Some of these are hysterical:

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via Flixxy

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I've been outside. It's overrrated.    

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"In terms of the social environment, almost anything goes. Outside has a vast network of guilds, many of its players are active participants in designing the game's social environment, and almost any player will be able to find company to undertake their desired group quests. On the other hand, gold-buying is rife, the outskirts of virtually every city zone in the game are completely overrun by farmers, and the developers have so far proven themselves reluctant to answer petitions, intervene in inter-player disputes, or nerf broken skills and abilities. Indeed this reviewer will go so far as to say that the developers are absent from the game entirely, and have left it to its own devices. Fortunately, server uptime has been 100% from day 1, despite there being only one server for literally billions of players.

On the whole, Outside is overrated, and many gamers will find themselves forced by friends and family to play it against their will, but it still deserves a high rating. I give it 7/10, and look forward to improvements in future patches."

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Acoustic Demo of the song, 1968:

Other lesser versions after the jump.

McCartney Live

These compilations of old clips that attempt to approximate a video never seem to get it right (i.e., this is McCartney,not Lennon singing)

As you can see, many of these images long predate the White Album.

At the 3:45 minute mark, you can see McCartney perform the song at the Grammys.

Given the song and the band, you would think U2 could really crush this song.  U2 Helter Skelter from Rattle and Hum. You'd be wrong.

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Great moments in Advertising:

Thanks, Prieur!

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Click for ginormous map:

Courtesy of NYT

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Source:
Record Stores Fight to Be Long-Playing
BEN SISARIO
NYT, April 18, 2008   
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/arts/music/18reco.html

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The Economist offered up another free 4 week trial for Big Picture readers, so I am passing it along.

As I was kicking around their site, I came across this brilliant animated video:

Here's your link for the free trial

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Its primary day in Pennsylvania"

Source:

Fight Leaves Democrats Questioning Prospects
JEFF ZELENY
NYT, April 16, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/us/politics/16obama.html

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via YouTube

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The latest advertising campaign in Mexico from Swedish vodka maker Absolut promises to push all the right buttons south of the U.S. border, but it could ruffle a few feathers in El Norte.

Source:
Mexico reconquers California? Absolut drinks to that!
LA Plaza
L.A.Times, April 03, 2008
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2008/04/mexico-reconque.html

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It was shown on ABC's 20/20, but with Elizabeth Vargus talking over the entire piece!!! But thanks to the magic of non-linear editing I was able to place a recording of "Hey Bulldog" over the 20/20 piece.

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Click for ginormous map:

Courtesy of NYT

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Source:
Record Stores Fight to Be Long-Playing
BEN SISARIO
NYT, April 18, 2008   
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/arts/music/18reco.html

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Great commercial via the Discovery Channel: I Love the World

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via kottke

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Tom Toles via Yahoo.

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   Financial Blogs Aggregated

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Here comes the sun:

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Amusing:

via Scott Simpson's yourmonkeycalled.

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Amusing photo!

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Poodwaddle.com

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This video was filmed quite close to the end of the Beatles run . . .

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The move away from gated content towards free continues apace. Cartoonists, Magazines and newspapers are offer their extensive archives -- both online and for sale on DVD -- dating as far back as the 1850s.

Jason Kottke describes this as "an incredible record of recent human history, the ideas, people, and events that have shaped our country and world as recorded by writers, photographers, editors, illustrators, advertisers, and designers who lived through those times."

• Harper's Magazine offers their entire archive online, from 1850 to 2008. Most of it is only available to the magazine's subscribers.

• The NY Times provides their entire archive online, most of it for free.

• Time Magazine has their entire archive online for free, from 1923 to the present.

• Sports Illustrated has all their issues online for free, dating back to 1954.

• The Atlantic Monthly offers all their articles since Nov 1995 and a growing number from their archive dating back to 1857 for free.

• The Washington Post has archives going back to 1877. (Not free)

• The New Yorker has free archives on their site going back to 2001, although only some of the articles are included. All of their articles, dating back to 1925, are available on The Complete New Yorker DVD set for $40.

• Rolling Stone offers some of their archive online but the entire archive (from 1967 to 2007) is available as a 4-DVD set for $79.

• Mad Magazine released a 2-DVD set of every issue of the magazine from 1952-2006.

• Nature has their entire archive online, dating back to 1869.

Old media is slowly figuring out that more content equals more traffic, sometimes much more traffic.

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via The Week

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Brilliant

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via The Week

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9/11 Conspiracy Theories 'Ridiculous,' Al Qaeda Says

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Terrific new technology offering from the brainiacs at Google, allowing you to search precisely one day into the future.

Q: What about insider trading?
A: Let me search tomorrow's Google news to find out!

Excerpt:

A new Google program powered by artificial intelligence allows internet users to search web pages 24 hours before they're created, the company said today.

Google Australia said the new beta search technology which drives the gDay search feature can accurately predict future internet content – and even future events.

The gDay technology – developed in the company's Sydney engineering centre – uses machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques from a system called MATE, or Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation.

The feature then creates a sophisticated model of what the internet will look like 24 hours from a given point by using the company's index of historic, cached web content and a combination of recurrence plots and "fuzzy measure" analysis.

(rubbing hands gleefully together) Excellent !

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Source:
New Google search tool 'can see into future'
News Limited, April 01, 2008 06:30am
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,23460961-5014239,00.html

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