Persistent meditative state

The Science Tattoo Emporium at DiscoverMagazine.com

Seeded on Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:41 PM EDT (discovermagazine.com)

This is an impressive gallery of body science-themed body art. My hat is off to you if you're nerdy enough to understand all of these (I'm not).

science, tattoos, body-art, nerds

Murdoch Calls Google, Yahoo Copyright Thieves - Is He Right? (No.)

Seeded on Sun Apr 5, 2009 5:18 PM EDT (Wired News)

Rupert Murdoch, the owner of News Corp. and The Wall Street Journal, says Google and Yahoo are giant copyright scofflaws that steal the news. "The question is, should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyright ... not steal, but take," Murdoch says.

technology, rupert-murdoch, news-corp, the-wall-street-journal, google, yahoo, copyright, fair-use, aggregation

Pulling back the curtain on "anonymous" Twitterers

Seeded on Thu Apr 2, 2009 4:13 PM EDT (Ars Technica)

Ars has just one question for PhD student Arvind Narayanan and his advisor Vitaly Shmatikov: why must you continually shatter our illusions? Despite the all-seeing, all-knowing panopticon that is the Internet, some of us like to dream our simple dreams of anonymity and privacy; w …

technology, twitter, anonymity, flickr, identity, social-networking

Big Music Will Surrender, But Not Until At Least 2011

Seeded on Sun Mar 8, 2009 3:13 PM EDT (TechCrunch)

I had a surprisingly candid lunch conversation last week with a big music label executive, and a good part of our talk focused on the future of music.

entertainment, music, distribution, cd-sales, filesharing

Oh Look... RIAA Still Filing Lawsuits...

Seeded on Fri Mar 6, 2009 9:29 AM EST (Techdirt)

Remember back in December all the fanfare around that WSJ article claiming that the RIAA was abandoning its litigation strategy? In retrospect, the whole thing is looking like a huge PR campaign rather than anything significant.

technology, riaa, filesharing, lawsuits, public-relations

Biggest Little Cities: Models for Urban Planning

Seeded on Fri Mar 6, 2009 9:20 AM EST (Wired News)

Michael Chesko is no architect. He's not a structural engineer or an urban planner either. But he just spent more than 2,000 hours constructing this highly detailed, nearly perfect scale model of midtown Manhattan.

science, urban-planning, models-cities

Harvard Med, Big Pharma, and Ethics

Seeded on Thu Mar 5, 2009 12:32 PM EST (The New York Times)

In a first-year pharmacology class at Harvard Medical School, Matt Zerden grew wary as the professor promoted the benefits of cholesterol drugs and seemed to belittle a student who asked about side effects.

health, harvard-medical-school, big-pharma, medicine

Governing the Facebook Service in an Open and Transparent Way

Seeded on Fri Feb 27, 2009 11:03 AM EST (blog.facebook.com)

Last week, we returned to our previous Terms of Use as we worked on a new set of governing documents that would more clearly explain the relationship between Facebook and its users.

technology, facebook, terms-of-use, governing-documents, transparency, rights, ownership

Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone

Seeded on Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:05 AM EST (Wired News)

Apple's iPhone has wowed most of the globe — but not Japan, where the handset is selling so poorly it's being offered for free. What's wrong with the iPhone, from a Japanese perspective? Almost everything: the high monthly data plans that go with it, its paucity of features, t …

technology, japan, iphone, apple

Words You Should Never Say

Seeded on Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:01 AM EST (listable.org)

What the hell is a momversation?

listable, words, language, brekkie, momversation, za, tweetup, grok, natch

Paleo-Future: The Electronic Home (circa 1988)

Seeded on Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:45 AM EST (paleofuture.com)

Ameritech's (late 1980s) concept video The Electronic Home envisions the futuristic world of HDTV and videophone, as well as internet-like services that allow you to make restaurant reservations (at a cartoonishly stereotypical Italian restaurant), shop for kimonos (because your …

history, paleo-future, the-electronic-home, futurism, 1980s, hdtv, cheesy-as-hell

xkcd - A Webcomic - Kindle

Seeded on Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:08 AM EST (xkcd.com)

Just read the comic.

technology, xkcd, kindle, hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy, comic

Pimps Go Online to Lure Kids Into Prostitution

Seeded on Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:57 AM EST (Wired News)

She was a 16-year-old California girl looking for trouble on MySpace; he was a 22-year-old self-described pimp who liked the revealing photos she posted to her profile.

us-news, prostitution, myspace, y2k-pimpin, myredbook, craigslist

Jack Horner Wants to Re-Create T. Rex From Chickens - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Seeded on Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:44 AM EST (Wired News)

Flip the right genetic switches in a chicken embryo and you just might hatch a baby dino. Paleontologist Jack Horner intends to do it. He explains his scheme to rewind evolution in a new book, How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever.

