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Check here for the new Most Ridiculous Song Ever (bottom of the list, though there’s competition at the top). The fact that it is a remix of one of the other Top 10 Most Ridiculous Songs might seem unfair, but I really think that Mr. Kelly and the Cash Money Millionaires rose to new levels of foolishness here, especially with the blink-blonk-blink ‘Japanese’ noises in the beat and Mr. Kelly’s repeated random proclamations of “soo much money”.

The fact that this has rocketed to the upper reaches of my Most Played playlist in iTunes should in no way be interpreted as a blanket endorsement of booty-feeling. I continue to believe that booty-feeling is only appropriate in an environment of mutual respect and consent, although the presence of money in amounts equal to or exceeding “soo much” shall be recognized as implicit consent.

evan :: Mar.25.2005 :: NetBits :: 2 Comments »

I’ve been sitting on this for a few weeks, but I thought I should share it with all of you who have been desperately wondering what I thought about the beef between 50 Cent and The Game:

50 Cents Does More Shit On NYC Radio That I Don’t Give A Fuck About.

Mr. SergDun has graciously seen fit to cover almost everything that is wrong with the world of hip hop in this fair city. Not only does he make the all-important point that Hot97 is garbage, but he specifically points out that Funkmaster Flex is the head garbageman, spewing useless nonsense directly into our ears every day via the trunk-mounted woofers of Escalades everywhere. “#1 Station of Gossiping Bitches”, indeed. Well done, Serg, well done.

evan :: Mar.17.2005 :: NetBits :: 3 Comments »

Hunter roolz, Stuy droolz! HCHS senior David Bauer laid waste to the competition in this year’s Intel Science Talent Search. Not only did he devise a new method of neurotoxin screening, but the boy is raising funds for Liberia! Looks like he fell prey to Asumana’s glorious influence in the lab rooms, though, not on the soccer field.

Time to add one to the ol’ list of prestigious alumni, and wallow in the sheer magnitude of how not on it I am.

evan :: Mar.16.2005 :: NetBits :: 3 Comments »

On Thursday, April 7th, a bunch of interesting fellows will be giving a talk at the New York Public Library on “Who Owns Culture?” (via BoingBoing). I’ll be there and I hope some of you will join me. It’s $10 for regular humans (only $7 for Young Lions, though I hear you can use your Ancient Elephant or Sneaky Hyrax card, too). Anyone who reads some or all of Lessig’s latest book beforehand qualifies for bonus points.

I really like that this event is being hosted by NYPL, because libraries are the primary examples of how keeping copyright limited in both scope and duration has been enormously good for our society as a whole. I think the talk will probably focus on what rights we as a society have to make sure our collective creative output, our culture, is preserved for future generations. In Kembrew McLeod’s new book Freedom of Expression®, Rick Prelinger notes that copyrights on films now last longer than the physical medium of film. This means that if the rights to a film cannot be easily established and cleared, it is most likely the film will rot in its can before anyone will be allowed to archive it. Even when the media is not at risk, there is the very real danger of works just being forgotten. Copyright now extends for so long, and the period of commercial viability for most works is so short, that most works will slip out of the public consciousness entirely before anyone is allowed to distribute them freely and widely. Sure, many of those works might be better off forgotten, but I don’t think we should be making that decision for everyone who comes after us. We can archive it all, easily. We should let the kids in 3723 decide for themselves if they like Better Than Ezra or not.

evan :: Mar.02.2005 :: Notices :: 4 Comments »