- Never mind the quality, feel the niche - you probably know about blawgs, but what are bleurghs, blooks and clogblogs? Funny names for niche blogs, that’s what.
- Lefsetz Letter: Yahoo lyrics - are licences for providing song lyrics online the next money-spinner for the music industry?
- Missing Girl’s Parents Get To Meet The Pope; Millions of Other Aggrieved Parents Get Nothing – while it’s a tragic event and I completely sympathise with the family, this is an interesting article on the media’s insanely over-the-top coverage of the abduction of Madeleine McCann.
- New Kanye West tracks - I normally think Kanye’s great, and these two new songs make interesting listening. But it speaks volumes that the best things about them are the samples they’re based around, from Daft Punk and Swedish popsters Peter Björn & John.
- Reddit hacked - one would think (hope!) the folks at normally-quite-wonderful social bookmarking site Reddit would be a bit more savvy when it comes to security.
- Royale with cheese? - green tea flavoured milkshakes and avocado paste: McDonald’s around the world.
- What would happen if you bought 25 bottles of Nyquil? - “I know, let’s try to make the pharmacist think I’m a crystal meth dealer”.
- Why I love Beth Ditto - The Gossip are an average band at best (review), yet somehow singer Beth Ditto has been adopted as a feminist role model for non-size-zero women everywhere. All she really does though is make herself out to be a freak show. If image really matters so little, why not get on with playing music instead of posing naked on the cover of the NME?
- Feel sick? Then stay home! - from the great Passive-Agressive Notes blog.
- Man arrested, cuffed after using $2 bills - you what? Trying to spend legal tender? Lock him up and throw away the key!
Also, many thanks to the following for inclusion in their “blog carnivals” this week: Nehring the Edge [sic], Success Part 2, The So Called Me, The Soul of Rock and Roll and Thoughts & Philosophies.
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