Discovered at http://www.openculture.com
Tumbleweed
A tumbleweed is the above-ground part of a plant that, once mature and dry, disengages from the root and tumbles away in the wind.
Last.fm Musical Compatibility Game
Join the game by clicking “Comments” and visit the profile posted last. Find out what your musical compatibility is (you have to be logged into last.fm) then post it below. Then leave your user name for the next person!
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Here were the people that nobody wanted anything from at all. This was where they gathered for shelter until they were periodically shooed out. There was something people wanted from them, in fact – their absence. That was in hot demand, but not easily supplied. Everybody has to be somewhere.
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The SixtyOne Mosh Pit
What is The SixtyOne? (http://www.thesixtyone.com)
t61 is a social music website where you can discover new music. You give your favourite music hearts to help the musicans get the attention you think they deserve, for this effort you are rewarded with reputation which helps you get up to the next level. Another way of gaining reputation is to receive achievements, such as the mosh pit. Mosh pit is achieved by listening to t61 when there are at least 5000 other listeners. Today a more or less organized attempt at achieving mosh pit has already started:
See: http://www.electrofreakspresent.com/
I’ve tried to use Twitter, and the hashtag #tsomp, to promote this event, see my other blog at:
http://runeblogg.blogspot.com/2009/06/thesixtyone-mosh-pit.html
songs to make you happy
Bobby McFerrin – “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”
Katrina And The Waves – “Walking On Sunshine”
Frank Sinatra – “The Coffee Song”
Sly & The Family Stone – “Dance to the Music”
Martha and The Vandellas – “Dancing in the Street”
Bachman-Turner Overdrive – “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”
Thin Lizzy – “The Boys Are Back in Town”
more coming…
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