Hip-hop is different

Published by Peter on August 22, 2008 in music. 0 Comments

Hiphop: A.S.S.

Fleshmap via Infosthetics

If you ever wanted proof that hip-hop & rap are a disruptive music genre, take a look at this study/art work by Fernanda Viegas, Martin Wattenberg & the crowdsourcing specialists at Dolores Labs: Fleshlabs.

They’ve take the lyrics of a lot of songs and figured out which body parts are most mentioned.

Based on a compilation of more than 10,000 songs, the piece visualizes the use of words representing body parts in popular culture. Each musical genre exhibits its own characteristic set of words, with more frequently used terms showing up as bigger images. The entrance image shows how many times different body parts are mentioned; the charts for each genre go into more detail, showing the usage of different synonyms for each part.

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Afternoon delight

Published by Peter on August 20, 2008 in music. 0 Comments

For reasons I won’t disclose, I’ve had the following song in my head for quite a while now: “Afternoon Delight” by Starland Vocal Band (1974). For me the funny thing is the contrast between the innocuous country-music image of the band (with the really pretty Margot Chapman - born in Hawai) and the lyrics of the song that are a bit, let’s say, suggestive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaHYvkjH_QY

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Intelligence Test

Published by Peter on July 29, 2008 in meme. 0 Comments

Intelligence Test: 23/33

This Intelligence Test was fun to do, and I got stuck at 23, without Googling or reverse-engineering the JS code. Then of course, somebody decided to comment on the NoDesktopHero post with spoilers. So yeah, no point in continuing.

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Twitter spammers: Clickbank/Keynetics affiliates

Published by Peter on July 14, 2008 in advertising and spam. 5 Comments

I’ve been experimenting with Twitter a couple of times, and one of the results, the FM Brussel Live playlist twitter bot, seems to be rather popular. I get a couple of subscriptions per day. But recently they’re almost all of the form [name of girl][number of 2 - 4 digits]. This is what they look like:

Twitter followers: suspicious lot

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