19 month ago
gleuschk : Exclusive Excerpt: Stephen Davis’s ‘Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N’ Roses’ -- Vulture -- Entertainment & Culture Blog -- New York Magazine - The story of how "Welcome to the Jungle" became a song.
Andy Baio : The inspiration behind Guns n' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" - great origin story [via]
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22 month ago
gleuschk : NPR: Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits - His elaborate gun collection, his mad shopping sprees, the face lifts, the ski trips, the drug busts and the hundreds of rooms in his home. The tax shelters, the public urination...I was nervous to meet the real man himself. Baggage and all.
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28 month ago
gleuschk : quick Umberto Eco interview in the NYT - wow, he's grumpy. "If you don’t like it, don’t tell it. I am indifferent."
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34 month ago
plasticbag : The rumour is that last.fm has been bought by CBS for $280 Million - I find myself surprisingly depressed by this revelation, although it does sort of rather explain some of the conversations I had with them a while back about what it's like inside large organisations and how acquirees fare...
jimray : CBS Acquires Last.fm for $280 Million - Ok, you know things are crazy when a social music site with no business model goes for $280M, which is described as "a little on the low side." But good for last.fm, here's hoping CBS doesn't frak it all to hell.
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34 month ago
jimray : Jezebel is the latest Gawker blog - For women too smart to put up with women's magazines
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35 month ago
jimray : The end of journalism (dot org) - Actually, not as pessimistic as you'd think and just might help
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35 month ago
jimray : Vulture from New York Magazine is an entertainment blog done right - Smart, just snarky enough without being smarmy, gorgeous design
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36 month ago
jimray : First Timbjörkland song in the wild - Forget the haters, I dig it
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36 month ago
jimray : A journalist in his own mind - Why Josh Wolf is not a journalist and why we should stop pretending like he is
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jimray : MSNBC Jockeys for attention online - WSJ profile of the MSNBC.com ad campaign
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jimray : i'm in like with you - Invite-only flirtation/dating service thingie for all the web2.0 kiddos
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36 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Everything Good is Bad For You - Everything Good is Bad For You: "Looking at photos of sunsets or reading one-liners takes no cognitive effort. It's the mental equivalent of snack food. You start eating one and before you know it you've gone through two cans of Pringles...&q
jimray : Aaron Swartz has some pretty cogent thoughts on how microcontent (blogs, twitter) is dumbing us down - "But technology never solves things by itself. At bottom, it requires people to sit down and build tools that solve them. Which, as long as programmers are all competing to create the world's most popular timewaster, it doesn't seem like anyone is going t
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36 month ago
jimray : The only show on MTV that still plays music videos has a blog - With lots and lots of videos, thankfully
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37 month ago
Milo Vermeulen : The Criterion Contraption - watching and reviewing every DVD in the Criterion Collection [via]
jimray : The Criterion Contraption - Some dude is watching every Criterion Collection DVD. Sorta reminds me of the chick who blogged The Joy of Cooking.
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jimray : MySpace News is real, Wired has screengrabs - Not so much a news portal, just an aggregator and digg-like social engine.
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37 month ago
jimray : AssignmentZero launches - With some heavy funding, including the MacArthur foundation, Craig Newmark, Wired, Reuters. Aims to be a collaboration between real journalists and the citizen kind.
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37 month ago
jimray : In praise of the parasitic blogger - "Another word for "parasitic," in this context, is "critical." Blogging is at its essence a critical form, a means of recycling other writings to ensure their fullest and most efficient consumption."
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37 month ago
jimray : USA Tomorrow - USA Today's website redesign launches soon. I wish they'd dump the Fisher Price design and organize a little better, nice to see the social and personalization features, though.
Cameron Moll : USAToday.com redesign + dictionary-averse designers - "...keep in mind that [these mockups] were put together by designers, who sometimes needn’t bother with dictionaries..." From a review of the USAToday.com redesign, and a jestful jab at us design folk.
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37 month ago
jimray : Fake Steve is now sponsored by Wired - Still one of my favorite Mac blogs - sometimes, fake can be so, like, REAL, man.
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38 month ago
jimray : Seattle Weekly's founding editor to start Web newspaper - No mention of any thing real specific, will be an interesting one to watch
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38 month ago
jimray : OMFG!!1! TEH HIPSTERS LUV JUSTIN!!1!! - I mean, if the bassist from Fall Out Boy thinks he's great, he must be, like, AMAZING. Also: I still hate Justin Timberlake and really hope that fact makes me less of a hipster.
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38 month ago
jimray : Stephen Colbert is launching a UGC site for fake news - Send him your bogus tips and rumors!
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38 month ago
jimray : Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 Gag Reel
deusx : Battlestar Galactica: Season 3 Gag Reel - Google Video
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