Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
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A funny ad from Greenpeace.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-22)
  1. The Apples in Stereo 
  2. Nada Surf 
  3. My Morning Jacket 
  4. David Bowie 
  5. Rogue Wave 

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Cracker - I Want Everything

Great tune. Great album. Great band.

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A truly exceptional thing.

fred-wilson:

supernice:

Tim Russert’s son, Luke, asked Barack Obama and John McCain to sit next to one another at his father’s funeral Wednesday. And they did. From the NYT -

“Then, in remarks from the pulpit, he exhorted them and other politicians to “engage in spirited debate but disavow the low tactics that distract Americans from the most important issues facing our country.” At the end of the service, the two candidates embraced.

“Five months from now,” Luke Russert said a few hours later, “I wanted them to remember that this occasion brought them together.””

I just think that’s extraordinary. Such a simple request. A profound gesture. Really kind of amazing. I have chills. Wow.

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“Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States succeeded in its great and historic mission - it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself.”
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Fareed Zakaria from The Post American World

A VC: Zakaria Quote Of The Day

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“I would love to know what sick bastard at Kellogs came up with this genius idea. I just spent the first three years of my sons life trying to get him not to eat blocks, and now you’re telling him they taste like fucking strawberries. Thanks a lot assholes. Seriously, how in the hell did this ever get past their legal department. You can’t tell me that this isn’t a lawsuit just waiting to happen. I can only assume that their next product is fruit flavored thumbtacks.”
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Regarding Kellogg’s new Lego Fun Snacks

Penny Arcade! - The Flavor Factor

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Iron & Wine covering The Postal Service’s Such Great Heights

Bijan’s Friday Cover of the Day was Ben Folds great version of this song, so I thought I’d chime in with this one.

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“The second thing we need to do as fathers is pass along the value of empathy to our children. Not sympathy, but empathy - the ability to stand in somebody else’s shoes; to look at the world through their eyes. Sometimes it’s so easy to get caught up in “us,” that we forget about our obligations to one another. There’s a culture in our society that says remembering these obligations is somehow soft - that we can’t show weakness, and so therefore we can’t show kindness.”
— Obama’s Father’s Day Speech Urges Black Fathers To Be More Engaged In Raising Their Children - Politics on The Huffington Post (via fred-wilson)
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“I’m like Tiger Woods, but without the nerves of steel, or the skills, or some other stuff. Still… my left knee hurts, for example.”
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