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Battle of the Beards

by Xaviar XerexesJune 27, 2013

English Facial Hair Versus American Facial Hair! Comics Curmudgeon Versus Music Mensch! There is a great article on Rick Rubin in the Daily Beast. Rubin has produced an eclectic range of bands — his most recent effort producing the new Black Sabbath album. I remember hearing about this guy when the first Beastie Boys album came out and there was a swirl of comments about how much he did on License to Ill versus the Beastie Boys themselves. He’s gone from rap to rock and back again — he’s not only produced Sabbath but Kanye’s latest album. This guy produced Adele …

Carl Malamud: Free the Blue Book!

by Xaviar XerexesJune 27, 2013

Boing Boing wrote up Carl Malamud’s latest project – this one to convince the law school owners of the standard for legal citation, The Bluebook, to donate it back to the public. Here’s the broader issue of which The Bluebook is but a piece. The LAW is a written system of rules for society — procedurally a collection of systems has evolved that we are kind of stuck with unless we collectively convince ourselves to move to something better: more efficient, more open, etc. (Much like VOTING which in the U.S. as a reality is a kludge of systems and …

Max Landis Does Not Like Man of Steel

by Xaviar XerexesJune 25, 2013

I think Max has a pretty good point here: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw_GlYve_Lg?rel=0] Also, he wrote Chronicle which I thought was a pretty cool movie.

A Non-Optimized Timeline

by Xaviar XerexesJune 21, 2013

Very cool talk about time travel and the world’s most important invention by Ryan “Dyno-SAUR!” North at TED-UT: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb09RYnSNOw?rel=0]

British Baseball Telecast

by Xaviar XerexesJune 17, 2013

Almost as funny as this video are the YouTube commenters who thought it was a real sportscast. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKY5fmDGVLs?rel=0] UPDATE: Same take on the NFL! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW4J-RiCZ2Q&w=560&h=315] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kdlHaNdSps&w=560&h=315]