April 2009
40 posts
WatchThis is easily one of the coolest projects I’ve seen in a while (and a beautiful website). Street musicians from all over the world collaborating on recordings while never meeting each other.
No Surprise: In the Digital Era, Territorial... →
catbird:
Sony Music France wrote to tell me to take down a Passion Pit song I posted yesterday (“remove those copyrighted files”).
I am not taking it down.
The MP3 was introduced to the internet yesterday by the band’s US label, Frenchkiss, who premiered it on Pitchfork and then urged people to “go download it.”
This is not an issue of “copyrighted materials being illegally posted;” this is...
WatchUltra-slo-mo sneezing… It’s just as gross as you’d expect
The birth of electronic warfare
The German electronic air defense system was designed to detect the allied bomber raids, target and aim the German radar-guided weapons, and destroy the American and British bombers. The German air defense system had 100’s of early warning radars, and thousands of radar controlled anti-aircraft guns, and Ground Controlled Intercept radars to guide the fighters into the bombers.
By 1942 the Allied...
WatchOne of the crazy new ads for Montana’s Anti-Meth campaign
My site has become a political battleground
Don’t know how this happened, but someone posted a link to a photo I reblogged on reddit, and for the past 24 hours liberals and conservatives have carried out a shouting match in the comments. Ah, the wonders of the interwebs…
“I only give daps, never shake hands. Its what sets me apart from other funeral...”
– Best quote on edopter right now….
I love the original, but can’t stop...
Watch“I’m passing out. I’m passing out. Gone.”
Best self-narration ever.
OK, I admit it. I like this song.
Kid Cudi ft....
“Back then it was important to have a computer document look like it was...”
– I’d heard this before but it’s still crazy to think that moving technology forward always requires handholding those who will eventually become obsolete.
via Almost Perfect
Like most of the stuff I’ve recorded over...
My biggest news in Business in a long time - wish... →
gary:
I am so excited about this!
Apparently he’s writing a book on the wax and wain of Caribou populations in British Columbia and its affect on indigenous populations over the past 300 years.
“I saw a broad just after she got hit by a car while riding her bike yesterday. I...”
– Wow. Someone’s going to hell…
Longest running TV series? 72 years
CBS is pulling the plug on daytime’s Guiding Light, the longest-running drama on television, after 57 years, a victim of a long ratings decline.
Light began life as a 15-minute radio serial in 1937 (!) and moved to TV in 1952, gradually expanding to an hour in 1977. Along the way, it introduced viewers to many stars, including Kevin Bacon, Calista Flockhart, Allison Janney, James Earl...