It All Depends On Your Definition of "Random"
How random is the iPod shuffle? Steven Levy is of two minds (at least) on the subject.
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More Beer Here
The longneck tail.
The Truth About American Beer
You can't handle the truth! Well, maybe the 3.2% variety.
The Composer as Smartass
Brahms loved making jokes. "And if a good one doesn't occur to me, then [I'll make] a bad one."
Everything Must Go
What chapter comes after Chapter 11? The final chapter, of course. Looks like Tower Records has reached it.
Not As Easy As It Looks
Huckleberry pays particular attention to his scratching post technique.
She's So Serious
Bagheera always looks so intense. She's either polishing up her unified field theory or plotting world domination.
Rules of Thumb
I love rules of thumb, deep wisdom that can be sketched in verbal shorthand. The website Painter Creativity offers 10 rules for naive artists and designers, but they could very easily apply to any freelancer. Most of these are pretty obvious, but when you're hustling for work and worried about that monthly rent bill, you can panic sometimes and fall for the old "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday" line.
Dictionary of Roadie Slang
That's "roadie" as in cyclist. Decidedly non-PC and bound to offend folks who object to coarse language, but pretty funny for the rest of us.
Iggy Pop's Backline Rider
Riders, or the contracts laying out what rock groups require for their performances, can range from straight ahead to the ridiculous—as in Van Halen's famous "no brown M&Ms" clause. Iggy Pop's backline rider is intentionally hilarious.