June 2009
151 posts
Vibe magazine shutting down →
another one bites the dust :(
Top 40 faces new digital shake-up →
The Top 40 is facing a shake-up as chart bosses consider incorporating songs from music streaming sites.
It’s about time digital was a factor in charts and ratings.
Michael Jackson “Beat It”
The Maccabees “Can You Give It”. Off...
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Can a synthetic tree beat the real thing? →
Global Research Technologies have created a synthetic tree that they say captures CO2 1,000 times faster than regular trees and without the need for direct sunlight.
Hmmmmm…I’m skeptical, but curious.
(via Yahoo! Green - according to my brother, who works at Yahoo!, this is the most heavily trafficked “green site” on the internet. Personally, I love it.)
“If you’re going to go out every night you might as well get paid for it.”
- Bugsy Siegel (I am related to him through marriage)
has progress brought us to a better place?
John Harris interviews Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter →
The bikes … the robots … the dream of man and machine in perfect harmony. How is the Kraftwerk vision of the future shaping up? Ralf Hütter gives a rare interview to John Harris
Nice rare read.
(via Guardian.co.uk)
R.I.P. Andy Hughes of The Orb
(via Trash Menagerie)
Thecocknbullkid “Clean Apart”
(via...
if everything is terrible, then nothing is
Coconut Records “West Coast”
In...
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Fast Food: Would You Like 1,000 Calories with... →
If public-health advocates, and now the Senate, get their way, when you look at a menu from a chain restaurant, those calorie counts will be staring you down.
(via, my pal, Maria Gonima)
WatchCheck out “Top 10” exhibit by Space Invader. From 6/27 to 7/25 at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York.
(via ViaComT)
if you can’t convince them, confuse them
Indie Rockers, 90210 →
Hollywood’s young and connected throw D.I.Y. music shows for $2
“Love is the mystery between two people, not the identity.”
- The Magus by John Fowles
