Today's Rotation (10 songs I heard during the course of my day)

Judas Priest - You Got Another Thing Coming
Big Star - The India Song
Amboy Dukes - Baby Please Don't Go
Department S - Is Vic There?
The Pogues - Dark Streets of London
The New Main Street Singers - The Good Book Song
Pine Valley Cosmonauts - Oh Death
Sidney Bechet - Viper Mad
Steven Jesse Bernstein - The Sport
Nick Cave - Stranger Than Kindness
The Clash - Rudie Can't Fail

musicplasma : the music visual search engine

Quite an interesting way to display visual data:
musicplasma : the music visual search engine
I tried a couple of searches and though I agree that I like the connecting artists it came up with, I'm not sure this would be the case every time.
I tried searching on Nick Lowe and Jonathan Richman, got a lot of obvious relevance matches like Dave Edmunds, Rockpile, etc., but I'm not sure this would be the case every time.

Social Security posts the Popular baby names for last year

The newest data from the social Security Administration:
Popular baby names
I also love the feature where you can see the 1000 most popular names for any given year.

Today's Rotation (10 songs I heard during the course of my day)

The Paragons - The Tide is High
Planet of the Apes Soundtrack - The Hunt
Jay Ferguson - Thunder Island (YUCK!)
They Might Be Giants - We're the Replacements
Lennie Hibbert - Village Soul
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - Make it Good to Me

Google Fight : Make a fight with Googlefight

Google Fight : Make a fight with Googlefight
I'm probably way behind the curve on this one but thought this was a great idea.

Today's Rotation (10 songs I heard during the course of my day)

The Who - Sunrise
The Jayhawks - All the Right Reasons
10,000 Spoons - Four Hoarsemen (from London Booted) see here: http://patrese4.valuehost.co.uk/londonbooted.htm
The Buzzcocks - I Don't Mind
Big Audio Dynamite - Just Play Music!
Iggy Pop - Repo Man
Brinsley Schwartz - Hypocrite
Toots Thielemans - Yesterday
Dukes Of Stratosphear - The Affiliated
Jona Lewie - You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties

Today's Rotation (10 songs I heard during the course of my day)

Sorry for not doing this for a while; I've been away from the office where I can play music while working....

The Clash - Janie Jones
Badly Drawn Boy - Disillusion
Elvis Costello - Radio, Radio (Saturday Night Live appearance)
Replacements - If I Only Had a Brain (bootleg; maybe from CBGBs, 1984. Still working though the provenance of a bunch of 'Mats bootlegs I have)
Too Much Joy - My Past Lives
Led Zeppelin - In the Evening
Beck - Paper Tiger
Steve Goodman - Lincoln Park Pirates
Big Star - Thirteen
Motorhead - White line Fever

I ususally just set my WinAmp client to play tracks randomly. For some reason, this was a very 80s day.

Turn the Pages

Kelly at Swarthmore hipped me to the British Library's project to digitize the treasures of their collection:
http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation3.html
Very cool indeed.

Yahoo! News - Ex-Pogues Singer MacGowan Assaulted in London Pub

Yahoo! News - Ex-Pogues Singer MacGowan Assaulted in London Pub

Regrets, I've Had a Few

Like getting rid of my Atari 2600 and around 60 carts, custom controllers, and all my manuals and catalogs. So now I spend my time trying to recreate my setup. Take a look at this:
Stelladaptor 2600 to USB Interface
If you have an emulator, like x26, you can now use the actual controllers to play!