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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

November 5th, 2013 · Uncategorized

 

  • Chase Isn’t the Only Bank in Trouble – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • Wage Stagnation and Market Outcomes – economix   nytimes
  • RIP, American Dream? Why It’s So Hard for the Poor to Get Ahead Today – theatlantic
  • Introducing ‘The Tuition is Too Damn High’ – 10parts   washingtonpost
  • After the Meltdown – publicintegrity
  • How Private Tech Companies Are Collecting Data on You and Selling Them to the Feds for Huge Profits – alternet
  • What if journalists covered the US the way they cover the rest of the world – globalpost
  • Narcissists are ruining America – salon
  • Armed agents seize records of reporter, Washington Times prepares legal action – washingtontimes
  • Jimmy Carter: NSA Intelligence Gathering Ruining Democracy – newsmax
  • George Orwell’s Letter on Why He Wrote ‘1984’ – thedailybeast
  • The US government has betrayed the internet. We need to take it back – theguardian
  • The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet – theatlantic
  • Snowden: UK government now leaking documents about itself – theguardian
  • The Black Budget – washingtonpost
  • AT&T Has Employees Embedded In The Gov’t Providing Near Realtime Searches On Nearly Every Phone Call – techdirt
  • Reports: NSA Has Keys To Most Internet Encryption – npr
  • Maximizing shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America – washingtonpost
  • How complex are corporate structures? – opencorporates
  • The Militarization of Policing in America – aclu
  • Is Homeland Security Preparing for the Next Wall Street Collapse? – maxkeiser
  • Nobody Should Shed a Tear for JP Morgan Chase – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • 7 institutions so mammoth they could destroy America – salon
  • I want to believe – thenewinquiry
  • Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Powerful interests are often pundits’ real bosses – FAIR.org
  • Highest-paid U.S. CEOs are often fired or fined: study – reuters
  • The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis – vice
  • Government statistics 12 years after 9/11 – mcalvanyweekly
  • There is nothing random about the LAX shooting – esquire
  • Einstein and The Great Fed Robbery (20Sept13) – nanex

     

    2008 : The Annotated Watchmen
    2001 : Bliss Fine Art

     

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    Tell him I was too fucking busy– or vice versa.

    September 17th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     


    CourtVision: The Year in Scoring – grantland

    How did Qatar get the World Cup? – reddit

    A’s roster a modern marvel – espn
    The Definitive Case of Whether the A’s or Giants Once Controlled San Jose – bizofbaseball
    Erroneous Story Claiming Houston Astros Most-Profitable Ever A Massive Strikeout – forbes
    The art of scoring – espn
    Who Scores Games by Hand Anymore? – nytimes

    Cal Football: Previewing the Bear Raid Offense
    Bear Raid Part Two: Offensive Line Technique
    Bear Raid Part Three: Combination Plays – californiagoldenblogs

     

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    It used to be that living in a world of imaginary friends was considered a mental illness.

    September 16th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     

  • The Money Shot – vanityfair
  • Traveler Photo Contest 2013 – nationalgeographic
  • Lightning Photography
  • Exploded Flowers – fqwimages
  • Commons: Picture of the Year 2012
  • ClippingMagic

     

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    the wingnut trifecta… anti-intellectual, anti-science and patronizingly racist

    September 5th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     


    Leonard Bernstein: Inside Pop – The Rock Revolution (1967)
     
      Janelle Monáe: Mind Control – pitchfork
      London Calling: The Sound of Going to Pieces – wsj
      Ty Segall: A Portrait of the Artist as F***in’ Psyched! – spin
      Why does a major chord sound happy, while a minor chord sounds sad? – ELI5   reddit
      No Age on Punk Lineage: ‘Oh, We’re All Weirdos‘ – rollingstone
      Patterson Hood on The New(er) South – bittersoutherner
      Bootleg Rambler
      Bearded Menace
      New Fumes
      Flaming Lips
      Stanton
     
