Photo taken and Flickrfied by my clever colleague Novak Rogic. More photos tagged with “eclipse”.

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Rationing rock and roll tickets… I heard the news Friday night – Tom Waits was adding another show to his upcoming performance in Vancouver (a show at the Orpheum Theatre that had sold out before I’d even heard about it)… one of only two stops he has scheduled for North America this year. The new […]

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Oh my, this is groovy. Free MP3’s by The Fall, freshened every three weeks or so courtesy of the The Fall Multimedia Project. Update: now offline, alas. And they link to a Video Archive that looks chock-full of rich, chocolatey goodness. Via Vinyl Mine (which is itself laden with sonic delights).

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… or maybe not, lest we be forced to recognise that our actions have effects. What’s usually so lovely about bad weather, especially for television, is that it has all the visual action of war — lots of filmable disaster, plenty of casualties, vistas of damage, cartloads of close-ups of human pain — without the […]

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There’s been a fair bit of flapping about the credentialing of about thirty webloggers for this year’s Democratic Convention (a smaller number will likely be at the GOP shindig). I liked David Weinberger’s early take: This event marks the day that blogging became something else. Exactly what isn’t clear yet, and the culture clash is […]

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