• Stop the Pentagon

    Stop the Pentagon Plan to Mine our Private Lives! In the last several days, media reports have revealed that a little-known Defense Department office is developing a computer system that would provide government officials with the ability to snoop into all aspects of our private lives without a search warrant… Listen ⇢

  • Books that changed their lives

    From NPR’s Talk of the Nation comes this list of Books That Changed Your Life. Listen ⇢

  • Yugo

    My friend Robin brings this strange and amazing site that features the INDUSTORIOUS CLOCK. The whole site is a collection of mostly fascinating flash based web performance pieces. Visit surface.yugop.com. Listen ⇢

  • Googlism

    Googlism is a cool site based on Google that will find out what Google.com thinks of you, your friends or anything! A Googlism search for Nick Drake returned: nick drake is on the bus nick drake is his dark romanticism is like thinking what’s important nick drake is found nick… Listen ⇢

  • More Wierd Shit

    Lots of odd things to post today. Please remember, I just report the news, I don’t make it up. Michael Jackson dangles barefoot baby out window For those of you who missed it, did you know that there are whales and dolphins in Lake Michigan? What was he thinking? [Via… Listen ⇢

  • Congress Approves Web Radio Royalty Deal

    Hot Damn! Congress Approves Web Radio Royalty Deal The U.S. Congress approved a deal early Friday morning that would allow small Internet-based radio stations to pay lower royalty rates to the musicians and record labels whose songs they use. The move amounts to a stay of execution for many smaller… Listen ⇢

  • Nashville Underground

    I am not a fan of Flash when it is used as the primary display and navigation device for a web site. However, this site from a group of Nashville based artists collectively named Nashville Underground is perhaps the finest flash designed site I’ve seen. It really is a work… Listen ⇢

  • New David Gray

    As a fan of David Gray, it’s great to be able to listen to a full stream of his new album over at the davidgray.com site. It will be interesting to see how critics and fans react to the follow-up to the wildly sucessful “White Ladder”. I remember how many… Listen ⇢

  • No Blood for Oil, DC

    My friend Robin Dreyer has put together a great page documenting with words and images, his attendance at the recent march on Washington. Check out No Blood for Oil, DC, October 26, 2002: An Emotional and Aesthetic Report, from Robin Listen ⇢

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