June 2011
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Edible, Playable Chocolate Record →
Ben Milne, a baker in Fife, UK, is a big fan of the band Found. So to mark the release of its newest single, he decided to make a record of the song out of chocolate. After several failed attempts, Milne used a copy of the mold used to make a vinyl record and pressed it into a sheet of chocolate. The result, as you can see at the video at the link, is both functional as a musical recording...
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Air Adam Podcast Episode 25 : Onwards & Upwards →
“Days come and go, but…”
- Jane Child
Follow the link to http://podcast.airadam.com for the download link, and full show notes!
Second birthday for the podcast! Nice little back catalogue building up now :o) To celebrate the occasion, here’s another show crafted to caress your eardrums - I’ve got some old classics, unrecognised gems, and just a little new heat...
Japanese pop star turns out to be computer... →
A member of a top Japanese pop group was not actually a real human being, it has been revealed. Eguchi Aimi was supposed to be the newest member of all-girl group AKB48, but she was actually a composite of six of her bandmates. A video has been released showing how the girls’ features were blended together for the rather convincing publicity stunt…
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Best Ever Sports Talk: The Difference Between... →
“Champions project a message to their opponents that induces fear and resignation. Opponents of former world chess champion Bobby Fischer used to call it “Fischer Fear.” They used to say that they could feel his manic energy, his fierce will to win, across the chessboard. Michael Jordan’s opponents used to feel a similar thing, as did Kasparov’s and as do...
“One of my responsibilities as Commander in Chief is to keep an eye on robots....”
– President Obama talking to the National Robotics Engineering Center at Carnegie Mellon. (via juliasegal)
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“You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path...”
– Mikhail Tal
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“I now overstand the look. It’s now how you stare at someone, but what...”
– Sanyika Shakur
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“It’s amazing what can be hidden behind a smile.”
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“How you call yourself a DJ and can’t scratch? That’s like a...”
– Saigon
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“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use...”
– Harvey MacKay
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Braylon Edwards pays for 100 students to attend... →
Let me post this positive story up and hope it gets some views - I’m sure if this man had got into a fight outside a nightclub it would have been heavily reported…
Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards is a man of his word. And because he is, 100 students are going to college on his dime.
In 2007, Edwards promised 100 Cleveland high school students that he would pay for their...
I really, really shouldn’t be awake right now - being really tired but unable to sleep is a bad combination…
Tumblr people, feel free to send me some asks!
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“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a...”
– Tupac Shakur, who would have been 40 today.
Shout out to J for posting this first!
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SouthernRam: WTF News of the Day: Longtime Suspect... →
reesesearcandy:
southernram:
via (Nah Right):
Dexter Isaac, a longtime suspect in the 1994 shooting and robbery of Tupac at Quad Studios, has confessed to the crime. Not only that, but he says Jimmy Henchmen paid him $2500 to do the robbery, and he says he still has the chain he took from Tupac as proof. Isaacs,…
WHAT?!
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DJ Quik: Trials and Tribulations of a West Coast... →
David Blake is the name. Quik is the legend. Job is the parable.
Choose your cycle: the bloodbath of crack-era Compton, the warfare with siblings and rap rivals, the accidental tragedies and closed-casket funerals, the vodka bottles and the label squabbles, the traumas witnessed and the reverberations absorbed.
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Pete Rock Tells All: The Stories Behind His... →
On the cusp of his latest release Monumental with fellow New York legends Smif N’ Wessun (due June 28th), we chopped it up with the Chocolate Boy Wonder and got the stories behind his greatest records. From the tears shed after hearing “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)” mixed for the first time, to Jam Master Jay showing up at his mother’s house unannounced to work on beats, to watching...
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I can’t see what people are looking to gain with the obviously fake Tumblr accounts (the ones with a weird name, a single pic of an attractive woman and no other content) that “like” random posts on your feed. What am I not picking up on?
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Detroit's women rappers: 'It's time for us to take... →
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Stealing a Nation, a Special Report by John Pilger →
56-minute John Pilger documentary on the outright theft of the Chagos Islands (notably, Diego Garcia) by the British government in order that the US could build an enormous military base there. The indigenous population of these islands was brutalised and then exiled - dumped in Mauritius and forbidden to return.
Post-script : in 2010 a final dirty trick was cynically used to prevent the...
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“The Attorney-General’s kind remarks are noted and appreciated. I’ve spoken to Ed...”
– The Wire creator David Simon, in an e-mail to the Times of London responding to Attorney General Eric Holder demand for an additional season of the acclaimed HBO series.
[digitalspy / thanks adam!] (via thedailywhat)
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I want to see the Heat take the title, but if the Mavericks win it’s well deserved - I just can’t believe how they’re shooting.
Bad choice on that 3pt attempt LeBron.
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“Being the bigger man is overrated.”
– Huey Riley
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Unreality - The Most Badass Alphabet Ever →
These are amazing…follow the link for the whole alphabet.
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