Yeah we're back

That it. Adios. And I started this simpsons avatar crap. After a quite nice jack move from Jeff Staple. Sucker!!!!

I love Euros!!!!

I definitely have this meeting with this guy tomorrow so I definitely should go to sleep and learn how to spell definitely (Firefox fixed it for me). Anyways, I was reading BenG's blog over on Highsnobiety and he called our food American food! That's really awesome!!! That's one of those things I've definetely never thought to ask anyone kind of like how I've always wanted to ask a Canadian "Do you sometimes get American coins in your change?" Hmmph... Interesting.

Shutup you mouth!

I think I have this weird thing for watching late 90’s early 00's teen movies. I think it might be something about feeling like I missed out just a bit on the era... Right now I’m watching this Josh Hartnett flick (40 days and 40 nights) and I’m totally digging it. Pretty much (in case you don’t remember you over the hill hipsters you) Josh Hartnett plays a fella whose lady love dumped him. To get over her he decides to be completely celibate for 40 days and 40 nights (!!!). Of course he meets a girl and (stunner!)she doesn’t agree with the whole celibacy thing…

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They work at a Dot-Com!!! Haha, who does that? Oh, wait....

Now I know how old people feel.

Yeah, well to all you soon to be over the hill hipsters who occasionally check this blog: I know how you feel. Now that I actually have a job (which coincidentally is for the most part blogging, which goes a long way towards explaining why I hate the medium) I completely understand why the old folks (29 and up)are so tired. Anyways we're looking to launch an awesome website to coincide with our second issue, so if any of you know Flash, Javascript, XML and possibly Ajax email me, but I don't really want to do that until we get a bit more of a readership here and get it up to around 4-6 posts a day. So, there ya go.

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Photo is of Brooklyn Dom. Much respect to his achievements (store in Hiroshima for Christ's sakes!!), but he is uglier than any 40 year old roadie rightfully should be.

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I picked a quality picture of him.

Major News!!!!

Most of you don't know much about me, that's all well and good, but with things about to change around here (actually it won't be around here, more on that later) but a huge inspiration to me is Hiroshi Fujiwara. Everything he touches turns to gold. I love his creativity and aspire to his influence. But, reading Okazawa Takahiro's blog on Honeyee I noticed this picture of HF (can I call you HF?) on his computer. Nothing strange right till I noticed his computer looks like an HP. Hmmm.... Doesn't he have some sort of deal with them? Just saying... Go -------------------> Here for Pic


Blogger is kind of funky right now :(

No thanks to you...

I finally got the Lushlife mixtape "West Sounds" ( Kanye West x Beach Boys). And no, I'm not linking it. jerks.

Apple's Gonna Get You!!!!!

For all the news of Apple allowing DRM free music, it seems Steve Jobs and Co. have added a safety net to allay their fears over piracy. The consumer electronics company will watermark every file with the buyer's details including name and email address. While Apple spokesmen refused to comment, they did direct questions to Michael Gartenberg an analyst at Jupiter Research. Gartenberg had this to say:

"In terms of sharing files, you're not legally permitted to do that anyway," he said. "You weren't supposed to that in the first place. You've technically violated the service agreement. Just because you've taken away the locks on the doors doesn't mean you can walk into someone's house and walk away with the TV set."

To read the full story click here.

Megatron Don!!!!

Weird title for Just Blaze's new blog. That was going to be my entire post but I wanted to note how weird it was for a rapper to have a normal person blog, complete with bad sentence structure (see Duchdown Adventures)and annoyingly bad gimmicks. It's increasingly cool how JB is positioning himself as more of a hipster artist what with with the Alife and John Mayer collab. I guess now we all know Money Can Buy Cool.

*update I just caught the joke*

Ummm.....

Our latest Kanye bashing post aside, we really do quite enjoy his music. That's why the leak of his latest "Can't tell me nothin" mixtape has sent us into a bowel releasing, techno-craving tizzy....Wait, that was kind of gay....Umm...Well, here's the link, and make sure if you're not using a Macbook you stop off and get Stuffit to extract the compressed files. Oh, and the joint with Pharrell and Lupe Fiasco is quite nice. Makes me want to dance in the rain and sing songs about leperchauns. Okay, I've really got to go now...

*Update* This is the first CD I've listened to straight through in a while. Enjoy*

Back to our normally scheduled programming...

I think Ibn Jasper's real name is Norrin Radd. Wherever he goes the culture eater we know as Kanye West soon appears. I checked him on The Hundreds site. First Jay-Z, then Mims and now Kanye. But I wanted to address the common perception among hypebeasters that whenever something goes mainstream it losses some of its cache. While i don't agree that going mainstream necessarily sinks a brand, I do believe that once something hits the down-market it will suffer. A perfect example is the case of Burberry. Check this out from Agenda. Click -----------------------------> Here

The fall of Google!!!

I'm not sure whether I should be writing this or not, all the services we use are powered by the Sand Hill Road giant...But, Robert Cringely wrote an essay for PBS about the downfall of Google. As I'm pretty sure that most of our readers don't actually READ , I'll very quickly summarize:

Google currently allows it's employees 20% of the week to work on their pet projects and the opportunity to present it to top brass in the hopes of Google picking it up. To developers (and creatives of any sort) personal freedom from your employers is a huge plus. Oftentimes these guys will begin working on something they believe is a great idea but when the time comes to present it to Sergey and Eric, they don't see it as so. Google might only pick up about 5 or 6 of these ideas and everybody else is out of luck. Cringely reasons that those whose ideas aren't picked don't see it as Google saving them from their own bad ideas, but as Google not recognizing the potential. And that's where the trouble starts.

