April 2007
March 2007
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
Rebellious late sixties music night continues. Ah 1969.
Edit. A funkier version with a groovadelic light show.
Edit again. Too many good versions of this out there. This one features Handsome Dick Manitoba of the Dictators doing the vocals. Raw power!
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Buffalo Springfield - For What it???s Worth
Monterey Pop Festival, 1967.
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john ratcliffe-lee: scratching one off the “list” today: big garrison keillor fan and i’m going to see APHC live @ town hall in manhattan. eBay fixed earlier. (via Twitter / john ratcliffe-lee)
Spontaneous Paris Tube Concert
I was groovin’
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All the glory of the universe, in a single Flash...
Will Greenwald of CNET talks about the latest thing online that “blows my mind”: Nikon’s Universcale web app puts the entire universe into proportion, from the smallest particle to the largest measurements of space. (via John Ratcliffe-Lee - Newsvine Column)
Daft Punk Charleston
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john ratcliffe-lee: testing performancing metrics on journal.ratcliffe-lee.com. stupid eBay thing is annoying. anyone have a similar problem? probably not. (via Twitter / john ratcliffe-lee)
john ratcliffe-lee: @jspepper: talent. (via Twitter / john ratcliffe-lee)
Peanut butter disproves evolution
Mark Frauenfelder:
MJ Kelly says: “A (serious) Creationist clip showing how peanut butter disproves the theory of evolution. (Query whether it makes a difference if its creamy or with nuts…)”
The video explains that evolutionists claim that energy plus matter sometimes results in the creation of life. But since no one has ever found spontaneously-generated life in a jar of...
john ratcliffe-lee: somebody has been sending spam messages from my near-dormant eBay account. just changed the password. can my friday night get any better? (via Twitter / john ratcliffe-lee)
john ratcliffe-lee: never a fan of philly steaks. hoagie haven in princeton, nj. just ask jon stewart. (via Twitter / john ratcliffe-lee)
john ratcliffe-lee: tomorrow’s paper: tom biro fends off twitter addition by running crazed around the office with a box of girl scout cookies. (via Twitter / john ratcliffe-lee)
Making of Snow White from Pop Sci, 1938
Cory Doctorow:
Today on the Modern Mechanix blog, an incredible, five-page spread about the making of Snow White, from the January 1938 issue of Popular Science. Modern Mechanix scans old science mags and posts them in high-res, along with transcripts of the articles, so that they’re machine searchable. It’s my favorite old-magazine blog ever.
Link
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NYT changes, back-dates article after Wikipedia...
Cory Doctorow:
JFarber sez,
On 3/27, someone submitted a question to the Wikipedia Reference Desks (where I volunteer) asking about what seemed like a silly claim in a NYT health article published that same day.
The article, which summarized a recent panel study on the health benefits of beverages, claimed that it was illegal to fortify soy milk with Vitamin D, and, because soy milk did not...
NYT changes, back-dates article after Wikipedia...
Cory Doctorow:
JFarber sez,
On 3/27, someone submitted a question to the Wikipedia Reference Desks (where I volunteer) asking about what seemed like a silly claim in a NYT health article published that same day.
The article, which summarized a recent panel study on the health benefits of beverages, claimed that it was illegal to fortify soy milk with Vitamin D, and, because soy milk did not...
TSA missed 90% of bombs at Denver airport
Cory Doctorow:
Undercover agents were able to slip bombs and IEDs past the Transport Security Agency checkpoint at Denver airport 90 percent of the time. Last time I was in Denver, the eagle-eyed agent was able to spot and confiscate my toothpaste, and of course, my suitcase arrived damaged, contents filthy, having been pawed at by a TSA goon and then improperly closed. These eagle-eyed guardians...
People have no idea why they're doing what they're...
Clotaire Rapaille believes all purchasing decisions lie beyond conscious thinking and emotion and reside at a primal core. He helps Fortune 500 companies discover “the code” (i.e. unconscious associations for their products) that will help them increase sales.
