Your friend from high school, now on Twitter. Funnier than it has a right to be.

His best work was with the E Street Band, of course; I listened to Born to Run on the way to a family reunion today with tears in my eyes. But he also worked with artists from Aretha Franklin to Lady GaGa. Here's something from a solo album, done with Jackson Browne:

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Update: crisis averted! (h/t spyderqueen )

So: "Weird Al" Yankovic wanted to cover Lady GaGa's "Born This Way" for his next album. He sent her people his lyrics; they wanted to hear him performing the song itself. He went into the studio, recorded the song, sent it to them... and they rejected it.

So he posted it on YouTube anyway.

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Here's his blog post where ( Read more... )

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It's always good to see young people making the right choices early in life.

Classic albums reimagined as book covers--everything from the plain and the abstract to lurid pulp and horror.  I especially like those from D.R. Jones and P. Rogers Nelson. 

...I have a Dreamwidth code if anyone wants/needs one.

 Sooo.... Gilbert Gottfried tweeted some tasteless jokes about Japan ("I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, 'There'll be another one floating by any minute now'”). Gottfried has been the voice of the Aflac duck for about a decade. Aflac does 75% of its business in Japan. Guess what happened next. 

Update: Mission accomplished, and then some.

Reposted from paulpogue :

Calling out the nerds for a good cause
Some of you know me, some don’t. My name’s Paul Pogue, Indianapolis, Indiana, lifelong nerd, father to three-year-old cancer survivor Armand Zefram Pogue.

A couple of years ago, Armand was diagnosed with just about the worst case of cancer imaginable ( Read more... )

Think that the Gawker blogs' new look sucks like an Electrolux? Alarmed at the catastrophic plunge in page views? Worried that they might start to drop off like flies?

There's an easy fix for a return to the old look: simply paste "ca." in front of the URL. For example:

io9.com

becomes

ca.io9.com

Until they either come to their senses or decide to ruin ( Read more... )

Britain has severely cut funding for libraries, and a number of people have rallied to support restoration of that funding. Including an authentic sorcerer from Northampton:

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Not sure who his friend is. [/joke]