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bobbing there like a meat slinky dangling over a bottom step.

March 5th, 2013 · Uncategorized

 

  • Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • How Bankers Help Drug Traffickers and Terrorists – nytimes
  • How Colombian drug traffickers used HSBC to launder money – reuters
  • No Mortgage Lenders in Jail, but a Borrower Lands There – nytimes
  • Former Icelandic bank executives jailed for fraud – independent

  • Why It’s Smart to Be Reckless on Wall Street – scientificamerican
  • Secrets and Lies of the Bailout – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • Did JPM’s CIO Intentionally Start The Margin Call Avalanche That Crushed Lehman? – zerohedge
  • The Real—and Simple—Equation That Killed Wall Street – scientificamerican
  • What’s Inside America’s Banks? – theatlantic
  • Overdue Student Loans Reach ‘Unsustainable’ 15%: Fair Isaac – americanbanker
  • No End in Sight for Global “Currency Wars” – 321gold
  • Jamie Dimon Dong-Slaps Inquisitive Analyst in Hilarious Exchange – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • Yes, Virginia, the Rich Continue to Get Richer: the Top 1% Got 121% of Income Gains Since 2009 – nakedcapitalism
  • Risks and Rewards: Deutsche Bank Returns to Commodities Speculation – spiegel
  • Angelo Mozilo, Former Countrywide CEO, Claims He Doesn’t Know What ‘Verified Income’ Is – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • IMF States Entire Derivatives Market is a WMD Time Bomb – silverdoctors
  • America in 2012, as Told in Charts – opinionator   nytimes

     

     

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    The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.

    February 22nd, 2013 · Uncategorized



    Soccer’s New Match-Fixing Scandal – grantland


    Morning Glory: Bak Bak’s search for a home – dailycal
    A Film Analysis of Sonny Dykes’ Diamond Formation, Part One: The Numbers Game
    A Film Analysis of Sonny Dykes’ Diamond Formation, Part Two: Baiting the Defense – californiagoldenblogs


    The 12-6 Self-Awareness of Barry Zito: Getting A Grip and Letting It Rip
    Baker’s Docent: Dusty Out-Manages 99.97% of World’s CEOs – mgmtbybaseball
    MLB 2012: Strange but true feats – espn
    A’s 2012: Thank you fans – mlb
    MLB gives A’s tentative guidelines for potential move to San Jose – latimes

     

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    a massive all-in bet on the rank incompetence of the American press corps

    February 21st, 2013 · Uncategorized

     


    A Practical Guide to Sous Vide Cooking – dbaldwin
    The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food – nytimes
    ‘Calorie Detective’ – cneistat   nytimes
    The Lab Accident That Led to the Discovery of Supertasters – theatlantic
    2012 Best in Food and Drink – nytimes

    Where the Foodies Find Food in Austin – do512
    MeFi on Cooking Issues
    Comforting winter soup, vegetables – sfgate
    The Essential Guide To Dim Sum – buzzfeed
    Presto Chango, Limoncello! – t-magazine
    Flavorful, everyday chili – sfgate
    B is for: Blood Orange Mimosa Jello Shots – eisforeat
    Versatile phyllo useful for brunch dishes – sfgate
    Parker House rolls can rise to stars of the meal – austin360
    Three roasts, three ways – austin360

     

    2008 : Caffeine: A User’s Guide to Getting Optimally Wired
    2007 : Seduced by Sudo
    2006 : Take a nap. Take a walk.

     

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    You can’t be in a cave unless there’s an exit, or else it’s a grave

    February 15th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     


      The Lives They Lived: Adam Yauch – nytimes
      Pazz & Jopp 2012 – villagevoice
      Moneyball For Music: The Rise of Next Big Sound – forbes
      MV & EE :: Space Homestead [review] – j.j.toth   aquariumdrunkard
      Black Market Karma
     
    Capsula
    My Bloody Valentine – MBV [album]
    Foxygen – Take the Kids Off Broadway [album]
    Sub Pop Records album streams
     
    DJ Earworm Mashup – United State of Pop 2012 (Shine Brighter)
    Bubblegum Lemonade – Your Valentine (Takes Me Back In Time)
    Warm Soda – Someone For You
    Triangulo de Amor Bizarro – Ellas se burlaron de mi magia
    Pop Levi – Motorcycle 666 [Devil’s Own Mix]
    Young Fresh Fellows – Picture Book
    Tame Impala – Mind Mischief
    David Ruffin – (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right
    David Byrne & St. Vincent – I Should Watch TV
    Adam Green & Binki Shapiro – Just To Make Me Feel Good
    They Might Be Giants – Don’t Lets Start
    Foxygen – Shuggie
    Jenny O – Well OK Honey
    The Shins – Andrew In Drag [mag fields cover]
    Fuzz – This Time I Got a Reason
    Fuzz – Fuzz’s Fourth Dream
    T.Rex – Jeepster
    The Magnetic Fields – Quick!
    Rolling Stones w/ Marianne Faithfull – Sway
    Andrew Bird – Three White Horses
     
      Ty Segall – Live @ Mohawk
      Sesame Street vs Beastie Boys – Sure Shot mashup
     
      Beck – Hello Again (bowie) – lincoln
      Lucius: Tiny Desk Concert – nprmusic
      David Byrne & St. Vincent In Concert – nprmusic

     

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    The decay of the nation is best seen not in economic output but in ethics.

