Touch It

I watch it over and over but can’t stop giggling.

Cloudy Future

The pundits would have you believe that our entire computing experience will move to the cloud any day now. I don’t believe it.

Backlash?

Is the party over for SXSW, Twitter or social media in general? Or could it be that the trend noticed by the Times (a bit late in my opinion) is simply the same reaction that’s gotten bores and clods stricken off guest lists for time immemorial?

Let Me Go

Continuing my spelunking of Vevo, one of my fave club hits from early 80s. I don’t recall the Heaven 17 video getting that much airplay so I’m thrilled to find a good-quality version.

Town Called Malice

I got the Vevo HD app for the iPad months ago but never really looked at it. For some reason, I decided to look for a music video a few days ago and pulled it out. So many faves from those long ago days when MTV primarily played obscure (for the US) Brit pop. Human League. Madness. Culture Club. The Psychedelic Furs, The Clash. U2. Eurythmics. And, of course, The Jam. Could anyone be cooler than Paul Weller? Well except for David Bowie, of course.

Oh Maybe

I might go look at the iPad 2 tonight or tomorrow morning after all. I know I said it seemed boring after the intro. But I’ve got to admit that the new cover trick seems slick. And I got to thinking (never a good sign) that I might get more for the original iPad if I try to sell it while the warranty has a few weeks left.

No Such Thing As Bad Publicity?

The good folks at Nestle might disagree with you today.

“Colonel Qaddafi, speaking in an impassioned 30-minute phone call to a Libyan television station…blamed the uprising on the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, saying he had drugged the people, giving them ‘hallucinogenic pills in their coffee with milk, like Nescafe.'” —nytimes.com

I Know What You Want

Unless you’ve spent significant time in and around New Orleans, there are a few things you need to understand before this clip. 1) Mardi Gras is almost upon us. 2) The New Orleans King Cake is a sickeningly sweet coffee cake, garishly decorated and served during Mardi Gras. 3) A baby doll aka Baby Jesus is baked in and whoever gets the baby has to buy the next King Cake and/or host the next Mardi Gras party. Mmmm. Now on with the show.

There are several more in this brilliant series. I’d go watch them. (Thanks, Shari.)

Worst U.S. President of 20th Century?

Nixon? Hoover? Coolidge? Harding? They each have compelling reasons to be called the worst but I’m going out on a limb and picking Ronald Reagan.

That’s right, the “Gipper” sucked.

I know. you’re revving up the hate mail machines but look at the facts first.

Reagan was a hypocrite. He campaigned on a platform of smaller government and lower taxes. Yet under his administration the size of the government ballooned, the federal deficit went through the roof and he had to raise taxes several times.

Reagan was a criminal. A little scandal called Iran Contra. He approved the illicit sale of arms to Iran. Then proceeds from those sales bankrolled a secret war to overthrow Nicaragua’s democratically-elected government. He should have gone to jail.

Reagan was a sham. He charmed the masses into supporting policies that go against their best interests. His policies continue to allow the rich to get even richer, at the expense of the working and middle classes whose wages have been essentially static for decades. He cut the safety nets and allowed thousands of mentally ill to wind up homeless on the streets of our cities. And he labeled ketchup as a vegetable for calculating the nutrition of school lunches.

I’m proud to say I voted against him in both 1980 and 1984. Fat lot of good that did though.

Listen: Wild Nothing “Golden Haze”

I just heard this track on the IndieFeed podcast (a bit behind the curve, I admit) and immediately had to own it. The YouTube video above is kind of lame but it has cleaner audio than the band’s official MySpace page.