #

Think of this when your hear people talking about how modern popular music encourages drug use.

Cab Calloway (via kuwasemono)

August 23, 2010, 7:17 pm #

Rotoscoping is creepy.

Cab Calloway St. James Infirmary by Fleischer (via lex10)

August 23, 2010, 5:54 pm #

Block Zuck

You can block anybody on Facebook, except Mark Zuckerberg.

August 23, 2010, 5:08 pm #

“Ever gone to a show, only to find out afterward that your friends were there too? With Places, you can discover moments when you and your friends are at the same place at the same time.”

—

Facebook | Who, What, When, and Now…Where

If you’re at a show and you’re friends are there too, and you weren’t expecting them there, they may not really be your friends.

August 22, 2010, 9:25 pm #

My Favorite VGM 184 - Kid Dracula - Stage 1 (via SomeVideoGameMusic)

This is basically a major theme take on the first level of Castlevania 3. You can hear it around 0:27.

August 22, 2010, 9:19 pm #

4 (acappella aphex twin cover)

4 (acappella aphex twin cover) by fatty acid

August 22, 2010, 9:09 pm #

Shy Child - The Beatles

Shy Child - The Beatles by amoverelchoclo

August 22, 2010, 5:19 pm #

Buzz Kill

Leo Laporte used to use Google Buzz and nobody noticed.

August 22, 2010, 2:07 pm #

Yeah. Live a little.

August 22, 2010, 1:42 pm #

Mayonnaise

August 22, 2010, 9:57 am #

August 22, 2010, 8:52 am #

7 Reasons to Switch to the Dvorak Keyboard Layout

Dvorak is cool

Uh, not sure about that one. I haven’t exactly been pushing away the ladies like it’s a zombie invasion since I started typing Dvorak.

August 22, 2010, 8:25 am #

Weezer Plan Blue LP/Pinkerton Tour

I bet the Pinkerton shows do very well.

August 22, 2010, 8:00 am #

“And finally, I asked Ted about the music business, what did he think of that? He said in 1975, the musicians loved the music. The promotion man at the label loved the music. The President of the label loved the music. The retailer loved the music. The deejay loved the music. The people loved the music. Now, NO ONE LOVES THE MUSIC! Whew! You think Ted’s taking a detour to nowhere, but at one in the morning, he’s totally on track.”

—

Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » Terrible Ted

Lefsetz meets Ted Nugent

August 22, 2010, 7:51 am #

Hey. Not so bad. Sounds like Panda Bear with a beat.

August 21, 2010, 11:24 pm #

via I have been dying to try this flavor of ice cream for years…

That flavor doesn’t sound so good.

August 21, 2010, 4:34 pm #

via reddit

August 21, 2010, 12:10 pm #

Game Over: Ninja Gaiden (Arcade) (via GameOverContinue)

this used to scare the hell out of me as a kid

via reddit

August 20, 2010, 8:06 pm #

The Last Exorcism - BEST OF Chatroulette reactions (via thelastexorcism)

Incredible. What a great idea to promote this movie.

August 20, 2010, 6:23 pm #

Featuring the Misadventures of Ed Grimley.

Great timing, I must say.

August 20, 2010, 5:06 pm #

via

August 20, 2010, 7:22 am #

Download audio file

I guess they weren’t big fans of Archie Bell and the Drells.

August 19, 2010, 7:34 pm #

I like pictures of dogs. That’s pretty much it.

August 19, 2010, 6:02 pm #

What if you sped up Sigur Ros eight times?

( ) x 8 by trustfarm

I don’t think this sounds like Justin Bieber.

via

August 19, 2010, 5:16 pm #

Nintendo Training 1991 (via randycornetta)

@1:45 - These guys are a REAL problem.

EEPROM.

They did such a heavy push on the cleaning kits that I had to have one. I used it about every week, you know, to make sure I could keep playing with power. Clean power.

August 19, 2010, 5:03 pm #

For a while every release of Logic was a Big Box. But then they got rid of printed literature.

August 19, 2010, 6:43 am #

Via

…wait a minute.

August 18, 2010, 8:37 pm #

Se tu m’ami, se sospiri (via twalker742)

!!!?

What I did was build a garage, and then I go in there during the day to film myself singing italian arias. Then I upload them to Youtube.

August 18, 2010, 8:26 pm #

A2 FTW!!!! (via yeah456456)

August 18, 2010, 6:54 pm #

Unsuck It

What terrible business jargon do you need unsucked?

If you’ve ever had to monetize, incentivize, identify strategic partnerships and core competencies, or add value to your product mix, then you’ll either love this or hate it.