In this interview, he talks about the limits of traditional market research.
They are too cortex, which means that they think too...
Simon and Garfunkel
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Diversity Day at The Office
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Made In China
There’s a new Apple retail store in town, I see. (via john’s shared items in Google Reader)
RSS-I - an RSS feed for your decisions
Cory Doctorow:
Matt Webb gave the morning keynote today at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference in San Diego. His talk (From Pixels to Plastic) was a whirlwind tour through amazing and funny ideas (he opened by seeing how long he could stare at us, smiling, without cracking up).
But the wow moment for me was when he talked about a notional kind of RSS reader — an...
The review of the Criterion DVD of Rushmore I...
The review of the Criterion DVD of Rushmore I posted yesterday mentioned a NY Times article written by Wes Anderson about him screening Rushmore for legendary film critic Pauline Kael. The original is behind the Times paywall, but a Clusterflock commenter posted a copy. After reading it, I don’t get the hostility that other film critics directed at Anderson because of it. (link) (via...
The two reasons people say no to your idea
“It’s been done before” “It’s never been done before”
Even though neither one is truthful, accurate or useful, you need to be prepared for both.
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What Gets Dry Cleaned in Vegas, Stays in Vegas...
Earlier this month I was in Vegas for a week on business. Staying in the Venetian, I decided to live a little and have them press my dress shirts. In my room there was a fairly convenient form that you fill out with how many pieces, treatment, etc. and then a bell hop picks up the forms along with whatever you’re getting laundered. Everything worked like a charm and when I got back to my...
There are some goldfish in Japan that live in a...
There are some goldfish in Japan that live in a functioning deep fat fryer. The frying oil floats above the water where the fish live and as long as they don’t try jumping out of their layer, they’re fine. A nice side effect of this arrangement is that the fish keep the fryer clean, eating whatever food scraps fall from the fryer above. (via cyn-c) (link) (via john’s shared items...
Best Sentence I'll Probably Read Today
“The two suspects fled on foot with the victim’s wallet, cellphone, three medium pizzas and hot wings.” -Carolyn Feibel in today’s Bergen Record
Looking Real Good: fashion shots of normal people
Cory Doctorow:
Pete sez, “Last week my friends and I quietly launched our new project; the basic premise is that interesting people upload photos of themselves looking their best. Every day there’s a new person to read about on the homepage/RSS for 24 hours. There’s no profit motive, and no opportunity to comment or vote or any other cruft; it’s just an opportunity to...
Canned Heat - Little Red Rooster
Rockin’ out at Woodstock ‘69. Too much boogie (and LSD) is really good for you! (via john’s shared items in Google Reader)
An HR department looking for someone with internet...
An HR department looking for someone with internet experience dumped emails from candidates with Hotmail email addresses because “you can’t pretend being an internet expert and use a Hotmail account at the same time”. (via bb) (link) (via john’s shared items in Google Reader)
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom Boom
The gold standard! (via john’s shared items in Google Reader)
Thoughtful review of the Criterion version of...
Thoughtful review of the Criterion version of Rushmore. “Anderson also serves as a convenient target for people who don’t like people who like movies by Wes Anderson. […] When you get past the extraneous bullshit surrounding Anderson’s films, the crux of disagreements about him reminds me of disagreements over David Foster Wallace (or Dave Eggers, or Thomas Pynchon, or even...
Artist Christian Marclay says that Apple contacted...
Artist Christian Marclay says that Apple contacted him about using his short film Telephones for their iPhone commercial. He refused and they went ahead and made the commercial using the same idea with different footage. Says Marclay, “the way they dealt with the whole thing is pretty sleazy”. TouchExplode gets credit for spotting the reference. (via df) (link) (via john’s...
The Erosion Sink from Gore Design is a nice...
The Erosion Sink from Gore Design is a nice piece of design. (link) (via john’s shared items in Google Reader)