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splitting the difference between truth and beauty

December 7th, 2011 · Uncategorized


  Bill’s Map
Hard Drugs – Bad Ideas
Afghan Whigs – Debonair
Joe South – Games People Play
Jenny O – Well OK Honey
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Blue Green Olga
Friends – I’m His Girl
Eric Burdon & War – Tobacco Road
Keepon dancing to Spoon’s – Don’t You Evah

 

Film Study: Fake Jet Sweep Play Design
Film Study: The Kelly vs. Pendergast Chess Match (Part II)   [part I] – HydroTech on californiagoldenblogs
The University as Frankenstein Monster – thesportseconomist
MLB Trade Trees
Inside Baseball: Michael Lewis and Billy Beane talk Moneyball – slate
Of Bad Mechanics And Torn Testicles; Or, Why I Love Adrian Beltre – deadspin

 

2009 : My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement
2004 : Don’t believe the hype

 

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There is more to humour than gags and jokes, and there is more to playfulness than humour.

December 5th, 2011 · Uncategorized

 

  • A Secret Scandal: the $7 trillion secret loan program – slate
  • We Don’t Make Demands
  • Hank Paulson’s Crony Capitalism – rollingstone
  • Robert Reich: The REAL Public Nuisance [slyt]
  • Federal Judge Pimp-Slaps the SEC Over Citigroup Settlement – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • JPMorgan Sued by BayernLB Over Mortgage-Backed Securities – businessweek
  • Gallery: how the surveillance industry markets spyware to governments – arstechnica
  • $707,568,901,000,000: Banks Increased Derivatives By A Record $107 Trillion In 6 Months – zerohedge
  • Woman Gets Jail For Food-Stamp Fraud; Wall Street Fraudsters Get Bailouts – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • In it for the Money: Occupation – We could all use some good neighbors – annarborchronicle
  • Jim Rickards: Who Will Bail Out the Fed & How High for Gold? – kingworldnews
  • Gadhafi’s Gold-money Plan Would Have Devastated Dollar – thenewamerican
  • [INSERT GROUPON JOKE HERE] – zerohedge
  • The roots of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying – GGreenwald   salon
  • Bush, Blair found guilty of war crimes – presstv

     

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    Search fearlessly for every sin, for out of sin comes joy.

    November 30th, 2011 · Uncategorized

     

      A 2005 DrBeeper mix refresh : A set of monochromatic tunes
     
        Monochrome 1: Black   [download]
        Monochrome 2: Red   [download]
        Monochrome 3: White   [download]
        Monochrome 4: Blue   [download]

     

     

    2006 : Picture Day

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    …set in motion long before the first naked ape crafted the first idol.

    November 21st, 2011 · Uncategorized

     


      Does Music Change The Taste Of Wine? – wired
      Doyle Bramhall: 1949-2011 – austin360
    D-PAN ASL Music Video: White Stripes – We’re Going To Be Friends
    Raspberries – Go All The Way
    Dirty Cupcakes – Get Out
     The Horrors – Suffragette City
    Stan Ridgway – The Big Heat – Drive She Said
    Stan Ridgway – Camouflage
      PeelPlayer: listen to every track from every John Peel Festive Fifty

     

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    … if you can listen to this stuff and not piss yourself with shame, you have a serious problem.

    November 14th, 2011 · Uncategorized

     


    Anonymous 101: Introduction to the Lulz – wired

     

  • Imagining A Middle Class Does Not Create One – oftwominds
  • Finally, a Judge Stands up to Wall Street – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • Devastating Analysis of MIRS – nakedcapitalism
  • MF Signs Death Warrant for Short-Term Funding – businessweek
  • Mike Bloomberg’s Marie Antoinette Moment – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • What caused the financial crisis? The Big Lie goes viral. – washingtonpost
  • The World Is Drowning in Debt, and Europe Laces On Concrete Boots – oftwominds
  • Congress: Trading stock on inside information? – 60minutes
    Global economic chaos – OnTheEdge with Satyajit Das

     

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    heart surgery and KFC workers

    November 8th, 2011 · Uncategorized

     

  • E. Ophir on the Science of Multitasking – boingboing
  • Which came first, paper airplanes or real ones? – straightdope

    LG Optimus Hyper Facade

     


    Worldwide Feast: 55 Great Global Food Blogs – saveur
    Magic miso: A guide to Japanese soybean pastes and how to use them – sfgate
    Drinks based on neighborhoods capture SF’s spirits – sfgate

     

    2004 : Election Cartograms   2008   2010(mt)

     

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    You are only as cool as other people wish they were

    November 4th, 2011 · Uncategorized

     

      Another DrBeeper 2011 sampler :

     

        Ten Iota   [download]

         [playlist]

     

      2005 DrBeeper refresh :
     
        Believing Is Art: Spoon live 2004-2005   [download]

     

     

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    We learned more from a three-minute record than we ever learned in school

    November 2nd, 2011 · Uncategorized


      A Series Of Graphs on The Flaming Lips – leacocks
      The New Economics of the Music Industry – rollingstone
      Bottom of the Hill comes out on top for 20 years – sfgate
    The Black Keys – Lonely Boy
    Jacques Dutronc – Le Responsable
    The Britannicas – I Work At The Post Office
    William Shatner – Bohemian Rhapsody
    Those Darlins – Screws Get Loose

     

    2007 : Sleevage
    2006 : PlaneSheets
    2003 : Bin Laden: Goal is to bankrupt U.S.

     

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    When kids go to the mall instead of the library, it’s not that the mall won, it’s that the library lost.

    October 31st, 2011 · Uncategorized

     

  • Tying It All Together – kdenninger   market-ticker
  • Rick Perry: The Best Little Whore In Texas – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • BofA Derivatives Transfer Draws Lawmaker Scrutiny – bloomberg
  • Glass-Steagall wiki
  • Ten Reasons Not To Bank On (Or With) BofA – nprins   truth-out
  • SLV And Silver Manipulation – bullionbullscanada
  • Wall Street Isn’t Winning – It’s Cheating – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • Another Weapon for OWS: Pull Your Money Out of BofA – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • Giving the F.B.I. What It Wants – nytimes
  • On Challenges To The Mainstream Financial Channels, BofA’s (In)Solvency and Long-Only Pundits Dominating the MSM – boombustblog

    Are we headed for another Lehman moment in Europe? – llyster & rmiddleton
    On the Edge: Mortgage fraud & Housing market – mkeiser & c a fitts
    Copwatch@Occupy Oakland: Beware of Police Infiltrators and Provocateurs
    US Could Fall Like Rome – llessig

     

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    An aggressive man and a new flashlight

    October 19th, 2011 · Uncategorized

     

  • Why Iceland Should Be in the News But Is Not – bellacaledonia
  • HOLY BAILOUT – Federal Reserve Now Backstopping $75 Trillion Of Bank Of America’s Derivatives Trades – dailybail
  • Federal Reserve and Bank of America Initiate a Coup to Dump Billions of Dollars of Losses on the American Taxpayer – zerohedge
  • BofA Said to Split Regulators Over Moving Merrill Derivatives to Bank Unit – bloomberg
  • Congressional Research Service Finds US Exposure To Europe At $640 Billion And “Could Be Considerably Higher” – zerohedge
  • Why Occupy Wall Street Is Bigger Than Left vs. Right – mtaibbi   rollingstone
  • How a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico’s murderous drug gangs – guardian
  • The Next Big Bank Bailout – mtaibbi   rollingstone

    In conversation with: Prof. Steve Keen – renegadeeconomist
    Keiser Report: Debts & Slavery (E193) with Satyajit Das

     

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