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 The final tally of tracks and edits in a single one-hour radio mix. (Decibels for July 2007 with Royal Sapien, Chris Fortier, and Ryan Crane debuts on Wednesday.) If you're looking for the default password for your router or another piece of similar gear, you may want to consult this list. Chewbacca assaulted Marilyn Monroe outside a movie theater. "Chewbacca, whose real name was not available, fled before police arrived, Torres said." [via Fark] Apple should consider not copying artists so directly for their products and ad campaigns. Spinal Tap performing at Live Earth with an army of bassists. [YouTube] Brilliant photos smuggled out of Zimbabwe. It's the birthday of one of America's best radio stations, WNYC. Their dedication to groundbreaking programs like On The Media and Radio Lab and upholding the tradition of the station is inspiring. Kim Jong Il has been looking sick lately. According to a recent study in New Zealand, gay people take loads more drugs than straight people. "Massey University researchers analysed government data from the New Zealand Health Behaviours Surveys involving 15,000 people and found that while gays drank broadly similar quantities as straights, they also were twice as likely to use pot, and 50% more like to smoke tobacco." MadTV presents... the iRack. [YouTube] China has been exploding with commerce and growth, but much like the United States economy, the foundation of outlandish use of resources and credit could mean a collapse. Organic fruits and vegetables are better for your heart than industrially grown varieties. Labels: Links
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.  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]  Check out the Wider Angle Tumblog for more photos, links, and other interesting short form stuff. Labels: Links  While I won't post the file myself, it's rumored that you can find my mix from John Digweed's show some places online if you look hard enough. The Olaris Records site has seen a redesign. AT&T's Blue Room (is it me or are a lot of people using that name?) will be webcasting much of the Bonnaroo festival, and select archives from Coachella will be posted soon. As is to be expected, banner ads work in the peripheral vision to reinforce brand identity. I've always suspected the visual impact of a banner is far more important than its click-thru rate. Madame Tutli-Putli has some of the finest puppetry I've ever seen. Screenings are scarce. If Google buys Feedburner, it would just make sense.  Donate your spare CPU cycles to medical research with Folding@Home. Even better, join the Olaris Records team! The application runs in the background and uses CPU cycles you're not using to fold proteins, linking your machine to a massive distributed supercomputer. I've had one of these dreams where there's an extra room in my apartment. I also had a dream when I was 8 that I had a five-disc carousel CD changer instead of a tape deck, something I really really wanted. [via kottke] The Pirate Bay will be launching a video streaming site. That should be very interesting. This Worth1000 1337 photoshopping contest is one of my favorites. Especially 7h3 (0ns717u710n and st0n3h3ng3.  Al Gore in his office. NPR will release recordings of their Presidential debates into the public domain. Robots talking to each other breeds some unnerving results. Discover Magazine reports on the state of robot thinking and conversing. Thomas Raschke has created some immaculate wireframe sculptures. [thanks Allyson] Meg Hourihan's "A Mean Chocolate Chip Cookie," in which many recipes are scientifically averaged to create the perfect cookie. Amazon has confirmed they're launching a DRM-FREE mp3 music store including music from EMI and over 12,000 other labels including Olaris Records. It seems that Iraq is "losing" between $5 million and $15 million of oil a day. "The report does not give a final conclusion on what happened to the missing fraction of the roughly two million barrels pumped by Iraq each day, but the findings are sure to reinforce longstanding suspicions that smugglers, insurgents and corrupt officials control significant parts of the country’s oil industry." [thanks Fatimah] Whitney Houston visits Weekend Update. [YouTube] Labels: Links  The beautiful art of Mars-1 was on display at Jonathan Levine Gallery in Manhattan and almost every piece sold. [via Design Is Kinky] "May 14th is the official deadline for cable modem companies, DSL providers, broadband over powerline, satellite internet companies and some universities to finish wiring up their networks with FBI-friendly surveillance gear, to comply with the FCC's expanded interpretation of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act." They're in ur internets, stealing ur emails. Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sam Brownback (R-KS) have introduced a bill called the Internet Radio Equality Act of 2007 to help save Internet radio from the Copyright Board's decision to kill it with impossibly high royalty payments. "If passed, the bill would overturn the decision of the Copyright Royalty Board and replace it with a rate mandated by Congress—7.5 percent of total revenues. This is the rate currently paid by satellite broadcasters like XM and Sirius, but the CRB's decision meant that small webcasters could actually owe more in fees than they earn in revenue, and some of the fees would be retroactive to 2006." Someone send those men some cake and ice cream. Shiny Toy Guns will be at the new Highline Ballroom in NYC on June 25. This is the video for their tune "You Are The One." From the mind of House of Cosbys comes Kosbees on Acceptable.tv. A long article about the incredible amount of plastic in the ocean and what it's doing to animals, humans, and the planet. "A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food chain." I first read about this in Harper's a few months ago and now it's made its way to a mag published by Men's Health. Hopefully the information will continue on its trajectory and becomes common knowledge within the year. This may come as a shock, but some U.S. Senators who made the new prescription drug bill more friendly to industry and less friendly to consumers were paid millions of dollars by drug companies. "The 49 senators who voted against drug importation received about $5 million from industry executives and political action committees since 2001 — nearly three quarters of the industry donations to current members of the Senate..." In one of the funniest recorded pot brownie experiences ever baked, a police officer believes himself to be dying from the marijuana. "'I think we're dying,' he said. 