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Next U2 Album Pushed to Early 2009
03.09.2008 22:28
atu2.com
Initially expected this fall as a fourth-quarter blockbuster, U2's next album has been pushed to early 2009 while the band continues to write and record material. "I thought a while back we might have the album wrapped by now, but why come up above ground now if there's more priceless stuff to be found?," Bono writes on U2.com. Of late, the group has been recording in the south of France, having already logged time in Fez and Dublin with longtime collaborators Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois and Steve Lillywhite.
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@U2 QOM August 2008: Happy birthday to Edge!
03.09.2008 22:28
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And in honor of our favorite guitarist, what's your favorite musical moment (in a song or a live show) from The Edge? (Each month, @U2 puts a spotlight on U2 fans with our "Question of the Month." We pose a question to our readers and invite answers of 200 words or less. If you're interested in taking part, check our home page to see if the current question is still open. If not, check back shortly after the beginning of next month and we'll have another question ready to be answered!)
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Clapton: The Autobiography
03.09.2008 22:25
musicbox-online.com
At times, Eric Clapton's autobiography reads like a confessional, but he does have a compelling story to tell.
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Alaska job fair uses Cory Doctorow/XKCD cosplayer for ads?
03.09.2008 22:25
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Rench sez, "This Anchorage Daily News job fair ad I saw online seems to feature a woman dressed as Cory Doctorow. I really don't see any other explanation." Job fair ad (Thanks, Rench!)...
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HOWTO Create perfect fake identities
03.09.2008 22:25
boingboing.net
In his latest Wired column, Bruce Schneier runs the thought-experiment of creating perfect identities. I noodled with this when my daughter was born -- I got her birth certificate from the Hackney Council, a sheet of ordinary laser-printed A4, took it to the Canadian embassy with a couple of photos that could have been any baby, and a few weeks later, a Canadian passport arrived. I thought, hmm, what if I were do to this again next year, but this time with my own laser-printed "certificate?" I could make a new identity for Poesy to step into in 20 years when she tires of her existing database shadow. Imagine you're in charge of infiltrating sleeper agents into the United States. The year is 1983, and the proliferation of identity databases is making it increasingly difficult to create fake credentials. Ten years ago, someone could have just shown up in the country and gotten a driver's license, Social Security card and bank account -- possibly using the identity of someone roughly the same age who died as a young child -- but it's getting harder. And you know that trend will only continue. So you decide to grow your own identities. Call it "identity farming." You invent a handful of infants. You apply for Social Security numbers for them. Eventually, you open bank accounts for them, file tax returns for them, register them to vote, and apply for credit cards in their name. And now, 25 years later, you have a handful of identities ready and waiting for some real people to step into them. How to Create the Perfect Fake Identity...
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Who's doing the window-smashing in Minneapolis-St Paul?
03.09.2008 22:25
boingboing.net
Over on Making Light blog, my friend Elise Matheson, resident of Minneapolis-St Paul, has some skeptical questions about the supposed anarchist looters among the RNC protestors: I cannot help but remember some people I knew in college, one of whom turned out to be an informant and provocateur who infiltrated antiwar and other related groups. I thought of it again, sharply, when I read this LiveJournal post about a past event. I look at that photograph, where the “protesters” being detained and the officers ostensibly arresting them have matching footwear, and I read that no charges were pressed against the “protesters,” even though they were the ones committing acts of vandalism, and I cannot help but think “provocateurs.” Which brings me to the question I started with: Who are these people? Seriously. We have a lot of people who can look at photos and figure this stuff out. Supposedly the pro-surveillance folks are doing it to us. Let’s put our heads together and figure out who really broke stuff at the demonstration, and then let’s find out if they’re really regular protesters, idiots with a taste for vandalism and no political savvy, or provocateurs. Let’s find out if they even get charged. Minneapolis / St. Paul: asking the right questions...
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Steps made out of skateboards
03.09.2008 22:25
boingboing.net
Ted made this skateboard staircase for his skateboard deck-building school: "The aluminium beam is a solid billet of aluminium and the decks were custom made with concave only on one edge. You should see the look on our students faces when they make the treck to the basement." Coolest Steps in the World (via Make)...
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Man Sues GENE SIMMONS, Saying He Was Cut Out Of IndyCar Marketing Deal
03.09.2008 20:20
bravewords.com
According to the Associated Press, a Los Angeles man claims in a lawsuit that GENE SIMMONS took him for a ride on a...
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AVULSED To Start Recording New Album This Weekend
03.09.2008 20:20
bravewords.com
Longtime Spanish death metallers AVULSED have issued the following update: "After having participated in the killer 2nd Death Fast Open Air in Germany and headlined...
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OLD WAINDS - Death Nord Kult Artwork, Tracklisting And Release Date Revealed
03.09.2008 20:20
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BW&BK has received the following: The title, artwork and tracklisting of the fourth album from Russia's OLD WAINDS has finally been disclosed. Germinated in the lifeless...
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TESTAMENT's Alex Skolnick, QUO VADIS' Bart Frydrychowicz Speak To CHOM FM's The Metal File; Audio Available
03.09.2008 20:20
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CHOM FM's The Metal File out of Montréal, Québec spoke with TESTAMENT guitarist Alex Skolnick (ALEX SKOLNICK TRIO) and QUO VADIS guitarist Bart Frydrychowicz on...
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NEAL MORSE - DREAM THEATER Drummer Mike Portnoy To Guest On New Album
03.09.2008 20:20
bravewords.com
Ex-SPOCK'S BEARD frontman NEAL MORSE's new studio album Lifeline will be released on September 29th via InsideOut. The album line-up will feature DREAM THEATER drummer...
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METALLICA - "More Death On The Radio"
03.09.2008 20:20
bravewords.com
METALLICA have issued the following update: "You may have heard a little something about a radio show being broadcast live from our very own HQ ....
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SLIPKNOT - The Making of Psychosocial: Part 1; Video Available
03.09.2008 20:20
bravewords.com
The first part of a three-part series on the making of SLIPKNOT's music video 'Psychosocial' is now online - click here to view. The...
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Today on TokyoMango
03.09.2008 20:19
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Today on TokyoMango, I wrote about a new web site that lets women vent and seek advice anonymously; why the Japanese don't cheer out loud at the Olympics; and the biggest geek dance party ever. ( Lisa Katayama is a guest blogger.)...
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