Some additional reading August 20th from 13:17 to 20:48:
- Debunking two anti-Obama e-mails | Salon News – Luckily, we haven't seen too many of these fake emails. In case you have been, bookmark this page for later.
- The Happy Hour of Aquarius – Awesome, vintage advertising.
"Are you having trouble getting drunk? Are your mixed drinks not having the proper effect, fast enough, or perhaps engendering too large a hangover? Does your choice of drink preclude picking up the partner you truly desire and deserve at your local bar?" - What Makes for a Good Blog? | 43 Folders – "As I think about the blogs I’ve returned to over the years — and the increasingly few new ones that really grab my attention — I want to start with, ironically enough, a list. Here’s what I think helps make for a good blog."
I doubt B12 would fit into anyone's definition of a 'good blog', but I'm not paid by the word like some of the more popular blog plantations, and what ends up on a page reflect my current obsessions. A little of this and that, the same things I would tell you about if you sat in the cubicle next to me. I like if you read me every day, but if you don't, I won't cry, much. - Tell Zell – Sam Zell is not popular with Tribune employees (journalists, and others), especially not with the ones he has fired.
- Sonic Youth Silver Session for Jason Knuth – Discovered my copy of this CD stuck in between some other CDs. There was a typo in the suicide prevention hotline phone number, ooops!
"a note on the music: silver sessions were taken from an evening when sy had to do vocal overdubs for 'a thousand leaves' — the band upstairs was hammering out some funky metal overdrive and we couldn't "sing" properly (?!) — we decided to fight fire with molten lava and turned every amp we owned on to 10+ and leaned as many guitars and basses we could plug in against them and they roared/HOWLED like airplanes burning over the pacific — we could only enter the playing room with hands pressed hard against our ears and even then it was physically stunning — we ran a sick outmoded beatbox through the p.a. and it blew out horrendous distorted pulsations. Of course we recorded the whole thing and a few months later we mixed it down into sections, ultra-processing it to a wholly other "piece" - Stryde Hax: Hack the Olympics! – "There's been some widely publicized controversy regarding the competition age of the Chinese women's gymnastics team recently. Rather than be too CNN, I decided to take a page from my friend Johnny and investigate on my own. I have an Internet connection, that means I should be able to verify the age of the gymnasts in question with primary state-issued documents and find out for myself if someone's cheating, right? Right. Let's go to work."
- TSA security theater | MetaFilter – "Two commercial pilots find themselves on the no-fly list. One pilot sues after having his flight privileges revoked, while the second pilot (and a five-year old sharing his name) note they can bypass the watchlist by checking in using their initials instead of their full names. TSA has also found themselves in the news this week for disrupting 40 flights and damaging 9 planes during an overzealous security check. "