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February 27, 2011 - March 5, 2011 Archives

 

Cat Stevens' new song for Egypt (he's Yusuf Islam now)

Yes, I know Cat Stevens is now Yusuf Islam, but he still sounds like Cat Stevens. YouTube - 'My People' By Yusuf Islam (song for Egypt), 4 minutes, 43 seconds. You can download the song for free at Amazon. Here's...

March 5, 2011 1:11 pm
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Mp3s: The Faces (Rod Stewart), Boston 1970

The Faces - Boston Tea Party 1970 The Faces Boston 1970 [no label, 1CD] Live in Boston, MA; March 27, 1970. Very good soundboard Welcome to the weekend....

March 5, 2011 1:55 am
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Finally, Microsoft tries to kill IE 6

Now even Microsoft is trying to kill IE6: IE6 Countdown is a Microsoft site. 10 years ago a browser was born. Its name was Internet Explorer 6. Now that we're in 2011, in an era of modern web standards, it's...

March 4, 2011 5:42 pm
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Good reads: 'Stuff,' how come Egypt, Iraqi art, belly-fat ads, profiles

The Story of Stuff Project Street view: This Is Just The Start. The headline on Thomas Friedman's NYT missive from Egypt isn't illuminating; the essay is. Future historians will long puzzle over how the self-immolation of a Tunisian street...

March 3, 2011 11:47 am
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Mp3s: Led Zeppelin '75, 'Physical Graffiti' outtakes

Led Zeppelin - Physically Present A high quality disc of "Physical Graffiti"-related material, including rehearsal room runthroughs, and some alternate mixes and takes from the studio. - Philip Cohen Back in 1975, when the album was released, Jim Miller wrote...

March 1, 2011 9:13 pm
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Dylan's 'Freewheelin' cover girlfriend Suze Rotolo dies at 67

The woman I was most curious about at 16 has died. She was Bob Dylan's girlfriend, Suze Rotolo, photographed for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan walking with him on snowy Jones Street in Greenwich Village in 1963. By that summer,...

February 28, 2011 1:49 am
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Civil war in the middle class?

I'm as baffled as anyone else by the ways in which the world is suddenly changing. In America, the former middle class seems to be battling to impoverish itself. Viral tweet of the week: Why is a 3% tax increase...

February 27, 2011 10:08 am
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