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Native Son

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

u2log has the U2 Rare/Unreleased track list (from the 446-song digital box set on iTunes).

Note: Beautiful Day : Always :: Vertigo : Native Son

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Burninating the Lego men

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

Lego Trogdor

Update: In the same day that we have Lego Trogdor, we learn about actual burninating of knockoff Lego.

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Tsunami!

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

Information Age (Australia): RSS: For Geeks Only? “Machines work best with machine code and that’s what RSS is - a semantically useful format that an RSS reader (i.e., your agent) can use to help you deal with the information tsunami that is approaching.”

(That’s exactly the kind of purple prose I have to work so hard to avoid in my own writing.)

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Unusual.

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

That’s a really big … book, you have there…: “The first to comment was Skeletor the manager, who kept staring at the book as he rang up my order. I could tell he was going to say something, and eventually, he said, ‘Tom Jones, huh? I didn’t realize he wrote books. I thought he just sang those sexy songs. (wink, wink)’”

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Official: Houston Record Stores = Lame

Monday, November 22nd, 2004

It’s official. All Houston record stores are lame, lame, lame. I called all over town to see which stores would be selling How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (by U2, perhaps you’ve heard of them?) at midnight. The answer: zero. Cactus gets an ‘A’ for effort; they would be selling it, but their CD shipment has been delayed by our sudden monsoon. Failing grades go to Best Buy, Target, Wal-Mart (look how low I was willing to stoop!), and SoundWaves, which is surprising since I remember distinctly lining up outside the Montrose location to pick up the “Discothèque” single in ’97.

I will have to content myself with mp3s of this weekend’s SNL appearance, helpfully mirrored by the Coral peer-to-peer content distribution network:

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“One more?”

Sunday, November 21st, 2004

As the [SNL broadcast 11/20] ended, Bono could be heard saying, “One more?” as he returned to the stage.

A reader who attended the show tells us that the band gave an encore of three songs after the broadcast ended. They performed “All Because of You,” repeated “Vertigo” (without the countdown intro), and played a third song, which the reader cannot recall the title.

Can’t recall? Seriously?

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G-CANS

Sunday, November 21st, 2004

The G-CANS project has been making the rounds today, which by itself is not worth a mention here. The fact that the thing looks like a videogame—but is in fact a real flood-and-runoff-control system underneath Japan—is, in fact, noteworthy.

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