March 2009
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List of Names That Are Verbs →
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I call shenanigans on @alysonhannigan
A few days ago I was surprised to see that Alyson Hannigan was on twitter, and only had 3 followers.
I was skeptical as to whether or not it was really her, but I followed her on the off-chance, and geekily, started making a note of how many followers she had so I could draw an exciting graph at some later date.
But today, with the news that Alyson Hannigan’s baby was born on the 24th...
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“Your organisation has still not realised that Digital is not a format shift like...”
– Music Think Tank — EMI is screwed. Utterly screwed.
(via medialux)
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A Coming Paradigm Shift in (Online) Music?
fascinated:
continuations:Of course one immediate question about such a new paradigm is how artists will make money. I think it would be a grave mistake to be caught up in that question. For starters, it seems to me that over the course of history very little of what we now think of as great music was produced specifically because the people making it were concerned about making the music a...
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The Problem With Music →
And musicians, take heart. When the music-industry-as-it-currently-is is gone, you won’t have to put up with shit like this anymore:
Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit. I imagine...
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The Future of the Music Industry →
Continuing the “What’s happening to the music industry?” theme:
medialux:
Them good folks over at musicmarketing.com managed to interview marketeer supreme Seth Godin for their Music Business Radio on the future of the music industry.
This may not be everybody’s cup of imported beer, and certainly not all musicians agree, but if you are interested in the future of...
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“Now I sort of think of the whole engine as a special genetically engineered cow...”
– —Singer Jonathan Coulton, in his blog post about how he makes his money.
(via Daring Fireball, in a post about how doing what you are obsessed with is the right way to create both an audience, and also art)
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Josh Freese's creative album pricing
Consumerist:
Trent Reznor and Radiohead have been dealt a serious blow in the tiered pricing war for album releases. Josh Freese, a member of Devo and A Perfect Circle who’s also played for NIN, Sting, The Offspring, and more!, has just released his solo album today. Aside from the free single or vanilla $7 album download option, you can pay anywhere from $15 to $75,000 for increasingly more...
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Very Bad Dog by John Hegley
penllawen:
I took Rover over to the park the other day I met another bloke with another dog on the way his dog was an alsation my dog was not he said is that dog an alsation I said no and he said why don’t you get a proper dog? and I said Rover ignore this copper and I pick up a stick and I hold it over Rover and say Rover jump out of the clover and get stuck into the stick and Rover jumps out...
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Dead.AtYourAge.com
penllawen:
Enter your birthday and dead.atyourage.com tells you stuff like this:
You are 31 years and 16 days old today. That’s exactly half the life of somebody famous. In another 31 years and 16 days, you will have lived exactly as long as Gracie Allen. She was a ditzy-acting vaudeville comic who became a star of radio and TV in the 1930s-1950s who died at the age of 62 years, 32 days of a...
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why I'll never leave NYC: #2849
zoya:
there was one of those weird shouting guys on my train, but it so happened that he was ranting about Brooklyn trivia (namely, that Empire Blvd was called Malbone Street until the worst subway accident in NYC history). so I pushed my way through the packed car to stand next to him and we talked about street names. mostly, about the alphabetical name scheme — how Ditmas is really Avenue D,...
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Does anybody date anymore?
Apocalypstick describes how it should go:
“We will meet at a restaurant and it will be a fucking classy joint. And we will maybe have a drink at the bar first so I can get all flirty and touch your shoulder and laugh and maybe even do my Blanche impression. Yes, Blanche from the Golden Girls, and yes, it is a great impression.
Let me tell you this right now: you will pay for dinner. Yes,...
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Numbers, Some Larger than Others
squashed collated some big numbers:
Inspired by XKCD, I put together a list of some of the large numbers that have been tossed around recently in context. Most costs are annual costs—but some are spread out over years. Some numbers are actual and some are somebody’s best estimate.
$78,360,000,000,000 - Gross World Product (or cost of all goods and services produced everywhere) (2008)
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The Growth of Walmart →
A beautiful and unnerving animation of the spread of Walmart stores across America.
I had no idea Walmart’s ubiquity across the whole of the US was so recent.
(via @geegeem)
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Could a Dose of Ether Contain the Secret to... →
A fascinating article. Choice quote:
“How anesthesia works has been a mystery since the discovery of anesthesia itself,” writes Michael Alkire, an anesthesiologist at the University of California at Irvine School of Medicine.
(via kryz)
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Richie's Super Simple Guide to Taking Super Great... →
When I first got my nefarious clutches on a digital SLR, I looked around the web for a good tutorial on how to use it. I was not successful in this search, all the ones I found tending to exhibit some or all of the following traits:
be focused* more on the artistic side, rather than on how to control your camera (which is fine, but was not what I was looking for),
go into way too much detail...
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Google Street View Released in UK, Destroys Cars
I hate to think what this is going to do to my insurance premiums.
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