August 18, 2010, 5:15 pm #

…

August 18, 2010, 7:14 am #

Our own tasting room and hospitality coordinator Adrienne King who played Alice in the Friday the 13th part 1 and 2 now has her own private label! The label is from an original artwork by Ms King of the famous scene of her in a canoe on Crystal Lake at the end of the movie. The labels are on a 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon and a 2008 Chardonnay. There is a minimum order of two bottles and Ms. King will autograph each bottle!

August 17, 2010, 10:01 pm #

Videogame Music Preservation Foundation - Home

Videogame music soundtracks available as OGG downloads, which is kind of like Superman preserving his leftovers in kryptonite.

August 17, 2010, 8:47 pm #

Pitchfork: Album Reviews: PVT: Church With No Magic

I’ve been looking forward to this one. Also, why are Pitchfork reviews written like the author is trying to make you feel like an asshole?

August 17, 2010, 5:00 pm #

August 16, 2010, 11:16 pm #

Basil Marceaux lost his race, but on Web he won place in public imagination

“I hate to say this, but I set the Internet up,” he said. “I set the Internet up so they would talk bad about me because it’s the only way to get hits.”

Sure thing Mr. Marceaux, except that hits don’t vote.

August 16, 2010, 6:44 pm #

Orrin Hatch’s Christmas Eve.

Amazon.com: Orrin Hatch’s Christmas Eve: Orrin Hatch & Star…

Via Jim.

August 16, 2010, 6:11 pm #

Life with @rdio (by Ryan Irelan)

I’ve been thinking of writing a larger review of Rdio. While I really enjoy the service, this bandwidth issue comes up for me because I think constantly streaming like this is inefficient.

Maybe it doesn’t matter anyway. Bandwidth and access should catch up, but if you live in an area without this kind of access, or if you’re literally clogging your workplace’s internet connection streaming Lady Gaga, or if you bump up against 2gig limits, then you may think differently about it.

August 16, 2010, 5:37 pm #

I think this screenshot is a good explanation of how Ableton Live got so popular.

August 16, 2010, 5:07 pm #

August 16, 2010, 8:03 am #

Keri Safran - Saturday Night Live audition (via KeriSafran)

I want more people like this in my life.

August 16, 2010, 7:37 am #

August 15, 2010, 11:30 pm #

Thumbplay Music App Demo (by Thumbplay)

Soon there will be millions of streaming services with millions of tracks each.

August 15, 2010, 7:29 pm #

St. Vincent on the Sound Of Young America

Interview with St. Vincent, where she claims she got 2s on her Berklee placements (that’s one more than “really bad” i guess).

August 14, 2010, 10:03 am #

via reddit

It’s funny, see, because it’s the Surprise Symphony.

August 14, 2010, 10:00 am #

via If You Think Politics In America Is a Joke, I found this Campaign Poster recently

Probably the most honest campaign poster you’ll ever see. I don’t think I’d vote for him.

August 13, 2010, 6:23 pm #

Where all the ORCHESTRAZ at???

NO ORIGINALS, just looking for covers. You know, Brahams, Mozart, Beethoven, maybe a little Rachmaninov for kicks. I can conduct the sh*t out of those!

Via

August 13, 2010, 5:33 pm #

Grum - Turn It Up (via DiskoAuthor)

I rather enjoy this one. I know it’s all pop/dancey, but I’m not here to defend guilty pleasures.

August 12, 2010, 11:08 pm #

Hey iTunes, how come this shit happens too much?

August 12, 2010, 11:04 pm #

You put this lid on your jar of peanut butter. It has a built in stirrer, so you don’t get all sweaty, get peanut oil all over the place, and bend your spoons stirring your peanut butter.

I never literally thought “There’s got to be a better way!”, but I suppose this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to it.

August 12, 2010, 10:46 pm #

Lorn - Nothing Else

Really liking this. Good beats.

August 12, 2010, 7:50 pm #

“The era of antibiotics is coming to a close. In just a couple of generations, what once appeared to be miracle medicines have been beaten into ineffectiveness by the bacteria they were designed to knock out. Once, scientists hailed the end of infectious diseases. Now, the post-antibiotic apocalypse is within sight.”

—

Are you ready for a world without antibiotics? | Society | The Guardian

Well, that really sucks.

August 12, 2010, 7:34 pm #

“One recent defender of the opposite view lauds BioShock as being about the failures of Rand’s Objectivism, and laments her inability to communicate to non-gamers why this is a tale worthy of praise. I think this view is too generous by half. BioShock is “about” surviving in a hostile environment and killing people who are trying to kill you.”

— Gamasutra - Features - The Deaths Of Game Narrative

August 12, 2010, 5:20 pm #

Grapes of Wrath)

Listen, if we don’t address this climate change problem right now then we are in for a shitty year of Pinot Noir.

