Tom Lamont: "Reddit: how to win the internet" (Guardian)
Reddit is home to everything the web likes best, from kitten gifs to breaking news. What draws its 7m daily users? And what does it take to make it to the site's highly prized front page?
Terry Savage: Preventing Identity Theft (Creators Syndicate)
It's natural to be nervous about your credit when you see more news about breaches at major retailers in the headlines every day. Now, even some processors for major hotel chains are reporting breaches. In fact, there is an entire universe of very-sophisticated-technology thieves trying to find weak links in our nation's payment system.
Felix Clay: "5 Disgusting Habits Everyone Has (When No One's Looking)" (Cracked)
We're a judgmental sort of animal, always sizing each other up and deciding we're better than our neighbor because we ever so slightly part our cheeks to fart, while they do it the peasant way into a burlap sack and gather the children around it for warmth at night in their hovels.
Reprise Records is an American record label, founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It was mostly inactive from 1976 to 1987. It is owned by Warner Music Group, and operated through Warner Bros. Records.
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One time home of many fine artists, including
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Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Reprise Records
Adam answered:
Reprise Records.
Marian responded:
Reprise Records
Greg in Tulsa replied:
Frank Sinatra formed Reprise Records in 1960.
Sally said:
"Reprise Records" was founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra, et al.
Frank and the "Pack" of gold.
PS: I had to laugh when I read Professor Charlie's reply today. I was thinking that I bet he talks the very same way in person. (Luv you, professor!)
@B2BB, you wrote, "The Vancouver-based band Skinny Puppy says it sent the invoice for $666,000 for "musical services" after learning that its music had been played at extreme volume at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay."
Do you think the $666k was a real number, or a play on the, "Sign of the Beast?" A real coincidence, I'm just saying...
Dale of Stillrainy Springs of Diamonds, Norcali, answered:
Reprise Records was started by Frank Sinatra, Chairman of the Board, in 1960 for "artistic freedom". Even though he sold it a few years later to Warner Brothers due to lack of sales. Frank's sessions were the grooviest! He sure boinked a whole shitload of Darlings! Angie, Nancy Gunderson, Mia and Natalie.
BttbBob replied:
('Scuze me while I kiss the sky!" - one of greatest rock lines ever...)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze (Music Video) - YouTube (live video - must see)... I did not know the answer, but I'm tellin' ya, I sure bought a lot of "Reprise" records. That label color scheme makes me thing of too many artists to list here. But, "Ol' Blue Eyes" was gone by then... His early ownership of "Reprise", though, was how he got his moniker, "Chairman of the Board", I've now learned...
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Ah, vinyl... those were the days, I'm tellin' ya.
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Happy Birthday this day to:
(70) When a "Goodfella" is also a psycho... Hoo boy...
(71) When my 'steady', Melody, "Dear John'd" me when I was in Boot Camp, the summer o' '71, I think this song was on her mind...
Carole King - It's Too Late (with lyrics) - YouTube ... at least I've always thought it was... cuz it was on mine.
Lois The Non-creative Of Oregon responded:
The "Chariman of the Board" created Reprise Records to
ensure that "Talent" could retain "Artistic Freedom", which
gave Redd Foxx a venue from which to record jokes he
couldn't tell on TV. Other recording artists on the label
included Lenny Buce, Richard Pryor, Black Sabbath, Air
Supply (?), Count Basie, Beach Boys, Rosemary Clooney, The
Kinks, Randy Newman, Tom Lehrer, Jimi Hendrix, Little
Richard, Sony & Cher, Frank Zappa, a WHOLE SHIT LOAD of
other guys, AND Tiny Tim! But sadly, not Elvis.
MAM wrote:
Reprise ~ Reprise Records is an American record label, founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra, which is owned by Warner Music Group, and operated through Warner Bros. Records.
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Reprise. If Sinatra is responsible for getting Jimi Hendrix recorded, I take back all the bad things I ever said about him. Most of them.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by the FRESH'The Night That Changed America: A GRAMMY Salute To The Beatles', then a RERUN'Elementary'.
