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The Supreme Court Has Lost Its Collective Mind
The Supremes are stopping in the name of love the rights of people to protect their private information from being sold to marketers. There were two egregious decisions yesterday that afforded even more power onto corporations, specifically the pharmaceutical industry, but it's this particular decision I find so chilling (especially in the light of ( Read more... ) -
My Imaginary Top 20 "Songs" of the Week
1. Black Tables and For 12 by Other Lives. Other Lives' sound is a little like Coldplay meets Broken Bells and I'm falling in love with this album. I bought those two songs (or perhaps Black Tables was a free iTunes download). This week I bought their album Tamer Animals and I'm pretty much enjoying every song so far: Desert, Tamer Animals, and ( Read more... ) -
My Imaginary Top 20 "Songs" of the Week
I love mp3s for one simple reason. I love programming my own endless radio station in iTunes. I have a few specific playlists to the side, but I rarely listen to them any longer. I have one playlist simply called "Radio" that could play for 24.1 days, contains 8621 items, and takes up a whopping 58.6 GB ( Read more... ) -
My Tropical Birds
Can I just say how much I love, love, love, love, love the flock of tropical birds that seems to have taken up permanent residence in the trees all around my house ( Read more... ) -
Music I've Been Enjoying Lately
1. Adele's 21 ( Read more... ) -
News
Here, for your enjoyment, is a headline from the Huffington Post today:
PHOTOS: Duchess Catherine Shops For Groceries, Pushes Her Own Cart
This is the sort of thing that makes me want to buy a cabin in the woods and go completely off the grid. -
"I Cannot Control Everything"
On the way home from work tonight there was a chihuahua running down the middle of the street in heavy traffic with a leash trailing behind him ( Read more... ) -
The New KCET
On January 1, the Los Angeles station KCET severed it's ties with PBS. It had been the flagship Southern California station, the main PBS station in the region. There are three other stations in the area, two of which I get; but in prime time they more or less showed the same things, only on different nights sometimes ( Read more... )
