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Macworld’s Editor Jason Snell postulates on the future of iPods: Is this the beginning, middle, or end of a trend to photograph statues with iPods attached to them? Can the Lincoln Memorial or, more importantly, the Sun God be far behind? But Cyrus is far from the only person walking the campus of UC Berkeley, iPod in hand. Today’s edition of the Berkeley campus newspaper the Daily Californian features an amusing opinion column by Anna Kaufman about being one of…

It’s for the cultural events: The Fula From America: An African Journey by Carlyle Brown directed by Louise Smith March 4-27, Thursday & Saturdays, 8pm Tickets: $15-22 sliding scale A solo show based on writer/performer Carlyle Brown’s own travels in West Africa. The Fula From America is the story of one African-American’s search for an African identity. Set in 1981 the traveler sets off alone on an adventurous journey that takes him through Senegal, Mali, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and Sierra…

[Via Dan Gillmor] No joke. You are bidding on an auction who’s sole purpose is to offer nothing. Bidders will recieve absolutely nothing upon winning this auction, save the usual emails alerting them that they have won and instructions for payment. Despite this auction being for nothing, winning bidders are still expected to pay. Buyers who do not submit payment in a timely fashion will get negative feedback. It is requested that winning bidders submit payment along with an email…

So I usually don’t listen to American rap, but I will say that “The Grey Album” is pretty interesting. Today is Grey Tuesday, meaning that for 24 hours, various websites are posting DJ Danger Mouse’s “The Grey Album” on their sites in its entirety to protest EMI’s decision to censor this work. “The Grey Album” is a great mixture of The Beatles’ 1968 “The White Album” and Jay-Z’s “The Black Album”. Anyway, if you have a few minutes, go snag…

This one goes out to my buddy Aaron , a fellow John Edwards fan. I propose this song as John Edwards’ new theme song. The phrase “left and right” takes on new meaning when you take it from boxing and put it to politics. Whaddya think? “The Contender” Royal Crown Revue The lights are spinnin’ I gotta get myself up off the floor My head is ringin’ Bet they think I can’t take too much more The crowd is howlin’…

“In San Francisco, it is license for marriage of same sex. Maybe the next thing is another city that hands out licenses for assault weapons and someone else hands out licenses for selling drugs, I mean you can’t do that,” [Gov.] Schwarzenegger said Sunday on NBC. As quoted in the LA Times today.

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So I’ve been procrastinating today, mostly ignoring my Econ study that I should be doing, reading my classmates’ thesis chapter drafts (to my credit I did one), and have just been messing around online and playing with my blog. Tomorrow I will hit the Econ full-force and am going to the SLC review on Monday. Rachel and I watched You Only Live Twice last night (well, we finished it this morning), which rocked. Ninjas flip out and kill people in…

Yesterday was pretty busy. I ditched Farsi in the morning in favor of sleeping, headed over to my grandparents’ house for Thursday interviews (which didn’t happen — we had lunch and I played the doting grandson extraordinaire (ie, Mac consultant for free)), headed to Econ lecture, handed off the tickets to the John Caroll lecture to Sunaree , and finally met up with Garett for a focus group on Cal Dining. In exchange for “dinner” (read: two pieces of mediocre…

Wow. I sit before my laptop, ready to write about this really interesting Salon article about life inside the Green Zone in Baghdad, and my iTunes playlist pulls up Percy Grainger’s Colonial Song at random. Heh. Even funnier is that this song, written by an Australian, is a slow, lyrical tune which seems to me to express longing and homage to his homeland — which I doubt is much how the CPA employees feel that Jen Banbury writes about. Anyway,…