Eminem x Royce Da 5’9 (Bad Meets Evil) – Fast Lane
Eminem x Royce Da 5’9 (Bad Meets Evil) – Fast Lane
28th Apr2011
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28th Apr2011
Relevant Classics: Eric B & Rakim – I Know You Got Soul
Eric B & Rakim – I Know You Got Soul
28th Apr2011
15 Musicians Gone Broke
Meat Loaf
Marvin Lee Aday is better known as the singer Meat Loaf. His 1977 album, Bat Out of Hell, is one of the highest-selling of all time, a ranking it shares with such all-time classics as AC/DC’s Back in Black and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. Known for such classic songs as “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” and “Paradise by the Dashboard Light,” the album made the singer a major, if unlikely, star.
While attempting to create a follow-up to the huge hit album, he lost his voice and wasn’t able to complete the recording until 1981, by which time he was no longer popular. The album that he recorded, Dead Ringer, sold only a tiny fraction of the amount that its predecessor sold, and by 1983 he was $1.6 million in debt, forcing him to declare bankruptcy.
However, in 1993, his career rebounded in a big way with the release of Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, which went to number one in three countries and featured the single “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That),” which went to number one in no less than 28 countries.
Toni Braxton
In 2007, things were starting to look up for “Un-break My Heart” singer Toni Braxton. Despite (more…)
28th Apr2011
The Marketing Gadget That Tracks Brainwaves As You Watch TV
Would you feel comfortable if market researchers could know your every thought?
A headband designed by San Francisco firm EmSense can sense your brainwaves as you have reactions to watching something and then record the data for researchers.
The process of measuring your reaction to something is known as ‘quantitative neurometrics’ and it can be carried out as you watch a computer or television screen.
Measuring reactions: The EmBand, designed by San Francisco firm EmSense, can sense your brainwaves as you have reactions to watching something
The firm is launching its ‘in-home’ research panel employing the EmBand monitoring technology in an attempt to get better feedback on emotional responses.
The EmBand can also measure how much attention you are paying, or your ‘cognitive engagement’, by measuring brainwave activity, reported technology site Venture Beat.
28th Apr2011
Norio Ohga, Former Sony President, Dies
The former president and chairman of Sony, Norio Ohga, who was credited with developing the compact disc, has died aged 81, the company has said.
Ohga, who led the company from 1982 to 1995, died of multiple organ failure in the Japanese capital, Tokyo.
Sony’s chairman, Sir Howard Stringer, said his predecessor’s foresight and vision had transformed the company into a global entertainment leader.
Ohga was still a senior adviser to the company at the time of his death.
In 1953, Sony’s co-founders recruited Ohga while he was still studying at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and hoping to pursue a career as an opera singer. They sensed his knowledge of sound and electrical engineering would benefit the firm.
By redefining Sony as a company encompassing both hardware and software, Ohga-san succeeded where other Japanese companies failed”
- Sir Howard Stringer Chairman, Sony
He was an executive by his 30s – a rarity in a Japanese company – becoming the president of CBS Sony Records (now Sony Music Entertainment) in (more…)
28th Apr2011
White House Draft Bill Expands DHS Cyber Responsibilities
Under a White House plan, the Homeland Security Department will have far-reaching oversight over all civilian agency computer networks.
The proposal would codify much of the administration’s memo from July 2010 expanding DHS’s cyber responsibilities for civilian networks.
The White House, however, is taking those responsibilities further, according to a source familiar with the document. The administration drafted a legislative proposal to give DHS many, if not all, of the same authorities for the .gov networks that the Defense Department has for the .mil networks.
Federal News Radio recently viewed a draft copy of the legislative proposal.
“I have to question why the Executive branch is writing legislation,” said the source, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about it. “This is not a proposal or white paper like the White House usually sends to Capitol Hill. This is the actual legislation.”
