MoveOn.org‘s new ad: “Congressional Representation or ‘Ass-Kissing Little Chickenshits’.”

Damn! Haven’t twit in a month, which is ages online.

Fuck you all

An interview with “Dr. Dre, Mix Marathon Man“:

For Dre, a hit record starts with a hit sound, which sounds simple. But the search is what requires those long hours in the studio. The producer normally heads into the studio around 3 p.m. weekdays, the weekends being reserved for the family and for his hobbies, which include sports and photography. Because the studio in Sherman Oaks is like a second home, Dre likes the atmosphere to be as comfortable and relaxed as possible.

Design Can Change pulled together a simple, informative, Flash site about climate-related disasters.

Jay-Z’s “Blue Magic” is mad ill. Hov is back to the block.

Humanity
Daria, I Love You

Jay returns to the studio to reflect on his past after seeing Ridley Scott’s American Gangster:

The album, which his label plans to release in early November, came together over the past few weeks after Jay-Z was shown the film, directed by Ridley Scott, in which Denzel Washington portrays Frank Lucas, a early 1970s Harlem heroin kingpin.

Michael Eric Dyson discusses hip-hop:

Commercial pressures mean that in some ways, rap is a victim of its own success. And critics shouldn’t forget that jazz, in its early days, was considered as scurrilous as rap is now. Hip-hop culture in general, and rap in particular, comes with an intricate embedded politics — and at its best, Dyson says, “hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.”

The reading of Know What I Mean? took place at the Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.

Photoshop’s new logo gets not even one positive comment. I guess folks aren’t seeing what’s possible.