    Nobunny – Do the Stooge
    Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox – We Can’t Stop [m cyrus]
    Deer Tick – The Rock
    Deer Tick – The Dream’s in the Ditch
    Asylum Street Spankers – Blade of Grass
    Polyphonic Spree – Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band [beatles]
    Gore Gore Girls – Pleasure Unit
    Piano Magic – The Last Engineer
    Beastie Boys – Electric Worm
    Moby (w/ Wayne Coyne) – The Perfect Life
    Vietnam – Priest, Poet, and the Pig
    1990s – You’re Supposed To Be My Friend
    Hunx and his Punx – You Don’t Like Rock N Roll
    Nobunny – Blow Dumb
    Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet – Having An Average Weekend
    Kurt Vile – Jesus Fever
    Blackberry Smoke – Man of Constant Sorrow
    Porno For Pyros – Pets
    Bubblegum Lemonade – Unsafe At Any Speed
    Jim White – Wordmule
    Wire – Ex Lion Tamer
    The Sadies & Heavy Trash – Back Off
    Ready Steady Go: Otis Redding Special (1966) [23m complete]
    Dolly Parton – Jolene (slowed down)
    Capsula – Seven Crimes and Magnetic Brain
    Capsula – I Need Somebody
    Missing Monuments – (I’m Gonna) Love You Back To Life
    Green Day – Hybrid Moments [misfits]
    Kurt Vile – Never Run Away
    Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill

     

      DrBeeper sampler flashbacks :

        2004: 2004:K   [download]
         [playlist]

        2011: Four Iota   [download]
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    2012 : How big is 50.7 million uninsured?
    2008 : For the Brain, Remembering Is Like Reliving
    2007 : Tater toss

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    I have really tried to at least feel the breath of the beast upon my face

    August 29th, 2013 · Uncategorized


    Academy Fight Song – thebaffler
    Giving Creativity a Hand – novanext
    How reality caught up with paranoid delusions. – aeonmagazine
    Is 0 halfway between positive infinity and negative infinity? – reddit   askscience
    Alex Jones: Father Knows Best, Updated for the Apocalypse – esquire

     

      DrBeeper 2008 mix flashback :

        Brainbusted!   [download]
         [playlist]

     

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    the difference between doing something and doing nothing at all turns out to be a huge difference

    August 28th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     

  • The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis
  • ‘You F–ked Up, You Trusted Us’: Talking Ratings Agencies
  • Everything is Rigged, Vol. 9,713: This Time, It’s Currencies
  • Chase, Once Considered ‘The Good Bank,’ Is About to Pay Another Massive Settlement
  • Chase Made Errors in Nine Percent of Credit-Card Collection Lawsuits, Internal Survey Finds
  • New Bank Investigations: Real Action, or More of the Same?
  • Wall Street Rips Off ‘The Sting’
       – mtaibbi   rollingstone

  • The Leveraged Buyout of America – maxkeiser
  • Your mortgage documents are fake! – salon
  • Swaps Probe Finds Banks Rigged Rate at Expense of Retirees – bloomberg
  • JP Morgan Trade Diagram – maxkeiser
  • The Cult of Home Ownership Is Dangerous and Damaging – aposen   iie
  • Thomson Reuters suspends early release of consumer confidence data – latimes
  • Fed’s quantitative easing equates to Cypriot government stealing wealth – mkeiser   rt
  • In case you think the #Fed has any idea what they are doing, this graph will cure you of that delusion. – jrickards
  • The Origin Of ‘The World’s Dumbest Idea‘: Milton Friedman – forbes
  • Corzine Faces Trading Ban as CFTC Sues Over MF Global – bloomberg
  • German man locked up over HVB bank allegations may have been telling truth – theguardian
  • Anonymous Exposes U.S.’s Biggest Private Prison Company As a Bad Financial Investment – aclu
  • BART’s Tax Shelters – PuebloLands
    How to Really Measure Inflation

     

     

      DrBeeper 2007 sampler flashback :

        Epsilon 07-4   [download]
         [playlist]

     

    2007 : BugMeNot   RetailMeNot
    2003 : Troubletown

     

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    occupying the bracingly tart if narrow interval separating the hopelessly bland from the unspeakably vile

    August 21st, 2013 · Uncategorized

     

  • Behavioral Economics for Kids [pdf]
  • Brain, Interrupted – nytimes
  • The Art of Comics No. 1: Interview R. Crumb–
  • Bill Nye: Firebrand for Science, and Big Man on Campus – nytimes
  • Top 10 Iconic Data Graphics – fastcolabs
  • Salt Lake City, Utah – This is the place – dbyrne
  • Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories – nytimes
  • The Definitive History of the Colors of Crayola – crayoncollecting
  • Destee Nation
  • the Dr. Menlo show
  • Dungeon Robber – BlogOfHolding
  • OMG Space
  • The Higgs Boson Calls a Press Conference. – mcsweeneys
  • The Comment Section for Every Article Ever Written About Intimate Grooming – the-toast
  • 6 Small Math Errors That Caused Huge Disasters – cracked
  • Single greatest video on the Internet? – reddit
  • Quick, easy internet shortcut/trick that has changed your life?
  • Free game/software everybody should know about?
  • The Artie Lange Show

