I know this gentleman.

He has a band. It’s called Edmo Trio.

It’s Medeski, Martin and Wood:

Appearing Friday, July 4th at the Iowa City Jazz Fest. If you don’t have the time, steal it. 😛

via EarthGoat to College Humor

BONUS – A bear in a sock

I didn’t want to do this, but they made me.

• Colbert writes Dowd’s column.
• Men should ejaculate more. As if there needed to be a legitimate reason
• Mmmm, Ritalin nachos.
• This 2 part series from DKos is an interesting thought experiment: Part 1, Part 2.
• TPM Muckraker is awesome. Plenty to read there.
• Radiohead’s Warm Glow – An analysis of the ‘donation’ model of the band Radiohead’s most recent release
• FCC lifts AT&T pricing restrictions – While this doesn’t affect consumers directly, it could prove to be extremely detrimental to smaller, local phone and internet providers by allowing AT&T to increase backbone access rates. One more deregulation in the name of consolidation…er, I mean, competition.

More later.

Today’s Vocab Words: revanchism, femtocells

I have a bit of an Ars-fest this morning:

• Lack of media diversity ownership slammed on the eve of more consolidation
• The AudioFile: Understanding MP3 compression
• Growing nanotubes on microprocessors could lead to cooling breakthrough
• FCC permits well-connected lobbyists to skirt anti-lobbying rules
• ‘Not Proven’
• AT&T U-Verse sidesteps town politics, coming to Illinois in 2008 – This came up in my researching of SF554 here in Iowa.

You like the list look? I do.

Post anything you’d like listed in the comments. I’m phoning this one in today.

Today’s Vocab Word: veridical

Morning.

• Opponents see few benefits in I.C. utility franchises – Need to look into this some more…might have to use Infovision, they have all the council meetings online.
• Violations found at U of I Hospitals – Surprised at this one.
• Study: file-sharing leads to “chart churn,” helps indie acts
• Follow up: AT&T vows to use Terms of Service for good, not censorship
• UK can now demand data decryption on penalty of jail time – this is a pretty important ruling, watch for something similar being discussed in the US.
• Verizon, Copper, Fiber, and the Truth – a slashdot linkfest and discussion on Verizon cutting the copper upon installation of FiOS
• Driverless truck lurches out of lab

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• Pulsejets down under
• A comet loses its tail
• Congress blinds DHS’s space-borne eye of Sauron, postpones domestic spy plan
• Another follow up: Blackwater Hearings Ain’t no Superbad – A Wired correspondent’s take on the hearings yesterday. A good quote:
  

  What I found especially telling, given the consistently weak grasp of the issues, was that multiple representatives opened their remarks by talking about how Blackwater contractors protected them while on visits to Iraq. They often meant this as a compliment to the firm, and also a way of establishing their credentials on the issue. But it usually backfired, revealing a lack of simple curiosity. It showed that they’ve known about the massive use of contractors for years – they just didn’t bother to ask any questions, even when the issue was in their faces.

• All hail Tweety:

I’ll probably find more. Feel free to leave suggestions in the comments.

What what in the hell…

Found via myspace friend following

Paul Dateh on violin with ‘inka one’ on turntables.
http://pauldateh.com
http://myspace.com/inka_one

via Digg

I went. It was great. Hell, it was awesome.

For a good concert-goer rundown, go read this guy.

For the Chicago Sun-Times version, go read this article.

I’ll put up my two decent pics I took after a bit.

Here’s the opener:

that I know.

Plastic Jesus

Here’s a tab and lyrics for any interested parties.