Grapes of Wrath | Mother Jones

August 12, 2010, 5:02 pm #

Our Daughter Isn't a Selfish Brat; Your Son Just Hasn't Read "Atlas Shrugged".

August 11, 2010, 10:40 pm #

Android UI… fragmentation?

The developer of Rdio’s Android app on how varied UI elements are across Android devices.

August 11, 2010, 7:35 pm #

“At the height of the success of “Two of Hearts”, Swain was approached by “Weird Al” Yankovic for permission to record a parody single, “Two Pop-Tarts”.”

—

Stacey Q - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I really wish this happened.

August 11, 2010, 5:33 pm #

How many boxes do you need for your marketing? (via HubSpot)

I’m the guy on the left.

August 11, 2010, 5:16 pm #

Via Captchart

August 11, 2010, 5:00 pm #

Great game and great soundtrack.

August 11, 2010, 7:11 am #

HPOA (HOPA?) girl "Jenny Whiteboard" is obvious troll LULZ - Boing Boing

I guess she meant for her acting career.

August 10, 2010, 9:17 pm #

Mr OIZO - Positif (via cascaII)

August 10, 2010, 5:58 pm #

girl quits job on dry erase board exposes farmville boss called her hopa theCHIVE

Spencer isn’t a total moron. She’s a very attractive young lady. Good luck.

August 10, 2010, 5:40 pm #

I think I’d hate to see a Godly sex act.

August 10, 2010, 7:36 am #

“What’s driving the earlier maturation? Increasing weight at a young age seems to be a main culprit, Biro said. Girls who developed breasts early tended to have a higher body-mass index (BMI) than those who didn’t. Though much is still unknown about how high BMIs kick start puberty, fat cells produce leptin, a hormone involved in the onset of pubertal maturation, Biro noted.”

—

Many Girls Now Begin Puberty at Age 7, 8

How do 7-year olds get this heavy? It’s the food they’re fed.

August 9, 2010, 10:46 pm #

The computer that’s easiest to use is typically the one you already know how to use. While some may say Macs are easy, the reality is that they can come with a learning curve. PCs running Windows 7 look and work more like the computers you’re familiar with, so you can get up and running quickly.

Everybody in my office took a while to adjust to the new Office Ribbon interface. I still have trouble with it. IT recently upgraded to the latest Windows Server, which introduced a new Outlook Web Access. I think it’s better, but the fact that people aren’t used to it yet is a thorn in their side.

Everything new takes time to learn.

August 9, 2010, 8:53 pm #

The Heart Scan Blog: Men's lingerie is on the second floor

Wheat products = glucose-insulin cycle. Glucose-insulin cycle = visceral fat. Visceral fat = estrogen release. Estrogen release = man boobs.

August 9, 2010, 8:19 pm #

Sad sequence of Adobe AIR-inspired events for Rdio (by mlaaker)

Just spent some time setting up account in Rdio, then saw they had a desktop Mac app. “Great!” I thought. Then I saw it was AIR-based. “Ugh,” I thought, but I tried nonetheless. And then it forced me to download AIR installer, even though I was pretty sure I had AIR. And then I tried to install. And then it failed.
- mlaaker

You’re not the only one who cringes at the sight of AIR. Stay tuned.
- wilsonminer, who works at Rdio.

Man - I hope this means that an awesome Rdio desktop client is on the way.

I’ve been using Rdio for about a month now, and while I love it it just isn’t as usable as iTunes is. What I think I want is something like iTunes + Rdio. Merge the Rdio collection and iTunes library into one view. Use an Rdio-like method for streaming and iTunes for local storage and for when you want to listen to stuff not in Rdio.

August 9, 2010, 7:45 pm #

August 9, 2010, 5:17 pm #

I’m a let you finish, but Barry Manilow has The Greatest Love Songs of All Time!

August 9, 2010, 5:00 pm #

WTF, John Tesh?

August 8, 2010, 4:51 pm #

“Most Americans have no problem with BMI charging for its music — except when they do. As Richard Conlon, a vice president at BMI in charge of new media, put it: “A few years back, we had Penn, Schoen and Berland, Hillary’s pollster guys, do a study. The idea was, go and find out what Americans really think about copyright. Do songwriters deserve to be paid? Absolutely! The numbers were enormously favorable — like, 85 percent. The poll asked, ‘If there was a party that wasn’t compensating songwriters, do you think that would be wrong?’ And the answer was, ‘Yes!’ So then, everything’s fine, right? Wrong. Because when it came time to ask people to part with their shekels, it was like: ‘Eww. You want me to pay?’ ”

— The Music-Copyright Enforcers - NYTimes.com

August 8, 2010, 8:18 am #

No, I don’t think Mog’s Top 50 album art can get any smaller.

