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Monthly Archives: April 2006

WFMU and Last.fm

WFMU is the best radio station ever.
Last.fm is the best…um, whatever it is. Web-2.0 database driven music scrobbler?
What I want is a way to listen to WFMU shows that will input the songs into Last.fm.
It’s already been done for Pandora, which isn’t even that great of a service in my experience. Nothing beats an excellent [...]

Mickey Kaus sez:
Here’s Adam Kidron, “president of Urban Box Office, the New York-based entertainment company that launched the [Spanish national anthem] project”:

“It’s the one thing everybody has in common, the aspiration to have a relationship with the United States . . . and also to express gratitude and patriotism to the [...]

Res ipsa loquitur.


Don’t Tell Me Now


Welcome to Hell. May I take your order?

Have you seen our new dessert menu?

OK, We Get It, Already!

The two Quotes of the Day on today’s Google custom homepage:
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- Samuel Johnson
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All You Need Is a Shove

This was recorded in 1966. The singer was 16 and the rest of the band members not much older.
And it’s more or less the perfect rock single.
The Zachary Thaks - Face to Face

You’ll Learn the Truth of What You Are!

Our Thetans are holding us down!
This is the best song ever. And so very educational.
Thetans! Thetans! Thetans! Thetans! Thetans! Woo!

The Wet Shave

OK, so I’m giving the whole wet shave thing a try after scoffing at one of my colleagues a couple months ago when he mentioned it.
What convinced me? Look at the first picture at the above link. How could I possibly argue with Cary Grant in “North by Northwest“?
More to the point, I [...]

The Song Remains the Same

It was an April morning when they told us we should go…