Great article on Five Mistakes Band & Label Sites Make. I don't really visit band or label sites very often, but when I do I'm usually pretty annoyed.
Use Flash like you would cilantro—sparingly and for a single high-impact effect. Nobody wants to eat a whole bowl of cilantro.
A Team of British scientists came up with their own list of 100 things to do before you die. I'm going to get started immediately by extracting my own DNA this evening by doing the following:
[S]pitting gargled salt water into diluted washing-up liquid and slowly dribbling ice-cold gin down the side of the glass. Spindly white clumps which form in the mixture are, basically, you.
"Spitting," eh? So that's what they call it in the UK. Sorry, I couldn't resist. [via TMN]
McRorie is the man. Set aside a few minutes to watch this amazing mulleted superstar.
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Kids who grew up with the internets are adults now. Wow, no way! You means to tells [sic] me that their knowledge is alienating their computer-illiterate parents? Actually, it is pretty cool how much technology is integrated into kids' lives these days. I thought it was cool that I went to computer camp as a kid and had an email address when I was 16. Kids will probably be born with email addresses in the not-too-distant future.
Cell phone booths are the best idea I've read about all year! [via Boing Boing]
The entire left side of my body hurts. Not like an I-just-worked-out kinda pain, but an I-fell-really-hard-while-snowboarding kind of pain. I was thinking about how old it makes me feel to hurt this bad after four hours of snowboarding. Seriously, what the fuck? This kind of pain almost isn't worth it, but I'm sure I'll justify it somehow.
I wanted to go snowboarding a couple of weeks ago when Big Bear got their first big snow of the season, but I waited a couple of weeks. I would have gone last weekend, but it was Thanksgiving and I knew it would be crowded. I went alone today, which I've done one other time after A's accident. It was pretty rough getting up at 5am. I didn't actually crawl out of bed until about 5:30am. I tossed and turned the entire night. I couldn't sleep. I think I probably got 3 hours of sleep even thought I got into bed around 11pm last night, which was also a bit on the challenging side.
Fucking parking in Venice... I lugged all my gear to my car and hit the road armed with my iPod. I realized late last night that the cassette adapter that I use to listen to my iPod in the car was broken. A was kind enough to pick one up for me. She had to stop buy to pick up her mobile phone anyway. She left me a sweet note. It felt a bit weird not to have her along. That didn't really hit me until I had gone down the mountain a few times, but it most certainly hit me.
I was so happy to be in the mountains. I wanted to just stop and look at all the snow and surrounding peaks. I did get a chance to look around when I was on the lift. It was so gorgeous. The sun was out in full force. I have a little bit of a burn on my face to prove it. There were no lines and I only had a few spills. Not bad for the first day of my second season. Hopefully I'll be going back soon. Next weekend I'll be visiting the family in Kansas. I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone and being together.
This year Brian Wilson will receive MusiCares Person Of The Year Award. It about time they honored him with this award. His music is among the most amazing and always puts a smile one my face (pun intended).
NEWS FLASH: PCs are much less secure than Macs, which are among the most secure computers in the world.
Xfm has posted the entries for their Rock School contest. October's version of "T.N.T" made me laugh pretty hard. This is hours of enteretainment, folks. Cast your vote. [via MeFi]
