Funny:
A CHEEKY footie fan got one over his arch rivals by paving his team’s nickname outside their stadium.
The Birmingham City supporter spelt “Blues” in dark-coloured bricks at Wolverhampton Wanderers’ ground.
via FARK
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November 21st
Subliminal Footie
November 20th
Sunset Park Brooklyn Street Gangs 1970’s-1980’s
Record Shopping / Changed Times
Check out this archived Times article: The Pop Life, NY Times, August 29, 1996 How many of these places are still open here in NYC? With the changes in the industry, and dated quotes like this, makes me wonder: People who live outside New York City can order records by letter or telephone from all of these shops except Adult Crash, which is working to remedy the situation.
By letter? This article pre-dates mainstream email use, and predates mainstream mp3 use. Cursory examination reveals that the following shops are still in business. This is true about most of the survivors (and probably the reason why). Their employees are usually familiar with all the merchandise and willing to play records, make recommendations and order music they don’t carry.
Jammyland Kinokuniya Other Music They ensured their future by making the hop to digital mp3 sales on their website. JS-909
This is a pretty cool thing. Yes, 808-style sequencers/machines are a dime a dozen. Probably like $.02 a dozen. But most are developed in Flash. Some use a bit of javascript, but mp3s or Flash for the sounds. Raw audio data. This one, all javascript, and to boot, doesn’t use libraries like Prototype, or jQuery. November 19th
Data Visualization
I’ve been hopping around researching data visualization methods, techniques, etc. and came across this great article: Cotton Picking Correlates to President Picking The more red a county is, the stronger the support for John McCain and similar for Barack Obama and blue. Below is cotton production in 1860. Each dot represent 2,000 bales. That’s some strong correlation.
Cotton Picking Correlates to President Picking Updated: My pal Lionel showed me this. I guess it’s all beating a dead horse, the dead horse of the racist south, but why not visualize it: The Racist Vote November 11th
Obama Used Conversion Rate Optimization to Win
Reasonably interesting assessment. They really nailed the web component of the campaign, obviously. But in this case, I wonder if the inverse control is true - they used the donation screen to decide what their victory shirt design would be. Obama Used Conversion Rate Optimization to Win via LinkedIn Lead Gen Group
November 10th
JCVD
Originally I thought this poster was a Springsteen documentary, but in fact it’s for a very cool looking “comeback” movie for Jean Claude Van Damme. Good stuff. Looks fun. I’ll definitely make an effort to see it. November 6th
Political post 3/3 - One Way Escape Tickets for Republicans
I put this together yesterday. Give the GOPsters a bit CHANGE.
Political post 2/3 - Obama-ball
Political post 1/3 - Obama in Photos
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