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The Knightly Order of the Brothers Gibb wishes you a Happy Birthday.
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Pricing:
Just Wi-Fi:
16GB - $499
32GB - $599
64GB - $699
With 3G radio:
16GB - $629
32GB - $729
64GB - $829
About what I expected. I'm not sure I see many people going for the 16 GB model when you can quadruple your memory for only $200 more.
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This should be interesting. I'm glad Dylan is involved. Looking forward to the rest of the lineup, too.
Pretty appropriate - Bob and Joan performing at the March on Washington before MLK delivered his 'I Have a Dream' speech.
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And, I wonder, did they do their own stunts in the Boxful of Letters...? If so, then for some reason, this raises Wilco even higher in my esteem and from here on out, they will remain the best rock band ever
The Outtasite video is the one with stunts / skydiving. You can tell that they use stunt doubles but through the magic of some pretty great editing, it's not easy to discern that unless you look closely.
Real John:
Stunt Double John:
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The Outtasite video is fantastic. The worst Wilco video is Shot in the Arm. It features a lot of music video cliches and includes Jeff being held down / wheeled around in a hospital gurney. Good luck trying to find it on the interwebs though, it appears the Good Taste police have stricken it from the record.
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My uncle had this surgery. And had it again to fix the first surgery. And had it again to fix the other two surgeries.
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Morgan Spurlock? Maybe Axl should stop Super-Sizing it.
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Beach House - Teen Dream
Finally getting around to listen to this. So far, pretty good.
Pitchfork gave it a 9.0:
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And the setlist was pretty nice too:
Setlist looks ridiculously cool, plus the new song. Of course, just about any setlist Radiohead plays is pretty great to me, they have so many good songs.
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It was a sold out show at Vicar Street, which has a maximum capacity of 1500. And tickets were about 23 euro each, which works out to 34500 euro for one night.
Didn't they play Vicar Street two nights in a row? That would mean that some of the costs (i.e. flights) would at least be shared between the two gigs.
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I'm still 1000% convinced it's Gervais! Note the expression!
I'll continue thinking this until the day I die.
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I could be wrong, but I'm kind of guessing that's a fat comedian (Ricky Gervais?) playing Axl, not Mr. Rose itself.
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Here is some artwork for these downloads;
Very nicely done, going to use those.
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They'll only be true sellouts when they have their own Saturday morning cartoon show, The Wilco Kids™.
The Wilco Kids™ will feature a half hour of zany comedy and musical interludes. Young versions of our favorite Wilco members hang out in the neigborhood, come up with solutions to problems, make new friends, solve mysteries, and play songs at the end of each episode. They all congregate in a treehouse with the words "teh LoFt" painted on the side. Each of the Wilco Kids™ also happens to have a superpower. Nels, for example, can shred any object into a pulp with his bare hands.
They'll also perform songs such as this:
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Good luck, PT, hope he gets it!
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That's why all the hand-wringing over this is a little perplexing (in addition to being predictable). This is only dealing with independent expenditures of corporations, unions, nonprofits, etc., and has nothing to do with direct contributions (as Poongoogler said). With this decision, anybody and everybody can now spend their own money as they see fit.
Only on VC can you have an thought-provoking, highly intelligent conversation on the finer points of Supreme Court decision-making and refer to the excellent analysis provided by someone named Poongoogler.
(No offense Neil, the juxtaposition just cracks me up.
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I am a sporadic participant on the forum; shoulda done a search of topics first. Oops.
But the poll graphic is informative, no? Especially juxtaposed against actual album sales figures, as a comparison of the fan forum against "real world" consumers.
Yeah, the album ranking is a long-running joke on here. Don't mind me.
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Yeah, I guess it's been all of like three weeks since the last album ranking thread.
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It's pretty ridiculous how densely populated they become after a while. This is what the Mississippi looks like near Grafton, IL outside of St. Louis:
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Contra topped the Billboard charts this week and sold 124,000 copies.
http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/01/20/vampire-weekend-album-chart/
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So is the health care reform bill dead now?
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Domestic all-time list:
1. Titanic - $600,788,188
2. The Dark Knight - $533,345,358
3. Avatar - $504,868,451
Worldwide all-time list:
1. Titanic - $1,842,879,955
2. Avatar - $1,637,262,209
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - $1,119,110,941
And the movie has hardly slowed down.
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It's not looking good...
Asian Carp DNA Found in Great Lakes, Army Corps Says
By Mario Parker
Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- DNA from Asian carp was found in Lake Michigan for the first time, the Army Corps of Engineers said, hours after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to order the closing of locks and dams on rivers in the Chicago area.
“We have one sample positive in the Calumet Harbor above the breakwater, so that is in Lake Michigan,” Major General John Peabody, commander of the Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River division, said on a conference call with reporters.
The high court rejected arguments from Michigan, Wisconsin, New York, Minnesota and Ontario that immediate action is needed to keep the fish from entering Lake Michigan. Donna Cansfield, Ontario’s natural resources minister, said that if carp spill from the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and spread through the Great Lakes, it could hurt commercial fishing.
“The world’s largest freshwater fishery is Lake Erie -- and that perch goes primarily to the U.S.,” Cansfield said in an interview.
Federal officials said they have yet to find actual carp in Lake Michigan, and it’s not clear how big a threat they pose.
