I think “Maps” is one of my favorite tracks ever1, so here are a few covers:
- Yes, that is hyperbole. ↩
Category: video
They don’t love you like I love you.
All I want.
If you haven’t seen the Virgin Free Fest lineup yet, you should. Tickets go up Saturday (or Friday, if you managed to get tickets last year).
And here’s the stupendously silly “Drunk Girls” video:
Via just about the whole Internet.
Linkwad and an update.
- Johannes Mehserle wrote a public letter of apology. TNC (and I) would rather not have to worry about the police.
- World War 2: Worst. War. Ever. (Via @MattYglesias)
- A solar charger that doesn’t suck.
- Double Rainbow Guy interviewed by Fast Company, of all things. Videogum has the man-boob-free highlights: “I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Last night I went to an Indian sweat and I prayed really hard about this. When I shot the video, I was not high at all, I was not having sex, and I was not hiking, as a lot of people assume. This is my land that I bought in 1988. Wait, what was the question?”
Turns out Kill Hannah is opening for the Smashing Pumpkins tonight on the “Bands I should have seen in 1996 tour.” Here’s “Kennedy.”
Updated: Apparently that AIDS breakthrough isn’t a cure after all.
Linkwad.
- Kindle = iTunes.
- Android Netflix app coming (eventually). Still seems like a better deal than Hulu+.
- Dell sold crappy computers.
- 538′s Richard Sexton1 discovers that World Cup fandom is…exactly the same as fandom anywhere else.
- Clay Shirky argues that the Web allows for “cognitive surplus,” a combination of free time and creative technology. Worth watching, even if the audio and video don’t sync and he’s wearing a shirt buttoned to the neck with no tie:
- I was just having a discussion about names you shouldn’t bestow on your progeny, and “Dick Sexton” seems like a perfect example. ↩