{"id":929,"date":"2008-12-04T20:03:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T01:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=929"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:05:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:05:19","slug":"links-for-2008-12-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"Odes on a Popular Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wayneandwax\/2966389770\/in\/set-808243\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3023\/2966389770_5b74639df2_d.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tft.ucla.edu\/mediascape\/Spring07_iPod.html\">Mediascape | A Curious Circumstance of the iPod Shuffle | by Bill Bahng Boyer<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">cool click-thru piece by ethnoid bill boyer on the ipod &amp; ipod shuffle &amp; capitalism, subjectivity, etc. etc. :: &quot;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.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/ipod\">ipod<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/apple\">apple<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/design\">design<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/marxism\">marxism<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/capitalism\">capitalism<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/commodity_fetish\">commodity_fetish<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/subjectivity\">subjectivity<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/feminism\">feminism<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/mobile\">mobile<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/tech\">tech<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/philosophy\">philosophy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/anthropology\">anthropology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/ethnomusicology\">ethnomusicology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/academic\">academic<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/analysis\">analysis<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/critique\">critique<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/flaneury\">flaneury<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/global\">global<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/media\">media<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/newyork\">newyork<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlineuniversities.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/57-awesome-things-you-can-find-in-the-public-cia-factbook\/\">57 Awesome Things You Can Find in the (Public) CIA FactBook | Online Universities.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">nice set of links to &quot;useful&quot; stats c\/o the CIA factbook, incl figures on internet hosts &amp; users<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/statistics\">statistics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/global\">global<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/demographics\">demographics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/tech\">tech<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/but_the_cia_is_still_evil\">but_the_cia_is_still_evil<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlineuniversities.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/top-100-anthropology-blogs\/\">Top 100 Anthropology Blogs | Online Universities.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">nice roundup of anthro-related blogs, organized by category :: flattered to see w&amp;w show up here :: lots of links to dig into&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/anthropology\">anthropology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/blog\">blog<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/list\">list<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/academic\">academic<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twankleandglisten.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/memphis-dec-7-1991.html\">Twankle &amp; 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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.&quot;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/autotune\">autotune<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/hip-hop\">hip-hop<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/art\">art<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/pop\">pop<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/tech\">tech<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/production\">production<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/aesthetics\">aesthetics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/eurocentrism\">eurocentrism<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/blogpost\">blogpost<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/allhiphop.com\/stories\/news\/archive\/2008\/12\/03\/20733780.aspx\">AllHipHop.com Daily News &#8211; : DJ Suspended Over Busta&#039;s &#039;Arab Money&#039;; Busta Replies To Critics<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">a DJ is suspended in the UK for playing &quot;Arab Money&quot; &#8212; quite a discussion ensues below<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/hip-hop\">hip-hop<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/DJ\">DJ<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/censorship\">censorship<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/arab\">arab<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/representation\">representation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/orientalism\">orientalism<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/middleeast\">middleeast<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/islam\">islam<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/race\">race<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/debate\">debate<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilike.com\/artist\/Jay-Z\/videos\/254047002\">Jay-Z on iLike<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">as has been pointed out, this video is tres cool (and it&#039;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 &#8212; that sort of thing is pretty unremarkable at this point, which is, in its own right, remarkable<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/brooklyn\">brooklyn<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/jay-z\">jay-z<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/video\">video<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/jamaica\">jamaica<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/accent\">accent<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/wayneandwax\/representation\">representation<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>videyoga :: (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cocaineblunts.com\/blunts\/?p=1539\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"448\" height=\"374\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/videos.onsmash.com\/e\/aMDek9FUw9nZ2b5K\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullscreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowNetworking\" value=\"all\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/videos.onsmash.com\/e\/aMDek9FUw9nZ2b5K\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullscreen=\"true\" allowNetworking=\"all\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"448\" height=\"374\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mediascape | A Curious Circumstance of the iPod Shuffle | by Bill Bahng Boyer cool click-thru piece by ethnoid bill boyer on the ipod &amp; 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