{"id":797,"date":"2008-11-18T15:35:43","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T20:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=797"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:05:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:05:42","slug":"delayed-linkdump-2429","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"Delayed Linkdump #2429"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wayneandwax\/36822693\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/26\/36822693_df49227b33_m_d.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/26\/36822693_df49227b33_m_d.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/26\/36822693_df49227b33_m_d.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Changed my wordpress password over the weekend, which threw off my semi-automatic <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\">delicious<\/a> blogging (aka, <a href=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?tag=linkthink\">linkthink<\/a>). So here&#8217;s a semi-manual collection of yesterday&#8217;s links &#8212;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/webonly\/14\/11\/2008\/zize01_.html\">      LRB \u00b7 Slavoj \u017di\u017eek: Use Your Illusions<br \/>\n<\/a>      looks like zizek caught the hope (kinda); here is a sneeze: &#8220;Nothing was decided with Obama\u2019s victory, but it widens our freedom and thereby the scope of our decisions. No matter what happens, it will remain a sign of hope in our otherwise dark times, a sign that the last word does not belong to realistic cynics, from the left or the right.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mcsweeneys.net\/2008\/11\/14johnston.html\">McSweeney&#8217;s Internet Tendency: Noted Post-Marxist Sociologist, Philosopher, and Cultural Critic Slavoj \u017di\u017eek Welcomes You to the Gym.<\/a>\n<p>      &#8216; Exercise allows us to engage in these repetitive motions without having to question why. The superego asks the id, &#8220;What are you doing? Don&#8217;t make me look stupid,&#8221; and then the ego and id respond, &#8220;Go to bed, old man. I am working out like Olivia Newton-John!&#8221; &#8216;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"www.souljazzrecords.co.uk\/releases\/?id=13647\">Soul Jazz Records \u2014 Dancehall &#8211; Album \u2014 The Rise Of Jamaican Dancehall Culture<\/a>\n<p>      this looks great, as does the beth lesser book it accompanies &#8212; can&#8217;t wait to page through that with these chunes banging in the background<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"swedenburg.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/kufiya-note-7078-plus-turban-and-hijab.html\">hawgblawg: kufiya note #7078 (plus turban and hijab chic)<\/a>\n<p>      ted swedenburg stays on his kufiya-spotting grind, here noting a profusion of related fashion trends, including the rise\/return of the turban, hijab, and pashmina<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twankleandglisten.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/slap.html\">      Twankle &#038; Glisten: Slap<br \/>\n<\/a>      <\/p>\n<p>      kid slizzard rounds up a few bmore\/youtube edits :: these are really quite entertaining, definitely some next level remixing :: i like what he sez &#8212; &#8220;these straight-chop video interpretations of Baltimore club tracks are the only way I&#8217;ve seen an unadulterated sample being ..uh.. sampled. Such great rap synthesthesia &#8230;&#8221; :: and, oh yeah, that chappelle shit is hilarious<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/theelephantschild.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/when-theres-arab-money.html\">The Elephants Child: When theres Arab Money&#8230;&#8230;<\/a>\n<p>      rachel runs down some riffs around &#8220;arab money,&#8221; from the narcicyst&#8217;s biting response to busta&#8217;s own defense (i hate that talk of different &#8220;cultures&#8221; &#8212; isn&#8217;t the point that this all falls under global capitalism?!), to an &#8216;unrelated&#8217; video featuring &#8220;al qaeda jada&#8221;?!?! weirdnessesesses<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbs.tv\/video.php?id=1906944911\">MUSIC WORLD &#8211; BUCHAMAN &#8211; Part 1 of 5 &#8211; VBS.TV<\/a>\n<p>      VBS.TV does it again, this time with a fascinating look at a dancehall crew in uganda, dabbling in local governance?!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"music.aol.ca\/article\/rise-of-the-singing-robots\/414406\/\">T-Pain and the Rise of the Singing Robots &#8211; AOL Music Canada<\/a>\n<p>nice lil piece on the rise of autotune as the new reverb, w\/ a kicker quotation from s\u00f1r \/rupture: &#8216;But in Rupture\u2019s view, autotuning is a means of augmenting, not stealing soul. \u201cThere\u2019s something very humanizing about Auto-Tune. 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I live in a world saturated by electronics and we\u2019re finding a way to make that sing.\u201d &#8216;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>videyoga ::<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IYP_MgWF8hw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IYP_MgWF8hw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changed my wordpress password over the weekend, which threw off my semi-automatic delicious blogging (aka, linkthink). 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