Kidd Kidd, "From Here" @9:40 AM
While there's much that's different, the similarities between Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake in Haiti are as impossible to ignore as they are uncomfortable to consider. New Orleans rapper Kidd Kidd makes the connection himself at the end of his new video, "From Here." 0
The 'Mine' Magazine Experiment: Kill All Magazines Now @12:31 PM
I subscribed to that Mine magazine thing, a project of Time Inc. which unfortunately is not a trade publication about ore extraction. It is instead a magazine that assembles bits of other magazines to make a magazine that speaks to you, about your needs! I tried it out because Farhad Manjoo earnestly liked it. And here is what I got. READ MORE 14
Horrifying Seattle PI Web Launch Party Astounds @10:30 AM
This account of the launch party for SeattlePI.com, which is the website that used to be a newspaper in Seattle, is so horrifying. For just one thing, it's disturbing to find out that the editor of their site's most popular blog ("by a factor of 10") has a day job! What the fuck! They can't pay him a living wage? (Secondarily, his day job is installing software for a military contractor. Which means he works for Skynet.) Anyway, everything else about this party is so much worse! 6