August 8, 2010, 3:47 am #

This is the best bit I’ve heard on a stand-up release in a looooong time.

August 7, 2010, 7:35 am #

Utopia 1980 - Set Me Free (via imharpo)

With music videos like this it’s like watching a music video AND being an informed citizen.

August 6, 2010, 11:02 pm #

Meet a Black Person (via ImprovEverywhere)

August 6, 2010, 9:22 pm #

“All of this, I’m afraid, has the effect of causing us to enjoy the music we own less and to derive smaller amounts of satisfaction from our iPod listening sessions. This can’t be, can it? Fans love their iPods. Yet, as these findings suggest, even the music that we do own, when there is too much choice, becomes much more of a paradox than a paradise. If we, as fans, can’t enjoy the song that’s currently playing on our iPod, what can we?”

— Savor Your Music: The Effect of Abundance in Culture

August 6, 2010, 5:15 pm #

“So this is what we’re up against. Dietary guidelines in the schools, dietary guidelines being programmed into educational games, dietary guidelines being quoted as gospel by health reporters in the media, dietary guidelines on display in museums, and of course dietary guidelines on your food packages. No wonder people give you a strange look if you tell them you avoid grains and eat lots of animal fats. It’s been pounded into their heads over and over that a diet like that will kill you.”

— Tom Naughton on Fat Head - This Is What We’re Up Against …

August 6, 2010, 5:00 pm #

Painkiller Deathstreak

The writer, who had never held a video-game controller until last fall, describes his experience playing a series of video games, sometimes alone and sometimes with his sixteen-year-old son. The first thing he learned is that video games—especially the vivid, violent ones—are ridiculously hard to play. They’re humbling. They break you down. They kill you over and over.

Want to read.

August 6, 2010, 7:30 am #

Kiss shreds (via StSandersMisc)

August 6, 2010, 7:25 am #

Disguised Weapons

August 5, 2010, 7:26 pm #

Download audio file

August 5, 2010, 7:24 pm #

My sister: So how'd your old-timey haircut go?
Me: It was great. The guy shaved the back of my neck with a straight blade.
My sister: Yeah, I could tell.
Me: …

August 5, 2010, 7:23 pm #

“Enjoy the code, Pat! Sorry I took so long to fix the code you use and love, for free, every day.”

— Andy Baio on how not to ask for a bugfix.

August 5, 2010, 5:35 pm #

(via theinternetaccordingtoadrian)

August 5, 2010, 5:19 pm #

Morrissey (3/16/09) - Wellmont Theatre, Montclair, NJ (by Oliver Lopena)

August 4, 2010, 8:04 pm #

“So where’s the good writing on the Web? It’s everywhere else. The interesting new perspectives and provocative thinking isn’t coming from Gizmodo and Silicon Alley. It’s the blogger I’ve never heard of that is blowing me out of my chair these days.”

— Richard Ziade

August 4, 2010, 7:42 pm #

Hannibal Buress Live at Comix (via chicagohb)

Hilarious. His full length just came oit this week. I laughed so hard my butt fell off.

August 4, 2010, 6:56 pm #

Official Google Blog: Update on Google Wave

Well that didn’t go the way they thought.

August 4, 2010, 5:43 pm #

Old-timey haircuts come with a touch of lather

When he finishes a haircut at his place of business, The Vintage Barber & Style Shop, Brandon Harrison does something that’s growing increasingly rare in this age of chain hair salons situated in strip shopping malls.

Brandon Harrison uses a straight-edge razor for the finishing touch on Monroe Snyder’s haircut.

He applies warm lather to the back of his customer’s neck, then takes a straight razor to him.

The reaction Harrison typically sees is one of surprise mixed with delight. Many men long ago forgot how good a neck shave felt.

August 4, 2010, 5:27 pm #

Tesla Boy - Modern Thrills

I can’t help it. I love this 80s/electro stuff.

August 4, 2010, 5:03 pm #

August 3, 2010, 11:20 pm #

Forrest Gump in One Minute, in One Take (via whycantihavespaces)

August 3, 2010, 9:26 pm #

Milton Babbitt: Philomel [1/2] (via flammesombres)

This is the only Babbitt piece I know because it was on a CD from college.

August 3, 2010, 7:57 pm #

All your favorite 12-tone hits

Via

August 3, 2010, 5:19 pm #

Capo - Learn Your Music

Capo is a revolutionary tool that helps you learn the music in your iTunes library. By slowing your music, and presenting a detailed spectrogram, Capo lets you hear and see your music like never before.

This looks excellent.

August 3, 2010, 5:02 pm #