Archive for November, 2011
A group of members from Anonymous released a video warning that they will shut down Facebook tomorrow in celebration of Guy Fawkes Day. The hacktivist group has beef with Facebook’s protection of privacy.
Time to dust off that old MySpace account. A message from anonymous below.
Posted by Katy Kirby on November 4th, 2011 in Everything Else 0 Comments
In an amazingly generous move Ed O’Brien of Radiohead is selling the guitar he used on ‘Kid A’ and on the In Rainbows Tour to raise money for a child’s brain surgery.
The guitar is signed by all of the members of Radiohead, and can be bid on here. Full story here.
Posted by Katy Kirby on November 4th, 2011 in Everything Else 0 Comments
“No more Nickelback!” is what fans of the Detroit Lions have to say. The NFL scheduled them for the halftime show of the Lions’ Thanksgiving game and people are not happy about it.
There is an online petition with more than 26,000 signatures from people who don’t want Nickelback associated with the Lions or Detroit.
Should Nickelback voluntarily drop out of the halftime show out of fear for their own safety? It looks like their welcome party may be a myriad of projectiles thrown by thousands of angry Detroiters.
Maybe we could clone Nickelback and have them play two songs at once…
Posted by Katy Kirby on November 4th, 2011 in Everything Else 0 Comments
Billboard has some qualms with the way Facebook is integrating the world of music into its social networking platform, namely the “So and So listened to ________” items that appear in their newsfeed as they listen to music on Spotify. Thanks to this we know who is still listening to N*Sync and Hanson. Billboard provides a few suggestions to Facebook on how to improve their presence in the music world.
Click here for Billboard‘s four suggestions to Facebook. Maybe if enough people “Like” the article Facebook might heed the advice.
Posted by Katy Kirby on November 2nd, 2011 in Everything Else 0 Comments
Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys is in the process of scoring an off-Broadway production written by his father, Israel Horovitz.
The play is called Gloucester Blue and is a black comedy about a man returning home to find everything out of whack. Sounds like Walking Tall except funny.
Should be an interesting production… Full story here.
Posted by Katy Kirby on November 2nd, 2011 in Everything Else 0 Comments
The Visionaire just set a record for the world’s largest magazine. The latest issue is a whopping 7 by 5 foot titan of a magazine with a larger-than-life Lady Gaga on the front cover.
Want a copy? You’ll need $1,500 and a lot of shipping and handling. Full story here.
Posted by Katy Kirby on November 2nd, 2011 in Everything Else 0 Comments
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