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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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    if i had all of the answers and you had the body you wanted would we love with a legendary fire?

    June 28th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     

  • Stadiums Cost Taxpayers Extra $10 Billion – bloomberg
  • What’s a Name Worth? – thesportseconomist

    The Art of Pitch Framing – grantland
    Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris And Jim Gentile: The Story Of Baseball’s Forgotten 1961 Sensation – thepostgame
    Bryce Harper: A swing of beauty – washingtonpost
    Money on the Bench – nytimes
    What are the five ways to get to first base without hitting the ball (revisited)? – straightdope
    Great Debates: Do Hot Streaks Exist? – athleticsnation
    The Hidden Juggernaut in Oakland – fangraphs

     

    What’s Playing at the Daptone HQ

     

    2011 : The Growth Ponzi Scheme   Part 1   Part 2   Part 3   Part 4   Part 5
    2008 : What are hiccups and why do we get them?
    2006 : Does digital age spell privacy’s doom?
    2005 : The liberal straw man
    2004 : White House Tries to Rein In Scientists
    2002 : Flavors Of Fraud
    2001 : What’s the story on the ancient Chinese custom of binding women’s feet?

     

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    Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia

    June 19th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     

      Two more DrBeeper samplers for 2013:

        Lambda3   [download]

         [playlist]

     
        Lambda4   [download]

         [playlist]

     

     

    Old school: The Loved Ones

     

    2008 : The Science of Sarcasm (Not That You Care)
    2003 : We’re All Gonna Die!

     

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    Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

    June 17th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     

  • Digital Surveillance – openrightsgroup
    Why the Snoopers’ Charter is the wrong approach: A call for targeted and accountable investigatory powers

  •   — Snowden saw what I saw: surveillance criminally subverting the constitution – guardian
  •   — Inside the NSA’s Domestic Surveillance Apparatus: Whistleblower William Binney Speaks Out – democracynow
  • As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, Press Predictably Misses the Point – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? 04 May, 2013 – ggreenwald   guardian
  • NSA Snooping Was Only the Beginning. Meet the Spy Chief Leading Us Into Cyberwar – wired
  • What We Don’t Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know – theatlantic
  • Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure – APbigstory
  • Leaked: NSA’s Talking Points Defending NSA Surveillance – techdirt
  • Senators skip classified briefing on NSA snooping to catch flights home – thehill
  • Germany Demands Obama Explain “American-Style Stasi Methods” – zerohedge

  • Dear Class of ’13: You’ve been scammed – marketwatch
  • How Colleges Are Selling Out the Poor to Court the Rich – theatlantic
  • Everything Is Rigged, Continued – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • Billions of Dollars Wasted on Racially Biased Arrests – aclu
  • Fast food workers strike for higher pay and union rights – dailykos

  • World Bank a security risk to the world order? – larsschall
  • Nine amazing truths you already suspected – mmorford
  • 10 Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America – bananenplanet
  • The Lasting Effects of the Vietnam Draft Lottery – themonkeycage

     

    2002 : Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings
    2003 : The Human Clock

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    Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.

    June 7th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     

  • Why Are Homeowners Being Jailed for Demanding Wall Street Prosecutions? – rollingstone
  • Unions to Banks: Pay Up – americanprospect
  • CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law – bloomberg
  • Too-Big-to-Fail Takes Another Body Blow – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • Deja Vu on the Hill: Wall Street Lobbyists Roll Back Finance Reform, Again – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • How Wall Street Defanged Dodd-Frank – thenation
  • JPMorgan Caught in Swirl of Regulatory Woes – dealbook   nytimes
  • How Your Purchasing Power Was And Is Destroyed – market-ticker
  • Why the Federal Reserve should buy national infrastructure bonds – muniland
  • Money Laundering Is Financial Thoughtcrime – americanbanker
  • Federal Reserve Refuses to Submit to an Audit of Germany’s Gold Held in U.S. Vaults – nsnbc
  • Why Didn’t the SEC Catch Madoff? It Might Have Been Policy Not To – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • Who Said The Hydra Would Take It Lying Down [pdf] – AFekete
  • Privacy Breach on Bloomberg’s Data Terminals – nytimes
     
    Who Profits From Poverty? – #GlobalPOV Project
    The end of ponzi prosperity – SatyajitDas

     

    2012 : How Markets Crowd Out Morals
    2007 : An Athletics Lesson: When Good News Makes Things Harder
    2004 : The Thermochemical Joy of Cooking

     

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