This lists contains the major samples used to create The Kleptones seminal mashup album "A Night At The Hip Hopera".

01 - Precession.mp3
- Queen, "Procession"

02 - See.mp3
- Queen, "One Vision"
- KRS-One, "Hip Hop v. Rap" (lyrics)
- Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, "The Message" (lyrics)
- Kelis, "Milkshake" (closing sample)

03 - Live.mp3
- Queen, "Keep Yourself Alive"
- Afrikaa Bambaataa & Family, "Got to Get Up/Just Get Up and Dance" (thanks, Eric!)

04 - Bite.mp3
- Queen, "Another One Bites the Dust"
- Justin Timberlake, "Like I Love You" (intro)
- Ol' Dirty Bastard w/Kelis, "Got Your Money" (lyrics)

05 - Jazz.mp3
- Queen, "More Of That Jazz"
- Queen, "We Will Rock You" (vocal sample)
- Taskforce, "Tears on my Pillowcase" (?)

06 - Rock.mp3
- Queen, "We Will Rock You"
- Iggy Pop w/Peaches, "Rock Show" (intro)
- Killa Kela, "Heavy Artillery"

07 - Love.mp3
- Queen, "Tenement Funster"

08 - Fight.mp3
- Queen, "Fight from the Inside"
- Dilated Peoples, "Marathon" (lyrics)

09 - Fuck.mp3
- Queen, "Seven Seas of Rhye" (thanks, Randy!)
- Queen, "Keep Yourself Alive" (thanks, Eric!)

10 - Play.mp3
- Queen, "Play the Game"
- De La Soul, "Much More" (intro, thanks Modofo)
- Electric 6, "Gay Bar"

11 - Ride.mp3
- Queen, "Bicycle Race"
- Eminem, "Slim Shady"

12 - Sniff.mp3
- Queen w/David Bowie, "Under Pressure"
- Belinda Carlisle, "Heaven Is A Place on Earth"
- Vanilla Ice, "Ice Ice Baby"
- Prince Paul w/De La Soul, "More Than U Know" (lyrics)

13 - Ridicule.mp3
- no music

14 - Plan.mp3
- Queen, "I'm Going Slightly Mad" (thanks, Matt!)
- Herbaliser w/Latyrx, "8-Point Agenda" (lyrics)

15 - Break.mp3
- Queen, "I Want to Break Free"
- Aaliyah w/Timbaland, "Try Again" (intro sample)
- Beastie Boys, "Shake Your Rump"
- Beastie Boys, "Body Movin'"
- Beastie Boys, "Alive"

16 - Listen.mp3
- Queen, "Radio Gaga"
- Beastie Boys, "Shake Your Rump"
- Beastie Boys, "Intergalactic"
- Beastie Boys, "Root Down"

17 - Work.mp3
- Queen, "Machines (Back to Human)"
- Missy Elliott, "She's A Bitch" (lyrics)

18 - Come.mp3
- Queen, "Spread Your Wings" (thanks, Gordon!)
- Common w/Erykah Badu & Q-Tip, "Come Close" (lyrics)

19 - Expose.mp3
- Queen, "Flash"
- Brandy, "The Boy Is Mine" (intro)
- Beats International, "Dub Be Good To Me" (SOS Band/Deborah Cox cover)

20 - Jerk.mp3
- Queen, "It's A Kind of Magic"
- Morris Day & the Time, "Jerk Out" (lyrics)
- Detroit Grand Pubahs, "Sandwiches"

21 - Save.mp3
- Queen, "Save Me"
- DJ Vadim w/Atmosphere, "Edie Brikell" (lyrics)

22 - Stop.mp3
- Queen, "Don't Stop Me Now"
- Looptroop w/Chords & Timbuktu, "Heads Day Off" (huge thanks, Shane!)

23 - Question.mp3
- Queen, "Who Wants to Live Forever?"

I've always been fond of England, and to a lesser degree its people, but i haven't visited in the past 15 years or so primarily because i've given up on them.  Their willingness to be dragged into a very 1984-esque state of affairs. This image is from Barcelona, but I'm pretty confident they got the idea from Great Britain.

Well, that might be righting itself, if this announcement from the new government being assembled in London now. According to the new Liberal Democrat/Tory coalition government, that's all about to change. The coalition today released its unified policy statement (PDF), and for techies and privacy advocates, there's lots to like.

• We will scrap the ID card scheme, the National Identity register and the ContactPoint database, and halt the next generation of biometric passports.
• We will outlaw the fingerprinting of children at school without parental permission.
• We will adopt the protections of the Scottish model for the DNA database.
• We will review libel laws to protect freedom of speech.
• We will further regulate CCTV.
• We will end the storage of internet and e-mail records without good reason.
• We will create a level playing field for open-source software and will enable large ICT projects to be split into smaller components.
• We will create a new "right to data" so that government-held datasets can be requested and used by the public, and then published on a regular basis.
• We will introduce measures to ensure the rapid roll-out of superfast broadband across the country. We will ensure that BT and other infrastructure providers allow the use of their assets to deliver such broadband, and we will seek to introduce superfast broadband in remote areas at the same time as in more populated areas. If necessary, we will consider using the part of the TV license fee that is supporting the digital switchover to fund broadband in areas that the market alone will not reach.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/05/new-uk-govt-to-curb-cctv-scrap-id-cards-help-open-source.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

I just love this.

