Archive for March, 2006
According to an International Herald Tribune article reprinted by the New York Times, Neil Aspinall, managing director of Apple Corps, rejected an offer from Mr. Jobs in 2003, in which the Apple Computer chief executive had sought to buy the rights to the Apple Records name for $1 million. Who is Apple Records? It is [ READ MORE ]
i’m seeing dirty rotten scoundrels tonight. i don’t think i’ll be able to post a review tonight, but one should be coming either tomorrow or friday. congratulations to rr on leaving the ranks of the unemployed. da lousy bum. i have to say… i hate when my mom comes to town. i put on so [ READ MORE ]
Gilles Trehin is an autistic 28-year-old. Since the age of 12, he has been designing an imaginary city called Urville. He has created detailed historical, geographical, cultural, and economic descriptions of the city, as well as an absolutely extraordinary set of drawings. read more | digg story[ READ MORE ]
(posted from a 27 mar 2006 times of london article) IT IS the ultimate battle of the generations over an image of a half-eaten piece of fruit. In one corner Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, the ultimate stars of vinyl who defined music in the 1960s. In the other, the creators of a small [ READ MORE ]
Steve Jobs has sold 10 million shares, representing about 1.2 percent of Apple’s 849 million shares, according to its latest quarterly report. Now, he is down to a stake of about 0.6 percent. read more | digg story[ READ MORE ]
today’s phrase that pays: “thrown under the bus” as in “look, i’m not looking to throw anyone under the bus, but that dumbass really screwed up the file.” basically, its not as bad as finking. more like a reticent ratting-out. i’m trying to find out senor decibel’s the Bus’ official definition note: the Bus of [ READ MORE ]
(from fri 24 mar 2006) dumb questions of the day: is london, england in great britain? where is the union square station on the irt? the answer to question 1: no, london, england is not in great britain. it is in the united kingdom. the answer to question 2: the union square station on the [ READ MORE ]
just did an alexa search. this site is the 3,312,745th most visited site. yeah baby! climbing the rankings. woot[ READ MORE ]
i saw “the threepenny opera” on saturday night. although there was a crew of moronic goth-punks posing one row up, the audience was not bad. to be fair, i’ve never seen the threepenny opera and am not familiar with the story at all. this was my first exposure to the play. of all the cast, [ READ MORE ]
it’s hard to post when family is in town. nevertheless, i’m going to post a review of threepenny later in the day[ READ MORE ]
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