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Entries from June 27th, 2010

and soon your keys are buried eight layers deep in domestic detritus.

June 27th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

 

  Could a pair of headphones save the music business? – FT
  Music Truly is the Tie That Binds: Cowboy Hip-Hop – crawdaddy
  Illinois Attorney General investigating Lollapalooza for anti-trust – jderogatis
  Ty Segall – So Alone – vimeo
Sleep – Dragonaut

Why Fabregas is a Gooner, not a [...]

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a dozen-plus feverish minutes of strident paranoia and passionate incoherence

June 23rd, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

 

The Data-Driven Life – nytimes
Arguing Three Strikes – nytimes
The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration – cepr
The Conservative Nanny State Strikes Again – tpm

 
2006 : I Have Been Floated: …
2005 : Here’s the setup.
 

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“Not unsympathetic” is different from “sympathetic,” you understand.

June 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

 

Jim’s Pancakes
Bacon Pancakes – TheLitterBox
Not ready to can? Try quick pickles, refrigerator jam – austin360
Can Pickle Juice Stop Muscle Cramps? – well   nytimes
Rosés, With All Due Respect – nytimes
Does The USDA stand for Ultra Silly Dietary Agenda? – sustainabletable
Moroccan vegetable and chickpea stew – WWCE

 

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please, please, please put me out

June 21st, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

 
The Sports Economist
The Newest Wonder of the World: The Ruins of Modern Greece – wsj
America’s Municipal Debt Racket – wsj
The US Wants a World Cup of Its Own, But at What Cost?

 
Diego – The Hero

My new standard of cool
Crime Topography of San Francisco – strangemaps
100 Excellent Online Documentaries [...]

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every molecule in your body was, at one time, in the center of a giant star

June 20th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

 

If It Was My Home: Visualizing the Gulf Spill
Infographic: Tallest Mountain to Deepest Ocean Trench – ouramazingplanet
The Gulf Coast oil spill’s Dr. Doom – money
Did nature clean up most of the Exxon Valdez oil spill? – straightdope
Exxon Valdez lawyer still fighting for clients – cnn
An Unnatural Disaster – nytimes
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Either that wallpaper goes or I do.

June 14th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

 

  How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? – informationisbeautiful
  Radiohead’s Thom Yorke warns of ’sinking’ record labels – bbc
  Guy Hands, Citigroup and the fight for EMI – reuters/yahoo
  Tragic Magic: Reflections On Power Pop – michaelchabon
  In ‘Treme,’ New Orleans’ Music Is Everything – npr
  Second Life’s [...]

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It’s always been about being rich and smart and lucky, and it always will be.

June 11th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

 

  The Onion Sports Introduction To World Cup Soccer
  The Evolution of the World Cup Ball – nytimes
Best 10 Goals of World Cup
50 Best World Cup Goals In History

Realignment Economics – sportseconomist
The Most Interesting College Football Offseason Ever? – sportseconomist
Fulmer Cup: The Big Board Continues It’s Pirate Ways [...]

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hidden beneath all this smug certainty is a poignant insecurity, and the naked 3 A.M. terror of regret

June 5th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

 
DrBeeper mix refresher :
    Eta1 – 2009 EP-single sampler   [download]
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Should a Bad Call Change Baseball? – nytimes   roomfordebate
Book of Odds
Ken Griffey Jr. Covers – SI
Truths about Jeter, Perez are nothing new – sny
Mickey Mouse statues arrive in SoCal   (chi cows)   – mlb
Baseball Science: [...]

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The next time you say forever I will punch you in your face.

June 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

  Rethinking, Irving Plaza Keeps Its Maiden Name – nytimes
  Analysis: Important Sales Trends You Need To Know – billboardbiz
  50 Worst Inventions – Auto-Tune – time
  Turn The Light Out
  Hoodoola
  Matt Hudgins & His Shit-Hot Country Band @ Caledonia 4/15/10 – southernshelter
  Grace Potter and the [...]

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only possible in a country willing to go past a certain intellectual point of no return.

June 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized

Wall Street’s War – mtaibbi
   Notes

So yeah, uh-huh, yow! – jcarroll
“But in algorithmic times, ’so’ conveys an algorithmic certitude.”
  This is the second column about ’so’
   Typography [vimeo]

 

Why does a blow to the testicles cause nausea?
Flatulence in space
  – straightdope

The M Brace
 

Cal gets a ‘Major Sports Triple’
NBA All-Star game falls far [...]

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