I'd like to note how everything this irate says about cycling is patently untrue. Not just a little of it, but the entire piece is symptomatic of a mind drunk on automobile-mythology.

My point, for the uninitiated, is that the "danger" the author cites is an automobile problem, not a bike problem. Car problems are not resolved by wrapping my head in a styrofoam bucket, nor by ensconcing my torso or limbs in any particular hue or cut of clothing, nor shall I find protection by donning special cycling shoes, nor safety from the likes of him will I find by using any other consumer product. Safety is simply not for sale. [Read More!]

A couple of months ago, the SCOTUS gave businesses the right to pay for election campaigning - something completely new in American politics. Never before has it been legal for a corporation - that is to say a collection of people with Free Speech rights - to amalgamate those rights into a SUPER-right where a corporation can take a position on a political issue, regardless of whether that position reflects the opinions of the employees, managers, exectuves or board-members.

I don't suppose there'll be many times when the Board of Directors of your company asks you to help them decide who to give money to in an election, or which propositions to support and which not to, do you?
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From Bones on Fox, season 1, ep 5. Angela's "6 Stages of Dating"

1. Spend the night together
2. Spend the weekend together
3. Exchange keys
4. Sexy weekend getaway
5. Extended vacation
6. Move in together

Finally, something that does USB without getting carried away.

Click here to see a *real* USB hub

Last year I sent off two sets of predictions for 2009, a set of things i thought almost likely, and a set of things i thought merely possible. Now that it's time to make prognostications for 2010, I've gone back to score last year's predictions. I'm giving myself credit for 1 and a half of my 10 primary's, and none of the possibilities.

My predictions are below. I hope you enjoy them.

JenniX's predictions for 2009 [Read More!]

Preparing to go to the market, she notes that the anonymity surcharge at Ralph's currently runs over 19% (I got $22.06 off of a $112.74 bill for using my "Ralph's Card").

She wonders, Isn't that some type of usery? Aren't they really forcing us to surrender our personal information? I mean, I could NOT provide my information for Ralph's to use for tracking of my shopping habits. I could not let them follow me around the country on vacation, know which weekends I shop for what, and how many i need per year. I could deny them all that stuff for their marketing research and/or their attempts to seduce me into their shoppe to spend money by going somewhere else to shop, but that'd just be stupid! Right? Right? That's IT! I'm doing it! I'll not be a party to this!

... (later) ...

No, I'm paying cash.... What? NO I don't have a F******G Albertson's card!

O‘DONNELL: As promised, we are joined now by Governor Howard Dean, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a 2004 candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Thank you for your time, Governor.

HOWARD DEAN, FMR. DNC CHAIRMAN: Thanks for having me on.

O‘DONNELL: Governor Dean, you have been on this cause of health care reform for decades. There has been no more energetic cheerleader for this legislative crusade this time around than you. You have reached the point now where the Senate bill which is well on its way to becoming the Lieberman bill is something you can no longer support and you want to kill it. Tell us why.

DEAN: Well, I don‘t—I‘m not going to give up on health care reform. I‘m still hopeful that something will happen in the House, but it‘s not very likely because the conference committee vetoed by Joe and the other pro-insurance company Democrats when it comes back as well. So, real reform in the House is a lot less likely given what‘s happened in the Senate.

This is not real reform. It‘s not health care reform. There are no choices.
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SANTA MONICA PIER CAM - Live webcam from Santa Monica, California

I wanted to post the various web cams i've found on my little strip of the strand... expect a few more over the next few weeks of posts....



This one is Over the Sidewalk Cafe in Venice. The offices where this camera is located once served as the business offices of Abbott Kinney, the man who dreamed and dug the Venice canal system in L.A.

Should Apple care what people like me think? What difference does it make if they alienate a small minority of their users?

There are a couple reasons they should care. One is that these users are the people they want as employees. If your company seems evil, the best programmers won't work for you. That hurt Microsoft a lot starting in the 90s. Programmers started to feel sheepish about working there. It seemed like selling out. When people from Microsoft were talking to other programmers and they mentioned where they worked, there were a lot of self-deprecating jokes about having gone over to the dark side. But the real problem for Microsoft wasn't the embarrassment of the people they hired. It was the people they never got. And you know who got them? Google and Apple.

Damn. That's just about a succinct description of what's wrong with modern corporatism.... A well spoken piece by Paul Graham

There's something uncanny about this website. I challenge you to spend five minutes on it and not feel better than when you started.

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