Posts tagged “music”

• Beyond Apu — Why are there suddenly so many Indians on television?
• Want to save the Gulf of Mexico? Learn how to boom properly.
• The leading web property for yuletide holiday determination is now on your mobile phone. Never be at a loss again. Get the Is It Christmas? iPhone app!
• I got 99 problems but breathing ain’t one.
• It is a little-known fact that you can perform (almost) every pop song ever recorded using just four chords.
• A real-life Batman: This blind man “sees” using echolocation.
• It would be pretty rad to ride an elephant to work where your pet orangutan plays with his dog.
• New Scientist details the eight most amazing commutes in the animal kingdom. (Did you know that the Pacific leatherback turtle swims from Indonesia to Oregon and back every year?)

There’s an excellent Kia Sorento commercial right now featuring a sock monkey and a monster (and some other kid toys). They go bowling and the sock monkey gets a tattoo. The best part, though, is the song. It’s How You Like Me Now, by The Heavy. You can find it on the album The House That Dirt Built on iTunes.

Sidebar: I just noticed that the latest version of iTunes now lets you easily post a song or app to Twitter or Facebook. (Savvy guys, those Apple engineers.) But here’s something extraordinarily odd: The URL that iTunes provides for the link is absurdly long. The one for the song mentioned above is http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-house-that-dirt-built/id328490302, which is seventy characters. Twitter only allows 140 characters! Why in the world isn’t Apple running their own URL-shortening service?