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Hip Hop Family Tree - Boing Boing

Fantastic reading on the roots of hip-hop. Must-read, and excellent art style as well.



“ The fight cemented a set of stock characters — the fast-talking, ultra-talented, self-destructive black athlete; the Great White Hope; the canny coach who’s half devoted to his pupil and half exploiting him — that have echoed down the centuries.1 In fact, so much about the fight feels familiar today, from the role of race to the role of the media, that if you had to name a date, you could make a good case that December 10, 1810, was the moment sport as we know it began. Brian Phillips on the boxing career of freed American slave Tom Molineaux - Grantland


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Blue Lines Revisited: What are people buying instead of music*?

tomewing:

Dipped my toe into the ever-circling “piracy debate” again this week: little new to be said. So this is a question I’ve wondered about a few times but not really seen answered. Let’s assume that the music industry has a point and that significant chunks of its core audience are spending less money…


Reblogged from nevver
nevver: Henry Miller’s Eleven Commandments

nevver:

Henry Miller’s Eleven Commandments



(via Metallagher)

(via Metallagher)


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nevver: Simple Design

nevver:

Simple Design


“ We’re on I-95, and she unhooks the pole, and she’s holding the morphine bag over her head with her gown that’s flying up in the air so you could see her entire naked, bony body with the morphine bag whipping in the wind, and we’re passing by these guys in their Lamborghinis, and I’m looking at them like, What the hell kind of life are you living? Look at me, I’m on top of the world here. The Lives They Lived - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com


“ Robert Merton: “Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born”. Language Log » Snowmanteaux
Cut the Rope
“ The robbery took place in Nice in 1976. A team of 20 men, led by Mr. Spaggiari, burst into the vault of the Societe Generale bank from a 25-foot tunnel they had carved over the previous several weeks between the bank and a branch of the city sewer system. They worked from Friday to Sunday, emptying safe-deposit boxes and seizing most of the bank’s cash reserves. The group, which became known as the ”sewer gang,” escaped with $8 – $10 million in gold, cash, jewelry and gems. During their stay in the vault, they cooked meals, drank wine and used antique silver tureens as toilets. Albert takes a bubble bath « gimcrack hospital (PG)