Friday, March 12, 2004
Friday shorts....
Holy sh!t! Skytel 2-way, Sidekick, Treo and Blackberry users, fall back. It's over: The FlipStart by Vulcan. (spotted via The Greater Nomadic Council blog)
Related:
- Gizmodo on the FlipStart.
"Nipplegate" Justin and Janet action figures. (E! Online via, of course, pop (all nipple))
Kanye was on Hot 97 yesterday evening talking to Angie Martinez about starting a petition asking for the 1/2 mic extra from The Source to attain 5-mic "classic status" for his College Dropout album. First off: who cares? Does anyone still take The Source's album ratings seriously any more? And second, this is why a lot of cats think Kanye's kind of an ass-clown and arrogant despite all of his talent. The less he does interviews, the better, I think.
Related:
- Off on a Tangent with Kanye West. (SOHH.com)
While even more on The Grey Album. (MTV News)
Someone was kind enough to fwd. me this week's soundscan album chart. Some observations:
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Related:
- Gizmodo on the FlipStart.
"Nipplegate" Justin and Janet action figures. (E! Online via, of course, pop (all nipple))
Kanye was on Hot 97 yesterday evening talking to Angie Martinez about starting a petition asking for the 1/2 mic extra from The Source to attain 5-mic "classic status" for his College Dropout album. First off: who cares? Does anyone still take The Source's album ratings seriously any more? And second, this is why a lot of cats think Kanye's kind of an ass-clown and arrogant despite all of his talent. The less he does interviews, the better, I think.
Related:
- Off on a Tangent with Kanye West. (SOHH.com)
While even more on The Grey Album. (MTV News)
Someone was kind enough to fwd. me this week's soundscan album chart. Some observations:
- Jessica Simpson -- In This Skin: Holy Smokes, what did I miss? She jumps from 16 to #2 on the chart with 159 535 copies sold this from 52 436 sold last week. Is there a Norah Jones remix on the album or something?And received by group email yesterday, this is a mind-f-ck for real:
- Eamon – I Don't Want You Back: Whoa, cats is actually tryin' to cop the album from this dude, WTF? This is sitting at #10 and sold 66 547 copies this week and 72 846 last week.
- Young Gunz – Tough Luv: Falls out of the top 10 already after only 1 week dropping 3-12 and going from 127 522 to 62 723 weekly sales.
- Cee-Lo – .... is the Soul Machine: Kind of a semi-entry at #13 with 55 665 units. Or should Cee-Lo be happy?
- JC Chasez – Schizophrenic: Drops from 51 585 to 14 868 sales. Wow, this joint is brickin!
- Zero 7 – When it Falls: 9 906 first week sales. Man, I would have thought there'd be at least 9000 lounges, restaurants, boutiques and ad agencies that would have copped this album, never mind actual real fans.
1. Grab a calculator. (you won't be able to do this one in your head)Do you recognize the answer? Whoa....
2. Key in the first three digits of your phone number (ian note: not the area code)
3. Multiply by 80
4. Add 1
5. Multiply by 250
6. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number
7. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number again.
8. Subtract 250
9. Divide number by 2
(update tip: try hitting the "=" key after each step to make sure this works the way it's supposed to).
