Has it been two weeks already? This has been fantastic.
Those of you who read and comment on this website may suspect that the people who run it are the coolest people on the planet; turns out your suspicions are absolutely correct. This has been a wonderful place to blab on about all sorts of issues and I hope I get the opportunity to contribute again (hint, hint). Thanks…
“Tulane” wasn’t Chuck Berry’s last great song — that would be “Oh What a Thrill,” from Rockit — but it’s awfully close. Recorded for Back Home, the 1970 album he recorded for his return to the Chess label after a few years at Mercury that we fans are still trying to forget, “Tulane” both sounds like classic Chuck (you have heard this guitar intro before) and completely up-to-date (it’s…
Here’s a good reason to stay in Austin on Monday night.
In 2001, Jon Lebkowsky and Cory threw the first annual Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) party during SXSW Interactive, hosted by EFF-Austin. This party became annual tradition, and morphed over the last four years into Plutopia, a multifaceted extravaganza of music, performances, art, and talks, this year based on “The Science of Music.” The event is Monday night, March…
Marc de Vinck says: “I was watching SpongeBob with the kids. During the snail races I noticed the announcer’s mug. OK, so it most likely stands for Bikini Bottom (where SpongeBob lives), but maybe, just maybe, it stands for something else?!”
Home movie hero Robbins Barstow writes,
I am the 90-year-old producer of the 1956 family home movie, Disneyland Dream, which you first timnhanh.used nearly two years ago, on April 11, 2008.I thought you might be interested in knowing that a 1956 “Disneyland Dream” DVD is now available for purchase for $15 plus shipping from Amazon.com, with an added Special Feature on “The Making of Disneyland Dream.” It has taken…
It’s Caturday. Watch: Charlie Schmidt’s Keyboard Cat REINCARNATED! (via Sean Bonner)
Update VICTORY! Motion passed with near unanimity!
I’m delighted to report that the UK Liberal Democrats’ Spring Convention have accepted the emergency motion on internet freedom, and will be debating it tomorrow morning.
The LibDems were plunged into controversy last week when two of the LibDem Lords introduced a pro-web-censorship amendment to the Digital Economy Bill (this amendment was later shown to have been written by record industry lobby group BPI).…
Bueno Aires’s Librería El Ateneo Grand Splendid used to be a beautiful movie palace. Saved from the wrecker’s ball, it is now one of the most majestic bookstores I’ve ever clapped eyes upon, a veritable temple to books.
Marilyn sez, “El Ateneo Grand Splendid in downtown Buenos Aires is a spectacular bookstore that retains all the glamour of its former life as a 1920s movie palace, with a…
Lately, there have been an increased number of usage of hashtags on Tweets. I do not have any number/statistics to support this, but we’ve all seen it, haven’t we ? Tweets with lot of hashtags, sometimes even inappropriate and irrelevant placed just to add more re-tweet value by bots. As more and more bots/apps use content syndication from hashtags, the more hashtags you use, the more the probablity…
Intermolecular polarity is a fancy way of saying “oil and water don’t mix”. Here, Science Bob explains why, and shows off a fun trick you can do over and over with oil, water, food coloring and alka-seltzer.