science, dinosaurs, t-rex, chickens, genetics, dinochicken, jack-horner

Top 10 Ig Nobels of all Time

Seeded on Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:38 AM EST (popularmechanics.com)

A large portion of scientific research remains forever off the public radar. A select few studies deliver results that reverberate in the scientific community and make their way to textbooks.

science, inventions, ig-nobel-prize, humor, reinventing-the-wheel

Remembering William F. Buckley, a Year Later (by Chris Buckley)

Seeded on Wed Feb 25, 2009 12:55 PM EST (thedailybeast.com)

My father, William F.

politics, william-f-buckley, chris-buckley, death, family

Top Five Albums of 2008: Number Two

Mon Dec 22, 2008 12:22 PM EST

Well, the top five got postponed slightly due to a series of travel-related complications and other unavoidable stuff. We resume our countdown today with the second-best album of 2008 - a crazy little mashup masterpiece by the name of Feed the Animals.

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entertainment, music, listen-in, 2008, best-of-2008, girl-talk, feed-the-naimals, radiohead, webbie, the-band

Top Five Albums of 2008: Number Three

Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:29 PM EST

We're halfway home. Check out columns by Eric and Scooter for more picks in the best of 2008 series, or weigh in with your own top 5 in the comment thread. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple

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entertainment, music, 2008, best-of-2008, gnarls-barkley, danger-mouse, cee-lo-green, the-odd-couple

Top Five Albums of 2008: Number Four

Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:02 PM EST

Today, we continue our weeklong series counting down the top albums of 2008. At this point, my list starts to get very muddy - there were at least six albums that seemed equally qualified for slots two through five, and I had one hell of a time sorting them out.

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entertainment, music, 2008, best-of-2008, beck, modern-guilt, mtv, danger-mouse, gnarls-barkley, piero-piccioni

Top Five Albums of 2008: Number Five

Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:33 AM EST

As you may already be aware, Eric, Scooter, and I will be breaking down the top albums of 2008 over the next week. Each article will feature a pick and commentary by each of us on that album. In my column, we open the week with a little hip-hop. Here we go!

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entertainment, music, 2008, listen-in, qwel, kip-killagain, the-new-wine, hip-hop, eric-atienza, scooterdman

RIP: Mitch Mitchell of the Jimi Hendrix Experience

Seeded on Thu Nov 13, 2008 12:47 PM EST (Wired News)

The last surviving member of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, drummer Mitch Mitchell (pictured on the right), passed away at the age of 61 in a Portland, Oregon hotel room on Wednesday.

entertainment, music, jimi-hendrix-experience, mitch-mitchell, rip

One Year Later, Saul Williams Talks Niggy Tardust's Wins, What's Next

Seeded on Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:55 AM EST (Wired News)

Saul Williams hasn't given up on the internet, though his pricing-optional album didn't sell nearly as well as Radiohead's In Rainbows — the album that inspired his strategy.

entertainment, music, saul-williams, album-sales, radiohead, in-rainbows, the-inevitable-rise-and-liberation-of-niggy-tardus

This. @!$%#ing. Election.

Seeded on Mon Nov 3, 2008 9:38 AM EST (this@!$%#ingelection.com)

We're almost there...

politics, too-many-to-list, just-read-it

A Rapper Salutes the Slave Trade

Seeded on Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:28 PM EDT (thedailybeast.com)

Last week in Atlanta, I got to interview Soulja Boy Tell Em. I found out just how young he really is. He was one of about ten rappers I interviewed in one day for my BET show, The Black Carpet. I decided it'd be fun to give all the rappers part of the Proust questionnaire.

entertainment, soulja-boy, rap, hip-hop, crank-that, slavery, toure

Live and Local: Video Interview with Flotation Walls

Seeded on Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:12 PM EDT (theotherpaper.com)

Seeded by Eric Atienza (Clipped by Evan Mix)

Flotation Walls invited TOP Live and Local to their rehearsal space at Junctionview Art Studios for a late-night acoustic performance of two tunes from their upcoming album.

entertainment, music, indie-rock, flotation-walls, the-other-paper, video, live-music

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Comments & Feedback

i just found your weekly updates about vinyl and noticed you mentioned Philly... i lived in Philly for 3 years and just outside now, so i wanted to pass on these two great shops where you can find oodles and oodles of gems on a regular basis.. "Beautiful World Syndicate" on 12th and passyunk in south philly and one on 48th and Pine in West Philly. i wouldn't be surprised if these stores were holding out on the grail and their prices are insanely reasonable- teetering on under priced. can we say blue notes for 10 dollars (not originals) and your usual run-of-the-mill dylans, floyds, beatles at 5 (i mention this to compare to the usual 10-12 of other stores). hopefully you live near phila!

— jon-michael