links for 2005-01-06

• Picturing Business in America
  "First invented in 1979, The Wall Street Journal’s distinctive portrait heads, known as “hedcuts” or “dot-drawings” have attained the status of an American icon, readily identifiable with one of the country’s best-known business publications."
  (categories: illustration wallstreetjournal)
• Alphabet City - Out on the Streets, by Michael De Feo, Gingko Press
  A children's alphabet book illustrated with De Feo's art on the streets of New York City.
  (categories: streetart children alphabet art photography graffiti)
• The Morning News - The Letters of Gary Benchley, Rock Star: Among the Horses
  "In August, 2003 we received a letter from a young man moving to New York City, offering to write us a column about his struggle to become a rock star. For some reason, we took him up on it." I keep wondering who this guy really is.
  (categories: indierock columns essays humor themorningnews garybenchley)
• Izzle! Izzle pfaff! on New Year's Resolutions.
  Hmm, hipster? Waiting for the next Ted Leo show? Surely Skot is not poking fun at me....I don't even watch CSI.
  (categories: funny humor izzlepfaff dammitskot)
• John Vanderslice and Sheryl Crow singing their lost classic, "They Won't Let Me Make You Happy."
  Presented by Daniel Cohen. This mashup truly boggles the mind.
  (categories: mashups mp3s indierock whatthefuck sherylcrow johnvanderslice jv)
• Six Log: Six Apart Acquires LiveJournal
  "So, yes, the rumors were true. Six Apart did indeed acquire LiveJournal."
  (categories: sixapart movabletype livejournal weblogging weblogs lj)

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01.06.05

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