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Craig Ferguson explains the Jonas Brothers.

everichon — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:06:39 -0800

Craig Ferguson explains the Jonas Brothers. For those who don't want to watch the 3 minute video, it's Craig Ferguson explaining how the advertising industry made youthfulness and inexperience more desirable than experience and maturity. With an entertainingly Scottish accent. He slags facial piercing and hair dyeing in passing, and the network uses a cute "bleep" sound to prevent us from hearing the word "fucking".

getting down, all over town

heeeraldo — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:10:27 -0800

100 days. 100 places. 100 dances.

there's simply not enough cyanide

Potomac Avenue — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:23:05 -0800

Easy access to the internet and simplified technology for recording songs and videos might do great things for the future of pop music. Or it might be like this. Terrified responses abound. bonus reply from "PhatJ", possible musician Happily Brokencyde isn't the only product of the genre bending, often tongue-in-cheek mashup genre of Electrascreemorap. I Set My Friends On Fire might be a viable antidote, unless the poison has already spread too far !

Don't forget to do your play time.

Telf — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:14:35 -0800

A recent LA Times Piece bemoans the lack of freedom today's children enjoy. Given the rise of such articles, is this a shared consensus? Judging by the reaction's to Lenore Skenazy's child rearing practices, maybe not. The explosive popularity of The Dangerous Books for boys suggests there is a real movement to get kids outside. The New York Times and Reason magazine aren't so impressed. The American Enterprise Institute and Rush Limbaugh seem to think it's a Boy/Girl problem. Gever Tulley (TED talk video) of The Tinkering School thinks a little bit of danger is good; he lets kids play with power tools. (Youtube Videos) Previously on mefi: Those mud pies were actually good for you. Free Range Kids Go Play Outside! The Myth of the Media Myth: Games and Non-Gamers "We're not supposed to get more than one injury a day. I usually get three or four."

about:mozilla

ardgedee — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:29:21 -0800

Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation! It was 1994, and the World Wide Web as we know it today was about to be born. Mosaic Communications didn't invent the web and didn't even invent the graphical browser. The Netscape browser and Netscape server were instrumental in commercializing the internet. mcom.com was one of the standard starting points for anybody on the Web, and this little slice of history can help the young'uns understand what the Web used to be like. Reconstructed from archived files for your benefit by one jwz, a task epic in the telling.

CES Credentials-B-Gone

bicyclefish — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:09:31 -0800

Juvenile? Awesome? Awesomely juvenile? The kids of Gizmodo bring some TV-B-Gones to the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. This is what happened. Given the general atmosphere of electronic saturnalia that pervades CES, the stunt is faintly satisfying as a piece of agitprop (or, shall we say, shit-disturbing). It's just insanely unprofessional... depending, of course, on what you consider the Gizmodo writers' profession to be.

Less Lawn, Better World

taursir — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:59:53 -0800

Here are some ways to shrink your unnatural water- and gas-guzzling lawn and plant something that is beautiful and requires no water usage, no mowing, and is more likely to attract more interesting wildlife. With this much lawn in the U.S., and incessant water shortages, and other water issues and wars in our present and looming in the future, why not go native? Naturally, there are objections, since local ordinances often don't allow for natural prairie lawns, and the neighborhood stick-up-butt committees are quick to remove things they consider eyesores. What is your lawn worth to you?

Bob Dylan Is 66 Years Old Today

y2karl — Thu, 24 May 2007 08:05:48 -0800

...Rembrandt's last self-portrait, for instance, shows an old man having a good laugh at the ways of the world, even as he is about to leave the stage. The Western world may be ageing, then, but, far from this amounting to a 'dying of the light', a case can be made for the very opposite, certainly where Bob Dylan's renaissance as an artist is concerned. Neither should age be confounded with a heavier tread. For while a perception and characterisation of the surreal nature of much of human life was a defining quality of Bob Dylan's first golden creative period in the 1960s, it's also a delightful characteristic of his artistic renaissance in the 'noughties' of the new millennium.

Bob Dylan and the ageing of the West
In other news, May 24th is International Talk Like Bob Dylan Day

Of course, he was 23 in 1965, the year when he recorded Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde, but, gosh darn it, he's still writing songs and touring and he still isn't dead yet..."

Proving the old adage about opinions

Horace Rumpole — Mon, 21 May 2007 08:57:58 -0800

"Not everybody's a critic." Richard Schickel bitchslaps the blogosphere (in response to this) and not for the first time. The blogosphere slaps back. (via)

Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll

y2karl — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:45:15 -0800

Kids today. They have no sense of shame. They have no sense of privacy. They are show-offs, fame whores, pornographic little loons who post their diaries, their phone numbers, their stupid poetry—for God’s sake, their dirty photos!—online. They have virtual friends instead of real ones. They talk in illiterate instant messages. They are interested only in attention—and yet they have zero attention span, flitting like hummingbirds from one virtual stage to another.

So goes the common wisdom but things in fact are more complex.
Say Everything

Potty training time for pundit

troutfishing — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:33:42 -0800

Don't they teach these kids anything in school ? History ? Punctuation ? And what's that smell ? - Conservative Adam Yoshida steps in it, inadvertently calls for reversal of 1965 Civil Rights bill, arguing for the disenfranchisement of 20% of the voting public through the reinstitution of poll tests (outlawed in 1965). Plus, his punctuation is awful ! : " we should consider maintaining (or even increasing) their benefits while, at the exact same time, making it harder for them to vote (I recommend modern and simple literacy tests for this purpose.

From my extensive time spent examining present and future members of our underclass, I'mquite convinced that a series of simple language and math questions would be enough to discourage them from voting). "