Last Friday Jill went into Boston to try to get a glimpse of Duran Duran, who were recording at WGBH's studios (where her sister works). She not only got the glimpse she was after, but got to watch them perform as well as bump into each of them. She snapped some photos while there, too.

Good news on the Red Sox front: Glenn Geffner won't be broadcasting Sox games this season! No more of his non-stop drivel, drowning out Joe Castiglione who, on more than one occasion, seemed to tune Glenn out during broadcasts (just like I tried to do). Hopefully that means Dave O'Brien will take over full-time with Joe.

Awesome page of The 30 Greatest Hip Hop Drum Breaks & Samples of All Time, with samples of each. A great list, with the only glaring omission being James Brown's "Funky Drummer" (how was that one overlooked?). If you're into rap (especially late 80s/early 90s stuff) you should recognize most of 'em.

Another year, another soundtrack. And this year I actually chose a different Samiam song (I didn't realize that chose the exact same song for 2005 and 2006...I must really like it). Anyway, here's a summary of my musical tastes for 2007:

1. Beatles: "Strawberry Fields Forever"
2. The Alarm: "Up for Murder"
3. The La’s: "Timeless Melody"
4. The Shins: "Phantom Limb"
5. Guided By Voices: "Chasing Heather Crazy"
6. Luminous Orange: "How High"
7. Daikaiju: "Attack of the Crab Women"
8. Art Brut: "Direct Hit"
9. Joe Jackson: "One More Time"
10. XTC: "Don’t Lose Your Temper"
11. The Upsetters: "Medical Operation"
12. Wire: "No Romans"
13. Samiam: "Full On"
14. Minutemen: "Fanatics"
15. Black Flag: "Nervous Breakdown"
16. Roland Alphonso: "Lover Boy"
17. Man Or Astro-man?: "Like A Giant Microwave"
18. Beck: "Elevator Music"
19. Giant Panda: "With It"
20. Nice & Smooth: "Dope On A Rope"
21. Thes One: "Hy-Vee"
22. The Bad Plus: "Dirty Blonde"
23. Prince Jammy: "Shaolin Temple"

Well, at least two-thirds merry...

Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, an unapologetic Yankee fan, thinks the Mitchell Report is just a Red Sox conspiracy...

Jeremy learns our names. Almost...

I was playing around with Dashcode and made a version 0.1 Sinko Music Podcast Dashboard widget. If you have a Mac and want to try it out, you can download it here. (Requires Mac OS 10.4.3.)

Wow, this looks pretty cool: the Eye-Fi wireless memory card is a 2GB SD card that makes your digital camera wireless. After setting it up, "whenever your cameras near the wireless network you selected and idle, Eye-fi will upload all your photos to your online photo sharing service. Next time your computer's online, they'll download there, too!"

MLB Announces Acceptable 2007 World Series Matchups

I missed this Onion article when it ran back in May, but looks like MLB got its wish that "any underdog team from the National League is acceptable as long as they play against the Yankees or Red Sox."