Month: January 2012
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Rotten Apple employed children at Foxconn
Local and mainland Chinese university students, dressed as the Foxconn workers and the mock Ipad with skeleton print as they try to block the customers at an Apple Premium Reseller shop in Hong Kong Saturday, May 7, 2011.They protest against the Foxconn and Apple for the dire working conditions of workers. (Photo credit: AP Photo/Kin…
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Gastronomy 101: The Meat Planet
What? You never knew about the Meat Planet? What do they teach at school these days? Thankfully Carl Sagan’s here to tell you about this beefy gastronomical marvel.
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Etta James RIP
Damn it seems a day for RIPs – seems yesterday that I was posting about her Guns and Roses cover but Etta James has died…here is her probably most famous cover, I’d Rather Go Blind. Much covered, never bettered….
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Jimmy Castor RIP
We’re gonna go back, way back, to the song that became a massive b-boy, scratch DJ and sampled favourite, It’s Just Begun by Jimmy Castor because he died a few days ago 🙁 You might not know Jimmy but you’ll probably know the people who sampled him, from Trogolodyte (used for the intro to my…
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DOOMTREE! BANGARANG! All these rappers sound the same…
Aha…obviously been bubbling under for a while but Minneapolis hiphop collective Doomtree’s Bangarang has a proper video with an appearance from ‘Karaoke’ Crasher (should be more Karaoke Streaker in this video) Har Mar Superstar with beard. Yay, Catchy yet intelligent (ie. not making like pre bay-b Jay-z) hiphop!…and a great video. And thankfully nothing to…