Elected

Alice Cooper has been nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Yes, he should have been in there years ago, but at long last, he's in the running.

Rush setlist, Allentown Fairgrounds, Aug 31, 2010

• The Spirit of Radio
• Time Stands Still
• Presto
• Stick It Out
• Workin’ Them Angels
• Leave That Thing Alone
• Faithless
• BU2B
• Free Will
• Marathon
• Subdivisions

[intermission]

• Tom Sawyer
• Red Barchetta
• YYZ
• Limelight
• Camera Eye
• Witch Hunt
• Vital Signs
• Caravan
• Love 4 Sale
• Closer to the Heart
• 2112 Overture / Temples of Syrinx
• Far Cry

Encore:

• La Villa Strangiato
• Working Man

Norah Jones setlist: August 7, 2010 at MusikFest in Bethlehem PA

1. I Wouldn't Need You
2. Tell Yer Mama
3. Light As a Feather
4. Even Though
5. Young Blood
6. It's Gonna Be
7. Chasing Pirates
8. Broken
9. What Do You Think Of Her Now
10. Sunrise
11. Waiting
12. Back To Manhattan
13. Sinkin’ Soon
14. Dauphin Island
15. Man Of The Hour
16. Don’t Know Why
17. Stuck
18. Come Away With Me

Encore:

1. Creepin In
2. Lonestar 

Thanks to the International Press Association for the setlist.

Reviews:

• Norah Jones throws intimate party with Musikfest audience as guests (Lehigh Valley Live)
• Norah Jones's Musikfest show is different, but still cool (Morning Call)

Net neutrality takes a hit from former proponent Google (everybody panic!)

Wired has a great explanation of how the Google-Verizon announcement betrays Google's "don't be evil" motto.

Time travel

Will someone explain this to me: Quantum Time Machine Lets You Travel to the Past Without Fear of Grandfather Paradox? Thanks.

My current favorite flikr set

Passive-aggressive wi-fi.

Oh, and the "Woot acquired by Amazon" letter from Woot's CEO is pretty hilarious, too.

Logan's Run remake news

Slashdot covers the Logan's Run remake. Finally, it appears this may see the light of day.

Emerson and Lake setlist, May 14, 2010 - Stroudsburg, PA

Great show at the Sherman Theater in Stroudsburg.

• From the Beginning
• I Talk to the Wind
• Bitches Crystal
• The Barbarian
• Take a Pebble/Tarkus

[intermission]

• C'est la Vie
• Prelude to a Hope
• Milonga for Piano Op. 3
• Pirates
• [Question and Answer session]
• America

 Encore:

• Lucky Man

Living in the coal region...

Bruce Springsteen had a classic line in Thunder Road:

"It's a town full of losers
and I'm pulling out of here to win"

(the "and" is from the piano version on the live box set, for all of you nitpickers).

Anyway, growing up in Schuylkill County, I always thought that was a great line. It was only later when I realized what the region had to offer. I'm glad I found my way back (well, most of the time; there's still the modern-day coal barons to deal with, who peddle everything from culm and wind energy to prisons and river sludge to a populace grown too cynical to care, but that's another day's battle). There's a great article about what the area has to offer here, and something I needed to read today.

Half-naked run through Shops at Prudential Center (Boston)

For some odd reason, a throng of half-naked college kids (I presume this was some type of fraternity thing, or perhaps spring fever) ran through the Shops at Prudential Center in Boston this past Friday. At least this one wore a cape:

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I Cost More, but I’m a Specialist

What if newspaper columnists behaved like our health care system? (from the New York Times).

Logan's Run: Last Day link roundup

A roundup of links regarding the new Logan's Run: Last Day comic book published by BlueWater Comics:

• William F. Nolan Talks Logan’s Run: Last Day
• YouTube: Creator William F. Nolan's STORYTIME the reading of the new Logan's Run comic book
• A Comic Book Orange's video review
• Best Shots Advance Review: LOGAN'S RUN: LAST DAY #1
• Famous Monsters » Comic Review: Logan’s Run Last Day
• The World of Logan's Run: Bluewater Publishing's 'Logan's Run - Last Day' Comic Series
• Dueling Review: Logan’s Run #1

Previously: Logan's Run: Last Day covers

The Indymac Slap in our Face

The Indymac Slap in our Face, or your tax dollars at work. Like a reverse Robin Hood, our government continues to take from the poor and give to the rich.

The Known Universe

Leaked ACTA documents

Leaked documents concerning the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement are available here. Some believe that the eventual adoption of these agreements could create "back-door" laws, imposing rules on citizens that were not written by their government. Link via boingboing.

Student killed by exploding chewing gum

I kid you not.

Via Warren Ellis (of course).

Hey Google: whatever happened to "don't be evil"?

From boingboing: Google CEO says privacy doesn't matter. Google blacklists CNet for violating CEO's privacy. Disclaimer: This here blog is courtesy of Google's Blogger service. If they were really evil, they wouldn't let me

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While we're on the "cat" theme...

Failed experiment.

Feline dietary preferences

Sure, I can blog about cats. Why? I'm not an old lady. Stop it.


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