TechTV has secured subpoenas from the RIAA and has created an “RIAA Hitlist of Kazaa users“. Wow. TechTV actually did something useful!

To quote Bobby Bare, Jr:

Chuck Berry, Chuck Berry, you wrote the only original song…we all still sing along.

Northern State is a trio of white girls from NYC. The Pitchfork Media review was fairly harsh, but hey — white girl rap isn’t exactly on the minds of a lot of people. It is certainly different, yeah, and the feminist vibe is certainly present (props to “Hesta Prynn” for her name). It’s not for everyone, but they do have enough cred to open for The Roots back in the spring… You can download some clips and full songs here.

“Buy into our trap, and we’ll feed you to Venus…”

A buddy of mine at work and I were talking about whether or not we were still in a recession… and he linked me to this MSNBC article: Recession declared officially over. Hmm. Average recession: 11 months (roughly). Average span between recessions: 11 years. Sunspot cycle? 11 years. That’s damned creepy. Peep the NASA chart. I don’t make this stuff up. I’ve got corroborators.

GameSpy ‘s History of the Nintendo Family Computer (ne’ NES). It turned 20 on the 15th of July! Carpal Tunnel Syndrome hasn’t been the same since! A good article on Nintendo’s humble beginnings making playing cards in the late 1800′s up through today…

from the Metafilter:

Oh, emails sent in rage. If I had a nickel every time I sent an email I regretted later on… possibly even minutes later, I could at least buy myself a soda. However, none of my emails stack up to the “Kelly Tripplehorn ‘You Suck’” email. Tripplehorn, a now ex-intern for U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (and a defensive tackle for the Amherst College football team) sent a ridiculously vicious email to a girlfriend that included such rousing verse as:

“Michele I am sorry, I don’t care how big of sadistic [f-bomb]ed up crush you have on me but people like me simple don’t date people like you.”

“But guess what Michele, you will never move up the ladder because I am at the top and people like me hate people like you.”

whew… just wait, there’s more!

“In the end, all I can say is that people love me and people hate you. You should observe me and take a few notes on how to make real friends.”

Oh man. Wow. That is just fan-tastic. And those quotes aren’t even out-of-context! The context is this: he’s a jackass!

This is almost better than that Peter Chung Asian hooker email, or perhaps even the Miss Kim’s Date has a small boat email, or the Doing Jack [S-bomb] for $2400 a week email or the…. geez. What is it with well to-do young folk and their lack of email scruples?

Oh, back to our boy “Tripplehorny” — check out a photo of him in The Washington Times (with complimentary article)! Nice Polo, jackass!

Readers, i give unto you Bullet-Time Ping-Pong on an Asian Gong-Show Like Show. it will not disappoint.

This may be the best hamster name ever.

From Yahoo News: Two Charged After Human Catapult Death

Yeah. Catapult? Oh no — they were firing PEOPLE with a TREBUCHET. Wow.

Got an email from Interpol this morning (the band from New York, not the international crime agency). You may remember them from a number of posts involving them earlier in the year. In any case, they are touring yet again — a smaller fall tour, to which they’ll be pre-selling the Montreal, Toronto, Detroit and Chicago dates. Oh, and they redesigned their site. I liked the theme so much, I ripped it off. Note well that you can change your theme under “setup” on the lower right over there —–>

That is all. Enjoy your theme.