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Three Things for Today: Oct. 31, 2007

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Designs “as seen on TV”, the internet wondercompany’s next move, and Arnold talks botany:

  1. The design world meets the land of infomercials with Make My Logo Bigger Cream!  Works on both print and web sites!  ^_^
  2. Looks like Google is set to really weigh in against Facebook (the current darling) and the rest of the social networking landscape with their own OpenSocial networking API.  This should be interesting….
  3. California governor Arnold Schwartzenager is quoted recently as saying about marijuana: “That is not a drug. It’s a leaf.” [via Boing Boing]

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Attack of the Phantom Pothole

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

I didn’t find out until late this afternoon, but there was a Halloween Party at the office I could have gone to. But I just got my paycheck and had some planned errands to take care of, not to mention I already was out late the night before (see radio taping and concert, respectively). So I decided not to change plans and be responsible.

Well, right now I’m sure my car wishes I hadn’t.

While heading back home through the surface streets of Secaucus (Meadowlands Parkway to pin-point things), I hit a phanton pothole that took out the right rear tire on my car. That sucks enough on its own, but I just bought all-new tires not two months ago, so I certainly wasn’t too happy as I tried to speed through the tire change. Now my only hope is that the rim isn’t too screwed up and I won’t have to dump more money than planned into it this month.

I’m half-tempted to write to the town of Secaucus to tell them they owe me a new tire. At the very least, I think I’m obligated to let them know it’s there to be fixed.

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The Weakerthans @ Webster Hall

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Along with the radio taping last night, I also managed to head out and check out some live music in the form of Canadian indie rockers The Weakerthans out at Webster Hall. You can check out the shots I took over at Flickr. Big thanks to David for the free pass in — it certainly helps when you’re still a day away from pay day.

The show itself was pretty good. I was getting a bit of that alt-country vibe mixed in the usual style I hear in Canadian rock (I kept coming back to The Tragically Hip in my mind, though the vocal styles were nowhere close). The lyrics were very solid and there were some very rock-and-roll moments, such as four men holding their guitars aloft while punctuating the drumbeat with power chords.

I’d suggest some tracks to listen into, but hell if I know at this point. Give me a few weeks to get some material to review and then we’ll talk. Of course, if anyone out there has some recommendations, by all means….

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Andrew is On the Air!

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Last night I was lucky enough to have BrooklynVegan invite me onto his little slice of Sirius‘ Blog Radio show on Left of Center (Channel 26). Yes, real radio. And more than just sit there — I got to pick all the music for the two hours plus!

The show airs at Noon on Wednesday (in other words, probably after you have read this) and re-airs at Midnight. If you don’t have one of the Sirius radios, you can sign up for a free trial to listen over the internet.For anyone here because of said show, hello and please place your death threats in the comments below.

The playlist:

  • The Feelin’ by Brant Bjork – Local Angel
  • Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me) by Steely Dan - Can’t Buy A Thrill
  • When Vegans Attack by Clutch – From Beale Street To Oblivion
  • Chillout Tent by The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
  • Grown So Ugly by The Black Keys – Rubber Factory
  • Four Kicks by Kings of Leon – Aha Shake Heartbreak
  • Crazyhorse Mongoose by Galactic – Crazyhorse Mongoose
  • Intentions Clear by Umphrey’s McGee – Safety In Numbers
  • Jetty by Tortoise – TNT
  • Clean Living by RJD2 – Since We Last Spoke
  • Technobeam by The New Deal – The New Deal
  • Jump Off by Lotus – Nomad
  • The Pinnacle of Experience by Supersystem – A Million Microphones
  • Yadnus by !!! (Chk Chk Chk) – Myth Takes
  • All In All by Julian Velard – Nitetime
  • Jane by Ben Folds Five – The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner
  • Pop Trash by Rustic Overtones – Long Division
  • Suit & Tie by Rocktopus – Something Fierce
  • B612 by Grüvis Malt – Simon
  • Sandpaper Cross by Jonny Classic And The Classic Johns – Your New Favorite Record
  • Bliss by Lake Trout – Another One Lost
  • My One Dear Son by Rana – Here In The USA
  • (Baby Wants To) Tame Me by Local H – Here Comes the Zoo
  • Black Lodge by Anthrax – Sound of White Noise
  • The Door by Corrosion Of Conformity – Wiseblood
  • If Only Everything by Kyuss – Queens of the Stone Age
  • Another Day by Jimmie’s Chicken Shack – Pushing The Salmanilla Envelope

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Three Things for Today: Oct. 30, 2007

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

First off, don’t believe the timestamps. I’m writing this from the future and posting to the past because I was too busy being awesome last night to actually get a chance to sit and write. But continuity counts a bit with these “Three Thing” posts, so here we are.

Anyway, this is some of what caught my eye yesterday…err, today…maybe tomorrow?:

  1. Two illustrators drawing dueling characters to defeat the one previously posted. It’s the Superest.
  2. The Register digs into the ongoing fair-use battle between Prince and a Pennsylvania mother over her use of “Let’s Go Crazy” in a video of her kid that was pulled from YouTube. If you ever had the chance to see said offending video, you’d see it’s indeed a crazy that the symbol guy is even doing this!
  3. Seriously, I’m gonna try to cut back on the OS X Leopard chatter, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t link to the best nuts-and-bolts review — from Ars Technica, of course.

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