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Monster - Kanye West, Jay-Z feat. Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, Bon Iver. 

Everyone’s reblogging this as an mp3 download w/ lots of malware links, but here it is as straight Tumblr audio.

[via Steve, originally from azizisbored]

Real Life Super Heroes

GOOD Magazine has a slideshow of photos from the Real Life Superheroes project, which documents people who don superhero costumes and masks and perform community service work all over the country, including New York, Atlanta, Minnesota, Florida, Utah and Arizona, and Washington, D.C. It’s cosplay meets Americorps. 

Only the Paranoid Survive.

I’ve heard and appreciated this saying, credited to Andy Grove, of course, but never read his book of the same name. The book preface, here online, is a worthy and quick read. Here’s how it begins:

“Sooner or later, something fundamental in your business world will change.”

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cigar box guitar HEY THERE, MAGGIE (via H0LL0WBELLY)

I don’t know much about cigar box guitars, though I got my first look at one Mark Frauenfelder had made a little while back. But this video is awesome.

jakeandamir: Jake’s Twitter

In the face of Islamophobia

seanbonner:

Here’s a little editorial I whipped up for Al Jazeera.

Must-read of the day. 

zadi:

Okay, I promise I won’t post any more of these… but for some reason, I. can’t. stop. laughing. :D

(And I am sorry for those of you who aren’t used to such profanity on my blog. Blame it on Twitty.) ;)

That is too, too funny. But I don’t know if anything beats this one.

Jenny Holzer, Box for Standing

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lonelysandwich:

seoulbrother:

incorrigiblerobot:

sloganeerist:

Plus, additional friends!

Like Bernadette Peters. Steve Lawrence. Michael J. Fox. Yakoff Smirnoff. Jay Thomas. Martin Van Buren. Shoeless Joe Jackson. Tom Waits. Jaromir Jagr. Erin Moran. Nelson Mandela. Orson Welles. Jerry Lewis. Avery Schreiber. Boog Powell. Madonna. Bernie Goetz & the Bernie Goetz Dancers. Vic Tayback. And Tony Shaloub.

James Caan. Telly Savalas. Burl Ives. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Before the Wheelchair. L.C. Greenwood. Rip Taylor. Anson Williams. Kool & The Gang. Albert Camus. Father Guido Sarducci. Ed Marinaro. Funk from Funk & Wagnall. Wagnall. Larry Bird. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. C3PO. Ghandi. And Mel Tillis.

Dylan McDermott. Harry Reasoner. The Beatles. Mary Lou Retton. Michael York. H.G. Wells. Festus. Edgar Bergen. Arnold Palmer. Twiki. Joyce DeWitt. Eric Bogosian. Charro. George McGovern. Danny Wuerffel. Jeff Conaway. Sir Edmund Hillary. Gays. The Louisiana Purchase. And Tonto.

Alan King. Tina Yothers…

The Captain and Tennille. Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. Foster Brooks. Jefferson Davis. Ken Burns and the Ken Burns Effect. The Waitresses. Eli Whitney and His Miraculous Cotton Gin. The Unknown Comic. Dorian Gray. Rich Little. May West. Lunchables. Colonel Mustard. And Elmo.

Ted Danson. Rodan. Bruce Wayne. The Unbearable Lightness of Being. John Larroquette. Melba Toast. Rickey Henderson. The Baja Boys. Ted Turner. Fred Flintstone. Alan Funt. Satan. Elizabeth Montgomery. Long Duc Dong. Kelsey Grammar. And Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Phil Collins. Elliot Ness. Dora the Explorer…

Kai Ryssdal, Sammy Davis, Jr., Jon Cryer, Mark Hamill, Paul Lynde, Lonnie Anderson, Scott Baio, Shields and Yarnell, Eric Estrada, Julius “Dr. J.” Erving, Charro again, Modesky, Martin and Wood, David Copperfield, Solomon Grundy, Kansas, Ronald Reagan, Bill Brasky, Harry Belefonte, A brand new COLOR TV, Soupy Sales, Nipsey Russell. And Liu Kang.

Glenn Campbell, Evel Knievel, Cal Worthington and his dog Spot, Ivar, Tex Winter, Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Nellie Bly, O.J. Simpson, Bo Derek, Mario Lopez, Crystal Carrington, That cute black kid, Florence Henderson, Willie Tyler and Lester, Elmore Leonard or is it Leonard Elmore, Lynn Swan, Pete Cashmore, a young Susan Sarandon, a hot Kathleen Turner, a burnt out Shelly Winters, Burt Reynolds, Annie Oakley. And Gil Gerrard.

Tammy Wynette. Cindy Williams. Heathcliff Huxtable and Kenny (Bud). Christy McNichol. Robin Hood Prince of Men. Burl Ives. Merl Bives. Blurf Pives and Mr. Shantypanty. Alice from the Brady Bunch with Her Hair Down. Sam the Butcher with a Hard-on. Hamlet Prince of Thieves and his Pal Nugat. The Korean War. Wayne Newton. Andre the Giant (deceased). Jean-Paul Belmondo. Jean-Jacque Blieubeaublieux. And Gordon from Sesame Street with a Hard-on.

Jack Black. Mike White. Jim Brown. Timmy Purple. Wilson Phillips and the Fat One. Mackenzie Phillips and Baggage. A squirrel. Lady Diana. David Duke and the Racial Tension. Tenzin Gyatso (né Peter Fonda). Daryl Hannah and her Tree Band. D.A.R.Y.L. the Robot Boy Who Could Play Pole Position Real Good. Jon Landis. Martin Landau. Knots Landing. Knott’s Berry Farm. Berry Gordy. Marion Berry and the Marionberries with Special Appearance By Crack. Tiffany Brissette. Edie McClurg. Clurg McBlurg. And Burl Ives.

and now also with: K.I.T.T.! Jimmy Stewart, telling a sad poem about his dog. Emmett Otter and his Jug Band! Peter Sarsgaard. Iron Eyes Cody, the “Crying Indian” from that sad PSA. Snake Plissken. RoboCop! T.S. Eliot. Lorne Greene. Sharon Tate’s vengeful ghost! Roseanne Roseannadanna. Sha Na Na. Ming the Merciless! Herbie. Cherry Chan candies, with their 70’s racist packaging. Jane Fonda. The entire cast of the Laff-A-Lympics. Yoko Ono! Liev Schreiber. Commodore 64. And a special appearance by Patty Hearst.

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sashafrerejones:

Wayne Marshall, Vijay Iyer and M.I.A., “Galangs,” 2010.

I get crabby about mashups. You laid a rap vocal over Beach House? OK. That’s what djs do. Maybe it’s good. Maybe it’s great. But if there’s something different about this whole combining deal that someone called “the mashup,” it’s the reckoning with the song itself and all the very tricky bits that have to interlock. “Stroke of Genius” is two songs making one, keys and changes and words and moods all lining up. It’s musical and it’s hard and people don’t do it right much. The blends thing is a billion years old and fun but tends to spit out the same kind of material because it’s so easy now with the computerz. Straining and struggling tends to make you work it out and think it out.

Wayne killed it with this one. I am happy to say the word “musical.” I also love “no musics.” But this is the musics.

[via hypem]