Zidane Rashomon
Posted on July 13, 2006 - Filed Under Perception, Sports | Leave a Comment
Funny stuff over at The Register. Internet + World Cup = Awesome.
Read More..>>Is This Just Fantasy?
Posted on May 22, 2006 - Filed Under Money, Perception, Sports, Statistics | 2 Comments
Coming up on one of my favorite podcasts “Open Source” 56, .406, 755 — baseball’s record hit streak, batting average, and home run total: numbers at the intersection of history, myth, memory and, now, at the heart of a lawsuit between ball players and their fantasy fans. Because from these numbers has grown a side [...]
Read More..>>TbHeEtLwIeNeEnS
Posted on May 4, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Perception, Robot Brains | Leave a Comment
Kaavya Viswanthan’s “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life”. Plagerized? Perhaps. But definitely exposed in every sense of the word. And now on eBay for prices that may some day approach a Royal non-rookie rookie. What’s NOT being reported is the message within. Here at BMK’s West Coast offices, we’ve carefully [...]
Read More..>>Phrase of the day
Posted on May 2, 2006 - Filed Under Perception | 1 Comment
From the Times Coachella review: Animal Collective . . . seemed to be expelling demons and worked against the coziness and knowingness of the crowd, the I’ll-blog-about-you-blogging-about-me energy.
Read More..>>What do you think about your team’s execution?
Posted on April 14, 2006 - Filed Under Pain, Perception, Sports | Leave a Comment
Sure, the openening paragraph is mildly amusing: A DEA agent [Lee Paige] who accidentally shot himself in the foot while demonstrating gun safety to school children is suing the agency, saying video of the incident has made him the joke of the Internet. But the kicker is the closing in which we read that, “Paige, [...]
Read More..>>“No, Lemmy’s Short, Actually”
Posted on February 1, 2006 - Filed Under Crime, Music, Perception | Leave a Comment
Listening to Ted Leo‘s in studio interview/performance on Minnesota’s The Current from June 14,2005 {Real Audio}, the DJ asked Ted if he’d ever subsconsciously ripped off another song. Ted said he had, in fact. While in his earlier band Chisel, he claims the song “River High” off their last album “Set You Free” sounded a [...]
Read More..>>Oprah Companion
Posted on January 26, 2006 - Filed Under Books, Money, Music, Pain, Perception | Leave a Comment
BMK is a multimedia experience. So, while you’re watching your tape of Orprah v. Frey, I direct you some supplementary reading & listening material.
Read More..>>News or Apple Propaganda?
Posted on December 21, 2005 - Filed Under Language, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Perception | 3 Comments
As an introductory clause, passed of as matter of record: “Spurred by the iPod revolution“1. I am not sure what is revolutionary about marketing defective products that are doomed to fail… Which brings me back to my iPod rant. Some of you may know my iPod shuffle recently went kaput. In going to the Apple [...]
Read More..>>I See Duke People
Posted on November 30, 2005 - Filed Under Perception, Sports | 5 Comments
See if you can spot any differences between these two photos. Look closely. If you think you found any, you may have the eagle eye it takes to work for the NY Times. Because of an editing error, a sports picture caption on Saturday about Duke’s 70-67 victory over Memphis for the championship of the [...]
Read More..>>Image is everything
Posted on November 11, 2005 - Filed Under Perception | Leave a Comment
Stalkarazzi: sign of the impending apocalypse or petty annoyance? Evidence for the former is the pheonomenon’s seepage into the rock clubs with the photobloggers. Is there much distinction anymore between this and this ?
Read More..>>Abraham was the father of Isaac
Isaac was the father of Jacob
Posted on November 10, 2005 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Perception, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
Laila Lalami on the rioting in France and the ensuing reaction: When friends have asked what I make of the whole thing, I can only point to this snippet, from an article published in the New York Times when the riots started: “France has been grappling for years with growing unrest among its second- and [...]
Read More..>>Men And Women: Still Different
Posted on November 8, 2005 - Filed Under Perception | Leave a Comment
Breaking news from New Scientist: The team discovered that when women found a cartoon funny, their reward centre was more active than for men, suggesting the females’ expectation of being amused was lower. But when men found a cartoon unfunny, they showed de-activation in their reward centre, suggesting disappointment. Which may explain my ultraviolent responses [...]
Read More..>>Follicle Follies
Posted on October 31, 2005 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Perception | Leave a Comment
Previously, I’d noted the odd pattern of article writers making a point to describe female writers’ hair. The latest contributor to this fine tradition is Claire Dederer at Newsday.com, describing Laila Lalami “with a friendly smile, her long hair hanging in a curly curtain. ” Well done!
Read More..>>It’s all relative…
Posted on October 28, 2005 - Filed Under Perception | Leave a Comment
You may have wondered: how bad can teaching science in Kansas* be? According to Popular Science, it’s better than Manure Inspector, but worse than Semen Washer. Full disclosure: I have at one point lived in Kansas and have shopped at the outlet mall in Olathe. Purchases included: Corning-ware items, shorts & a Frulatti.
Read More..>>Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy
Posted on October 25, 2005 - Filed Under Music, Perception | Leave a Comment
Cognitive Daily highlights a study of the effects of tempo & mode on whether music is perceived as “happy” Even though participants had rated tempo-only and mode-only changes as the same, in the Divergent condition, tempo once again took precedence. So it appears that tempo is more important than mode in determining whether a musical [...]
Read More..>>Auctorial Doppelgängers 69
Posted on October 4, 2005 - Filed Under Perception | Leave a Comment
Pictured Left: Writer George Orwell Pictured Right: Actor Sean Penn
Read More..>>Evolution
Posted on October 1, 2005 - Filed Under Perception | Comments Off
It may be because I am an eternal optimist, but I came home to see the Saturday night live guests tonight and I got a warm fuzzy feeling: two years ago, the Dixie Chicks were basically driven into obscurity after a comment; today Kanye West is everywhere. The king is dead, long live the king.
Read More..>>Auctorial Doppelgängers 3A
Posted on September 30, 2005 - Filed Under Perception | Comments Off
Pictured Left: Writer David Wallace Pictured Right: Singer/Songwriter Bret Michaels (Inspired by Mr. Champion)
Read More..>>Newmania
Posted on September 21, 2005 - Filed Under Music, Perception | Comments Off
Carl Newman speaking with Picthfork (empahsis mine): To a certain extent. It sounds really pretentious to say that our album is about the hero’s journey, but I think a lot of this record as well as the other records, is just about ways of seeing the world, and the bizarre filters we have. I called [...]
Read More..>>We report, you decide
Posted on September 9, 2005 - Filed Under Perception | Comments Off
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