The latest episode of Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! chronicled the 1996 failed launch of timanderic.com. It ended with an uplifting little song that may come in handy for me someday, to put things back into perspective:

I forgot to post it here, but In The Gnar (a site about BMX, among other things) wrote a nice review of my old `zine/site, eWire. You can read the article here.

And I thought Joe Morgan was bad. Here's Dustin Pedroia batting with the count 1-yellow and 1-blue:

Good thing Apple released a new, smaller iPod Shuffle, because that last version was a behemoth...

Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job is bizarre & hilarious. One recent bit that consistently cracks me up is when they took a bit of a janitor's tirade and used Auto-Tune to make it a song:



This clip is from the bizarre Cinco Travel Urinal Shower video.

I have a decent-sized CD collection (about 800 or so) that I rarely use. Pretty much everything I listen to has been ripped into iTunes, so my CDs are just a cluttered eyesore taking up space in my office.



I couldn't justify selling them, since I want to keep them in case something happens to my hard drive, not to mention it wouldn't be fair to the musicians to sell the CDs and still keep the music. But I wanted to get them out of my office since I rarely (if ever) use them.



I bought some storage boxes by Disc Storage Solutions (which, for some reason, were extremely difficult to find online). The discs are put in sleeves -- two per sleeve -- and stored in the boxes. I ended up using two 500 CD and three 200 CD boxes; they hold half the CDs they advertise for me, since I'm also storing the CD artwork (instead of two CDs per sleeve). Now they're taking up very little space in the basement, rather than two large shelves in my office.



Of course, now that they're boxed up it's more difficult to browse through them. I bought Delicious Library, a CD/DVD/game/whatever cataloging app for the Mac. You just scan the CD's barcode using your webcam and it adds it to your library -- complete with artwork -- or you can also enter them manually (for compilations, bootlegs, and those barcodes that just won't scan).



Delicious Library works great, though I wish it had other browsing options: for example, there's no way to browse your CD collection by genre. But overall it's much better than having a wall of CDs.

Jill & I watched the latest Harry Potter movie last night. I couldn't help but think that Sirius Black was inspired by Neil Peart circa 1977...

While working on a Squarepusher episode of Sinko, I learned about the "Amen Break." I know the beat so well but never knew the original source (The Winstons) or how influential six seconds of that song were to hip hop, drum & bass, and beyond. I came across a great 18-minute video that goes into detail about this beat, its sampling, and copyright:

Ranking every Beatles song in order is a near-impossible project, but one that offers plenty of fodder for arguments. Let the discussion begin: Playing The Beatles Backwards: The Ultimate Countdown
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As always, The Big Picture has some amazing photographs, this time of The Inauguration of President Barack Obama. The third one -- a satellite photo of the National Mall -- really gives you a "holy crap!" shot of the number of people there.