A few things I noticed...

Getting around the NYT paywall
google adwords tips

Find new music online

Pop Music 2010.

It all starts with the Billboard Hot 100.

Then DJ Earworm gets a hold of it, and mashes it up.

Then Mashable notices and publishes an article: Mashup Combines This Year’s Top 25 Songs.

The result:

PS - you can get the MP3 from a link on the DJearworm.com site.

Exploration & Exploitation Movies

I've been reading The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon - the story of Percy Fawcett's final doomed expedition into the Amazon jungle searching for a fabled lost civilization. It's a good read so far. I was channel surfing yesterday and came across The Fourth Kind, a 2009 horror film that claims to be based on true events, but fakes the documentary footage that is mixed into the movie. I thought The Blair Witch Project was the originator of this style, but it turns out that Cannibal Holocaust did the same thing way back in 1980. From the Wikipedia description, Cannibal Holocaust seems like a combination of Blair Witch and Lost City of Z.

More semi-Random links

You can carry a gun, but no nail clippers
Teens should teach adults about safe sex
Apps for Real Life
America's Third War: Texas Strikes Back
Where are the body scanners?
A little girl gets "bullied" for liking Star Wars
Facebook is hazardous to your marriage (if your marriage is already in trouble or you are a clueless techno newb)
How to prepare for Black Friday (Unfortunately, this method does not involve copious quantities of Scotch)
China pwns USA
Twitter alphabet
Black Friday creep
Chinese housing bubble
Visual tour: 25 years of Windows

A bunch of Stuff

Here are some links:
Jimmy "Neil Young" Fallon & Bruce
Calendar girl
Electronics kits under $100
Jet Lag May Cause Stupidity
Twitter Reputation scores
Roku get Hulu Plus Support
Snoop sticks - track your friends with a USB drive
Math is the key to a (financially) successful marriage
Idiocracy the allegory for our times
5 Fresh Places to Find Online Video (but where are the 5 stale places, Miller Lite?)
How do you expect a company that can't spell "light" to make a good beer?
Startup Bubble or Startup Boom?
Barack Obama: Great president or greatest president ever?
Altoona boots the PA East West High School All Star football game
Oh, PLOT holes
10 best dystopian novels

Everything to Excess

Civilization V is coming

On Sept. 21, Civ 5 will be released. Casey Johnston thoughtfully wrote up The history of Civilization: 20 years of Wonders for Ars Technica. While I'm not even sure I have a computer that will play Civ V, I am hoping to get to play within the next few months. I still enjoy BTS, though, so that will have to keep me occupied for the time being.