November 2009
35 posts
Denmark approves new police powers ahead of... →
Controversial legislation gives police sweeping powers of ‘pre-emptive’ arrest and extends custodial sentences for acts of civil disobedience. Det ser ud til at vi har et par spændende uger foran os.
Last.fm interview: Behind the music →
Lidt nøgletal fra artiklen “During peak hours, we get more than 800 scrobbles per second which translates to about 43 million scrobbles per day. Since 2003, which is when we invented scrobbling, we’ve broken 35 billion scrobbles. That translates to about 275,000 years of scrobbled music.”
Lloyd Cole’s Music Videos at Last.fm →
Masser af videoer fra Lloyd Coles solokarriere. Uha, 90’erne var på mange måder en grim tid.
Eid al-Adha and the Hajj, 2009 - The Big Picture →
Billederne fra Mecca under Hajj er for vilde.
Frygt for statsbankerot i Dubai →
Dubai er i enorme økonomiske problemer forårsaget af finanskrisen og et hysterisk byggeboom. Av av av.
World Cup TV coverage banned by Kim Jong-il... →
Kim Jong-il har fat i den lange ende.
Fair Play? A Million Spotify Streams Earned Lady... →
How much money do artists really make from Spotify? According to Swedish paper Expressen, 2009’s standout breakthrough artist Lady Gaga and her songwriter Redone made just SEK1150 (£100.76; $166.56) in songwriting royalties from one million Spotify plays of her hit Poker Face in Sweden in the first five months after Spotify’s launch in October 2008. Av!
Neil Young Covers The Fresh Prince Theme. Det kører ganske fornuftigt for Jimmy Fallon her.
Bioshock Aquarium Photoshoot →
Fantastisk ide og forrygende udført.
Friendly Reminder: Top 20 of '00s @ Interesting... →
Deadline for lister er på søndag den 29. november. Her er lidt inspiration fra frekvens.dk.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22) →
The Avett Brothers (65)
Owl City (19)
Monsters of Folk (17)
The Swell Season (15)
The Long Winters (14)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Nye lavprisruter til New York og Bangkok →
Way to go Norwegian. På tide vi får lidt mere konkurrence på New York afgangen.
Wired Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s... →
Wired skribent prøver at gå off-the-grid med Wireds læsere i hælene.
US unemployment rates by county Jan 2007-Sep 2009. →
Scary, scary stuff
Employee Manuals...Probably →
Sometimes the employees of a company are so consistent in the way they perform a certain task, it seems that’s how they must have been trained. Here, without naming names, are these companies’ employee manuals…probably. Det her må være Postdanmark.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15) →
Elliott Smith (17)
Spoon (11)
Frightened Rabbit (6)
The Decemberists (5)
Nada Surf (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis with Andy Richter and Conan O’Brien
The 100 Best Films of the Decade →
Times Online lister deres yndlingsfilm fra de seneste 10 år.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8) →
Morrissey (33)
Julian Casablancas (21)
Kathy Griffin (17)
Wilco (15)
The Avett Brothers (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later - The Berlin Wall... →
Endnu en fantastisk interaktiv feature fra NY Times.
Largehearted Boy: Best of the Decade (2000-2009)... →
Masser af inspiration samlet på et sted.
The Gurus of Gold →
Så begynder Oscar forudsigelserne. Up in the Air er favorit til bedste film indtil videre.
The great American documentary →
Roger Ebert om Hoop Dreams, der har 15 års jubilæum i år.
Trailer - James Cameron's Avatar →
Inspiration til lister over årtiets bedste plader
Paste Magazines Top 50, Uncuts Top 20, Pitchforks Top 200.
Apple launches Music Movies on iTunes →
Når de får Peter Gabriels P.O.V, får de også mig som kunde.
Top 20 of '00s @ Interesting Stuff
Vi kommer ikke udenom at lave Top lister for 00’erne på Interesting Stuff. Top 50 (som John og jeg allerede har lavet til Frekvens) er sikkert lige ambitiøst nok. Lad os i stedet gå efter Top 20 fra årene 2000-2009. Hvis du har lyst til at være med, skal du sende din liste til mig senest søndag den 29. november. For at gøre det lettere at håndtere sammentællingen ville det være fint, hvis I...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-1) →
Tegan and Sara (63)
Echo & The Bunnymen (40)
Spoon (29)
R.E.M. (24)
Owl City (23)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Illegal downloaders 'spend the most on music',... →
People who illegally download music from the internet also spend more money on music than anyone else, according to a new study. The survey, published today, found that those who admit illegally downloading music spent an average of £77 a year on music – £33 more than those who claim that they never download music dishonestly