'We made brownies and I think we're dead, I really do.'" [via fark] I wonder if the military engineers building arpanet ever imagined transmitting videos of choreographed group ottoman humping. One of those timeless questions. [via kottke] Fewer and fewer New York City cabaret licenses are being issued to venues, and more are closing down than opening, thus ensuring the imminent death of NYC nightlife. (For those not from here, you need a cabaret license to allow people to dance in your venue - no license, no dancing. Period.) Grassroots movements like the free spirited New York Dance Parade (this Saturday, May 19) are aiming to bring dancing back to the people! They can take my freedom, but they'll never take my robot. You love Helvetica. It's OK. We all do. But sometimes we need a change. [via digg] The Design Blogfest is this Friday at The Apartment in NYC. Starts at 7pm, with Cool Hunting, Curbed, Treehugger, Crib Candy, and others attending. What Last.fm has done for music, they also want to do for videos. The personalized radio service aims to build a library of every music video ever created to make custom channels for users. If you have stuff you like and a clever roommate, don't sleep with your roommate's girlfriend. The ceiling height in a room greatly impacts the sorts of ideas one develops. "When people are in a room with a high ceiling, they activate the idea of freedom. In a low-ceilinged room, they activate more constrained, confined concepts." If you're studying logos, check out Logo Lounge's article on the hot trends in logo design for 2006. The cost of widening Britain's M1 has ballooned to more than £21m per mile, raising the total cost of the project to £5.1bn, making it the most expensive motorway in the Britain's history. Regina Lynn explores the politics, emotions, and legalities surrounding virtual rape. "If it is a criminal offense to sexually abuse a child on the internet, how can we say it is not possible to rape an adult online? But I have a hard time calling it 'rape,' or believing it's a matter for the police. No matter how disturbed you are by a brutal sexual attack online, you cannot equate it to shivering in a hospital with an assailant's sweat or other excretions still damp on your body." In an unexpected move from Radar, they've published a beautiful photo series documenting restricted places from Taryn Simon's new book. Sound Revolt gave my new mix compilation a rather good review, giving it 5.5 out of 6. "I don’t know if it’s my sentiment to everything that smells of Fortier, or maybe the incredible technical skills of Mautner, but I go along with this album extraordinarily well." Sometimes you need a stupid Family Feud moment. If that time is not now, save this clip for later. Labels: Links  Xeni Jardin posted some great Coachella roundup reports at BoingBoing. Photo by eecue. In case you missed it, Slate has put out a special issue on the brain. I've been too busy to even read one of these articles, but it's been on my to-read list for days. Paul Rieckhoff explains that the signature injury of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is Traumatic Brain Injury, which occurs when violent physical shifts knock the brain against the skull, and mostly goes undiagnosed. "We're calling for mandatory screenings for all troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Every single one of them. But we need your help. To learn more about TBI, and to join the fight for universal screening, visit www.iava.org." According to a recent survey, kids download media illegally because they don't trust it to be good enough to pay for it, and if they like it, the rights-restricted copy they could buy would afford them, as the name implies, fewer rights to do what they like. China is making huge efforts on the global stage (they are the number one exporter of fruits and vegetables in the world), including a burgeoning automotive industry. The one thing missing from Chinese cars, however, is a unique style. John McCain took a beating on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The new 2nd Ave subway in NYC just may get air conditioning, a luxury the other lines do not afford gross, sweaty, dripping commuters in the summer. Of course, this A/C will probably be installed around 2072. In American society, and indeed, many other countries, it seems that freedoms must be outlined to be enjoyed. A truly free society requires defining limitations, leaving all else free. The design group DOMA has just released their new 15-piece Acid Sweeties vinyl toy collection. Vibrant, grotesque, technicolor sass.  