It's official! I will be performing at the Big Awesome Music Festival (BAMF), which is running concurrently with San Diego Comic-Con on July 10th, 11th, and 12th. Tickets can be pre-ordered from their IndieGoGo fundraiser page, here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bamf ( Read more... )

BuzzFeedVideo on YouTube usually posts short "informational" videos that are entertaining but not really all that informative. However, yesterday, they posted this video, entitled "Photoshopping Real Women Into Cover Models". It shows four women's reactions to having photographs of them 'Shopped the way that advertisements and magazine covers are. ( Read more... )

This is a song performed by The Barenaked Ladies, the Wexford Gleeks, and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield . . . who is performing from the International Space Station! Furthermore, Chris Hadfield wrote the song while on the station. It is a true space anthem, and it's wonderful ( Read more... )

Continuing the analysis of the Yahoo! Finance article 21 Ways Rich People Think Differenly, a condensed “interview” with Steve Siebold, author of How Rich People Think.

1. Average people think MONEY is the root of all evil. Rich people believe POVERTY is the root of all evil.“The average person has been brainwashed to believe rich people are lucky ( Read more... )

I have a little gizmo that shows me the top three stories from CNN.com at any given time*. The top story is always accompanied by either the story's first paragraph or an abstract thereof. But today, it was obvious that the person writing the abstract was a little ... abstracted.

From the actual article:

India suffered its second huge, crippling ( Read more... )

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.”

-attributed to George Orwell
(though I was unable to find the source)

A blurb on Slashdot caught my sweetie's attention, and she passed it along to me. It is very interesting:

What Various Studies Really Reveal About File-SharingIn this case, they're talking about file-sharing as it pertains to the distribution of music through peer-to-peer sites. While the RIAA claims that it costs millions of dollars every year in ( Read more... )

A friend of mine who works for BioWare in Canada, Jennifer Hepler, has become the target of a massive, coordinated hate and harassment campaign, probably organized by the same losers and shit-for-brains who perpetrated the harassment against caprine and me over "LOL Together". Why? Because she had the temerity to suggest that games might want to include ( Read more... )

I find very interesting how the SOPA/PIPA debates are falling out, and who decides to take which side. It's obviously a contentious bill, but the battle lines are completely unlike the battle lines in any other legislation I've seen recently. In the "pro" column, you've got Democrats and Republicans, Hollywood film industry organizations (usually ( Read more... )

This is a very interesting analysis of the media reaction to Occupy Wall Street, in terms of the classic street hustle known as Three Card Monty.

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