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    “Step on My Pedal”, More Like

    I heard this rather haunting song by Dub FX called “Step on my Trip” and found this in the process of trying to buy it: The foot-operated thingamabob that lets him grab and replay samples easily like that is very awesome. I’d love to play with one. I totally used to sit around with a boombox, a stack of blank or reusable cassette tapes, and make up and record songs as a kid. I might have aimed for the music industry if I’d had one of these loop stations.

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    Weekly linkage

    This week’s internet cruising: louisgray.com: Why I Turned In My iPhone and Went Android – I love this article. I've written before that I'm considering switching, and at this point, it's only the cost of breaking contract that's holding me back. YouTube – heavymedic dance work in progress – unfinished – Y'all know I'm a doc/heavy shipper. Penny Arcade – The Sound Of A Klaxon – Regarding the iPhone 4: "She sees that phone the same way she would see a hat, or a ladle. If you had a ladle and you tried to get soup with the ladle but the soup came out, or fell out, or whatever the…

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    Quasi-daily linkage

    Just the facts about what health care reform means for you | TheLoop21.com – A nice list of the changes from the healthcare bill. YouTube – Top Secret Drum Corps – They play each others’ drums. Go see. Topless Robot – Fan Fiction Friday: Wolverine, Cyclops and Jean Grey in “Day of reckoning” – Um, wow. Not safe for work. Read it anyway. Letter to Iraq – From two of the soldiers in the company depicted in Wikileaks’s “Collateral Murder” video.

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    Twelve years later, the internet comes through

    I don’t know how movie people determine what goes on the soundtrack for a movie, but I do know that the makers of Blade forgot one: the electronica song that Deacon Frost is listening to on headphones in the library. Right after seeing the movie (1998, so 7th or 8th grade for me), I hopped over to the music store and bought the soundtrack… which didn’t have the song on it. There were a few good songs on it, but I mostly remember it being crappy rap. (Recent playthroughs haven’t changed my opinion much.) In 1998, searching the internet couldn’t find me that song, and I tore up the net…

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    Quasi-daily linkage

    Welcome! – Okay, nevermind on the link below. This intro provides some good insight into the Tiny Living thing, which is more than just 60 sq. ft houses. Not sure that I want to downsize my house in particular, but it's an interesting movement. Tiny House In Asheville – I'm increasingly fascinated by this Tiny House movement (and need to do more research on it), although it initially strikes me as a fairly artificial constraint on living. a series of rants – Auntie Pixelante gives good rants. On a non-game-related note (but relevant), I really should stop saying "fail". If I talk to you in person, help me stop saying…