links for 2005-08-18
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The average American needs 3 vacation days before feeling relaxed.
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The two-part film, directed by Martin Scorsese, focuses on Dylan’s life and music from 1961-66 and includes never-seen footage from the Bob Dylan Archives and interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and other artists and musicians.
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"Iran may be 10 years from the bomb, but based on these games it will be twice that long before there's an Islamic Halo 2."
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"Lookout is not part of the RIAA. To get gold or platinum records certified you have to report to them and Lookout has done that but that does not mean we are associated with them in any way otherwise."
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Skulls, ghosts, and scary faces drawn in latte foam.
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The key to fake being a "Super Blogger" is apparently to "spend 80% of time being negative about certain areas of culture and 15% excessively positive. The last 5% should be used for self-loathing because the blogger likes certain 'un-hip' culture."
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On training Chinese writers to ghost write for uber-hip webloggers or, as they call them, "Super Bloggers (bipolars, cynics, liberals, outcasts, super-hip)." Guidelines: John Mayer and Coldpay: bad. Gwen Stefani and the Kleptones: Good.
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Flickr's Interestingness lists are getting pretty repetitive and "dominated by the aesthetics we know from amateur contests." "I am getting tired of seeing the same face/turtle/fruit/city under water jumping in my face on every single page."
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