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Friday, September 28, 2007

some nice pics of 60s rock stars etc. [neurastenia]

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Sunday, September 23, 2007

glub glub

Previously, climate models have estimated a loss of summer ice in the Arctic around the year 2100 or beyond. However, the observations show that things are well ahead of schedule and an ice-free summer by 2030 is quite possible. Proxy climate records suggest that if the Arctic were to become free of sea ice during summers, it would be the first time this has happened in as many as 800,000 years.

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Saturday, September 22, 2007

neat post on artist alberto savinio at giornale nuovo

he was de chirico's brother, and well-known in italy if not here.

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Thursday, September 20, 2007

not sure i'll love fincher's zodiac, but i knew there was a director's cut in the works, so i'm waiting til january 8 for the longer cut

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PSA

a friend of mine was telling me recently that cell carriers like verizon charge up to $4.50 + tax or require a monthly subscription for ringtones of popular songs (you've got to be kidding!), so i went looking for a free alternaticve, which i knew existed even though i'd never looked into it, neither having nor wanting a cellphone myself, just by scanning sites like lifehacker now and then.

so, for anyone who's interested, here you go:

1. Go here and download the audacity software -- the link above will guide you through the process of creating a ringtone from your mp3.

2. Visit 3 guppies to upload, configure and send the tone to your cell. You need the carrier, model of your phone and phone number to do this. It's very easy.

can't believe what these gangsters get away with. . .


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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Noxious meteor sickens scores in peru

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Sunday, September 16, 2007

i'd love to have the deluxe edition of Help!, but i won't be shelling out over a c-note for it. . .

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too bad this guy's russian -- he's definitely shrubnazi material

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no seriously -- hang up and drive

Laws like the one going into effect next July in Cali banning cell use while driving (unless hands-free) should have been passed years ago

i don't like adding laws to the books, but these dimwits won't get the message any other way, i don't think.

hopefully the state govt will text all cell users in cali so they uh get the message.

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everlasting blort links to this tImE magazine photoessay on "the birth of punk" 30 years ago; it has some nice pics, but overall is weak and inaccurate -- try the Don Letts DVD Punk: Attitude for a far better take, and one of the best films about music period

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R.I.P. Joe Zawinul

Mysterious Traveller was one of my favorite albums all through the 70s.

Still is.

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for all you scorpios out there

the american dialect society declared "plutoed" the word of the year 2006

in the sense of demoted or devalued, like the planet pluto was by the astronomy combine last year.

one of my new least favorite words.

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Saturday, September 15, 2007

interviews with John Turturro, Julie Delpy & William Gibson on their various new projects [i think i got all of these through pop candy]

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Friday, September 14, 2007

The ten most polluted places in the world

Sumgayit, Azerbaijan; Potentially 275,000 affected
Linfen, China; Potentially 3m affected
Tianying, China; Potentially 140,000 affected
Sukinda, India; Potentially 2.6m affected
Vapi, India; Potentially 71,000 affected
La Oroya, Peru; Potentially 35,000 affected
Dzerzhinsk, Russia; Potentially 300,000 affected
Norilsk, Russia; Potentially 134,000 affected
Chernobyl, Ukraine; Potentially 5.5m affected
Kabwe, Zambia; Potentially 255,000 affected

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henry hudson was 400 years early: northwest passage now open

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I haven't watched any 9/11-related films, (though The Power of Nightmares was certainly inspired by the aftermath) but Roger Copeland's The Unrecovered sounds like a good way to observe the recent anniversary

if only one could find it on disc. . .

here's the trailer.

very few google results -- it seems to have disappeared.

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never heard of Green Jelly til my friend jesse asked me to download their "three little pigs" song

1981!

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Monday, September 10, 2007

R.I.P. Anita Roddick

NOTE: sorry about the missing link.

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Saturday, September 08, 2007

the 3:10 to Yuma re-make looks like a winner, and will probably put christian bale over the top into a-level stardom, for better or worse

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Friday, September 07, 2007

this is a bad sign

virus devastates US bee population

"50 to 90 percent"? that's a pretty loose count. . .

i'm surprised i haven't heard of this -- bees play a major part in many plant species' life cycle.

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Thursday, September 06, 2007

declan mccullagh on the apparent demise of net neutrality

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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

review of the double bunuel set including the rarely seen The Young One, one of his most unusual (in the context of his oeuvre) and interesting films

Jonathan Rosenbaum turned me onto this in his Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons, and it's essential viewing for bunuel enthusiasts and cinephiles in general.

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clowns beat kkk in knoxville [gibson]

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Saturday, September 01, 2007

francis cruz on Control, Anton Corbijn's Ian Curtis biopic

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