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Author Archives: Barry's Imaginary Publisher
Two Million Gig
So there’s this bunch of old men who call themselves “The Rolling Stones”, and they’re doing this cozy little gig in Rio de Janeiro next Saturday. Two million people expected to attend! Let’s just hope they haven’t enlisted the Hell’s … Continue reading
Posted in In The News, Music
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Perfect Major
Take this for what it’s worth, but… You scored as Art. You should be an Art major! How bohemian! Art 92% Linguistics 83% Dance 75% Mathematics 75% Philosophy 67% Theater 67% Engineering 67% Psychology 58% English 58% Sociology 50% Anthropology … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Silly
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Neverland
Bizarre and slightly unnerving: Neverland, Amerika, a Flickr photoset with a twist. (last two via Exploding Aardvark)
Posted in Bizarre, Pop Cult, Visual Arts
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Be A Loafer, It’s Good For You!
May I suggest you print this out and show it to your boss the next time he complains about that absent stare into infinity of yours: Idlers, loafers and layabouts, listen up. A new study suggests that the times when … Continue reading
Posted in Science
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Tap That Song
And another fun diversion: Song Tapper! Use your keyboard’s spacebar to tap the (lyrical) rhythm of a song, and have the site guess that song. Amazingly accurate, I might add — I tapped “Close To You” by B. Bacharach and … Continue reading
Live Plasma
Fun little diversion: Live Plasma. Feed it with the name of a band or musician and it’ll show you their relationship with other bands/musicians. The results for Frank Zappa were a bit weird though, as Neil Young appears right next … Continue reading
Dear Idiot Bastard
Okay, well, somebody has to say it. Dear Idiot Bastard Son, For years I have been reading your excellent Zappa newspage. Navigating around your place was never easy (Powered by Lotus? Ody-frames?), but I hung around anyway because I’m not … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Misc
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Get Smart
Why am I not surprised: The US government is developing a massive computer system that can collect huge amounts of data and, by linking far-flung information from blogs and e-mail to government records and intelligence reports, search for patterns of … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
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The Wisdom Of Crowds
As with many things, our appreciation of a given piece of music is largely influenced by what others think of it, New Scientist reports: …participants [in the study] who could see how often a song had been downloaded tended to … Continue reading
Würzburg ’88 (1)
Need I say anything more? Head overthere and get it!
Posted in Frank Zappa, Friday Boots, Zappa Audio/Video
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Pizza Alert
Ten years from now, this is how we’ll all be ordering pizza.
Posted in Geek, Randamonium
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Junior Exec Sway
Wally Torta, one of my favorite doodlers-with-a-weblog, takes on The Junior Exec Sway. Hilarity, as they say, ensues!
Zappa Misc
Quickie. FZ is to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the sixth annual Jammy Awards, The April/May issue of Relix Magazine is to feature FZ on the cover, announcing “At home with the Zappas, A trip through their fabled archives, … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Misc, Zappa News
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The Years Of The Wicked
The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. — Proverbs 10:27 Premature Death of Rock Stars keeps a list of rock stars and their date/cause of death. According to their calculations, the … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Religion, Silly
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