PUBLIC MARKS from misspaige

Tomorrow at Aziz Ansari and Friends, my roommates Merlin and Zach will be joining me for some bits. We were talking last night and decided its time for a sequel to the Shittiest Mixtape contest. Many people email me saying they could think of way better songs, etc. Well - here you go - post the songs you think would be good on the comments of this thread. Zach will read it and pick the 5 most popular from the list. (Only post one song in each comment). The key to these songs is that they should be pretty recognizable, although some weird Hungarian tuba troupe's music is real shitty, it just wouldn't work.

On Feb. 10 in Frankfurt, Germany, Aktion Plagiarius announced the winners of the only prize in the design world that no one wants to win. The Plagiarius awards are given to the most egregious knockoffs of the year.

The Thermals, a rambunctious rock band from Portland, Ore., were en route between gigs last year when they got a phone call from their label, Sub Pop. Hummer wanted to pay them $50,000 for the right to use their song "It's Trivia" in a commercial.

Tad Scripter has a job that no one can explain. Not even himself, or at least not easily. According to his all-access backstage Academy Awards credentials, he is the Engineer in Charge. This means, as near as anyone can figure it, that he is responsible for ensuring that all the people and equipment needed to make the show happen, from a technical standpoint at least, are present and working.

Microsoft’s Live.com is launching a preview version of a new service called Street-Side today (link will be live around 12 PST today). Street-Side will augment the Live Local service and give street level views of the entire city. Searches can be made by address or business name, and you can “drive” around the city using the arrow keys. See the screen shot below for a visual.

February 28, 2006 -- THAT fans of "Arrested Development" can relax. Word is Showtime not only picked up the canceled Fox show but also ordered 26 more episodes .

Songbird is a Web player built from Firefox's browser engine. Songbird is open source, will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and supports user contributed, cross-platform extensions

the indy brooklyn label's official music blog

Kristin's whitespace DIV overlay for MySpace. Excellent.

Your period comes every month, but Xmas comes only once a year. So bring that menstrual joy to this holiday season with these tampon tree decorations. From a string of tampon lights to a star at the top of the tree, feminine hygiene has never been so festive!

Hip hop meets acoustic as Jose Gonzalez's <i>Veneer</i> gets reworked and blended with verses from some of today's most elite underground and mainstream emcees.

Hilarious gifs featuring celebrities - you will laugh.

Amazing work. Just amazing.

iSuckMP3Blogs is a hastily-named Application (Written in Applescript Studio) that uses Jeff Veen's intelligently constructed wget command to suck down only the new MP3's from your favorite blogs. The mp3s all end up in a folder called 'SuckedMP3s' on your desktop.

One "goes dumb" because he can escape the reality of feeling abandoned and left out from a society that isn't addressing his pain and frustration. The lack of hope, opportunity and employment eats at a man's conscience and psyche like maggots on the dead. My value and contribution to family and community is found in my ability to provide for my family and support the community with resources. I escape the pressures of this reality momentarily in my dance. In the dance I let go and I'm free.

The earliest known appearance of the "smiley" emoticon, :-), was in an ad for this film in the New York Herald Tribune on 10 March 1953, page 20, columns 4-6. The film opened nationwide, and this ad possibly ran in many newspapers. It read: Today You'll laugh :-) You'll cry :-( You'll love <3 'Lili'" This should not be confused with the graphical yellow "smiley face", which was first drawn by Harvey Ball some 10 years later.

Dutch and Wood - Good stuff. Every day I'm finding more awesome people to read via Blogfathers and Because I'm Your Father.

Over the past few months I’ve had a number of inquiries as to when I would get around to posting the code for my MySpace DIV overlay. With a little inspiration from Kristin to make updates, I’ve finally decided to post the code here.

This is your Favorites page, where you can keep track of posts on your favorite blogs. Just give is a few URLs and we'll tell you when they update and give you a quick way to search them all at once!

One of the things that I like best about Wordpress is the fantastic theme system which make developing and deploying site designs a doddle. I'm going to take advantage of that ease of use by embarking on an experiment I'm going to call 'a theme a day' week. Every day this week, I'm going to design and give away a WP theme ready for you to use on your blog.

MySpace may have a large and growing community and business potential, but the business model cannot continue to maintain its growth rate or it will collapse in on itself. It may already be doing so.

I'm sorry if this isn't something that I should post here, but I couldn't find anywhere else. I've never voted for anyone on American Idol, and I don't have Cingular, so I can't text. Long story short, I have social anxiety disorder, and I have this fear talking to strangers on the phone.

Tor is a toolset for a wide range of organizations and people that want to improve their safety and security on the Internet. Using Tor can help you anonymize web browsing and publishing, instant messaging, IRC, SSH, and other applications that use the TCP protocol.

Indie rockers congregate to make great traveling music for toddlers.

Type the name of a CD/DVD or artist in the searchfield below and Albumart.org will find hundreds of covers within seconds!