Archive for March, 2008

YouTube addendum to Tricia Rose’s “Never Trust A Big Butt And A Smile” from Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader, 1990.

Women rappers employ many of the aesthetic and culturally specific elements present in male rap lyrics while offering an alternative vision of similar social conditions. Raps written by women which specifically concern male/female relationships almost always […]

Soulja Boy is celebrating the anniversary of his signing a few months early but he’s also posted videos of a new dance called “Crank Dat Billie Jean.”

The dancing is tight, the new moves are nice, and the remix sounds hot (especially playing out of a car stereo.) But, one has to wonder what to make […]

Mariah Carey “Touch My Body” (Extended video):

If it’s a camera up in here
Then it’s gonna leave with me when I do
(I do)
If it’s a camera up in here
Then I best not catch this flick on Youtube
(Youtube)
I am the bullseye target audience for this video. I even LOL’d at the end when Mariah makes a wi-fi […]

Audiomaxxx.com now points to a news story from p2pnet. There are definitely many folks out there happy to hear that King Raj and the infamous Audiomaxxx have been taken down. CBC coverage indicates that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police raided the offices on the strength of an on-going investigation by Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA).

Ouch.
Clearly, […]

The NYTimes leaked her MySpace Music profile today. She seems like a chillhead and the fact that her involvement in sex work is about to be at the center of a national scandal is unfortunate. Telling her mom must have been horrible.

Ashley Alexandra Dupré, up and coming NYC r’n’b singer.
The authors of the NYT article […]

A couple hours ago, I gave away most of my classic Mac collection as part of a general clearing-out-of-things that has been in progress for the last few months. Seeing the empty hallway with the discolored rug was a particularly sad moment. I found the taker on a classic mac enthusiast forum, though, so they […]

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I’ve been meaning to make vector versions of the cut, copy, and paste icons for months. Finally sat down to do it with the Free Culture board as we brainstormed t-shirt ideas this afternoon.

cutcopypaste.ai
That file is from Illustrator CS2. If you need another (more free) format, let me know. I’ll do my best to provide […]

Every week, I am fwd’d more and more links to hyper-specific blogs (almost all hosted by Blogger). Here are a couple from recent memory:

Guess My Crime
Stuff White People Like

I totally stalled out making that list from memory because of how utterly forgettable many of these projects seem to be. They are the blogging equivalent of […]

Recently, I’ve noticed that many bloggers have added .info TLDs to their spam list. As a result, some of my comments and trackbacks don’t appear and I suspect I am being filtered out of other blogrolls as a - gasp - spamblog.
I already own http://www.todomundosound.com/ so I could conceivably move (again) somewhat painlessly.
What do you […]

Today, I lead a discussion in a CMS undergrad class that might interest some readers of this blog. The outline is roughly similar to my emerging thesis work so your feedback is extremely valuable.
The slides were made with HTML Slidy, an awesome web-based powerpoint alternative. You can check them here:
http://kevindriscoll.info/docs/presentations/hiphopapproach/

The Hip Hop Approach: Technology, […]