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breakingnews: Google launches new music streaming...

Wed, 22 May 2013 03:58:39 -0400

Google launches new music streaming service

CNET: Google announced it has launched a new music streaming service, Google Play Music All Access.

At Google’s I/O conference, engineering director Chris Yerga said All Access will cost $9.99 a month, and users get a 30-day free trial. It launches today in the U.S., with additional countries coming soon.

The move puts Google in direct competition with music streaming companies like Pandora and Spotify, and also potentially with Apple, which has been inching in that direction. …

Previously, Google Play users could stream music they bought from the app, but the new service would let people stream songs they haven’t purchased as well. Users can now blend their songs with a catalog with thousands of other tracks available in All Access.

Watch live video and follow updates from Google’s I/O conference at Breaking News.

Photo credit: James Martin / CNET

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Tue, 21 May 2013 12:30:10 -0400

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Wendy: I wanna hear your heart.. I think...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:24:00 -0400

Wendy: I wanna hear your heart..

I think it’s broken.

Don: You can hear that?

Stan: I did it! I’ve got 666 ideas. Ginsberg: Wasting my...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:08:14 -0400

Stan: I did it! I’ve got 666 ideas.

Ginsberg: Wasting my Saturday with lunatics.

ballpm: i solve my problems by blatantly ignoring them and going on the internet

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:58:16 -0400

ballpm: i solve my problems by blatantly ignoring them and going on the internet

The Riskiest Places In The World Risk management firm and...

Mon, 20 May 2013 03:29:37 -0400

The Riskiest Places In The World

Risk management firm and insurance broker Aon has just released its Terrorism And Political Violence risk map for 2013.

Aon via Business Insider

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The Scorpion and the Frog is a fable about a scorpion asking...

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:07:12 -0400

The Scorpion and the Frog is a fable about a scorpion asking a frog to carry him across a river. The frog is afraid of being stung during the trip, but the scorpion argues that if it stung the frog, the frog would sink and the scorpion would drown. The frog agrees and begins carrying the scorpion, but midway across the river the scorpion does indeed sting the frog, dooming them both. When asked why, the scorpion explains that this is simply its nature. The fable is used to illustrate the view that the behaviour of some creatures, or of some people, is irrepressible, no matter how they are treated and no matter what the consequences.

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Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:15 -0400

Morbid History: Famous Last Words

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:00:21 -0400

morbidhistory: Humphrey Bogart: I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis. Napoleon...

vicemag: These Rappers Hate Ecstasy When ecstasy became...

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:39:28 -0400

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These Rappers Hate Ecstasy

When ecstasy became widely available three decades ago, it was largely consumed by suburban white kids wearing baggy cargo shorts who sucked pacifiers in abandoned warehouses, while listening to electronic music of some sort or other until they collapsed in exhaustion. Over the past decade, it seemed to fall out of favor with drug users, who veered more toward cocaine and other stimulants to fuel their partying needs. Then some narcotics-marketing genius (I’m convinced this is a real job) decided to rebrand MDMA, ecstasy’s key ingredient, as “molly,” and everyone from Kanye to Rick Ross to your little sister at this very moment is putting it in his or her mouth and asshole with reckless abandon. The hip-hop community’s embrace of the drug has been especially striking, since historical stereotypes dictate that rappers are normally more interested in chilled-out drugs like cough syrup and weed. But one hip-hop group from Brooklyn is not onboard. Stereo Marz, a trio who formed earlier this year, titled their debut track “Anti-Molly,” and the message is pretty clear: “Yo, this drug is fucking wack! / [they] ain’t fucking with that molly / and if you do you can’t come to my party.” I spoke with two of Stereo Marz’s three members, Desi Dez and Shaun “Bizy” Gabriel, about what was wrong with a drug that makes you love strobe lights and songs and sticking your tongue down some stranger’s throat all night long.

VICE: Why do you hate molly so much?
Desi Dez: I’m disgusted, in fact, very disgusted with all these artists being big advocates for this molly thing. We’re totally against that—for us, it’s weak. We don’t feel that.

Shaun “Bizy” Gabriel: The atmosphere in schools has changed in the past five years with kids doing molly. They’re selling it in candy wrappers, tricking kids.

Why do you think its popularity has increased so much over the past few years? Most rappers seem to love it.
Desi: That’s the reason! All these top-notch artists are the voice for this drug, so the younger kids see it as cool. Same with any propaganda, if it’s repeated enough, people just accept it.

Bizy: I don’t know if people are being paid to rap about molly, but I’ve heard people say that could be a possibility. It just came out of nowhere. What we do know is it’s being promoted every day.

Do you think molly will become a sort of new crack epidemic?
Desi: Definitely. It’s targeted at kids. That’s what it’s geared up for. The suppliers are going to put more stuff in to make it more addictive, and by that time, you’ve got a lost generation caught up on this, just like what the crack game did. It’s all a setup.

Do you have any parting words for rappers who can’t get enough of it?
Bizy: Man, pop the molly up your ass! We don’t respect molly.

More about molly on VICE:

The Dutch Love Ecstasy So Much Their Dirt Is Toxic

I Used My Stock Market Millions to Throw Raves and Sell Drugs

SiHKAL: Shulgins I Have Known and Loved

Why you home alone? Why she out wit me?

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:30:11 -0400

Why you home alone? Why she out wit me?

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Mon, 13 May 2013 20:00:14 -0400

factsandchicks: Shark fetuses fight and eat each other while...

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:30:26 -0400

factsandchicks:

Shark fetuses fight and eat each other while still in the womb. The one that is left alive is the only one that is born.

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Mon, 13 May 2013 19:00:12 -0400

nprfreshair: In the wake of the collapse of a garment factory...

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:22:58 -0400

nprfreshair:

In the wake of the collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh that has killed more than 1,100 workers, some major retailers — including H&M and Zara’s parent company, Inditex — have signed an agreement mandating better working conditions and safety standards for buildings. A couple weeks ago, author Elizabeth Cline told Terry that this tragedy might be the final straw, that it might actually force companies to sign such an agreement for garment workers. It looks like she was right.

New York Times:

The factory safety agreement calls for independent, rigorous factory safety inspections with public reports and mandatory repairs and renovations underwritten by Western retailers. A legally enforceable contract, it also calls for retailers to stop doing business with any factory that refuses to make necessary safety improvements, and for workers and their unions to have a substantial voice in factory safety.

Cline is the author of Overdressed: The Shockingly High Price of Cheap Fashion. She visited clothing manufacturing plants in Bangladesh as part of her research for the book.

Image via InkKC

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Mon, 13 May 2013 10:00:03 -0400

Fabolous - Money Talks

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:18:23 -0400

Fabolous - Money Talks