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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #555 on: July 17, 2009, 09:00:34 PM »
Quote from: Tinka_Cat on July 17, 2009, 12:54:39 PM
By the same guy who does Funky16Corners, this music blog one is more pop-oriented:

http://ironleg.wordpress.com

he does podcasts, too:
http://ironleg.wordpress.com/iron-leg-digital-trip-podcast-archive/

straight from vinyl it seems, lots of hiss and crax



Where do guys like him find the time?!?
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #556 on: July 17, 2009, 09:46:35 PM »
Quote from: Gazoo on July 17, 2009, 09:00:34 PM
Quote from: Tinka_Cat on July 17, 2009, 12:54:39 PM
By the same guy who does Funky16Corners, this music blog one is more pop-oriented:

http://ironleg.wordpress.com

he does podcasts, too:
http://ironleg.wordpress.com/iron-leg-digital-trip-podcast-archive/

straight from vinyl it seems, lots of hiss and crax

Where do guys like him find the time?!?

by avoiding chat groups like this...?  ;)
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #557 on: August 21, 2009, 06:06:45 AM »
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #558 on: August 27, 2009, 09:01:00 AM »
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #559 on: September 10, 2009, 12:47:41 PM »
A friend tried to turn me on to this blog the other day:

http://my-retrospace.blogspot.com/

and I'm all for cheezy '70s/'80s goodness, lawd knows. But any guy who hates "When Smokey Sings" (!?!) isn't getting any points from me. And I found an error on his very first post -- he's making a list of "songs about famous people" ("Amadeus" and so forth) and specifically says he's excluding songs about people who are in the band that does the song, or their wives & girlfriends -- and the first song on his list is... "Rosanna" by Toto. "It's about Rosanna Arquette" he reveals, as if we didn't know, and so I instantly informed him that she was Steve Porcaro's girlfriend when he wrote the song. Dumbass.
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #560 on: September 11, 2009, 03:12:43 AM »
Quote from: RGMike on September 10, 2009, 12:47:41 PM
A friend tried to turn me on to this blog the other day:

http://my-retrospace.blogspot.com/

and I'm all for cheezy '70s/'80s goodness, lawd knows. But any guy who hates "When Smokey Sings" (!?!) isn't getting any points from me. And I found an error on his very first post -- he's making a list of "songs about famous people" ("Amadeus" and so forth) and specifically says he's excluding songs about people who are in the band that does the song, or their wives & girlfriends -- and the first song on his list is... "Rosanna" by Toto. "It's about Rosanna Arquette" he reveals, as if we didn't know, and so I instantly informed him that she was Steve Porcaro's girlfriend when he wrote the song. Dumbass.

But then there's this: http://www.toto99.com/blog/ency.php?/archives/393-ROSANNA.html

ETA: And this: http://www.toto99.com/blog/ency.php?/archives/267-ARQUETTE,-ROSANNA.html

Back to square one. :)
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #561 on: September 11, 2009, 07:28:08 AM »
Quote from: princessofcairo on September 11, 2009, 03:12:43 AM
Quote from: RGMike on September 10, 2009, 12:47:41 PM
A friend tried to turn me on to this blog the other day:

http://my-retrospace.blogspot.com/

and I'm all for cheezy '70s/'80s goodness, lawd knows. But any guy who hates "When Smokey Sings" (!?!) isn't getting any points from me. And I found an error on his very first post -- he's making a list of "songs about famous people" ("Amadeus" and so forth) and specifically says he's excluding songs about people who are in the band that does the song, or their wives & girlfriends -- and the first song on his list is... "Rosanna" by Toto. "It's about Rosanna Arquette" he reveals, as if we didn't know, and so I instantly informed him that she was Steve Porcaro's girlfriend when he wrote the song. Dumbass.

But then there's this: http://www.toto99.com/blog/ency.php?/archives/393-ROSANNA.html

ETA: And this: http://www.toto99.com/blog/ency.php?/archives/267-ARQUETTE,-ROSANNA.html

Back to square one. :)

Damn that Wikipedia!!
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #562 on: December 14, 2009, 10:00:44 AM »
well, maybe this is cool *and* funny. For the Deadhead on your Xmas list...

http://gratefuldeadopoly.com/
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #563 on: December 28, 2009, 04:58:04 PM »
Ever find yourself pining for the fjords of Norway?  Now you can take the train from Bergen to Oslo (and see a couple of fjords along the way) without leaving your chair.  The whole thing is several hours long, but even the 9-minute clip (scroll down a little) is pretty cool.

http://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/18/bergensbanen-eng/
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« Reply #564 on: January 15, 2010, 01:24:24 PM »
"Cool" is not exactly the term I'd use for this, but it is pretty interesting. NYTimes web team put together this app that overlays before and after pics from Port-au-Prince with focus on major landmarks--grab and pull the slider back and forth to see satellite pics of before and after combined in one. The technology is cool, the subject is horrifying.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/14/world/20100114-haiti-imagery.html
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #565 on: January 15, 2010, 06:39:26 PM »
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #566 on: January 18, 2010, 02:40:42 PM »
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #567 on: January 18, 2010, 07:14:35 PM »
If you like puppies, you can keep track of some Shiba Inu's born two days ago.

http://www.ustream.tv/SFShiba
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #568 on: January 26, 2010, 02:25:28 PM »
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Re: Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet
« Reply #569 on: January 26, 2010, 03:43:11 PM »
Quote from: mshray on January 26, 2010, 02:25:28 PM
This is really cool.

http://forgetomori.com/2009/science/folding-the-yoshimoto-cube-feeding-5000/

The transformation of two stellated rhombic dodecahedrons from a cube...
...now THAT'S what I'm talking about!  (high-five!)
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