Justice Xmas Mix…Featuring the FUCKING CHAMPS!!!

Wow! The mighty indie-prog-metal heads Fucking Champs are now featured on a mix by the mighty electronic club rockers JUSTICE!!! The mix also includes music by the Sparks, Goblin, Chic, Justice, Daft Punk, Todd Rungren, etc…what a treat! This mix was rejected by Fabric which produces the FabricLive mix series… um, what [...]

CSS-Cansei de Ser Sexy–Alala and Music is My…

Ah, they’re sort of like the Brazilian Talking Heads?  Pretty cool…even before their huge iPhone ad song-tie-in!

DJ Dub and Saigon - The Medicine

Not much exciting in hip hop right now, while the music industry is dying–but this Saigon mixtape is actually really nice. I never got around to listening to too much of his stuff before, but this mixtape brings together a great mix of songs, showcasing Saigon’s lyrical skills and a great beat selection (Just [...]

Great Post on Economic Meltdown: “Economic Oversteering”

Economic Oversteering
“Historians may well lay the real blame for current distress at the door of Alan Greenspan, who pioneered the use of morphine to dull economic pain, but they will probably also credit him with a certain level of discretion in its prescription. During Greenspan’s tenure at the Fed, economic leaders became convinced that the [...]

Mmmm Hot Chocolate

My favorite hot chocolate is Organic Valley Chocolate Milk heated up via microwave…quick and delicious, better than most hot chocolate products on the market!!!

Freakanomics: What Do Real Thugs Think About the Wire

Ah, this is great, funny analysis of the awesome show The Wire:
Freakonomics: hat Do Real Thugs Think About the Wire
By Columbia Sociology professor and author of OFF THE BOOKS: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor and several other books, and whose research was featured in the book Freakonomics.
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Fire Kelly Tilghman

Golf Channel and Golfweek Lynching Comments Fiasco
“The episode began Jan. 4 during the second round of the season-opening Mercedes-Benz Championship when Tilghman and analyst Nick Faldo were discussing possible challengers to Woods.
Faldo suggested that “to take Tiger on, maybe they should just gang up (on him) for a while.”
“Lynch him in a back alley,” Tilghman [...]

Monkey Controls Walking Robot: Gundam and Firefox (movie/game) are real…

NY Times: Monkey’s Thoughts Propel Robot, a Step That May Help Humans

Article about Idoya, a monkey, controlling a robot named CB, Computational Brain. Get this: the monkey was in a lab in North Carolina, the robot in Japan, remotely controlled over a high speed internet connection:
“The video and brain cell activity were then [...]

The Quants Who Blew Up Wall Street

 The Blow-Up, Part I, Part II
Thought I’d finally post something economics related again…

Moogs, Library Music, Easy Listening, Exotica, Soundtrack Music

Ahh…this is the sound I love…bring the horns and the cushy strings…Francis Lai, Peter Thomas, Jerry Van Rooyen, Dorothy Ashby, Syd Dale, John Keating, Nick Ingman, James Last, John Fox, Jack Arel & Pierre Dutour, Brian Bennett, Mike Vickers, Mort Garson, Lex de Azevedo, Hollywood Cinema Orchestra, Keith Mansfield, François de Roubaix, Alan Hawkshaw, Steve [...]