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Friday, June 11, 2004
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| | The headline is spam spelled backwards. It came to mind when I got an email from a friend that said, simply, RSS is opt-in authenticated Email. |
Coasting
God knows
| | What is DevilFinder? Besides, of course, yet another search engine? I just found it in my referer logs. "Some Asian thing," a friend just told me. Doesn't quite narrow it down. |
| | Try the image search. It opens up a new window with full-size results and links, rather than with thumbnails. |
| | The about page might as well say "less evil." |
| | Interesting... When I look up "DevilFinder" on Google it says Did you mean: dealfinder . |
Ray the beautiful
| | Ronald Reagan passed into myth (on a golden media chariot) long before his body failed. Of course, we expected him to go. The really sad thing wasn't that that he died, but that it took him so long. |
| | But Ray Charles? Aw man. The sad thing there was that it took him so soon. Just 73. That's four years older than Gene Wilder, who is 69 today (they said 71 on the radio this morning). And it's seventeen years older than (gulp) me. |
| | You have to be getting old to remember when Top 40 radio was multicultural. Here's the WABC Silver Dollar Sound Survey for Week of 19 June 1962, when I was fourteen. The top song was I Can't Stop Loving You, by Ray Charles. It was also #1 on the Country and R&B charts that year — far as know, it was the only song ever to do that. Number two was a big band instrumental: The Stripper, by David Rose and his Orchestra. The next few songs were early Motown and late doo-wop, with Freddy Cannon's Palisades Park (kind of a goofy novelty song) and Bobby Vinton's sappy Roses Are Red (my love), followed by Al Di La', by Emilio Pericoli, a movie theme song (like The Stripper, I think). |
| | Anyway, lots of the stuff on those old charts were what they called "crossover." The difference with Ray Charles was that he didn't just cross genres. He stitched them together and made fine fashion with them. And with so much feeling, so much soul, so much talent and showmanship. |
| | Ray used to be backed by a group of ladies called the "Raylettes." I once heard it said that "If you want to be a Raylette, you have to 'Let Ray.'" It didn't matter that Ray was blind. He knew how to feel. (A terrible pun, but I couldn't resist.) |
Czech it out
| | Technorati has quietly added a "random blogs" panel to its index page. A large percentage of them are in other languages. Kinda like the Real World. |
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