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February 21, 2004
Aging band pose as teens to sell single.
Welsh band The Alarm renamed themselves The Poppyfields (top right) and got teenagers to mime their single, 45RPM, for the video, supposedly as a statement on the importance of image in selling music.
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Ralph Nader Set to Announce His Candidacy For President
Ralph Nader is set to announce that he will run as an independant for the office of President of the United States. I have been reading that the Green Party will not support him this time out. Democrat bloggers are angry that he is set to run again and Republican bloggers are overjoyed. Nader says people who urge (not force) him to not run are against the first amendment rights. That's interesting for a man who goes out of his way to not have workers unionize.
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Ishkur's amazing electronic music guide.
[via memepool]
The merchandising messiah
Mel Gibson's new film, "The Passion of the Christ," is set to open nationwide next week. Amidst all the controversy surrounding the film is a curious phenomenon: marketing Christ.
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Elvis Lives in Flash
with dancing bananas and monkeys, amongst other fine things. [Via Blort.]
For those of you who think "How X Are You?" Quizzes are just random...
with bonus banana references! foon. more inside
with bonus banana references! foon. more inside
Virtual voices.
The software is a "singing engine": type in lyrics and a melody and it carries out the complex mathematical operations needed to generate a voice singing the words to the right tune.
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"Aliens Beam Editor To Tabloid Heaven"
reads Washington Post article.
Eddie Clontz, longtime editor of the Weekly World News died today. (via waxy)
Parents attack bathroom policy
- Some middle school students here are learning to shun soft drinks, water and other liquids during school hours for fear their consumption will lead to an urgent need to answer nature's call.
Under a new policy at the Lawrence Middle School, the seventh- and eighth-graders are allowed to leave class for the bathroom a maximum of 15 times a month.