• FlipSide BlackBerry MP3 Player: Blackberry killed the ipod star: I haven’t turned on my nano in a fortnight. Still need my scrobble action though, and Blackberry doesn’t do that out of the box (also, controls for default media player are maddeningly stupid). Test driving Flipside.fm as
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• Yes We Can: Holy shit, this made me cry. I’m not so sad that Kucinich dropped out anymore, if we at least still have a candidate who can restore dignity and rhetorical skill to the office.
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• This isn’t "cute," it’s deeply annoying: The Hype Machine has disabled their service until 10,000 concurrent viewers load hypem.com in their browsers, at which point they will launch their new version. How the fuck did anybody ever think that was a good idea? It’s just… dumb.
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• Kanye West - Young Folks / The Hype Machine: Yes, it’s exactly what you think. Kanye has lost his got damned mind.
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• CBS Acquires Last.fm for $280 million | TechCrunch: I hate to be a knee-jerker, but really, CBS is never, ever going to get the web. I’ve been watching the interaction of old media and the internet for over a decade, and everything points to this being last.fm’s death knell. Sad.
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• Hype Machine Download Links - Userscripts.org: By one Jason Rhyley. I am become the ultimate lazyblogger.
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• GNU Songanizer Home Page - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF): "GNU Songanizer is a shell script to organize a directory [of music]. Creates virtual directory structures to give different views of the data, but without redundant copies of the files." Awesome.
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• The (Bayesian) Advantage of Youth. Many-to-Many:: "People who think of the VCR as old and stable, and the PC as a relatively new invention, are not the kind of people who think up Tivo[, it’s ppl] presented with two storage choices, tape or disk, without historical bias making tape seem more normal."
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A la The Lady Pants, a music meme for you. Here’s the rules:

1. Open up the music player on your computer.

2. Set it to play your entire music collection.
3. Hit the “shuffle” command.
4. Tell us the title of the next twelve songs that show up (with their musicians), no matter how embarrassing. That’s right, no skipping that Carpenters tune that will totally destroy your hip credibility. It’s time for total musical honesty.
5. If you get the same artist twice, you may skip the second (or third, or etc.) occurances. You don’t have to, but since randomness could mean you end up with a list of twelve songs by four artists, you can if you’d like.

And here’s my list:

• New - No Doubt

• Love Of My Life - Erykah Badu Ft. Common
• Goodies - Ciara Ft. Petey Pablo
• Under Your Spell, Standing (Reprise) - Buffy
• God Only Knows - Beach Boys
• Zombie - Cranberries
• Good - Better Than Ezra
• La Copa De La Vida - Ricky Martin
• The Prime Time of Your Life - Daft Punk
• Fever - Peggy Lee
• Jerk It Out - The Caesars
• Hey Man Nice Shot - Filter

Somehow, I ended up with no Cher on here, and a lot more 90’s alt-rock than I would have thought. Another bit of ephemera for you: Firefox 2’s spell check engine does not recognize the word ‘meme’. A most egregious oversight.