December 2009
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Fun Fact:
According to my last post, the cat listened to 403 Explosions in the Sky songs over the Christmas break.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
Explosions in the Sky (403)
Boards of Canada (284)
Steve Jablonsky (144)
Do Make Say Think (116)
Christopher O’Riley (100)
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Fun fact:
The first friction match ever sold was called “Sulphurata Hyper-Oxygenata Frict”.
The second friction match ever sold was called a “friction light”.
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For eight weeks in late 1983, Vicente Sotelo Alardin’s pick-up, sidelined...
– From a Texas State Library report on El Cobalto a.k.a. the Cobalt Man.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Radiohead (33)
Vince Guaraldi (27)
Idlewild (22)
The Pogues (18)
Dragonette (13)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
The New Pornographers (40)
Rammstein (39)
Andrew Bird (35)
Wolf Parade (21)
Sting (16)
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1/3/61 National Reactor Testing Site, Idaho
A small experimental reactor goes out of control and causes a steam explosion. The operators are killed instantly (one being impaled against the reactor ceiling by a control rod). There is no significant contamination of the environment, although the bodies of the men have to be buried in lead-lined coffins sealed in lead-lined burial vaults, and their...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →
Bloc Party (37)
Hans Zimmer (25)
Sigur Rós (25)
Flogging Molly (24)
Moby (22)
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