The Real Inconvenient Truth

The human cost of global warming

The Top 11 Recordings

Funny, scary, historic, awful, etc.

Life in North Korea

Terrible. Sorry for the depressing news, but his story needs to be told.

I am furious (yellow)

Printers are tracking you now. Printers?

Here's what you can do with a Sharpie and a dream

Astounding

Sidewalk art

It must be sad when it rains.

PRC? NIMBY!

One woman goes a year without buying anything from the People's Republic of China

Slow Dancing

Not the junior high type of slow dancing. (Just the video.)

How to become both rich and happy quickly (by Bill Watterson)

Okay, maybe not quickly, or rich... but happy.

I read this in Junior High (probably when I was supposed to be reading something else for class) and haven't looked back since. It's not that he's really saying anything original, but he is saying it from experience and conviction.

Happy Independence Day!

An oldie but a goodie from the Onion. (Sorry to all my neoconservative friends.)

RIAA are you listening?

The future of music: NES cartridges. This blurb implies that NES cartridges are a way to get around bootleggers. Now, it is certainly true that ripping a CD is pretty easy, but it's not exactly impossible to make a ROM of an NES cartridge. From there, record the music through your sound card, encode to the format you prefer, and voilà.

I hate "education"

Here is a funny essay on how awful college politics is. And, as someone who has gone to college for far too long and has a degree in political science, this guy could not be more right. (Note: language a bit strong; not for the faint of heart.)

Another reason to hate/love the Interwebs

The owner of http://iphone.com/ is now a millionaire.

My ambivalence toward the Internet

Man buys his own baby book on eBay. Should I be happy, outraged, annoyed?

Crazy Ping-Pong

I hope someday I'm this good at something. (Video: 56k, a-okay.)

The essence of live music.

I know I've already mentioned this to a few people, but there is a nice French music blog that produces videos of live and candid performances, including Low (#46), Sufjan (under MusicNOW, #50), My Brightest Diamond (#16), David Bazan (S08), and others. They all have a raw and homemade feel to them, which, if I may add, is my favorite kind of music-making.

Most of them.

A few more.

Enjoy.

Rev. Martin Luther Kung-fu-tze?

I think I'm offended... If any liberals are reading this, please tell me how to feel.

This blog is rated PG

For two instances of "m*rder" and one of "t0rture."

Daft Hands

Has to be seen to be believed... (Video: 56k, do it!)

I know what you're thinking...

How could Gnarls' Barkley's "Crazy" get any better? Theremin. (Video: 56k, go for it!)