December 2009
84 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Yeasayer (20)
Four Tet (11)
Dirty Projectors (9)
Animal Collective (9)
Japandroids (4)
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Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the...
– Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Boards of Canada (31)
Converge (14)
Yeasayer (12)
Why? (8)
Lil Jon featuring Kee (8)
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Solomon Kane
This movie appeals to the same nerdiness in me that loves the Warhammer Fantasy universe.
THE GRINCH WHO STOLE AUSCHWITZ
The “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign at the entrance to the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland has been stolen. Says a Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum rep, the thief “must have been a person who had a knowledge of our security system because all the area is closed at night and patrolled and there is a system of cameras.”
From my friend Gregg's Fbook:
This is awesome, if true. Can’t wait to see it.
blownspeakers:
Japandroids play Jimmy Fallon on January 4th.
Vancouver, repre-fucking-sent.
The Eggnog Experience
Awesome! Except arrrrgh, the mp3s are tagged so poorly I have to reassemble the track order by hand.
robotindisguise:
cameronr:
mentalbeast:
No Gold - Wonderful Christmastime Machu Picchu - All I Want For Christmas Is A Hoverboard Apollo Ghosts - Run Run Rudolph Nick Krgovich (of No Kids) & Rose Melberg - Coldest Night Of The Year Lightning Dust - Ho Ho Ho Brasstronaut - Diwali TIme...
Bullshit Corp-Speak Generator →
only if you reintermediate your cutting-edge applications and revolutionize your pay-per-click synergies.
blownspeakers:
Now I have the power. Soon, I will run my department.
jordanhudson:
The jig is up on all executives.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Bear In Heaven (18)
The Get Up Kids (11)
The Beatles (8)
The Very Best (6)
HEALTH (5)
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Mindshare
The next time someone refers to a “band-aid” but means “an adhesive bandage” - this is mindshare in play.
(Mind share, or the development of consumer awareness or popularity, is one of the main objectives of advertising and promotion. When people think of examples of a product type or category, they usually think of a limited number of brand names. For example, a...
(via jwike)
More awesome shit from the upcoming Kick-Ass movie.