To read the rest of this article click: here

Really, quick: TechCrunch has 10,000 Joost beta invites. GigaOm has 20,000. Michael Arrington seems to think getting a Joost invite now is what getting a gmail invite was a couple of years ago. The whole idea is actually kind of awesome: Joost allows you to watch television on your computer anytime you want. Other than watching South American Basketball, Argentinean Rugby, and a little QD3, I haven't had a chance to give it a full run. But, check out the screenshots and go ahead and get your invites.


Check out the screenshots:








For GigaOm invites: Here
For TechCrunch invites: Here

Like Zoom!!!Zoom!!!Zoom!!!

Yeah, I told you really technorati. Sorry for the delay, we've been working on getting our new Zooomr account set up. They have been having trouble with bringing the photos from the old database of Mark II to the new database of Mark III, so they haven't launched quite yet. Nevertheless, You should probably head on over to Zooomr now as the site is going to be amazing. Something like a Flickr gold (a reference to the other blog I write for, if you find it tell me and I'll toss you something cool) the site not only allows you to upload and share pictures but to sell them as stock photos. Awesome!!! The search features are quite unique and the 19yr old (thats right) founder Kris Tate keeps a video blog as they prepare to launch. Go check em out.

Yeah, I Know...

That was a bad post, we know. But don't worry we've got more juicy goodness for you!!! I just felt I should let you know we're going to get really Technorati around here. So, bear with us.

The Matrix!!!

As the web begins to become more and more a part of our personal lives. I've been on the lookout for matrix like moments. Moments where the web and real life seem to intersect. *Cue the X-Files music* Well, I found one. While I was watching the Mac parody on Valleywag my computer skipped a beat for just long enough for me to want to glance back at the television. Nothing odd about that. Until I realized I was watching one of the Mac commercial!!!

How to keep an idiot busy!!!

I swear thats what javascript should be called. We've been working on a website (shhh.....) and I've been having hella trouble with some experimental code. Check it out if you want. (That's actually the problem, you have to click the link like twelve times and wait each time). Don't worry, we've got you, we've always got your best interests at heart :) .

That's Fuc*ed up!!!!

Um... In case you were wondering we were really the first on Tabi Bonney like that. I guess only important people read this mag. Anyways we'll keep up the good work.

What trouble is this!?!?!?

This I must say is quite weird. Saw it on Dork. You take a look:

Whooo!!!! Finally Done!!!

Well, schools out....It's all gravy from here. Interesting news though. I got bored during final exams and I decided to read the new issue of Wired Magazine beginning my journey which culminated in installing a new OS. There was an article about Mark Shuttleworth, who created a new OS called Ubuntu. After beginning to "feel that crushing sense of uselessness," that comes with having way too much money, he spent $25 million of his personal fortune to hire open source developers, and negotiate with computer companies about selling PCs with the OS pre-installed. But, best of all, anyone can get it for free (We love free crap around here). All you have to do is either download the disk image or request the CD (takes ten weeks :( ) and off you go. From personal experience Ubuntu is quick and intuitive. This is the first Linux based OS that I've ever worked on that is user-friendly. More-so, everything you need and want comes on the disk or in one of the open-source databases th OS automatically connects you to!!! Seriously, you don't know how long it took for me to find Scribus so I could get you that magazine.

All's Well That Ends Well

Um...just finished an interview with the cool fellas over at Lemon Mag check em out if you're interested. Anyways on to more important news. I just downloaded Lushlife's Hello Young World: Volume Two and I want the Kanye West X Beach Boys Mash Up "West Sounds." So if any of our adoring fans have it send it to us now.

Umm...

I was going to write a post about how I used Dork Mag as a resource for my research paper, "You're Not Wanted: Disenfranchisement Then and Now, With an Emphasis on Gentrification." Then I saw this Mic Terror video:

Interweb

My internet sucks. Back to you tomorrow.

In case you're wondering

Like we said it's final week. That's why we've been gone. Lets catch up:

Save Internet Radio!!!

Got this in the post the other day:

Hi, it's Tim from Pandora,

I'm writing today to ask for your help. The survival of Pandora and all of Internet radio is in jeopardy because of a recent decision by the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, DC to almost triple the licensing fees for Internet radio sites like Pandora. The new royalty rates are irrationally high, more than four times what satellite radio pays, and broadcast radio doesn't pay these at all. Left unchanged, these new royalties will kill every Internet radio site, including Pandora.

In response to these new and unfair fees, we have formed the SaveNetRadio Coalition, a group that includes listeners, artists, labels and webcasters. I hope that you will consider joining us.

Please sign our petition urging your Congressional representative to act to save Internet radio: http://capwiz.com/saveinternetradio/issues/alert/?alertid=9631541

Please feel free to forward this link/email to your friends - the more petitioners we can get, the better.

Understand that we are fully supportive of paying royalties to the artists whose music we play, and have done so since our inception. As a former touring musician myself, I'm no stranger to the challenges facing working musicians. The issue we have with the recent ruling is that it puts the cost of streaming far out of the range of ANY webcaster's business potential.

I hope you'll take just a few minutes to sign our petition - it WILL make a difference. As a young industry, we do not have the lobbying power of the RIAA. You, our listeners, are by far our biggest and most influential allies.

As always, and now more than ever, thank you for your support.

-Tim Westergren
(Pandora founder)