Saturday linkage
October 7th, 2006 | Published in Culture, Funny, Music
Obey Giant Myspace Blog
Shepard Fairey, pictured above, spank the monkey installation images…OBEY.
Good Weather for Airstrikes: Cold War Kids
A couple good MP3’s. "Cold War Kids, the best new American band of 2006, are
set to break into the public awareness with their debut album, Robbers & Cowards"
Boing Boing: Daily Show: What’s Bush’s job?
Bush is so dumb. n this Daily Show clip, Jon
Stewart collects many instances
in which Bush describes what he
believes to be "his job" — "to protect the
people" — and
what’s our job ("to go about our business"). It’s an hilarious and
enraging segment that shows what a creature of PR the
"President" is
The Onion: Apple Claiming The Term "Pod"
"Apple Computers is laying legal claim to the term "pod," used in words
like
"podcast." Here are some other items Apple is trying to claim as
its own."
Yahoo! Top 100 Weird Sites
Agree, werid stuff. "Searching for weirdness online is like searching for hay
in a haystack. It’s everywhere.There’s lots of crankiness on the
web, but lots
of it is rubbish, lots of it not fit for human
consumption, and some of it has
left one of our researchers blubbering
into his straitjacket and mumbling
something about, "the horror, the
horror".
Buzz Patrol: NORML advertising near Visine, Brownies, Cheetos
Dude. "Pro-marijuana group NORML placed shelf talkers in grocery stores
directly
adjacent to the very products seemingly associated with
feeding yourself weed.
Very nice media placement, indeed".
Resonator Magazine: Cat Power
Download the Pocket MIx MP3, very nice indeed. "A nice proggy remix of "Hate"
done with a firm hand and a
sense of the song’s essence by Richard Jankovice".
US Pushes Russia to Close Allofmp3.com
Stock up while you can. "Schwab’s call for the allofmp3.com Web site to be closed
came as the United States and Russia are trying once again to
reach a deal on Moscow’s 13-year-old bid to join the WTO".