You have to love those Internet mysteries. The ones where someone uncovers some mysterious fragment of a historic artifact, and the Internet’s hive mind tries to uncover the mystery. Well, such a mystery was revealed last weekend. Follow along with me. In 1983, a German radio station played its usual mix of new wave and…
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Tournament of Carols – The 16 Songs that Didn’t Make the Cut
So I read with some amusement the choices for the Times-Union’s “Tournament of Carols,” an NCAA-style single-elimination bracket to determine the best holiday song. First off – with hundreds of hundreds of carols, we can only limit this to a top 16, a “Snowy 16” if you will? For those who aren’t aware of what…
Read MoreHow Grandmaster Flash Became my DJ Hero
DJ Hero, the brand new chapter in the Guitar Hero series of rhythm video games, came out last Tuesday. And it’s a blast. You get to be the DJ at the club, you get to spin a replica Technics turntable and scratch and cross-fade and mash-up, and it’s a blast. I really enjoyed playing the…
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