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2005

American Edit: Dean Gray Tuesday

The mashup artists, known collectively as Dean Gray, posted a mashup of Green Day’s American Idiot album in late November.

Within 10 days, Green Day’s label, Warner Music, sent Dean Gray a takedown notice. Today, Tues. Dec. 13th, is American Edit day, when websites all over the globe host the MP3’s for download. Not for commercial gain, but to share and enjoy Green Day’s music, dubbed with other music, to promote Green Day.

Hit the link above to grab a download link, or surf on over to my other website where I’ve posted the files individually and as one archive (in tar.gz format).

If you’re into other mashups, Lock3down has American Edit for download, as well as some other interesting mashups.

Must-Have Firefox Extensions

Wired has an article up with the must-have extensions for Firefox. (You haved moved on from using Internet Explorer, right? If you haven’t, shame on you, and switch to Firefox now.

Extensions are a great way to make a great browser even better. Browse how you want, and take control of the experience, from tabs to tagging to just plain fun stuff.

And in related news, the Firefox team has launched their newest campaign, encouraging everyone to videotape their testimonial and send it in! This campaign is timed with the newest release of everyone’s favorite browser, Firefox 1.5.

Pack Wins!

Driving in a car for just over 10 hours over a 24 hour period, to watch a 3.5 hour game was worth it – the Packers actually won a game this season.

While cold, it wasn’t nearly as bad as the game 3 years ago, and I only bought one hot chocolate this time.

Definitely worth it.

Off to Lambeau

I am off for a 5-6 hour drive to Green Bay to see the Packers take on the Lions. This is the latest in the season the NFL has scheduled a night game in Green Bay, the previous being Dec. 8th 2002 against the Vikings, which I was also at, and was extremely cold (I was complaining by the end of the first quarter, some Cheesehead I am).

MPAA censors film about itself

How do you stop a film that exposes how the film industry assigns a rating (G, PG, PG-13, R) to a film?

Rate the film NC-17. Rating a film NC-17 stops the movie from being advertised, limits which theaters will even show it, and effectively censors the message.

The Independent Film Channel (IFC) has stepped up and will show it uncut in Fall 2006, after the film’s debut at Sundance this January.

The film industry is broken – from the hypocrisy in how it rates films to how what films are made to it’s excuses why total revenue is down. And this just highlights how Big Media continues to abuse its power.

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Public Relations is a machine

I try not to talk about work on the blog for a number of reasons, one being that I work in Marketing for a Fortune 100 company. There are times when my personal beliefs might clash with my corporate responsibilities.

However, with that said, here is a fascinating story about the power of public relations firms.

As someone who has used PR as a tactic, the article is pretty damn close to the truth. This paragraphy in particular struck me, and I thought the author’s conclusions about PR and the blogosphere are right on. I’ll leave you with the quote:

I didn’t realize, till there was an alternative, just how artificial most of the writing in the mainstream media was. I’m not saying I used to believe what I read in Time and Newsweek. Since high school, at least, I’ve thought of magazines like that more as guides to what ordinary people were being told to think than as sources of information. But I didn’t realize till the last few years that writing for publication didn’t have to mean writing that way. I didn’t realize you could write as candidly and informally as you would if you were writing to a friend.

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Fight the Power

Just recently, I had mentioned Senator Feingold on the blog, and here is more proof that he gets it.

As Congress gets closer to extending the police state that is the Patriot Act, Senator Feingold says:

“I will do everything I can, including a filibuster, to stop this Patriot Act conference report, which does not include adequate safeguards to protect our constitutional freedoms,” said Sen. Russ Feingold (news, bio, voting record), D-Wis., who was the only senator to vote against the original version of the Patriot Act.

Secret laws requiring identification for interstate travel, wiretaps without judicial review, secret reviews of what books you check out from a library or you buy, and other invasions of privacy are about to be extended for another four years.

Talk to your representatives in Congress, and let them know it’s wrong.

Next Generation Consoles



Next Generation Consolles, originally uploaded by ez3kiel.

Sure, it’s photoshopped together, but this gives you a gut feel for the size of 3rd generation consoles.

The more I think about it, the sexier the PS3 gets. And the lamer Revolution is.

I should post some 360 thoughts after playing with one this weekend.