December 2010
26 posts
“If you make music people want, they’ll climb mountains to get it.”
– Lefsetz Letter » Blog Archive » What I Want For Christmas
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
Angus & Julia Stone (33)
Kanye West (7)
Eminem (3)
Dirty Money (1)
Girl Talk (1)
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Skydiggers - Good King Wencelas
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-12) →
Angus & Julia Stone (20)
Girl Talk (11)
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse (5)
Kanye West (3)
and The Relatives (1)
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“Favre, who began the streak with the Green Bay Packers, had started 297...”
– One of the great runs in sports comes to an end.
Brett Favre’s Consecutive-Start Streak Ends - NYTimes.com
“Time exists in order that it doesn’t happen all at once … space exists so that...”
– Susan Sontag as quoted in this great essay: I, Reader by Alexander Chee - The Morning News (via Instapaper)
“The acceptable use policy group had to address Julian Assange and WikiLeaks when...”
– “U.S. State Department … stating that the activity of the WikiLeaks organization was deemed illegal.” That’s all it took? A letter … “deemed illegal” … low bar … grow a pair.
PayPal Responds to WikiLeaks Controversy
“blogging music is the modern version of hanging around with your friends...”
– Fred nails it.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-5) →
West, Kanye (26)
Stone, Angus & Julia (15)
Girl Talk (2)
Kid Cudi (1)
Felli Fel feat. Diddy, Ludacris (1)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-28) →
West, Kanye (29)
Girl Talk (3)
Nelly (1)
Black Eyed Peas (1)
Guthrie, Arlo (1)
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“First, the first million you make has greater value than the second and much...”
– I posted a couple of negative tweets about GroupOn passing on Google’s offer. But this is a pretty good explanation of the motivation. Frankly, once you pull out $135mm you might be in a pretty good place to keep playing your hand.
Andrew Mason, Diminishing Marginal Utility and Kicking Ass...
Hours before their special news conference today,... →
OK, let this mess with your mind for a few hours.
At their conference today, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe Simon will announce that they have found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today. Instead of using phosphorus, the bacteria uses arsenic. All life on Earth is made of six components: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. Every being, from the...
“I can’t think of a single precedent in American history of doing a referendum of...”
– Defense Secretary ROBERT GATES, strenuously arguing that findings of a recent survey—which showed resistance to serving with gay soldiers by members of the U.S. military—should not be used to decide the military’s policies, including continued enforcement of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
Again, John...
