Archive for December, 2007

White Ghost Shivers Provide Uplifting, End Of Semester Bitterness

We’re locked up with with grading and prospectus work. In the meantime, here’s a little Austin hot jazz. Great song, although we think we would’ve preferred the “nice bitter one” that she says was next in the set… … since we suspect that it may have been this awesomeness: Sometimes we wonder how so many LA hipsters [...]
Read More
We Get Visitors – IP Of The Day

Jumping directly to this post: The hit came at 7:33am – say what you will about city employees, they’re not clocking in late. References: * Scientist Who Doesn’t Understand How Judgment Works Tries To Persuade People To Drink Their Own Excrement – Produces Rhetorical And Psychoanalytic Train Wreck, Comedy Gold [IIS] Previously: * The History Of Hip Hop, Viral YouTube [...]
Read More
Best Library Facade Ever

Awesome: The books for the facade of the Kansas City Library were nominated by local residents. This is perhaps a cause for hope. Or given your opinion about some of the choices, not. Still: awesome. References: * Kansas City Public Library [Neatorama] Previously: * French Band Requests That You Dance, Fight [Video] * Giant Scorpion Provides Scientific Data, Nightmares * The Things [...]
Read More
Scientist Who Doesn’t Understand Judgment Tries To Persuade People To Drink Own Waste, Produces Rhetorical And Psychoanalytic Train Wreck, Comedy Gold

Orange County has just launched a Toilet To Tap water program to reclaim flushed waste, distill it, and return it into the drinking supply after a few years. The scientific side of the debate is a crush: even ignoring the Southern California water crises, the tap water is cleaned until it’s near-bottle quality and certainly [...]
Read More
Tuesday Random Anger – Self-Congratulatory Nonsense In The Academy Edition

IHE has an article suggesting that we can improve goverment deliberation by modeling it on university and departmental meetings: Civilized political behavior needs to be learned. And that’s where universities come in, Mallory suggested, as nascent laboratories of democratic engagement. “I think … the fundamental principles are [a commitment] to civil discourse, and listening, and speaking. [...]
Read More
The History Of Hip Hop, Viral YouTube Edition [Videos]

It turns out that, contra Tricia Rose, hip hop actually originated in an obscure Mongolian farming village in the 1960s. MC Farmer on the mic: The genre then mutated (metastasized?) into nerdcore, giving rise to MC Frontalot’s utterly brilliant “It Is Pitch Dark”: “The voices in your head said the dwarf shot first… but doctors with needles [...]
Read More
Hey Real Quick, What’s 29 Plus 4?

The spread at the beginning of the game was 29.5. You people can have your “ancient religions”. We have found a new object of worship, and his name is LeSean McCoy. References: * Pitt throws curveball at BCS with win over No. 2 WVU [ESPN] Previously: * Mark Ronson And Amy Winehouse Are Very Good For Each Other [Video] * [...]
Read More