45 posts tagged “mobile”
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Cool fact of the night: the Los Angeles Fire Department uses Twitter to keep everyone alerted. Their account is here.
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Via Mike Lynch.
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Sir Elton John
London, United Kingdom
Dear Sir Elton:
I was recently made aware of your rather critical assessment of the effect of the internet on the music scene. While there are many reasons why the current musical palette tends towards the mundane and ordinary, I feel that you wrongly place the blame on the one place you can ill afford to place it - your fans.
See, I, for one, believe that the overall reason that popular music sucks is that the major music labels have tried for a considerable amount of time to consolidate control over what gets played on the radio and what gets purchased in stores. Naturally, having a variety of choices is antithetical to such a narrow vision, so the music has gradually begun to sound more and more the same.
And then came the internet.
Now, while it's true that piracy does tend to flourish among the denizens of the net, I think that having access to a wider array of musical styles has enhanced my listening experience considerably, music that I would never have heard had I been limited to choices presented to me by the major labels and their lackeys in the RIAA.
So, while you may not be enamored with the clamor and bustle of the internet, I can say with all seriousness that closing the internet would severely cripple the art form to which you have devoted a considerable part of your life. And that would be a real crime.
I look forward to hearing your future musical endeavors.
Sincerely,
Steven Perez
Observer and raconteur, thoughts from an empty head
P.S. I truly hope you weren't serious about shutting down the internet. How else am I supposed to find your older albums? Wherehouse Music won't carry them.
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It's been a while, but I've started a fantasy football league on Yahoo. If you want in, drop me a message and I'll send you an invite. No prize other than bragging rights, but at least you can bask in your awesomeness for a while.
At least, you might be able to, if not for the fact that I rule all.
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Stephen Colbert insults my team.
The Chicago Bears are the official football team to represent Bears. Therefore they are evil and any victories accomplished by this team is only done by mauling the oppossing team or stealing the other team's picnic baskets before the game to make them too hungry to play well.
The Chicago Bears have been the arch-enemies of the Green Bay Packers since 1938, when the Packers took a bear and packed its meat in brown paper and gave it to the Chicago Bears to eat. That was the year the Communist Liberal FDR ruled America, and the Packers had to stand up for freedom and truthiness through football. Since then, the Packers have repeatedly beaten the bears, and are still better than them.
Although, I do agree with the Colbert Nation assessment of Rex Grossman.
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Some music for you, while I eat my lunch.
sarah mclachlan, dirty little secret (thievery corporation mix)
Who loves ya, baby?
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Because I obviously have nothing better to do, I took Jennifer's recently posted cat photos, LOLd them, and added the results to my Flickr account.
I clearly need help.
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I just said this in the breakroom, where the TV is tuned to the Giants game, and now Wil Wheaton beat me to the blogging punch.
I know a lot of other once-faithful fans who are as disillusioned with baseball as I am, but I have this great idea (which has nothing at all to do with me being a Dodger fan, I swear, really,) to restore our faith in the game: for the rest of the season, whenever Barry* comes to the plate, every single team in Major League Baseball pitches around him, regardless of the game situation. When he is finally forced out of the game for being a lying sack of shit and a cheater, Hank Aaron's record finally falls to someone with class who earned the title.
You said it, Wil.
