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Weezer’s new video makes me happyMay 29

“Meta” jokes only delight people with obscene amounts of domain knowledge. That’s why mashups are the domain of music snobs — the more context you build around individual songs, the more excitement when they merge.

(I still can’t get embed to work in this template. I fucking hate CSS.)

This video could have been a trainwreck, a “Yeah, Rivers, I like YouTube too” moment. Instead, when Chris Crocker starts lip syncing one minute in (followed by the Numa Numa kid and Tay Zonday) the video becomes a celebration of the people involved and the “fuck yeah!” area of my brain lights up.I imagine the last scene is what ROFLCon looked like this year.

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Rivers Cuomo Rifles Through YouTube’s “Most Played” List [Ironi

From the “nobody really ever gets what they want” departmentMay 27

Image via WikipediaThe RIAA has proclaimed victory over Russian MP3 service AllOfMP3.com, declaring that the site is “defunct and out of business,” while turning a blind eye to MP3Sparks.com, the parallel service that sprung up days after Russian authorities were forced to shut down AllOfMP3.

Is this win/win or lose/lose?

The RIAA shut down one popular service and a dozen others sprouted in its place.
The site continues doing business, although in a neutered fashion – most US services won’t submit payments to the site.
Consumer still get cheap MP3s, but it’s a pain without the wonderful AllOfMP3 downloading app.

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US Tells Russia To Change Laws So It Can Say Allofmp3 Was Always Illegal [via Zemanta]

It’s time for Apple to kill off YahooMay 24

Inquistr writes that FriendFeed is new hotness and Twitter is old and busted (Remember that meme? It came out right after “where’s the beef?”) and as a result, the former should bust a cap in the latter.

In honor of this great non sequitur, I offer some additional strategy suggestions:

Pixar should kill AT&T
Grand Theft Auto 4 should kill Internet Explorer
Al Gore should kill the music industry
The “hang in there” kitten should kill NASA
Frozen Yogurt should kill the war in Iraq

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What Todd said…March 25

Source: WikipediaTodd noted today that he tends to post less frequently when he’s doing the more interesting things.

It seems to me that the really great bloggers (and successful self-promoters) do the opposite of this interest to post inversion pattern. The more interesting things are in their lives, the more these people take the time to share their excitement and good fortune with others.

Wise words from the big man. Otherwise, you end up with posts like this one. Sadly, I don’t see my behavior changing any time soon, as I’m addicted to work and have more highly prioritized spending time with Jen and the kids, seeing shows, learning the bass, dieting and getting into shape. Might I suggest following my Twitter feed?

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Andy Baio is full of FAILMarch 20

Dude, this whole thing was started by LOLcats! It’s like lamenting that the phrase “time to make the doughnuts” trivializes the importance of work. Welcome to the elastic language, amigo.

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