“Even if a few live carp get into Lake Michigan, that doesn’t necessarily mean they are there in self-sustaining populations,” said Cameron Davis, senior adviser on Great Lakes issues to Lisa Jackson, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator.
Robbing Native Fish
Previous tests indicated that carp had made their way from the Mississippi River to within 6 miles (10 kilometers) of the lake. The carp grow as big as 4 feet (1.2 meters) and 100 pounds (45 kilograms), and consume “vast amounts of food,” according to the EPA. That would rob native species of the plankton they feed on, it said.
“Today’s announcement that DNA evidence of Asian carp has been found past the so-called electrical barrier and even the locks is frightening,” Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said in a statement. “Michigan residents are outraged that President Obama’s administration and Illinois officials refuse to take immediate action despite continued evidence of an immediate threat.”
Cox, a Republican, is running for governor of the state.
Sport fishing’s impact on the Great Lakes states -- Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- totaled $7.09 billion in 2006, according to a report by the Alexandria, Virginia-based American Sportfishing Association.
Bond-Rating Threat
A carp invasion could lower the credit ratings of towns such as Grand Haven, Michigan, a city of about 10,500 people on Lake Michigan’s eastern shore, that’s rated AA by S&P, partly because of the “high value captured by vacation properties and second rental homes,” Scott Garrigan, a credit analyst at Standard & Poor’s in Chicago, wrote in a Sept. 30 update for the rating on its limited-tax general obligation bonds.
Shutting the Chicago-area locks has its own potential consequences, Peabody said, including water-quality problems and increased risk of flooding.
Shipping advocates praised the Supreme Court’s refusal to close the locks. They argue that shutting them would disrupt the transport of commodities, such as heating oil, road salt and fuel.
About 173 million tons of material was shipped via the Great Lakes in 2006, according to the most recent data available. That saved $3.6 billion in shipping costs compared with rail or trucks, the Corps said in a report released last January.
No Corps Authority
Federal officials on the call declined to answer questions about the court ruling. The corps doesn’t have authority to shut the Chicago-area locks, Peabody said, and doing so wouldn’t fully address the threat anyhow.
“Closing the locks alone in a controlled fashion is totally inadequate to the task,” he said. “The locks themselves are leaky,” and other waterways could allow carp into Lake Michigan.
By early March, the corps hopes to determine how locks and barge traffic can be operated in a way that would impede the carp without requiring closing the channel, Peabody said.
The corps and other agencies will try to determine whether carp are traveling in ballast water from barge traffic.
“We are doing everything possible to stop the advance” of the carp, Peabody said. “There is no silver bullet to this challenge.”
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Well, this is one way of dealing with Asian Carp wriggling into Lake Michigan...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122699283&ps=cprs
Asian Carp Will Soon Invade Store Shelves
by The Associated Press
January 18, 2010
Building off a state-developed marketing plan, a group of Louisiana-based companies has started a joint venture that will put Asian carp on retail shelves within weeks.
The fish are being marketed as silverfin, the name it was given in a marketing plan developed by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. The agency is promoting recreational and commercial applications of an invasive fish that has caused huge problems for boaters in northern states.
Rather than poisoning the fish to get rid of them like northern states have done, wildlife officials are opting to make them an appetizing meal.
Chef Philippe Parola of Baton Rouge, CEO of Chef Parola Enterprises and Partran, kick-started the campaign in the fall, and it's finally coming together in the New Year.
"We have the whole game plan ready to go," Parola said.
Months ago, food scientists, state biologists and federal agencies partnered to develop ways to clean and process the fish.
The state recently approved preliminary rules for the harvesting of silverfin.
Parola, along with Chef Cullen Lord of Fleming's Restaurant and Darryl Rivere of A la Carte Food, stepped in with recipes like silverfin cakes and silverfin almondine.
Rivere Foods of Paincortville has also signed on as the lead processor, New Orleans Fish House will be distributing the frozen products, and Rouses Supermarket is the first official buyer.
Parola will be attending the National Grocers Association Convention in Las Vegas to pitch the fish to its 1,500 members.
As for the fish's taste, Parola said that it's a cross between scallops and crab meat. "Consumers will love it," he said.
For state officials, creating a silverfin market is a biological win as well.
It's a relatively new species that competes with other fish for food and poses a risk to boaters since silverfin, which weigh as much as 30 pounds each, can jump out of the water. The fish have been known to cause boating accidents, black eyes, bruises or in the most extreme cases, death to the boater.
Additionally, eradication of this invasive species is basically impossible.
Parola said his role is unique because it puts private money behind a public problem. "This is being done without any taxpayer dollars," Parola said. "This is our money."
Culinary adventures are nothing new to Parola. In the early 1980s, he was among the chefs leading the way in cooking alligator meat. He was partly behind the effort for softshell crawfish as well, but he said it was "too expensive."
Parola, however, may be best known as the man who attempted to sell the nation on nutria meat a few years back.
The campaign for silverfin is "dramatically different," he said, because the fish doesn't resemble an overgrown rat.
"If we can't do something with silverfin, we are clowns. It's too good to ship to Asia, it's too good to use as bait, and it's too good to leave on the bank," he said.
The fish were introduced to the U.S. from east Asia in the 1970s to help manage aquaculture ponds and wastewater lagoons. They quickly escaped into the wild and arrived in Louisiana waters from the north in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Wilco Videos from the 90's
in Just A Fan
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Not quite Wilco, but still a great video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHTkTBqvPnQ