Gentleman Feller

Thursday, November 4, 2010

The Mooney Suzuki - "Do It"

Do It by The Mooney Suzuki
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The Mooney Suzuki - Do It.mp3 (3657 KB)

I love the sound of rock and roll in the morning. Thankfully, the best thing to come from watching six hours of election coverage last night is that I saw a commercial from SAP. The commercial itself is, you know, a commercial. SAP means nothing to me. But that soundtrack. Oh, the soundtrack.

The Mooney Suzuki, at least until they signed a major label deal and seemingly calmed down, were an ass-kicking quartet from New York City. They were the American version of The Hives, but with better solos. The idea, as they put it, was to rock "the fuck" out.

If you need more - and believe me, you NEED more - download People Get Ready (which includes "Do It") or the world-beating Electric Sweat.

Posted via email from One Stupid Mop

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

CNN had a lot of interesting ways to explain data last night.

http://www.fastcompany.com/1699904/behind-the-scenes-cnn-mid-term-elections-technology-magic-wall-green-screens

While MSNBC was playing comic foil and Fox was playing to its base, the serious news network showed off all sorts of graphics and methods of boiling down crazy amounts of data from Twitter, "raw exit poll data" and other places.

The 3D graphics may look crazy, but amid the thousands of touch screens that were visible all night and the huge amount of information the talking heads were using, CNN hit their target of information overload. At least it looked pretty!

Posted via email from Stephen Feller