Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Links of interest for September 11th 2008:
Girl Turk: Mechanical Turk Meets Girl Talk's "Feed the Animals" [Waxy.org] - Andy Baio's extremely deep analysis of the use of samples in the latest Girl Talk album. While stats like "the album averages 19.8 songs sampled per track" should be really boring, ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Interesting links for August 27th 2008 through August 28th 2008:
Blogger arrested over Guns N' Roses leak [The Age] - "A blogger suspected of streaming songs from the unreleased Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy on his website was arrested and appeared in court, where his bail was set at $US10,000. ...
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Interesting links for August 21st 2008 through August 22nd 2008:
Monkey Magic - Karen Lury / University of Glasgow [Flow TV, 8.06] - Playful and engaging reading of the BBC Monkey-style BBC Opening for the Olympic Games: "A playful, irreverent choice then: a trailer that reverses a mythic journey (from ...
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Friday, August 8th, 2008
Interesting links for August 7th 2008 through August 8th 2008:
Steal This Hook? Girl Talk Flouts Copyright Law [NYTimes.com] - "Girl Talk, whose real name is Gregg Gillis, makes danceable musical collages out of short clips from other people’s songs; there are more than 300 samples on “Feed the Animals,” the ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Interesting links for May 1st 2008:
Free game hopes to save gorillas [BBC NEWS | Technology] - "Campaigners hoping to preserve Rwanda's endangered mountain gorilla are attempting to raise awareness of its plight by making a game simulating the lives of the animals free to mobile phone users."
Sweet Hollywood hoax with ...
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