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Global Warming may or may not be a scam. The destruction of our environment and pollution of our seas is real and needs to be dealt with.

The Rolling Stones - Dancing With Mr. D from their Goats Head cd

The footage is very rought, but it should give you a feel for the spirt of the times. Giledo from YouTube notes: "You will see Jimi playing a guitar duet with Mick Taylor and you will hear a Jimi Hendrix recording with Brian Jones! "My Little One" Take 2 and take 1 respectively. YOu will be also listening a conversation of Jimi Hendrix and Keith Richards!! This is Jimi Hendrix celebrating his last birthday backstage with the Rolling Stones at the Madison Square Garden in New York City on November 27, 1969."

Horrible. Can you give a European asseessment of the situation - not much news here in the States on the matter except what I've seen on Digg and Reddit. At first I thought Joey Z was responsible for this uprising. ;)

Neutral Milk Hotel was an American indie rock band. The band's chief lyricist and songwrite is Jeff Mangum. The band was a part of The Elephant 6 Recording Company, based out of Athens, Georgia. This song is a spiritually motivated work conceptually based on the beauty to be found in the horrific fate of Anne Frank.

You can sample some cuts @MySpace (Track list below) , El.bows and The Hype Machine

Yes, but now they have owned up--Comcast hasn't

Shopping centers showing mallrats the door Teenagers facing curfews as shoppers react to noise, intimidation CLEVELAND - A downtown Cleveland mall is implementing one of the nation’s toughest curfews on teenagers, joining a growing national trend among shopping centers that say loud, unruly youngsters drive away paying customers. The mall, Tower City Center, said it would ban anyone under 18 after 2:30 p.m. unless he or she was accompanied by an adult. Read More *** Ridiculous. They might be better off banning large groups of teens aggregating together in one spot..as opposed to all teens. What are kids to do after school?

The $25,000 Sundae

At least they were upfront about it - that's more than you can say for Comcast, who denied doing the same thing.

US Air Traffic For A Day

Ulrich Schnauss - Here Today, Gone Tomorrow from the Goodbye cd

Bigest Meets Smallest Dog In The World

Ooops - too late! He found her

Nikkie Finki at the LA Weekly is covering the action on the streets and behind the scenes in her blog - interesting reading for those who are interested.

Looks like the writers have amped up the war: Television's Showrunners Join The Picket Line "Television's top writer-producers threw their collective weight behind the striking Writers Guild of America on Wednesday in a move that could accelerate the disappearance of some of the nation's most popular prime-time shows, including "Desperate Housewives," "Lost" and "The Office," reports the LA Times. "In staging a very public rally in front of Walt Disney Co. in Burbank, about 100 writer-producers of some of TV's highest-rated programs ratcheted up the pressure on the studios and producers who only a day before had threatened to withdraw scores of lucrative contracts with writers. Read More

Mark Klein speaks out:

Shots Ring Out is hosting a quicktime video by Ace Morton of the song 'Flux' and its available to see or download HERE. Enjoy.

Former ATT Technician Mark Klein "is in Washington this week to share his story in the hope that it will persuade lawmakers not to grant legal immunity to telecommunications firms that helped the government in its anti-terrorism efforts," according to a story published in the Washington Post today. According to the Post, "The plain-spoken, bespectacled Klein, 62, said he may be the only person in the country in a position to discuss firsthand knowledge of an important aspect of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program." "If they've done something massively illegal and unconstitutional -- well, they should suffer the consequences," Klein said. "It's not my place to feel bad for them. They made their bed, they have to lie in it. The ones who did [anything wrong], you can be sure, are high up in the company. Not the average Joes, who I enjoyed working with." Read More

The New York Times reports today that Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, "wants to turn every member into a spokesman for its advertisers. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of the superhot social network, today announced what the company calls “social ads.” Facebook now will give advertisers the ability to create their own profile pages on its system that will let users identify themselves as fans of a product. Each user’s news feed will contain items like “Bobby Smith is now a fan of Toyota Prius.” I guess that's one way to fill up those 65 billion on Facebook. I'm not sure whether his members will want to open themselve up to the advertising world or not as sponsors, or whether this will be viewed as a turnoff. Andy Warhol predicted that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes--maybe this is. If I was getting a cut for being a fanboy of Coca-Cola, Mercedes and everything Apple, then I might go along--but if not, I'd probably pass. Any thoughts? Read More@The NYTimes

The whistleblower who leaked the story about Comcast's manipulation of its users bit torrent use has started a blog to let you know what the company doesn't want you to know: Read it here

Hi Alex. Welcome to Beatking Nice music. Good luck with the shows.

Niki Finke reports that a backchannel deal which could have averted the strike was rebuffed at the last minute in an underhand way by the producers. This should not be a surprise as the studios are not pillars of honesty: "Top guild sources tell me they were “deliberately duped” by the moguls in a backchannel deal to bring the guild back to the bargaining table Sunday. They say the lure was a promise by two Big Media CEOs -- Peter Chernin and Les Moonves -- that, if the writers gave up their DVD residual demands, then the producers would respond by improving the formula on the central sticking issue of Internet downloads for movies and television. My producer sources confirmed to me such a deal was indeed made. In other words, it could have been possible that a settlement might be only days or a week away, with enough progress to induce the writers side to suspend the Monday start of the strike. The writers say they kept up their end by dropping their DVD demands – a huge concession which later puzzled the WGA membership because it seemed to come out of nowhere and had to be explained by WGA president Patric Verrone without revealing the whole backstory. Why didn’t he? Because the WGA says it was abiding by the “mutual pledge of confidentiality” with AMPTP that, for the first time in all the negotiations, applied to Sunday’s session. Today, sources there decided to spill to me because the writers’ side of the 11th hour talks story has gone untold. The WGA accuses the producers of not delivering on the all-important electronic sell-through issue all day Sunday. And the producers confirm to me that, no, their negotiators did not offer anything on "EST". So, according to guild sources, that’s the real reason the 12:01 AM strike wasn’t averted, and their dropped DVDs demands put back on the table." Read More

Here is a video of Hank performing: