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Mika Brzezinksi on MSNBC refused to lead with, or even report on the Paris Hilton nonsense. First she tries to light the story on fire, then she shreds it.
Mika, if you're reading this, I'd like to take you out to dinner. Edited version without commercials from YouTube. [via reddit/WAtumblog] Labels: Mass Media  Today, June 26, thousands of Internet radio stations went silent. This is how the soundscape online would be if new regulations that require exorbitant royalty payments go into effect. As an artist, a label owner, and a broadcaster, I have the credentials to cite the pending law as shitty. If you want to save Internet radio (from Pandora to last.fm to NPR) call your congresscritter and make them support the Internet Radio Equality Act.
These are some links that I've saved that haven't made it onto the tumblog.
 I think I want every shirt from Headline Shirts, particularly the Rich Crackers shirt. Keep this script handy for telemarketers when they call. Some ambitious and creative kids made a map of the United States out of LEGO. Jim at Coudal Partners has some great advice for how to think about work. "...if you see work as a Montessori preschooler does, as a wide-open path where one thing leads to another and the development of one skill allows for another level of things to be explored, then that's a whole other kind of "work." It's not so much about what you make, it's more about what you learn making it." It appears to be natural for mothers to kill an undesired child, happens in all sorts of species, including primates and other mammals. [via reddit] I think text chat will still rule the web for quite some years (I prefer it to video or voice aside from speaking in person) and this is one of the reasons. "But after a few hours he said he was getting tired of using text chat -- and asked me to switch over to Ventrilo, an app that lets gamers chat using microphones and voice. I downloaded Ventrilo, logged in, dialed him up and ... ... realized he was an 11-year-old boy... I still enjoyed questing with him -- he was a terrific World of Warcraft player. But there's no doubt that hearing each other's voices abruptly changed our social milieu." Best Buy's corporate culture seems to support good ideas that come from regular employees, so they've freed up the corporate environment to let workers spend their time as they like, as long as they get their work done. [via kottke] Another performance from The Yes Men, and an interview with Wired. Has the economy begun its downfall? "In other words, it sounds eerily like 2000-2002 except maybe on a much larger scale. Then it was “only” the tenth worse bear market in history, but over a trillion dollars in wealth simply vanished. What makes today’s instance seem particularly unfair is that the preceding recovery that is now ending—the “jobless” one—was so anemic. " Bloggers and writers can turn their content into podcasts instantly, for free, read by computers that sound tolerably like humans. Check out Odiogo, a very cool service that I wish more blogs would use. If you're doing research online, be sure to check these sites first to find hidden vast fields of knowledge on the Internets. Labels: Links
Some of the best links from the Wider Angle Tumblog over the past week or so, beginning with my new desktop. It comes from Microsoft's New Zealand site...
 Underworld has a new album coming out in October. Can't wait to see them in Central Park. Sao Paulo has taken down all their outdoor ads. A Flickr set documenting some of the results. Winterbells is a Flash game I found again recently where a cute bunny has to hop up bells to score points, or risk floating down with ears flapping. The majority of White House aides use RNC email addresses, and more than half of those accounts have not been archived. Every part of that is illegal. Creature Comforts is my new favorite show on network tv.  Judge Jules's son is rather old now. I remember when he was born. Why has Gary, Indiana been completely abandoned? " I don't really have too much faith in the Constitution because you gotta remember when they signed the Constitution, you got all these geniuses in the room, and they're like, 'OK, we got the right to bear arms, got free speech, you can own niggers. Looks good to me, let's sign!' So obviously all those people were insane." Ice-T in Fuck Tim Noble and Sue Webster make extraordinary shadow art. Several hugely popular clubs in Ibiza have been suspended for drug violations. The authorities there just don't get it. "Minimal is like great design. When it's good, it's lovely to behold. When it's bad, it's just wallpaper or linoleum. Sometimes it evelates to art... but frankly not often." Auntie Agony in DJ Magazine Discovered Mozy. Unlimited online backup for $5/month.  My beautiful friend Kaci gets ready for her beautiful wedding. "The ukulele is the pda version of the guitar." Mark Frauenfelder on Net@Nite Custom wallpaper made so the pattern wraps around your stuff. I am still so happy that Bush got his watch stolen. Italy's emissions continue to increase while other major polluters in Europe have managed to lessen theirs. It's all moot, but still, for shame.  I still can't fathom this bouncey horse. WTF? The USDA has decided that some non-organic things can actually be called organic. Google Reader finally, FINALLY, gets an unofficial search engine. Frank Zappa on Crossfire in 1986 defending free speech.  