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BPI Radar launched

I would like to interrupt your normal non-reading of this blog with a post, stating that the BPI Radar has been launched. Yes, the UK has it’s own version of the RIAA, and thus gets its own tool. It searches the UK version of Amazon and everything, so you get to see what those wacky Brits are listening to, as well as learn about musical genres that other places don’t have (or care about so much.)

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Baseball stadium tour via Google maps

In honor of the new spring baseball season, a tour of all the Major League Baseball parks:

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Celebrity house tour via Google Maps

Have others? Leave them in the comments section!

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Good, fast, and cheap: pick two

I am a huge fan of the pick two/Getting Real process, but what do you replace for “cheap” when your client is internal? If you are working for an in-house project (and thus aren’t acquiring money for your services), how do you get specially compensated for the effort of being good and fast? Or, if you need to make something good and fast, what do you leave out?

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My little attempt at pop songs as outliner lists

Given the great results of creating bulleted lists or corporate presentations based on pop songs, I thought I just had to try it out.

“I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred

  • Things I am too sexy for:
  • my love
  • my shirt
  • Milan
  • New York
  • Japan
  • your party
  • my car
  • my hat
  • my cat
  • this song
  • Other things I am, generally:
    • A model
    • So sexy it hurts
    • Too sexy by far
  • Things I do:
    • do my little turn on the catwalk
    • shake my little touche on the catwalk
  • Things I do not do:
    • disco dancing
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    An indie label milestone

    There are now over 20 albums in the top 100 hot sellers on Amazon.com (that’s one-fifth!) that are not released by RIAA members. This is the highest point since I have been tracking it, which started in October 2003. (Here is my report page, if you want to follow along.)

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    Dear Lazyweb, please make my old iPod as cool as an iPod photo

    Dear Lazyweb, please make an iPod hack that will display the album art on my older iPod, using ASCII characters. Thanks in advance.

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    Magnetbox is now FeedBurnerized

    For those of you who want to supersize your helping of Magnetbox, you can now subscribe to the FeedBurner feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/magnetbox. With this feed you will be get both the normal sparse ramblings and the constant barrage of the del.icio.us links, all in one! You might also get some secret Magnetbox fan club photos via Flickr as well…

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    E-mail marketing and donation systems for non-profits

    Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations for small non-profit organizations that are interested in a web-based e-mail marketing system, and some way to accept online donations? (Being non-profits, they usually need to use something cheap — or preferably free.)

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    Birthday reminder

    Here is the 5th annual reminder to buy me shit. My birthday is on the 19th, and my wish list is still chock full. Show your gratitude for lackluster posts (spanning 2 decades!), trivial links with minimal effort, and less-than-sporadic enhancements to the RIAA Radar and Mixmatcher by buying me things!

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    This is the personal weblog of Ben Tesch, a web designer and developer who lives in Seattle, WA, and has more ideas than free time.

    Ben is the proprietor of cumul.us, RIAA Radar, BPI Radar, and The Triumph of Bullshit, among other things. More personal data collections can also be found at the sites listed below.

    Contact: ben@magnetbox.com

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