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06 May 2010 23:00

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Music: One-word album reviews: The Hold Steady wavers a little bit

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06 May 2010 22:24

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Music: Non-expert opinion: Hip-hop icons who talk big game

  • Disclaimer: We know as much about rap as we do about gardening. We can tell you what a flower looks like, we can tell you if it smells pretty, but we sure as heck suck at putting seeds in the ground and making them grow. That’s kind of the idea behind this new occasional feature, where we try to explain things we don’t particularly understand all that well. Next week: Quantum mechanics.

  • he knows he’s arrived Drake has more buzz than any rapper this side of his inmate buddy Lil Wayne, and with “Over,” he doesn’t underestimate his abilities nor does he pretend that there isn’t a dark side to the fame. It’s kind of refeshing – like Kanye when he used to be headier.

  • The comeback kid Lupe Fiasco’s album sales haven’t matched his cred as a hip-hop artiste, but he doesn’t let the haters get to him. “I’m Beamin'” is a great I’m-still-awesome comeback anthem. (Disclosure: Our good friend Rob Simmons did the visual effects on this awesome video.)

  • too full of himself Diddy hasn’t done anything of note with his music career in about a decade, and even then, he was kind of seen as a sell-out. It’s with that image of him we show you this teaser to a blog that doesn’t even exist yet. Kanye already has the hip-hop blogging game won, man.
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06 May 2010 21:43

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Culture: Bret Michaels realizes he’s a lucky bastard, plans to live that way

  • As painful as this experience has been, I was given a second chance, right? I don’t want to sit around every night worrying this is going to happen again.
  • Poison lead singer (and lucky bastard) Bret Michaels • Regarding his brain hemorrhage, an experience which nearly left him dead. As it is, he suffered short-term memory loss but is expected to make a full recovery. Given a second chance, he plans to take full advantage of it. “What I want to do is make a positive bucket list and say ‘I’m just gonna go for it,'” he said. Our take? It’s kind of like an inversion of the philosophy behind “Every Rose Has its Thorn.” Every thorn is attached to a rose. Bret Michaels seems to have taken this to heart. source
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06 May 2010 20:42

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Biz: The biggest losers on Wall Street today emphasize the weirdness

  • 37% Procter and Gamble’s much followed free-fall during the momentary crisis; it quickly bounced back
  • 1¢ the value of Accenture’s stock at
    2:48 p.m. EST, down from $40; it, too, quickly bounced back source
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06 May 2010 20:29

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Biz: A traders’ whodunit; which idiot #(&@(* up the stock market?

  • what In a five-minute period,
    the Dow Jones Industrial
    went down by nearly a
    thousand points.
  • why It’s been suggested that
    a trader hit the wrong
    button and sold WAAAY
    too many stocks.
  • who Good question; some are
    pointing the finger at
    Citigroup, but whoever it
    was is fired. source
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06 May 2010 20:22

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Biz: While we were out: The stock market has a huge buttcrack, guys

What the heck happened, stock market’s butt? Falling nearly a thousand points in a five-minute period is just sad. And we KNOW you’re gonna blame it on Greece, too. source
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06 May 2010 12:14

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Tech: If this weird URL works for you, your browser wins a cookie

  • » Admit it. You’re curious. Try it. We dare you. Either your browser sucks or it rocks. Here’s how you find out. source
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06 May 2010 11:11

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World: Greece willing to “walk it alone” on drastic austerity plans

  • We will press ahead, even if we have to walk alone, without the backing of other parties.
  • Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou • On the country’s plan to completely reboot its economy, despite large protests and heavy criticism from its citizens. If they can’t get help from its fellow European countries, they’ll do it anyway. In other news, PEOPLE DIED in these protests. Oh, and many are concerned that they will not have enough money to survive. Unfortunately, Greece is in a rock-hard place situation due to all of that debt, so widespread public concern may not be enough to shake the leadership. source
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06 May 2010 11:02

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U.S.: National Day of Prayer: Franklin Graham’s sidewalk prayer

  • no Evangelist Franklin Graham (Billy Graham’s son) wasn’t in the Pentagon for the National Day of Prayer due to his controversial comments on Muslims.
  • but Graham was right outside the Pentagon praying just the same, huddled along the sidewalk with a half-dozen other people. Not the same, but kinda noble. source
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06 May 2010 10:55

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Culture: National Day of Prayer: Twitter’s on a Jesus kick today



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