NBC fills the night with FRESH'2014 Olympic Winter Games'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by the movie 'Toy Story 3', then a RERUN'Castle'.
The CW offers a FRESH'SAF3', followed by 2 hours of what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', followed by a RERUN'American Dad', then a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a RERUN'The Family Guy', followed by a RERUN'American Dad'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Duck Dynasty', followed by an old 'Wahlburgers'.
AMC offers 'The Walking Dead', another 'The Walking Dead', followed by a FRESH'The Walking Dead', then a FRESH'Talking Dead'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 3 - Episode 6
[6:40AM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 2 - Episode 1
[7:20AM] BANG GOES THE THEORY - Season 2 - Episode 2
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH: EXTREME JOURNEYS
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH: EXTREME SURVIVAL
[10:00AM] TOP GEAR WINTER OLYMPICS SPECIAL-Season 7
[11:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 2
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 3
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 4
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 5
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 6
[4:00PM] THE MATRIX
[7:00PM] THE MATRIX RELOADED
[10:00PM] THE MATRIX
[1:00AM] THE MATRIX RELOADED
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 5
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 6 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a (F) 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH'Blood, Sweat & Heels', and 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Dumb & Dumber', 'Gabriel Iglesias: I'm Not Fat ... I'm Fluffy', 'Gabriel Iglesias: Aloha Fluffy', and 'Tosh.0'.
FX has the movie 'Crazy, Stupid, Love', followed by the movie 'Friends With Benefits', then the movie 'Friends With Benefits', again.
History has 'Ax Men', another 'Ax Men', followed by a FRESH'Ax Men', then a FRESH'The Curse Of Oak Island'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Reese Comes Home
[6:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Buseys Run Away
[7:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Standee
[7:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Pearl Harbor
[8:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Kitty's Back
[8:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Hal's Christmas Gift
[9:00AM] Portlandia-Baseball
[9:30AM] Inside Portlandia
[10:00AM] Portlandia-Mixologist
[10:30AM] Portlandia-One Moore Episode
[11:00AM] Portlandia-Cool Wedding
[11:30AM] Napoleon Dynamite
[1:30PM] The Cable Guy
[3:30PM] The Informant!
[5:45PM] We Were Soldiers
[8:45PM] My Bloody Valentine
[11:00PM] The Spoils of Babylon-The Age of the Bastard
[11:30PM] The Spoils of Babylon-So Sweet the Bells
[12:00AM] The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
[2:00AM] My Bloody Valentine
[4:15AM] Brotherhood of Blood (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] A Good Year
[8:30AM] Revealing-Celebutante
[9:30AM] The Red Violin
[12:15PM] Frozen River
[2:15PM] The Pelican Brief
[5:15PM] All Good Things
[7:30PM] Donnie Darko
[10:00PM] Drugstore Cowboy
[12:15AM] From Hell
[2:45AM] The Red Violin
[5:30AM] The Writers' Room-Dexter (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Resident Evil: Extinction', followed by the movie 'Dawn Of The Dead'.
From right, actors Matt Damon, Jean Dujardin, George Clooney, John Goodman, Bill Murray and Bob Balaban form a chain to dance there way through the photo call for the film The Monuments Men during the 64th Berlinale International Film Festival on Saturday Feb. 8, 2014, in Berlin.
Photo by Joel Ryan
Not long after settling in southern Illinois in 1963, an ocean from her native England, Louise Harrison Caldwell trudged from one radio station to the next lobbying for air time for her brother's quartet. Revered in Britain, the group was virtually unknown in America - and her promotion fizzled.
So it was that her "kid brother" George Harrison was able to anonymously walk Benton's streets and jam with a local band when he visited his older sister for two weeks that fall. Just five months later, folks in Benton, population 7,000, likely were kicking themselves for not snagging the vacationing Brit's autograph or photo as proof they saw him standing there.
