Friday Mashup, or This rain is messing with my karma
- In this week’s Tears in Heaven moment, Boston’s The Paradise Lounge, little brother to the beloved Paradise Rock Club, has closed and will be turned into an “irishoid” bar. This is regrettable. I hate shipping over to Cambridge to see small, small acts, and The Paradise Lounge had the right ratio of grime-to-charm for me. Check out my videos of Howie Day performing there about a month ago.
- Willpower is like a tank of gas: once you use it to go one place, you can’t go another. This according to a pseudo-op ed in this week’s New York Times. This is really interesting and perhaps a good thing to remember as we all face uphill battles, “…people who successfully accomplish one task requiring self-control are less persistent on a second, seemingly unrelated task. ” New York Times via kottke.
- Yikes. Cell phones might be worse than cigarettes.
- Yikes. Diet Coke might be worse than cell phones.
- All hail. Apple is the #1 music retailer. Take that, FYE. Not that they were ever in the running. Speaking of, does anyone remember The Wall and their CD return guarantee? Pretty sure that’s why that place collapsed. Update: apparently not. The agency who conducted the study has recinded the results, and Ars Technica, a fantastic technology blog, was asked to remove their leaked internal Apple documents regarding the study. File under: shady.
- Apparently, a 3G iPhone is coming sooner than I thought, or else I wouldn’t have bought one, oh, about a month ago. Thanks, Apple! I will be upgrading.
- Ape-ricot or app-ricot? This was a debate I had with my friends Will and Pete during sophomore year of college. Back then, we didn’t have Forvo, which has the goal of one day offering correct pronunciations for every word in the world. An ambitious quest. Of course, they don’t have apricot. Yes – I win! I’m going to add it as ape-ricot. [thanks, Lifehacker]
- The folks over at uber-Boston blog/community b0st0n.livejournal.com have abbreviated the Globe’s new Food & Arts section “Farts.” Okay, its funny because I have the sense of humor of a 12 year old.
- The New York Times’ ArtsBeat blog wondered, “Why was Rachel Ray at SXSW?” and questions her “indie rocker” status.
[image thanks to despair.com]
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