The source said the 100-page document is going through interagency review. DHS sent the document around to agencies late last Friday and asked for comments by Monday. The source said few agencies (more…)
28th Apr2011
Felonious Munk Presents: Stop It B! Episode 8 “Haters”
In this episode of “Stop It B!” Felonious Munk addresses the “HATERS” conspiracy that is plaguing our community
28th Apr2011
Star & BucWild Sportscaster Search
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28th Apr2011
27th Apr2011
27th Apr2011
Unemployment Rises…So Does Lavish CEO Salary
Remember the outrage over lavish Wall Street bonuses doled out in the wake of the financial crisis? The brouhaha supposedly put an end to the outrageous pay packages enjoyed by many American CEOs — and not just in the financial sector.
But over two years later, very little has changed. A new website launched by the AFL-CIO, aimed at focusing public attention on excessive executive compensation, touts some shocking numbers. Among them:
- Last year, total compensation for CEOs averaged $11.4 million, up 23 percent from the previous year, according to data for 299 major companies.
- CEOs at those 299 companies raked in a total of $3.4 billion. That’s enough to support over 100,000 jobs that paying the median wage of just over $33,000.
- Average CEO compensation is 343 times that median wage.
- Ray Irani (pictured), the outgoing CEO of Occidental Petroleum Corp., took in $76.1 million in compensation last year. Over the last decade, he received $857 million. “We’re not in the business to employ people. We’re in the business to make a profit,” Irani has said, according to the AP.
- Evan at large financial services companies — where the furor over bonuses was focused — total compensation rose 5.7 percent in 2010, to a record $149 billion.
The numbers above include base salary, bonuses, stock awards, and any other (more…)
27th Apr2011
Juan Epstein (@rosenbergradio x @ciphasounds) Podcast w/Cam’ron x Vado
This is epic for the New York rap nerds. Just some gems in here including some great Biggie stories, Cam’s basketball career in detail, Big L history. All kinds of awesomeness…
27th Apr2011
Father of Digital Music, Max Mathews, Dies at 84
The forerunner to Dan Deacon, Project Jenny, Project Jan and myriad other bands of that ilk has passed away. Max Mathews, widely known as the progenitor of digital music, died Thursday of pneumonia.
Mathews wrote a program called “Music” in 1957 that allowed an IBM 704 mainframe computer to play a 17-second jam. He also developed other electronic music software and devices as an engineer at Bell Laboratories.
Since Mathew’s death, Mashable reporter Jolie O’Dell recalled a video she made at the SF MusicTech Summit last year in which Mathew spoke about innovation. We felt the video is worthy of sharing again.
“The future will lie in better understanding of what sounds or what sound sequences turn on the pleasure center in the human brain. And the answer to finding this out will lie not in the technology of the machines, the instruments, the computers, but rather will lie in understanding how our brains interpret music,” Mathews said at the time.
27th Apr2011
From Waco to Libya: 18 Years of Humanitarian Mass Murder
“The Davidian cult in Waco was dealt with by armored vehicles,” remarked Muammar Gaddafi in February, defending his own crackdowns in light of the U.S. government’s. April 19 marks eighteen years since the end of the Waco siege and exactly one month since Obama began bombing Libya. Now that the federal government is again shedding blood in the name of humanitarianism, we might reflect on how it obtains legitimacy for its most brazen acts of violence.
Long ago, when governments slaughtered the enemy merely for being different and thus subhuman or for occupying desired territory, such crude rationales satisfied the states’ agents and subjects. The modern democratic state, however, employs more sophisticated propaganda when it burns, gasses, shoots, and bombs people including civilians. There is always the excuse of security: the targeted people pose a threat. When this argument seems tenuous, it is well complemented by that most insidious of pretenses: The killing is done for the good of others. It is an act of kindness. The American empire, like the Roman and British before it, inflicts violence to civilize and rescue those in need.
Along these lines even the unparalleled mass death of World War II has been vindicated. Since then most U.S. killing sprees have been directed against Hitler’s ghost. Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic were both compared to the Nazi ruler. So were (more…)
