I’m on a mashup kick as of late, much to Heidi’s annoyance on road trips. When I get to run the radio, it’s all Girl Talk lately and she hates that stuff. Anyway, I found two more artists over the last few days. Both guys have their stuff on their web site for free.
The video above is using a mashup called Sweet Home Country Grammar which is a mashup of Sweet Home Alabama and Nelly’s Country Grammar. So far, it’s just about my favorite discovery of the past few months. The mashup is by DJ Mei-Lwun. You can download this track along with several others at his web site (click his name in the previous sentence). I also really love his mashup of Kanye West’s Jesus Walks and AC/DC’s Back in Black. The mashup is called Jesus Walked Back and He’s Black. It works really well.
The other artist I found has also been doing the mashup thing for a while. His name is Party Ben and he also has an extensive collection of his tracks on his web site. My favorites right now are Galvanize the Empire, a mashup of the Chemical Brothers’ Galvanize and the Empire March from one of the Star Wars movies, and Rehab (Can’t Help Myself), which mashes up Amy Winehouse’s Rehab and the Four Tops’ Can’t Help Myself. So good. Check out his web site, you can preview and/or download a whole ton of stuff there.
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This program sounds stupid. I’ll be blocking cookies from Facebook and will stop using it if this program isn’t altered into opt-in or at least permanently, fully opt-out.
Excellent summary of the FISA debacle from Publius. Worth a read, including the linked articles in his post.
Google unveils Web History, a feature that uses your Google Toolbar to record all of the pages you surf to while using that browser. That’s unbelievably scary, but according to Google it’s a feature. All this takes is one National Security Letter to one company to basically track everything an opted-in user does.
How long before someone gets burned a la Julie Amero? Hey, your browser went there. Google said so.
How do you maintain the outrage when nearly everything causes some?
excerpt:
Arethas isn’t the only student to be disciplined for what he posted to his MySpace profile. The past few years have seen an explosion in the number of schools taking to the Web to find out what students are saying and doing. And punishment has followed, from a Pennsylvania school that suspended one student for creating a parody MySpace profile of his principal to a California school that suspended 20 students simply for viewing one student’s MySpace profile, which contained threats against another student. And some public school systems, like Illinois’ Community High School District 128, are even taking steps to monitor everything their students say on sites like MySpace. According to the Chicago Tribune, under new guidelines, students who participate in extra-curricular activities will need to sign a pledge in which they agree that the school can discipline them if it finds evidence that they have posted any “illegal or inappropriate” material online. Even some police are beginning to patrol MySpace, seeing the site as an effective tool for catching teenage criminals.
The war on privacy | Economist.com
THE demands of security frequently square up against the desire for personal liberty. Most recently, on May 30th, the weighty matter seemed to rest on the scales of the European Court of Justice, Europe’s highest court. At issue was an existing European Union agreement to provide American officials with many personal details of airline passengers who cross the Atlantic. The Americans want the data for the sake of public safety. But some European politicians complain that the demands are so great they might even break strict European privacy laws. In fact, the court objected to the transfer of data on a legal point and did not consider, in this instance, the issue of passengers’ privacy rights.
This sounds like a terrible idea without some safeguards as to what can be done with the fingerprint data.
Spotlight might be really cool, but the first thing I ended up doing after starting up Tiger was put together a list of folders for Spotlight to avoid indexing (you can set this up via the Spotlight preference pane in System Preferences). I was a bit wigged out by the possibility of having my sister search for something on my computer and then having her find a personal or particular candid IM message in the search results. Unlikely? Yeah, but it only needs to happen once…
John Batelle highlights an article talking about the government’s concerns along these lines. For a particularly amusing example of this, try typing in the following search terms:
See what documents come up… Then, think about how many (or few) search terms you would need to have on, say, 100,000 compromised computers to garner significant numbers of credit card numbers or social security numbers. A significant security compromise will appear for Macs soon enough and we’re going to have to deal with this question…
(as an aside, it always drives me nuts when companies “protect” your credit card number by omitting the last 4 digits instead of only showing the last 4. Now, someone just needs one hit from each type of receipt and they’ve got your number)