      It’s not what you read, it’s what you ignore – shanselman @ webstock
    Life Through Google’s Eyes
    The Red Balloon (1965)

     

    2007 : Floyd Landis: The Outcast

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    At it’s core, it’s just creative lying

    August 12th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     

  • The Bradley Manning Verdict and the Dangerous “Hacker Madness” Prosecution Strategy – eff
  • What It Means to Be An NSA “Target”: New Information Shows Why We Need Immediate FISA Amendments Act Reform – eff
  • How to Decode the True Meaning of What NSA Officials Say – slate
  • In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A. – nytimes
  • Chief Justice Roberts Is Awesome Power Behind FISA Court – bloomberg
  • NSA secrets kill our trust – bschneier   cnn
  • A detailed analysis of congressional votes on privacy and an action plan for 1984 day and beyond. – reddit
  • Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash – wired
  • Hey, MSM: All Journalism is Advocacy Journalism – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • National Intelligence Director Clapper Apologizes For ‘Clearly Erroneous’ Congressional Testimony On NSA Surveillance – forbes
  • Obama’s war on journalism – salon
  • The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership – bloomberg
  • How Can Any Company Ever Trust Microsoft Again? – computerworlduk
  • The NSA Comes Recruiting – mobandmultitude
  • The Ecuadorian Library – medium
  • Codefellas – wired
  • Taken: The Use and Abuse of Civil Forfeiture – newyorker

     

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    …not for programming so much as for company.

    August 8th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     

      A big batch of DrBeeper samplers for 2013:

        Lambda5   [download]

         [playlist]

     

        Lambda6   [download]

         [playlist]

     

        Lambda7 EPs & singles   [download]

         [playlist]

     

        Lambda8 Comp. & Reissue   [download]

         [playlist]

     

        Lambda9 Comp. & Reissue   [download]

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    we want to know that we disturbed the comfortable and comforted the disturbed

    August 7th, 2013 · Uncategorized


      You Listen To This Man Every Day – dailybeast
      Steely Dan on Making New Music: We’ve Been Talking – rollingstone
      Lawsuit Filed To Prove Happy Birthday Is In The Public Domain – techdirt
      exystence
      Bradley’s Almanac
      Bootleg Rambler
      rawk guit
      dj BC
      MS MR
      Norm
      MV & EE
      Califone.Stitches
     
    New Fumes – Teeth of the Sun
    Mikal Cronin and Ty Segall – Get Along
    M185 – ShShSh
    Jimmy Fallon, Robin Thicke & The Roots – Blurred Lines (w/ Classroom Instruments)
    White Fang – Can’t Deal With Being Real
    Jim White – Handcuffed To a Fence in Mississippi
    Neko Case – Man
    Counting Crows – Baby, I’m A Big Star Now
    Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Child (slight return)
    Harry Roy & His Orchestra – My Girl’s Pussy
    Rilo Kiley – The Frug
    The Mowgli’s – San Francisco
    Guadalupe Plata – Milana
    The Spiders – Furi Furi ’66
    The Pixies – Bagboy
    Mikal Cronin – Get Along
    Mikal Cronin – Change
    The Bavarian Druglords – Leaf
    Velvet Truckstop – Carolina Way
    The Leisure Society – Fight For Everyone
    The Wheeler Brothers – Sleep When I’m Dead
    Kurt Vile – KV Crimes
    Guadalupe Plata – Boogie de la Muerte
    Warm Soda – Jeanie Loves Pop
    Black Market Karma – Dirty Water
    Freddie & the Dreamers – Do the Freddie
    Ed’s Redeeming Qualities – Drivin’ on 9
    DJI Phantom Video Contest: Go Backwards
    Bob Mould – Georgia Theatre, Athens GA, 25 Jul 1990 [full show]
    Tosca – Suzuki (full album)

     

    2012 : Pastoral Plate

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