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cool click-thru piece by ethnoid bill boyer on the ipod & ipod shuffle & capitalism, subjectivity, etc. etc. :: "As a recovering liberal individualist who once unquestioningly subscribed to the epistemological framework posited by a Western, visually constructed notion of subjectivity, I am wary of any activity that unknowingly contributes to the perpetuation of that framework as universal. In many ways the consumption of the iPod parallels my road trip, and I want to question the unreflexive relationship to technology and society that I see iPod users demonstrating in the streets and subways of New York City and elsewhere."
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nice set of links to "useful" stats c/o the CIA factbook, incl figures on internet hosts & users
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nice roundup of anthro-related blogs, organized by category :: flattered to see w&w show up here :: lots of links to dig into…
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kid slizzard sez — "The best vintage gangsta-walk footage I've seen web-wise … Its hard to remember this was the raw stuff of inspiration for MC Hammer." — and he's not joking
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jamaica-born heavy D released a reggae album, and it's pretty good actually :: of course, i've known heavy could rock a reggae beat since he told us all, "me is a man not in a hurry / me like me chicken and me goat well curry"
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a nice riff on this year's hate-it-or-love-it technology — "Autotune makes people angry because it threatens some of the myths we have about musicality: that it’s a special talent, that only exceptional people have it and everyone else lacks it, that there’s something noble and admirable in the lifetime of discipline it requires. When Lil Wayne goes into a recording studio, smokes a blunt or three and freestyles a track off the top of his head, it calls our European-descended assumptions about romantic musical heroism into question."
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a DJ is suspended in the UK for playing "Arab Money" — quite a discussion ensues below
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as has been pointed out, this video is tres cool (and it's even cooler that the maker released the source code) :: what was striking to me tho, natch, is how jay reps the BK inna JA accent during the first verse — that sort of thing is pretty unremarkable at this point, which is, in its own right, remarkable
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