Well deserved tribute CD

The best punk-rock band you've never heard of (OK, since only my friends and family read this, you've all heard of them!) finally get their due:
Blue Hearts Super Tribute

SNL book

Looks somewhat interesting:
Gasping for Airtime : Two Years in the Trenches of Saturday Night Live

Semisonic memoir

Add to the must read list:
Amazon.com: Books: So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star: How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life

Hardware Hacks

Haven't seen this yet but evidently you can hack an Atari 2600!

Amazon.com: Books: Hardware Hacking: Have Fun While Voiding Your Warranty

Amo la musica di colpo secco!

Take the words to "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang.
Paste them into Bablefish, the automatic translator.
Translate the lyrics from English to Italian.
Translate 'em back to English.
Laugh at the results:
AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION: "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang

Lost In The Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide To The Music You Missed

A new collection from Kim Cooper and company:
Lost In The Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide To The Music You Missed
It's not out yet, but the Library Journal review was glowing.
Another one by the same author is "Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth."
I have a request for this one and will be reading it in a week.
I'll let you know what I think.

Audio for days, weeks, months, years...

I first hit this site when I found their awesome collection of Halloween songs: Ghouls with attitude I think I recognized maybe four of the songs on this 51 track comp! It's well work a look.
Moreover, it looks like there's hardly an end to the variety of music they've posted.

Oddio Overplay

What the hell am I going to do?

So much for planning on buying the Mobile Investigation Crime Lab.
My hero has let me down:

Rejected Ad Campaigns

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Ad Graveyard

More fun with Conspriacy theories

George Bush Bulges