If you enjoyed my set on John Digweed's radio show, you may also be interested in the new 30 minute exclusive megamix-esque set by Royal Sapien now available on the Transitions Podcast. It was released this past Sunday, June 17. Subscribe to John Digweed's Transitions Podcast for free in iTunes or download the mp3s directly from the Transitions section at libsyn. Labels: Music, Royal Sapien  Our 2nd compilation of highlights from the Wider Angle Tumblog begins with our progress in Iraq, from the view of Misha Niskin. [TL] "73 percent of Americans said the country is pretty seriously on the wrong track, while 25 percent said things are going in the right direction." [TL] "Time Warner has announced the introduction of packet shaping technology to its network." [TL] Stefan Sagmeister on how design can make you happy, speaking at TED in 2004. [TL]  Stefan Sagmeister's desktop. [TL] "Goodbye wires... MIT experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer." [TL] "It was a short-lived but spectacular breach of security at the new US embassy in Baghdad." Web leak puts US embassy at risk [in reference to this] [TL] "An Ohio company has long been adding the industrial toxin melamine to animal feed ingredients, and those feeds have been consumed by livestock and fish meant for human consumption, according to the Food and Drug Administration..." [TL]  Bush and his beer. A new iconic photograph. [TL] Oceana has produced a printable mini-guide of what kinds of fish are safe to eat, for you and the ocean. [TL] Interactive Periodic Table [TL] "Yes. I am the founder of this movement." - Paul Oakenfold takes credit for creating the acid house generation. [via Jonty Skrufff] [TL] "What is Glyphs? Well it’s Adobe’s poorly-named character palette, while Glyphs is a nice 5-dollar word and fits within in the width of the menu, Fucked Up Characters Palette is far more descriptive and serves the user better." - STET [TL]  Three beautiful dolphins from Global Wanderer. [TL] The benefits of being home schooled: the completely awkward and inappropriate spelling bee winner. [TL] Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969-79 at ICP in NYC May 11–September 9, 2007 [TL] "Blitzer tonight asked [Conservative candidates], 'Is there anyone here who believes gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military? If you do, speak up now,' there was a deafening silence. No one raised their hands." Think Progress » Conservative Candidates All Support Banning Gays From The Military [TL]  Use Lastgraph to make spiffy graphs of your last.fm data. [via waxy] [TL] Attractors - Awesome Flash physics simulation slash game. [TL] "What the piece actually highlighted to me is people's relationship with their self-image, and perhaps even a mass(ive) desire to perform in public on several levels - both to be part of a crowd and to be individually reflexive." - cityofsound: The Weather Project [TL] "In a major victory for TV networks, a U.S. appeals court on Monday overruled federal regulators who decided that expletives uttered on broadcast television violated decency standards." [TL] "The economy keeps growing, as does the enormous largesse of the wealthy, while the average person makes less than they did when Bush took Office." [TL]  "First discovered by the U.S. Coast Guard in 1978, the Greenpoint spill has been estimated at anywhere between 17 million and 30 million gallons—three times more oil than the Exxon Valdez spill. That makes it the largest known oil spill in American history." - Exploring the Massive, Viscous Oil Blob That Lies Just Beneath the Streets of Greenpoint -- New York Magazine [TL]
The new project from Robert Greenwald is Impeach Gonzales, a worthy effort.
Sign the petition and check out the videos on YouTube, and send them to your friends! [thanks, Alan]  Catch Royal Sapien Feelin' Frisky on Tuesday at 4pm et (1pm pacific, 9pm uk) on friskyradio.com. Labels: Royal Sapien
Here are some of my favorite posts from the Tumblog over the last few days. Been doing my best to update it a lot; check it out over in the sidebar, on its own site tumblog.widerangle.org, or subscribe to the Wider Angle Tumblog RSS Feed.
 Alone in the night (via LalliSig) "Fuel pipeline and storage tank explosions do occasionally happen, and while they can be tragic in their own right, they don't result in the immolation of entire storage facilities or miles of pipeline." David Goldstein: I'm Plotting to Blow Up LAX Rachel Maddow's Campaign Asylum - Cheney Out, Jeb In? Schrodinger's LOLcat MAKE: Blog: Man builds a living out of LEGO "Apple's new DRM-free tracks from the iTunes store not only contain your email address and password name in hidden fields, but in at least one case, more than 360k of hidden information." Hasan Elahi at Pop!Tech talks about his encounter with the FBI and the subsequent choice to document every moment of his life for all to see, theorizing that if he has tons of data and they have little, it devalues their currency. His story is alarming, his information art is overwhelming, and his photo of an official "no blowjobs" sign in an airport, sans text, is, well, awesome. "The techniques are indistinguishable. The methods were clearly understood in 1948 as war-crimes. The punishment for them was death." "A German woman in Dusseldorf blocked the entrance to an underground station when she mistook it for a subterranean car park, police said on Wednesday." German drives down subway stairs [via Rachel Maddow] "It's not so much about what you make, it's more about what you learn making it." Coudal Partners "The [Secret] service has begun training agents to fill 103 full-time slots as to be part of the current president's retirement detail." "A device that specifically targets rapidly growing cancer cells with intermediate frequency electrical fields doubled the survival rates of patients with brain cancer, according to an article apperaring in PNAS." Labels: Tumblog |
   
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