The Italian R.E.M. fanzine, BAZAR, has a list of what I believe to be various bootlegs, rare tracks, and duets done by R.E.M. and/or Michael Stipe (lead singer) with other artists.
I’ve tracked down a couple of them so far, including Michael Stipe and Radiohead performing R.E.M.’s E-Bow The Letter from New Adventures in Hi Fi.
Good grief. Dell has taken the “wait-for-Apple’s-success-then-clone-it” strategy a bit too far with it’s new Digital Jukebox (”DJ” heh).
The smooth white case, the two-color scrollwheel-powered menu system - remind you of anything?
Local boy Jiva Devoe just released a cool project management tool for Mac OS X, called Power Card, that has Rendezvous-enabled shared editing built in. Check it out!
Wow, I actually had to find out about this from Lockergnome (Thanks Meryl!) - R.E.M. has a cool mock news site up at morningteam.com promoting their new release, “Bad Day”.
To me, “Bad Day” is a return to the heady political days of Ignoreland, from Automatic For The People (1992). quote
A Public service announcement followed me home the other day
I paid it nevermind, go away
It’s so thick you could stir it with a stick
Free teflon whitewashed presidency
We’re sick of being jerked around
(wear it on your sleeve?)
broadcast me a joyful noise into the times
Lord, count your blessings
we’re sick of being jerked around
we all fall down
have you ever seen the televised
invited sub-committee prize
investigation dance
those ants-in-pants glances
i look behind the eyes
it’s a hallowed, hollow, anesthetized
“save my own ass screw these guys”
smoke-and-mirror lock down
broadcast me a joyful noise into the times
Lord, count your blessings
“the papers wouldn’t lie”, i sigh, “not one more”
(it’s been a)
…bad day (please don’t take a picture)
it’s been a bad day (please)
it’s been a bad day (please don’t take a picture)
it’s been a bad day (please)
We’re dug in deep
the price is steep
the auctioneer is such a creep
the lights went out
the oil ran dry
we blamed it on the other guy
sure all men are created equal
here’s the church - here’s the steeple
please stay tuned we cut to sequel
ashes, ashes we all fall down
broadcast me a joyful noise into the times
Lord, count your blessings
ignore the lower field
oh, this means war (it’s been a)
…bad day (please don’t take a picture)
it’s been a bad day (please)
it’s been a bad day (please don’t take a picture)
it’s been a bad day (please)
(do do do do do oooo…)
broadcast me a joyful noise into the times
Lord, count your blessings
we’re sick of being jerked around
we all fall down (it’s been a)
…bad day (please don’t take a picture)
it’s been a bad day (please)
it’s been a bad day (please don’t take a picture)
it’s been a bad day (please)
it’s been a bad day (please don’t take a picture)
it’s been a bad day (please)
it’s been a bad day (please don’t take a picture)
it’s been a bad day (please)
(do do do do do oooo…)
endquote
Jeffrey Veen wrote an essay on “The Business Value OF Web Standards“. A good read if you’re wondering why your designer is recommending you get rid of the gunk in your pages.
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Jon Udell points to Kimbro Staken’s new XPath-searchable weblog software. Very cool!
The coolest part of Kimbo’s post though is this: by supporting HTTP PUT in his software, he can edit pages using OmniWeb’s source viewer/editor. I had heard of the little supported PUT method of HTTP, but had no idea that OmniWeb supported it.
That simply rocks, and harkens back to the original WWW app (written by Tim Berners-Lee on a NeXT computer) which was both a browser and an editor (though it would only edit file:\/\/ pages.
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