April 2009
23 posts
White People in Rap: A History →
“The notion that consumers need more protection in this marketplace must be clear...”
– The TARP Queen: Why we should all bow before Elizabeth Warren (even if you’ve never heard of her). | The Big Money
The Little Sleep’s Blog →
We’ve reached the stage where authors are creating blogs for their individual books. I like it!
De La Soul - Making of 3 Feet High →
An oral history of one of the best hip-hop records ever made.
The Cost of Downloading All Those Videos - Bits... →
“In other words, the cable and phone companies want to charge consumers per gigabyte even though they refuse to sell it to business customers on the same basis.”
Creator of Web Cartoon xkcd Writing a Paper Book - NYTimes.com
Update: Can Fighting Beat the Curse of the Gerund... →
Ah, the Gerund Movie.
“UPDATE: We tried to allow comments to this one, but realized that it was...”
– The sad but honest truth about comments at sports sites like ProFootballTalk.com Jets Complain About Scheduling Conflict With Jewish Holidays
“I love 4chan. I consider it one of the last bastions of truly free internet...”
– For the lulz! | MetaFilter
The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks →
Let the night begin
A new mix on 8tracks.com
United State of Electronica, Wolfgang Press, Six Parts Seven, The Cure, Faith No More, Nina Simone, June Christy, David Sylvian, Lush, Shriekback, Cake, The Cardigans, Search The Heavens If Lost and more…
Or just listen here
Some Laid-Off Workers Seek New Careers as D.J.’s -... →
I was JUST reading through dubspot’s weekend courses (via an ad in Wax Poetics) and then I see them mentioned here. Funny how that happens.
“So, nerds need to understand that normal people have to apply tact to everything...”
– Tact Filters
Oregon Government Deems The Slants Too...
The Oregon Commission on Asian Affairs, a committee put together by Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski, recently pulled funding from the non-profit organization Asian American Youth Leadership Conference (AAYLC) for involvement with founder and bassist of The Slants, Simon Young. The AAYLC committee had originally chosen Young to be the keynote speaker for this year’s leadership conference, with this...
A True List of Emotional Needs
Jib Fowles’ essay “Mass Advertising as Social Forecast” looked at how advertisements work by examining the emotional appeals that they use to sell their products. The point being we see so many ads daily (well into the hundreds depending on your routine) that only a few ever get through and engage us. These select ads usually do so, according to Fowles, by touching on an emotion,...
Cleaning Out The Ashtrays →
A four CD collection of b-sides, alternate mixes and other goodies from Lloyd Cole’s career from 1989 to 2006. A goldmine for completists like myself who have some of these tracks in other forms.
It’s great to see Cole collecting all this material and cleaning it up for archival purposes. When put all together the cost ($50) is reasonable considering 4 discs and, to be fair, the price...