    February 14th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     

      A quick look back with three samplers of 2012 tunes:

        Kappa17   [download]
    Taking a cue

         [playlist]

     
        Kappa18   [download]
    Right in the face

         [playlist]

     
        Kappa19   [download]
    Off the beaten path

         [playlist]

     
     

  • Internet K-Hole
  • Fuck Yeah Fluid Dynamics
  • High Maintenance
  • Blow Job
  • Documentary Heaven
  • RetailMeNot
     

  • A Pickpockets Tale: The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins – newyorker
  • Hair and Hate: The Children of The Mullets – dbyrne
  • Tricks to Successful Internetting – Nickerblog
  • 8 y/o cousin’s questions about mass in the universe – reddit   askscience
  • Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy – nwolf   guardian
  • Some random thoughts on gun control – jcarroll
     
      Stanley Pickle
      Richard Feynman – Ode to a Flower

     

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    If our ability to feel love turns out to be just a cosmic accident, I’d like to think this means the universe is on our side

    January 3rd, 2013 · Uncategorized

     

     

      DrBeeper Faves of 2012
    The DrB brain dump is complete –
    all that great music from 2012 has been collated and sorted.

     

        From the Top 2012 (aka ’19’)   [download]
    One track each from DrBeeper’s top 20 albums of 2012

         [playlist]

     

    2011    2010    2009    2008    2007    2006    2005    2004    2003    2002    2001
     
    2012   Andrew Bird – Break it Yourself
    2011   Black Keys – El Camino
    2010   Beach House – Teen Dream
    2009   Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
    2008   Jim White – Transnormal Skiperoo
    2007   Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
    2006   Twilight Singers – Powder Burns
    2005   Spoon – Gimme Fiction
    2004   Green Day – American Idiot
    2003   The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
    2002   Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

     

    2011 : Players Who Couldn’t Get to the Game on Time
    2007 : The Noble Art of Sabrage
    2002 : Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story

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    Some things you do just to see how bad they’ll make you feel

    December 30th, 2012 · Uncategorized

     

      Final three DrBeeper 2012 samplers:

        Kappa14   [download]
    Far and wide

         [playlist]
     

        Kappa15   [download]
    Smashingly sweet

         [playlist]
     

  •     Kappa16   [download]
    18 live tracks from 2012

     

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    There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

    December 27th, 2012 · Uncategorized

     

  • A Brief History of Money : Or, how we learned to stop worrying and embrace the abstraction – ieee
  • Escape From Minus World – thenewinquiry
  • Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • UBS Libor Manipulation Deserves the Death Penalty – bloomberg
  • Rogue banks contribute to political malaise – marketwatch
  • The Billionaires’ Long Game – commonblog
  • Quantitative Easing: Basic Process
  • Debt and the Decay of the Myth of Liberal Individualism – nakedcapitalism
  • How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico’s murderous drug gangs – guardian
  • Foreign holdings of US debt hit record $5.48T –statesman
  • The Bartering Nation States: Are Afghanistan & Iran Bartering Gold For Oil? – silvervigilante

     

        DrB 2006 sampler flashback:
     
       Delta Tria   [download]
     [playlist]

     

    2007 : David Byrne’s Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists
    2006 : The 7′-Tall Pitcher: When Whatever Makes You Stronger Kills You

     

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    We who are old are often startled by how old we are

    December 23rd, 2012 · Uncategorized

     

      Two new DrBeeper 2012 samplers :

        Kappa12   [download]
    Wrap it up with a bang

         [playlist]
     

        Kappa13   [download]
    Too much is never enough

         [playlist]
     

    2008 : Bizarro Blog
    2004 : Fooey to the World: Festivus Is Come

     

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    a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic

    December 18th, 2012 · Uncategorized

     

  • Infographic of shifting US political ideologies – kottke
  • US Congress: Political and Ideological Makeup – xkcd


      IAmA Bob Mould
      Beck looks for new connection with ‘Song Reader’ – sfgate
    Persian Rugs – St Peters Infirmary
    Black Market Karma – Semper Fi
    Jim White – Infinite Mind
    Boss Hog – I Dig You
    Petra Haden – Don’t Stop Believin’
    Black Crowes – Feelin’ Alright
    Bob Mould and Dave Grohl – Ice Cold Ice

     

    2008 : Butter Holds the Secret to Cookies That Sing
    2002 : Bar Signs

     

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