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What a difference a comma makes

01.29.08 // Odds and ends // (0)

Cody Chesnutt’s song Smoke and Love contains the line “the time has come for us to touch, my sister”.
With the comma, it’s a romantic song. Without, it’s quite disturbing.

Darth Vader, concerned dad

01.21.08 // funny + video // (0)

Ahaaaa!!

You suck at Photoshop

01.20.08 // funny + video // (0)

There may be more thorough Photoshop training videos out there but I haven’t seen a funnier one:
See also Part Two and Part Three.

US presidential candidates ring the ch-ch-changes

01.20.08 // politics + video // (0)

Jeff Jarvis has already pointed out the extent to which the word change has dominated the seemingly never-ending series of candidates debates and primaries. However, lest there be any doubt, an Australian called Hugh Atkin has put together this video:
Be sure to watch until at least the one minute mark.

Quote of the day

01.19.08 // music // (0)

“The history of popular music may be seen as the repeated rescuing of a moribund scene by the music of African-Americans.”
So says Donald Clarke in his, for fans of music post 1970, somewhat obnoxious The Rise and Fall of Popular Music. Clarke was actually writing about the mid-nineteenth century but his rule held true until [...]

I did wonder about U2’s new accordian fixation…

01.09.08 // internet + music // (4)

This can’t be for real, can it?
Have you been unwittingly downloading tracks from The Overdub Tampering Committee?
“We are a group of musicians who have downloaded newly leaked albums by popular artists, quickly recorded many subtle overdubs, and then re-leaked it to the internet. We have done this for about three years now.”
I’d love it if [...]

Royal Caribbean don’t read their mail

01.07.08 // Odds and ends // (0)

Back in November I went on a Caribbean cruise for Thanksgiving with the in-laws. It had its good points – fun times with the family, glorious sunny beaches and so on but the cruise itself was godawful.
I made it pretty clear what I thought of Royal Caribbean in the questionnaire they left in my room. [...]