“‘It’s officially against corporate policy for us to hand out oil barrels,’ the 37-year-old Mitchell frets. ‘We really don’t know what to do about all this.’
For many of the world’s estimated 35,000 panmen, the sweetest-sounding music comes from the 55-gallon, 20-gauge red steel oil barrels made in Shell’s lubricant mixing plant on Barracones Bay in Trinidad.”
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this is one of the best things you get in a google image search for warhog
bron’s itunes shuffle just landed on “Only Shallow” and after the first two seconds I was like “holy shit why did anyone ever bother to make any OTHER kind of music than this?” which reminded me of how many shoegaze bands there’s been in bk in the last year or so and i started to wonder…never mind. this is topic for a 174 sesh.
Just heard the dude next to me call Carlos Segura of Segura Inc and T26 and ask about getting a job.
Ry, you should by some of this stuff and add it to your amp wall.
Here’s what I came across surfing around the gossip- and backlash-osphere the other evening. wordpress™ wank is focused entirely on the wonderful and ego-filled world of WordPress development, where even the lead dev’s company (Automattic) is named after himself.
Go Flock Yourself was apparently started specifically to torture the Flockers, but has branched out to take on the internet at large. They author gems such as Jeff Jarvis is still a rabid dipshit where it is eloquently noted that “Digg and all of the other Web 2.0 ‘community news aggregation filters’ only cover techie-ass shit that appeals to grotty Linux trolls! What kind of jackass would rely on these people to provide information about world news?”
Meanwhile, Patrick Scoble, the son of that other Scoble, lets us know that his friends think his dad is a porn star.
And if you read only one account of the latest Winer brouhaha, I recommend this recap at Burningbird which nicely lays out the events in chronological order to answer the question: “Which came first: the business disagreement or the problems with the RSS Board?”
These were all the rage in Italy. This guy seems to think that the French are to blame.
