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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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    You cannot parody crap TV in a way that crap TV hasn’t already parodied itself.

    June 4th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     


      Mosh pit physics sheds light on strategies for crowd control – reuters
      The Section: Knights of Soft Rock – rollingstone
      A Battlefield Of Anxieties: Wayne Coyne Interviewed – thequietus
      How We Cope with Spammers, Fakers, and Cloners – echonest
      Every Noise At Once
      What It’s Like When A Label Won’t Release Your Album – buzzfeed
      The Post-Punk / New Wave Super Friends – butcherbilly
      Why is bass so boomy, and what can I do about it? – straightdope
      Spacemen 3 discography reissued
     
    Beastie Boys Infomercial for Hello Nasty,   pt.1   pt.2
    Banana Rainbow teaser trailer
    Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin documentary (pfork)
    Daft Train
    Stevie Ray Vaughan Soundcheck
    Aerosmith bootlegs
     
    Chris Hadfield – Space Oddity
    Johnossi – Seventeen
    Foxygen – San Francisco
    Capsula – Voices Underground
    King Tuff – Bad Thing
    Phantogram – When I’m Small
    Emiliana Torrini: Go With the Flow (QOTSA)
    Beastie Boys w/Doug E Fresh – Right Right Now Now/Shazam! (Conan w/interview)
    Fletcher C. Johnson – Lost My Head
    Frightened Rabbit – The Only Place (Best Coast)
    Pond – Giant Tortoise
    Kool and the Gang – Summer Madness
    Twilight Singers – Waves
    Foxygen – No Destruction
    White Stripes – Hardest Button To Button
    Johnossi – Gone Forever
    Rolling Stones – No Expectations
    Rokwell & Groom – Impossible Alps
    CSS – I’ve Seen You Drunk Gurl
    Norm – Funny Face
    Gonjasufi – Duet
    Soledad Brothers – Loup Garou
    The Death Set – Slap Slap Slap Pound Up Down Snap
    Tom Waits – Chocolate Jesus
    Mungo Jerry – In The Summertime
    Charlotte Gainsbourg & Beck – Vanities
    Johnossi – Into the Wild
     
      Show and Tell with King Khan & BBQ
      Jim White – Stranger Candy (radio silence)
      Jim White – A Perfect Day to Chase Tornados (radio silence)
    Q-Burns Abstract Message

     

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    Baseball is all about the acronyms and the link to other acronyms

    May 7th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     

  • Organizational Architecture of College Sports Behind the Scandals
  • Maintaining a Credible Threat – thesportseconomist

    Is Your Team’s Owner a Major League Asshole? – motherjones
    Segura’s baserunning adventures – mlb
    MLB uniforms 2013 – flipflopflyball
    Can money buy baseball glory? [interactive] – latimes
    Team-building with Billy Beane and Theo Epstein – providencejournal
    Why the Miami Marlins Could See a Historic Attendance Plunge – bizofbaseball
    The Other Kind of Moneyball – slate
    Here’s the deal: Free agency’s role is changing – mlb
    Baseball Believes Alex Rodriguez Bought Clinic Documents – nytimes
    A’s going deep to lead charge for change yet again – sportsillustrated
    A’s Already Showing Quality Depth
    A’s: Eric Kubota on the Draft and Drafting – athleticsnation

     

    2009 : The Tarantino Mixtape
    2005 : Recipe for Scandal
    2004 : Uncle Andy’s Fun Afterlife
    2003 : Tripping De-Light Fantastic

     

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    the only certainty is that what we’re watching is irresponsibility on an epic scale

    April 29th, 2013 · Uncategorized


    Fiat Money Explained

  • Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever – mtaibbi   rollingstone
     

  • Income Inequality: 1 Inch to 5 Miles – dcjohnston   taxanalysts
  • Why Should Taxpayers Give Big Banks $83 Billion a Year? – bloomberg
  • Pew: 93% of households lost net worth 2009-11 – usatoday
  • Corporate Tax Cheats on Tax Day – thecontributor
     

  • Basel III Capital: A Well-Intended Illusion – fdic
  • Winner Takes All: The Super-priority Status of Derivatives – ebrown   maxkeiser
  • Congress Acts Quickly to Kill Transparency For Their Own Shady Insider Trading – politicususa
  • While Wronged Homeowners Got $300 Apiece in Foreclosure Settlement, Consultants Who Helped Protect Banks Got $2 Billion – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • The land rush behind the Bitcoin price – payglo.be
  • Wall Street’s Bunco Artists – maxkeiser
  • A Line Of Demarcation Through The Eurozone Is Taking Shape – testosteronepit
  • Global Banking Crisis – How & Why YOU Will Get “Cyprus’d” As This Bank Scrambled For Capital – boombustblog
     
    What is Money
    You’re a Loser If You are Saving
    What Is Money? (1947)
    Money As Debt (Full Length Documentary)

     

      DrBeeper 2005 mix flashback :

        Seven Apples on Saturday Night   [download]
         [playlist]

     

    2011 : Rude Boys
    2008 : Digital age doomed a musical rite of passage
    2005 : Someone keeps stealing my letters
    2002 : Will smoking banana peels get you high?

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    Walkin’ down a white sandy beach, eatin’ somethin’

    April 26th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     


    High Maintenance

    Ferenc Cako

     

  • The Man Who Pierced the Sky – vanityfair
  • The Hell of American Day Care – newrepublic
  • The Bottom – jimwhite   radiosilence
  • Baghdad Burning: Ten Years On…
  • RIP more! magazine – interestment

     

    2005 : The nuclear option and judicial activists
    2004 : Hey Crackhead
    2001 : Macro Dub Infection Volume One

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    Damn, that’s a cold-ass honkey

    April 24th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     

  • Artist Hong Yi Plays with her Food for 30 Days
  • The Marvels in Your Mouth – nytimes
  • Patent Pending – cookingissues
  • Thug Kitchen
  • eGullet Forums

    Watermelon Margarita Recipe – chow
    Drinking With Dave: The Bangkok Daiquiri – cookingissues
     
    Queso Fundido With Chorizo, Jalapeño and Cilantro – nytimes
    Cassoulet: Beans, crust key to French casserole – sfgate
    Toad in the Hole – figsbaywine
    How To Bake Artisan Bread After Work – cookography
    Lamb Carnitas Tacos – cookography
    Pickled jalapenos and vegetables Rosa’s style – onebigkitchen
    Citrus and Smoke Roman Beans – coconutandlime
    Sage garlic potatoes with tandoori grilled chicken – ahaar
    Spicy Shrimp & Baby Bok Choy Soup – homecookkirsten
    Potato Chip Cookies – seriouseats
    Chocolate Orange Cardamom Pull-Apart – pastrystudio
    Tiny Twice-Baked Potatoes – bakingobsession
    Prosciutto Parmesan Puff Pastry Straws – bakingobsession
    Black Bean and Corn Summer Salad – beanplate
    Socca (Italian Beef, Cabbage & Potato Casserole) – amateurgourmet
    Going nutty for milk – sfgate
    How to Pan-Fry Salmon Filets – seriouseats

     

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    Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.

    April 22nd, 2013 · Uncategorized


      Why Does Music Feel So Good? – phenomena   nationalgeographic
      Live Music May Help Premature Babies – yahoo
      40 Years of Music Industry Change, In 40 Seconds or Less… – digitalmusicnews
      David Bowie Releases a Collection of His Vintage Videos Online – laughingsquid

    The Black Angels – Indigo Meadow (Full Album)
    Bombino – Azamane Tiliade
    Thee Oh Sees – Toe Cutter-Thumb Buster
    Licorice Roots – September in the Night
    Foxygen – On Blue Mountain (takeaway show)
    Hanni El Khatib – Dead Wrong
    Tomorrow – My White Bicycle
    Argent – Hold Your Head Up (Midnight Special)
    Chris Owens – The Boxer
    The Rousers – Rock ‘N Roll or Run
    Cats Elbow – Promises
    Pinback – This Red Book
    The Leisure Society – Fight For Everyone
    Jonathan Fire*Eater – The Search For Cherry Red
    Pete Yorn – For Nancy (‘Cos It Already Is)
    Reggie Watts – If You’re F*cking, You’re F*cking

     

    2003: Note to My Mother-in-Law Outlining Protocol for Babysitting My Son for the First Time
    2005: The History of yelling “Freebird”

     

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    prevents hasty exits and rage-fueled walkouts

    April 9th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     

      The first two DrBeeper samplers of 2013:

        Lambda1   [download]

         [playlist]

     
        Lambda2   [download]

         [playlist]

     

     

      DrBeeper 2007 sampler flashback :

        Epsilon07-1   [download]
         [playlist]

     

    2012 : 150 Years of US Fiat
    2007 : Was He the Eggman?
    2004 : But here’s the thing

     

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    our treatment of our most vulnerable citizens is a measure of our dignity as a society

    April 8th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     

  • State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America – dstockman   nytimes
  • Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Shame of Three Strikes Laws – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • Drug Offenses, Not Violent Crime, Filling Up Federal Prisons – ibtimes
  • U.N. rights chief calls for closure of Guantanamo prison
  • As It Spied on Occupy Wall Street, Department of Homeland Security Fixated on Media Coverage – wallstreetonparade
  • Wikileaks Was Just a Preview: We’re Headed for an Even Bigger Showdown Over Secrets – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • Corporations, pro-business nonprofits foot bill for judicial seminars – publicintegrity
  • Marx’s Revenge: How Class Struggle Is Shaping the World – time
  • Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze – icij
     

  • BP accused of rewriting environmental record on Wikipedia – cnet
  • The Deepwater Horizon disaster: Spills and bills – economist

     

    2005 : Confessions of an EBay opium addict
    2004 : Secrets and Lies Becoming Commonplace

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    a cardboard cutout crossed with an Etch A Sketch

    April 4th, 2013 · Uncategorized

     

  • Mad About the Cost of TV? Blame Sports – theatlantic

    The Screwball Economics of Major League Baseball – miaminewtimes
    The rise and fall of A-Rod – jposnanski   nbcsports
    Depth, Platoons, and Versatility: (yet another) New “Moneyball” – athleticsnation

    What Are the Falcons Worth to Atlanta? – thesportseconomist

        DrB 2005 mix flashbacks:
         Monochrome 1: Black   [download]
         Monochrome 1: Red   [download]

     

    2007 : An extremely successful con job
    2005 : Church of Stretching

     

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