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Rhythm guitar geniuses

Ivy frequently has stunning rhythm guitar parts–a little bit of extra texture, a little melody. Two examples: “Blame In On Yourself” from Long Distance, and Apartment Life’s ”Quick, Painless, and Easy” The latter I’ve been casually wondering how to play for some time so I finally sat down and figure it out. Ivy “Quick, Painless, and

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Why I hate upgrading computers

Last month I spent many, many hours researching the seemingly simple tasks of upgrading the RAM on two of our PCs and upgrading the CPU on one. “Compy” is our old Sony Vaio, which, after swimming through the documentation, I found requires extra-expensive and rare-ish RAMBUS RAM available from basically 0 reputable sources, so eventually

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Mark Wirtz

This compilation of Mark Wirtz-produced songs rocks. Especially if you like 60′s girl groups with wall-of-everything+kitchen-sink productions, dramatic breaks that are just waiting to be sampled, bubblegum pop songs with psychadelic edges. There are duds and some dumb lyrics here and there, but it’s a great variety of sounds and clever pop songwriting. Some highlights:

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Could Expression break the tedium of CSS design?

I’ve been dealing with CSS layout quirks and bugs for seven years and, frankly, by now the thrill of designing an elegant style sheet by hand has worn off. The process of choosing the right lengths and font-sizes, and setting all these properties by hand (even with autocomplete) is just unacceptably tedious and just bogs

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The Late Greats

The best song will never get sung The best life never leaves your lungs So good, you won’t ever know I never hear it on the radio

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Workin’ for America!

Kathleen heard this on a boombox in UF’s payroll office. America works! America works! America works! Cause we’re working for America! Right up there with the Glaucoma Hymn.

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