Solo Mobile hooked up a few bus stops wirelessly and encouraged people to start up conversations on the giant phones. I put the Polar Clock on when I'm working and only using one monitor. It's soothing and beautiful, and would make a great screensaver if my desktop were ever inactive. [via Josh Spear] Hedge fund managers, who essentially do nothing to contribute to society or business development, are making shitloads of cash. Millions and billions. What some people forget is that the money has to come from somewhere. Stumbled across the Futurama movie page on Amazon. Video of Richard Dawkins discussing atheism on Bill O'Reilly, mindchecking the King of Spin until he's bruised and bleeding. Rumor has it that Amazon is readying a DRM-free music store. I can neither confirm nor deny as I'm under NDA. Learned about this abandoned platform at the Grand Central Station on a great show from NYC TV that aired on Thirteen. The platform was built specifically for President Roosevelt to load his Pierce Arrow onto a train car, ride into the station, and out into a custom-fitted elevator that went straight up to a private floor in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel so no one would see that he was ill. Even CEO Can't Figure Out How Radio Shack Still In Business. Tori Amos will say whatever she wants on Dutch TV because she can. Topics include the impropriety of displaying one's vagina for the press to the acquisition of a 12-inch cock. Let's watch, shall we? [YouTube via Stereogum] Labels: Links  The WWF created a beautiful and poignant living sculpture representing how much carbon monoxide a day of driving releases into the air. This may seem like an odd thing to say, but I wish the company where I work spent half as much effort getting us enthused about our products as Apple does. "Every time you go to work you are reminded of the products you ship. In big huge looming living color. I was impressed. Getting the message in is about feeding the culture. It’s about making people proud of the work [they're] working on." TED has a sparkling new web site where you can watch over 100 talks, with more to come. Very inspiring and extraordinarily brain-filling. [via Core77] These blood puddle pillows make you look like you're dead. I want one very much. [via reddit] New game at Flickr headquarters: faceball. Need to get some beach balls when summer hits. Gmaps Pedometer will let you track your path and it'll add up how far you traveled. [thanks Allyson] It appears that much of Cubism was inspired by the motion picture, which makes more sense than any other explanation I've heard. Over 130 faculty, students, and staff have been killed at Iraq universities so far this year. [via reddit] The Red Bull Music Academy has free podcasts of lectures from some of the best musicians in the world. Non-Format creates beautiful design. [thanks Preston] In the latest ruling on the law that will raise royalty rates so high that it will put most Internet broadcasters out of business, the "Copyright Royalty Board judges denied all motions for rehearing and also declined to postpone a May 15 deadline by which the new royalties will have to be collected." [via tailrank] The Landlord starring Will Ferrell and Pearl. [Funny Or Die] [thanks Kirk] Labels: Links  Despite the poor grammar, the Greenpeace site requesting Apple to start being at least a little environmentally responsible has good intentions, and you can submit your own design that is hopefully better than this one. [thanks Steven] Some companies are looking to reinvent album art as interactive experiences on the computer, which really seems more like an interactive experience on a computer than album art. But perhaps that's just me. After seeing Tom Coates's photos, I really want this Leica D-Lux 3 camera. The top link referenced on Twitter today was for StationRipper, which I hope doesn't gain much traction. Recording individual songs en masse from free netradio stations at their expense feels dirtier than I like to feel. Educated Earth has links to a lot of great documentaries. WNYC is producing a new morning show that will be "less produced than 'Morning Edition,' more live, more conversational, more interactive." Sugar Hill, the origin of the Sugar Hill Gang. [thanks Alexis] Caught the first episode of The Tudors from Showtime streaming on Netflix this weekend. While Showtime has excelled at quality dramas (Queer As Folk, Dead Like Me, The L Word), they've lacked in beautiful programs, at which HBO is king (Six Feet Under, Carnivale, Rome, The Sopranos...). With The Tudors, Showtime has successfully achieved the opulent look they were going for, but that's about it. "One hesitates to say that [Jonathan Rhys Meyers] phones his performance in. It's more like he dictates it to an assistant who then submits it via fax." Alanis Morissette covers "My Humps." [YouTube] [thanks Mike] Labels: Links  Jenna Jameson has a "Jenna Jameson-flavored" energy drink coming soon. [Flickr] The funniest English language term for vagina is front bottom. Front bottom. I still need to read the rest of this, but this long article on the Algerian war and why the global media won't cover it is fascinating and literally new information to me. The Airhorn Project. [YouTube] According to billboards that have been taken down in Texas, plans are under way for a Texas-Mexico expressway, probably a segment of the planned NAFTA Superhighway. In their new plus-box roll-out for search results, Google has begun including embedded video. [via Waxy] Trailer for Daft Punk's ELECTROMA. [YouTube] Related: Google's first production server. An example of a photo that is ordinary in appearance and extraordinary in context. "According to Larry and Sergey, the beta system used Duplo blocks for the chassis because generic brand plastic blocks were not rigid enough." Related: Google hard drive study. "Failure rates are indeed definitely correlated to drive manufacturer, model, and age; failure rates did not correspond to drive usage except in very young and old drives... and drives that are cooled excessively actually fail more often than those running a little hot." Related: Google is very close to finishing the artificial intelligence system to run on their nationwide supercomputer network. The most amazing Line Rider video ever. [YouTube] [via kottke] Recording the Beatles: the book. Paging Phil Jacobs. "Insanely exhaustive documenting of EVERYTHING related to the Beatles recording sessions, including beautiful, almost-pornographic photos of every mixing board, mic, tape deck, etc. ever used in a Beatles session." [via BB] Nintendo's 2007 release schedule (for Japan). Lots of cool new Wii titles on the way. Related: Surprise! They also have excellent customer service. 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