A half-century ago Sunday, George Harrison and the Beatles conquered America, playing live to 73 million television viewers of "The Ed Sullivan Show" in a seminal gig that launched the British invasion. Decades later, it's Louise Harrison's former rural Illinois town that's so eager to trumpet its history-making link to the late Liverpool musician whom locals once viewed with curiosity, if only for his accent.
Traveling with other brother Peter, he blended in with Benton, aside from the British accent Louise says made them appear "exotic" in the blue-collar town. Decked out in a dark suit, white shirt and no tie, he jammed with a local group at a veterans' hall and later at a bocce ball club, getting introduced as the "Elvis of England" at a time when Hank Williams, Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole ruled the region.
Actor Neil Patrick Harris, dressed in a bra and wig, holds the Hasty Pudding pot onstage during his roast as man of the year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals in Cambridge, Mass., Friday, Feb. 7, 2014.
Photo by Elise Amendola
When Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman died of liver failure last year, the band's fans mourned alongside Slayer's peers in Megadeth, Black Sabbath, Guns N' Roses and more. Now, two of the band's fans have honored the guitarist by renaming a roundabout in the small Polish town of Jaworzno (population: 94,000) after him.
The sign for the newly rechristened "Jeff Hanneman's Circle Pit" - whose "circle pit" puns off the favored moshing style of Eighties-era metal bands - was erected yesterday, according to Blabbermouth (via CentrumDruku3D.pl). In its English translation, the street sign was subtitled "unforgettable Slayer guitarist."
Slayer fans Joanne and Krzysztofa Czuszek bid 15,800 Polish zloty (approximately $5,100) in an auction to rename the intersection. It's the second time the traffic circle has been renamed, with the roundabout previously called Ronda Smoków, or the equally metal-sounding "Dragons Roundabout."
The tribute, located one hour west of Krakow, comes one month after Grammy organizers failed to include Hanneman in its "In Memorium" montage.
Egypt's top satirist returned to television on Friday for the first airing of his show since it was pulled three months ago, and he skewered the public and media for lionizing the army chief widely expected to be the country's next president.
In taking aim at the frenzy of support for Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Bassem Youssef went further in his criticism of the army-backed political order than anyone else currently allowed on the airwaves.
Pledging not to discuss political issues that got his wildly popular show "The Program" yanked by private broadcaster CBC in November, Youssef showed that all topics in the country lead back to Sisi, who overthrew Islamist President Mohamed Mursi last year.
After attempting in a mock game show to explore subjects ranging from cooking to sports, Youssef asked with exasperation, "So what are we going to talk about?"
This led to a montage of Egyptians of all ages and various backgrounds, from talk show hosts to belly dancers, expressing their love for Sisi. When the clip ended, the heart surgeon-turned-comedian stuck a fake gun to his temple.
Robert Redford arrives at 2014 Santa Barbara International Film Festival - American Riviera Award ceremony on Friday, Feb, 7, 2014 in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Photo by Richard Shotwell
It was all too much for Coco Chanel. As the sixties started to swing, the French fashion icon pronounced mini-skirts to be "just awful".
She also famously declared that she had never met a man who liked women wearing them.
Half a century later and with Mary Quant, the woman credited with inventing it turning 80 this month, the mini remains a wardrobe staple worldwide.
A hemline half-way up the thigh is no longer synonomous with rebellion and newly-won sexual freedom as it was in the mini's first decade.
But the style remains as popular as ever with the likes of Kate Moss and Sienna Miller having lately given it a contemporary twist as an element of the "boho chic" look copied by millions.
Fox and the show's production companies announced Friday that the U.S. edition of the singing competition won't be coming back this fall.
"X Factor" head judge and creator-executive producer Simon Cowell, who served as a judge on Fox's "American Idol" for nine seasons, will instead return to the U.K. version of "X Factor" later this year.
The show's hosts and judging panel was revamped each season with Paul Abdul, Antonio "L.A." Reid, Britney Spears, Demi Lovato and Kelly Rowland among those joining Cowell on the panel.
