A video of a song Tom wrote responding to the recent Marriage Equality debate in Washington DC where he lives.
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“Every Move” by Eric And The Adams
Just a cool new video I thought I would share. Check it out.
Eric and the Adams, “Every Move”
Why People Pirate Music
Bonjour CD
I regularly record Acousticfrom TV5 Monde on my DVR, and I just finished watching this week’s program with Rachid Taha. I’m a big fan of Taha and on the episode he sang some songs from a new album called Bonjour. They weren’t the best songs he ever recorded, but I liked them and I want the CD. I have all Taha’s records, and I want this one, too.
So I set out looking for it. The first place I looked was iTunes. I’m always ambivalent about albums on iTunes, though I buy most of my music there. I like the instant gratification. I can also find stuff that’s hard to find in stores. As record stores disappear, its not easy to find anything but the biggest hits in retailers like BestBuy, Barnes&Noble or Borders. On the other hand, I like having all that information the downloads don’t provide but that usually comes in a CD: names of composers and lyricists, producers and members of the band, information about where and when something was recorded, anecdotes from the sessions, photographs and all that stuff you usually find in the liner notes that accompany a CD. But it wasn’t in iTunes, anyway. Continue reading
Visualizing Empires Decline
Here’s an interesting visualization of the expansion and contraction of colonial powers from the 19th century through the present day. I assume the shapes include the actual countries of Britain, Spain, France and Portugal and that their size in the end reflects, in part, their land mass. The description accompanying the video notes, “The data refers to the evolution of the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by extent.” But each of these countries still occupies some overseas territory that is in dispute. One is certainly aware of this living in the north of Morocco where there are two Spanish enclaves.
Visualizing empires decline from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo.
TeachMidEast.org Includes NITLE ACC Site
TeachMidEast.org
This evening I was happy to learn that the NITLE Arab Culture and Civilization Online Resource is once again publicly available, generously hosted by the Middle East Policy Council, a nonprofit organization that seeks to enhance American understanding of the political, economic and cultural issues affecting U.S. policy in the Middle East. I was principal editor of the site throughout much of its existence, and was very proud of the collaborative effort that went into building, launching, and nurturing the site throughout its life. At the time of its retirement it was registering thousands of hits on a daily basis.
Socialists like the AARP and the AMA
I’m going in for surgery tomorrow, a procedure I can have done because I have an employer that provides health insurance. Thank heaven for that, but deserve it. Not like those millions of uninsured Americans. They must not be working hard enough.
Now those radical, bleeding heart, liberal Democrats want to provide insurance to everybody and all these radical groups are lining up to support them, like the American Association of Retired Persons(AARP) and the American Medical Association. Oh, and the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association,
and a whole bunch of other godless communist organizations like that.
Seriously America, reform is in your interest and if it fails the only people who will have won will be the insurance companies!
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Two Funny Things From CollegeHumor.com
I love CollegeHumor.com. It’s been a long time since I’ve been in college, but it cracks me up. I’m not sure how in touch with college kids it is, though. I mean, how many 18-22 year olds know the music from West Side Story. Anyway, here are two clips from the site I’ve particularly enjoyed. There not new, both from the summer. But they were brought up today, I looked at them again, and wanted to share.
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Robert Earl Keen, Bruce Robison and Todd Snider in Foxboro
The Rose Hotel
I almost didn’t go to the concert tonight at the Showcase in Foxboro. It’s a school night, the weather is crappy, and tickets are expensive. I’d only recently discovered Robert Earl Keen and had been impressed by his album Rose Hotel, but I didn’t know the other two acts on the bill, Todd Snider and Bruce Robison. I checked out a few tracks by each of them on YouTube and Lastfm, but didn’t have much time to explore more than that. All in all it just wasn’t worth it. Then I got free tickets, and all I had to do was hang some posters and pass out some stickers. Well, I love live music, so what was I supposed to do? Off I went.
I am glad I did. It was a fantastic show. I’d never been to the Showcase before, but it’s nice venue with good acoustics and even decent food. Given that this was an acoustic show, the way a room conducts sound is important. But ultimately it is all about the performers, and these guys were great.
Robert Earl Keen was on the marquee as the headliner. Known as a singer/songwriter, he is, indeed, an engaging storyteller, not only in his songs but introducing them. It makes for a good show. Not to mention the fact that their just really good songs. When man can stand on a stage with just a spotlight and an acoustic guitar and hold the audience’s attention, he’d better hope that he can check off at least three of the following: Continue reading
A Billion for a Billion!
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Was It Good for You? Let Me Check Your Facebook Page
The text below provides some statistics about “gadget-savvy online individuals” under the age of 35 surveyed on behalf of the website Retrevo.com. The first percentage is shocking, the second frightening, the third not a bit surprising and the last, well, what’s the big deal?
The younger crowd is also quite keen on tweeting, texting, and checking Facebook after sex (36%), while driving (40%), while at work (64%), and when on vacation (65%).
via Young Social Mediaphiles: 36% Tweet and Check Facebook After Sex.
It isn’t so much the numbers themselves that are surprising. The survey is, after all, a survey of gadget-savvy people, so one would expect the numbers to be higher than they might in the general population. So that 64% of respondents use these tools at work or on vacation seems reasonable. In fact, it surprises me the number isn’t higher.
Tweeting, texting and Facebook? That’s a lot of tools. Increasingly people use one or more of those tools for work. As for using them on vacation, they are called social networking tools, and socially is how most people started using them. It is their use for business and professional purposes that is new. So why wouldn’t they be used on vacation. I like to be unplugged on vacation sometimes, but that’s because I work online. Many people are thrilled by the possibility of posting their vacation snapshots while on vacation. And , if family members went off to do different things during the day of a family vacation, it can be awfully handy to text them if you want to change the meeting place for dinner.
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That leaves only the driving to talk about. Tell me more please. Where were those numbers highest? Certain states? Cities? Do they drive more at certain times of the day? Do they use highways or byways more? Tell me all you can. ‘Cause I want to do all I can to be OFF THE ROAD whenever and wherever they are!
Survey Results on a Chart
NB: This entry has bee corrected in response to the comment below. (10/13/2009)