Your Copyright Can Kiss My A$$
Look out, you might be a thief! This week on EPIC FU it’s all about copyleft, the Pirate Bay, Girl Talk, and the new remix culture that bubbles with creative goodness. Plus, an amazing new music video from Passion Pit, and I get a moonwalking lesson!
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Another extremely funny one from RhettandLink!
These guys are amazing. This is the funniest drive through song!
This is the most bizarre commercial I’ve seen in a while. I had to go to the site to make sure it wasn’t a joke.
The next thing I did was Google High Point, NC - the 6th search result was a furniture directory site. When I clicked on that, I saw it had a listing of all the furniture stores in High Point, all except — dah, dah, dum — The Red House.
Why is The Red House excluded from the main listing of furniture stores in High Point? Hmmm…
Then I simply went to the YouTube page and found the producers of the video - RhettandLink. They’re a comedy team, and go on to say:
“This video is an attempt to use humor to spark a discussion about race issues, because we still have a long way to go.”
It’s definitely started a discussion. Brilliant. Now I’m watching all of their videos! :)
(via:rickrey:rocketboom:RhettandLink)
Very interesting article about family and racial identity in the US.
Raising Kaite: What Adopting a White Girl Taught One Black Family
“As a black father and adopted white daughter, Mark Riding and Katie O’Dea-Smith are a sight at best surprising, and at worst so perplexing that people feel compelled to respond. Like the time at a Pocono Mountains flea market when Riding scolded Katie, attracting so many sharp glares that he and his wife, Terri, 37, and also African-American, thought “we might be lynched.” And the time when well-intentioned shoppers followed Mark and Katie out of the mall to make sure she wasn’t being kidnapped. Or when would-be heroes come up to Katie in the cereal aisle and ask, “Are you OK?”—even though Terri is standing right there.”
(via kenyatta)
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Oprah is bored with Twitter and Nielsen finds majority quit Twitter after only a month.
(via fimoculous / baltimore sun)
Not quite sure how Nielsen is gathering their info, but this doesn’t surprise me. I think there are a couple of things happening.
I personally find Twitter most useful and interesting when it comes to real-time news/information gathering. I use Twitter search now just as much as Google search because Twitter will give me the most recent updates. I’m finding that the accounts I tend to follow now are people who are news sources and tweet interesting links, thoughts, questions, and information.
I completely get why some people get bored with it… and why others think it’s the best thing since sliced bread.
@stevewoolf reminded me of this awesome mashup: Stairway to Bootleg Heaven by DJ Earworm. He’s amazing. Check him out.
mashup includes:
This collaborative cover of Stand By Me was recorded by unknown artists all around the world. Beautiful.
The 3/50 Project. Save your local economy three stores at a time.
Think about which three independently owned stores you’d miss most if they were gone. Stop in and say hello. Pick up a little something that will make someone smile. Your contribution is what keeps those businesses around.
(via nom-nom-nom)
Anyone who gets that close to your face should definitely get a kiss. :)
BY A NOSE Gay rights advocate Matthew Arnold-Lloyd of Albany, N.Y., right, meets nose to nose with an unidentified man opposed to gay marriage during a rally outside the Capitol in Albany. (Mike Groll / AP via Time)
My favorite astrology site: Astro.com
It’s not web 2.0ish, but if you’re into astrology or just curious, it’s the most “accurate” as astrology goes. Why? Because you have to enter your birth time and birth place coordinates. Therefore, the results are more unique. They don’t give detailed explanations for all of your chart results, but they are easy enough to Google.
My views on astrology? I think life is what you make it, but these things are always fun to look at and wonder about.
And if there are any astrology buffs out there, let me know. Always interested in hearing theories. :)
from nedhepburn
late 90’s and beyond:
“hipsterism” becomes an affectation meaning no more than the clothes and income and literally just a fashion statement, bringing us to where we are now - where the counter culture has become the current culture. there is no REAL counter culture anymore, other than… shit. i dont know. i cant think of one at all. and thats pretty sad. while theres been a large number of what would be considered “hipsters” going into public planning jobs working for a greener future (which is an admirable and noble and respectful thing), nobody is really doing anything to go against the grain, so to speak. we’ve all become our own grain.
via: soupsoup:
There are all these things I want to do. Then there is the knowledge that I can’t do them all. Then there is the realization that it doesn’t matter. Then there is the question, “what does?”
The Internet’s “Black Holes”
Fifteen countries are black holes in the World Wide Web. News is not free to circulate there.
(via: she-thinks: homecoming)
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