Actor Warren Beatty speaks at the 64th Annual ACE Eddie Awards in Beverly Hills, California February 7, 2014. The Awards recognize outstanding editing in film, television and documentaries.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Woody Allen is again denying he molested adoptive daughter Dylan Farrow and is calling ex-partner Mia Farrow vindictive, spiteful and malevolent in an open letter published online Friday by The New York Times.
The 78-year-old filmmaker says Dylan Farrow's open letter published last week by The New York Times includes "creative flourishes that seem to have magically appeared during our 21-year estrangement."
"Of course, I did not molest Dylan," writes Allen. "I loved her and hope one day she will grasp how she has been cheated out of having a loving father and exploited by a mother more interested in her own festering anger than her daughter's well-being."
"I still loved (Dylan) deeply, and felt guilty that by falling in love with Soon-Yi I had put her in the position of being used as a pawn for revenge," Allen said.
"Not that I doubt Dylan hasn't come to believe she's been molested, but if from the age of 7 a vulnerable child is taught by a strong mother to hate her father because he is a monster who abused her, is it so inconceivable that after many years of this indoctrination the image of me Mia wanted to establish had taken root?" Allen said.
In a statement made to The Hollywood Reporter late Friday, Dylan Farrow called Woody Allen's op-ed "the latest rehash of the same legalese, distortions, and outright lies he has levelled at me for the past 20 years."
"Acoma Rain Dancers" from Acoma Pueblo perform during American Indian Day, in the Rotunda, at the State Capitol,in Sante Fe, New Mexico, on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. The dancers range from 3-12 years old.
Photo by Jane Phillips
A French comic whose gesture touched off allegations of anti-Semitism and prompted a government ban on his shows is defiant, saying the "quenelle" has nothing to do with the Nazi salute.
"Of course it's not an anti-Semitic gesture. I'm going to repeat it 20 times. It's a gesture of emancipation, of panache," Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala told The Associated Press on Friday.
Soccer player Nicolas Anelka faces an English Football Association disciplinary hearing after formally denying a racism charge for celebrating a goal with the gesture. Dieudonne was banned on Monday from entering the United Kingdom in a trip he had planned as a show of support for Anelka.
"It's a rather modern gesture" that Dieudonne said he invented. "Everyone is appropriating this gesture their own way."
A long court battle waged by a Malaysian architect over her mistaken inclusion on the U.S. government's no-fly list may never have started if a federal agent had marked the correct boxes on an official form.
Rahinah Ibrahim sued the U.S. government in 2006 after she was placed on the no-fly list and was then denied a U.S. visa.
After years of litigation and appeals, U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco issued a short statement last month saying that existing procedures to correct mistakes on the no-fly list do not provide adequate due process protections.
The judge's detailed opinion, publicly filed on Thursday, describes how Ibrahim wound up on the no-fly list in the first place.
"That it was human error may seem hard to accept - the FBI agent filled out the nomination form in a way exactly opposite from the instructions on the form," Alsup wrote, "a bureaucratic analogy to a surgeon amputating the wrong digit - human error, yes, but of considerable consequence."
Hundreds of Taiwanese people release sky lanterns in hopes of good fortune and prosperity in the Chinese New Year before the traditional Lantern Festival in the Pingxi district of New Taipei City, Taiwan, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014. The Lantern Festival falls on Feb. 14, 2014.
Photo by Chiang Ying-ying
It was April 1956, and the No. 1 song was Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel." At the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, scientist Dean Bumpus was busy releasing glass bottles in a large stretch of the Atlantic Ocean.
Nearly 58 years later, a biologist studying grey seals off Nova Scotia found one of the bottles in a pile of debris on a beach, 300 miles from where it was released.
The drift bottle was among thousands dumped in the Atlantic Ocean between 1956 and 1972 as part of Bumpus' study of surface and bottom currents. About 10 percent of the 300,000 bottles have been found over the years.
Warren Joyce found the bottle Jan. 20 on Sable Island, about 185 miles southeast of Halifax.
He contacted scientists at Woods Hole and dutifully gave them the time and place information Bumpus had asked for in a postcard inside the bottle. His reward will be exactly what Bumpus promised in 1956 to anyone who returned a bottle: a 50-cent piece.
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