September 2008
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Slash hopes Guns N' Roses bootlegger 'rots in... →
Former Guns N Roses guitaristSlash has slammed the blogger who allegedly leaked nine songs from the yet to be released Axl Rose-produced ‘Chinese Democracy’.
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North Pole becomes an 'island' →
London, Sept 1 (PTI) It’s now a fact. The North Pole has become an “island” for the first time in history, courtesy global warming. NASA’s satellite images have revealed that the melting ice has facilitated the opening up of both the north-west and north-east passages, making it possible for marine vessels to circumnavigate the Arctic ice cap.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-31) →
Mogwai
Beirut
Miztura
The Six Parts Seven
Bloc Party
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August 2008
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10 Geeky Movies to Raise Your Kids On | Geekdad... →
In our never-ending quest to provide you the tools and knowledge to raise your kids in your own geeky image, we present you with a list of 10 geeky movies to raise your kids with. This is a starter list, and by no means comprehensive. It also skews towards the younger set because we have to lay the proper geeky foundation. As always, leave your suggestions for additional titles in the...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-8-24) →
Clint Mansell
Okkervil River
Moly
Bloc Party
The Six Parts Seven
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The Journal of Urban Typography →
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QQs: The Democratic National Convention
dihard:
How much did it cost to attend the DNC? Free for everyday adults. Some special seats cost at least $1,000.
How many seats does the Mile High Stadium (aka Invesco field) hold? Aboout 76125
How old is Biden’s “drop dead gorgeous” wife? 57
What is her PhD that he says is “a problem”? She received her PhD in education from the University of Delaware.
How old is Biden’s mom? 90
How cute are...
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THE KITCHEN TABLE: KEEP HOPE ALIVE... →
Hidden amongst the khaki pants and blue shirt madness that is theDNC in Denver, lives Manifest Hope… an art show based on the ideals of presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Hosted by the ever-amazingAndenken Gallery, the show boasts over 10,000 square feet of art-enriched space on upper Larimer. I was lucky enough to get a press pass to see the show on Sunday, before it opened. Inside...
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The Most (un)American Icons
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Have you seen the recent Budweiser “Great American Lager” commercials? You know, the ones that are oozing with everything American – football, tailgating, the Statue of Liberty, riding motorcycles, playing in a garage band, and, of course, a fat slice of apple pie. They’re trying to remind me that their All American beer is still All American. But is it? I’m pretty sure by now we all...
The Second Most Beautiful Girl in New York Was... →
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via Gawker
Hipsters are too hip (via... →
Seven Theories on why Williamsburg Hipsters refuse to lock their bikes to David Byrne’s bike rack
It’s, like, art, dude. You can’t just go locking your bike to art.
New bike racks aren’t as “authentic” as street signs and parking meters.
The Talking Heads are, like, too mainstream.
The bright color and interesting shape would upstage a carefully rebuilt yet strategically well-worn...
Opentape is a free, open-source package that lets... →
feastingonroadkill:
As Kazaa was to Napster 1.0, Opentape is to Muxtape. Don’t the pigopolists ever learn?
Lion Mutilates 42 Midgets in Cambodian Ring-Fight →
soupsoup:
BBC News - Tickets had been sold-out three weeks before the much anticipated fight, which took place in the city of Kâmpóng Chhnãng.
The fight was slated when an angry fan contested Yang Sihamoni, President of the CMFL, claiming that one lion could defeat his entire league of 42 fighters.
Sihamoni takes great pride in the...
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Graphic Evidence Against Steroid Abuse | Wired... →
Doctors ordered the patient to quit steroids and start taking antibiotics. Two months later, the acne was gone. So was the muscle. Only gruesome scarring remained — and as his doctors wrote last week in the Lancet, that “is likely to remain with the young man for the rest of his life.
antikris:
I am so sick I even missed Weeds last night. If when I get home my ondemand isnt working, I will stab a motha fucka. Probably my poor cat.
Only two more episodes left! I was hoping they would bring back Conrad.
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Dr Dre Son Dead? | MTV UK →
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Dungeons & Dragons, the Facebook App | Game | Life... →
The last thing we probably need is something else to distract us on Facebook, but let’s now welcome the Dungeons & Dragons: Tiny Adventures app to help hack away at our daily productivity.
The app is simple. Just pick a character — mine is a human cleric named Harmik Kaznure — then go on adventures. You don’t actually control the action, but rather wait for...
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Geek Ink: Comics Fans Show Off Tattoos →
“Once I started getting one girl, I had to get ‘em all,” Boyce said.
With flesh forever marked with the comics and sci-fi characters they know and love, geeks like Boyce would give a pack of hard-core bikers a run for their money in the tattoo department.
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Esquire's September issue, which celebrates their... →
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E Ink, whose technology is used in Amazon.com’s e-book device, the Kindle, is responsible for producing the cover. Of the 720,000 issues Esquire has in circulation, 100,000 of them will feature this electronic cover. It comes with it’s own battery pack and is expected to run out of juice in 90 days.
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Welcome, Freshmen. Have an iPod. - NYTimes.com →
“We think this is the way the future is going to work,” said Kyle Dickson, co-director of research and the mobile learning initiative at Abilene Christian University in Texas, which has bought more than 600 iPhones and 300 iPods for students entering this fall.
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Bloc Party - Intimacy
Bloc Party are an English indie rock band, composed of Kele Okereke on vocals and rhythm guitar, Russell Lissack on lead guitar, Gordon Moakes on bass guitar and Matt Tong on drums. Their brand of indie rock has been compared to bands such as The Cure, Blur, The Smashing Pumpkins, Pixies and Joy Division.[citation needed]
The band formed at the 1999 Reading Festival by Okereke and Lissack. They...
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Superman To Get the Dark Knight Treatment | The... →
Robinov wants his next pack of superhero movies to be bathed in the same brooding tone as The Dark Knight.Creatively, he sees exploring the evil side to characters as the key to unlocking some of Warner Bros.’ DC properties. “We’re going to try to go dark to the extent that the characters allow it,” he says. That goes for the company’s Superman franchise as well.
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“Megapixels, like megahertz before them, are the big consumer swindle of the...”
– Why the Megapixel Race Needs to End | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
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Meet Leland Chee, the Star Wars Franchise... →
Keepin’ it canonical: Leland Chee, continuity database administrator at Lucas Licensing, maintains the Holocron — a vast FileMaker database that’s consulted to make sure that any new elements added to the Star Wars franchise fit within the existing mythology.
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Sick of Griefers, YouTube Vloggers Start... →
Fed up with vitriolic YouTube commenters, a pair of high-profile video bloggers have started an invitation-only site to provide a sane forum for thinking vloggers. But as they make a break from the asylum, the YouTube crazies are cranking up their attacks.
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