From B-Boy Stance by K-OS

The funny thing about hip hop culture (break dancing, djing, mc'ing, graf, etc.) is that it doesn't film/video well. In the case of break dancing and djing, the frame rate of video and film (much less lo-res youtube) simply isn't fast enough.

Red Horseman from Vasilisa the Beautiful (1899) by Ivan Bilibin (1876-1942).

From Penny Arcade

drew weing's "Set To Sea"

Russell Davies, selling it.
Tim O'Reilly, internet introvert.
Bruce Schneier, Security theater anti-dramatist.
Afro pop worldwide.
fat planet


copper

Simply Recipes, my favorite food blog.
Epicurious is supposed to be the ish too. It collects the archives of Gourmet & Bon Appetit magazines.
Streetsy's flickr group, a nice collection of graf sightings.

Getting rid of old links from sidebar:

fun
philip sherburne
Fluxblog
party photos

serious
London Review of Books
Literary Criticism
The New Yorker: Fact
events.pl
NYT Culture 2004

unsorted
Caterina.net
Flickr
FlickrBlog
SF Station
FM Rocks
xianlandia
World
Oakland News
Benn loxo du taccu
wayne&wax
Robert Christgau
Dissensus - Music
Dissensus
Electronic Music Syllabus
Ewan Pearson
The Age of the Essay
The Rap Nerd
Steady Bootleggin'
_ProdBy
SFist
artfacts.net
NY Post: seven
HipHopDX.com | Feature
We eat so many shrimp
kozyndan.com
dublab
Crown Dozen
Razorblade Runner
Rolling Stones Roots
Bayosphere
Zulu Records
Bay Area Photologgers
bumrocks
::::BEATS IN SPACE::::
BOOKFORUM

Local
=%7o
Bayosphere
Berkeley Parents Network
Economist.com - Cities Guide
Inside Bay Area - Search Results
Local News
OAKLANDISH

More misc
'BUKED & SCORNED
Banana Nutrament
Boing Boing
Media Matters for America
National Puzzlers' League
SF Art Openings
SF Station
Stern's Music
Upcoming.org
WFMU's Beware of the Blog
why i started smoking again.
TURNTABLE LAB

photo blogs
blork
brooklynkid
chicagouncommon
chromogenic
photoblogs
pictures.nevergirl
q.queso
topleftpixel
adayinthelife
apparentlynothing
bingwalker
brownglasses
catherinejamieson
chromasia
chromogenic
dailysnap
erinmalone
exitwound
halftone
hchamp
jinkyart.com
marcnorth
orbit1
photojunkie
quarlo
saltfreak
sh1ft
slower
suejon
tenyearsofmylife

art blogs:
art net
i heart photograph
rhizome
art fag city

Not very happy with this list, let me know if you know better.

facebook.com job puzzles
Crazy Questions At Google Job Interview
tech interview questions, the blog!
tech interview questions, the website!
great collection at berkeley.edu
more...

Word up.

RIP SLOWER.NET.

Vini E Olii Locanda Restaurant, Clinton Hill, I recommend it. Italian food, cool, great people...

Okay, I can't stop posting youtube.

Kids still listen to hardcore?!? "Jumpen/JumpStyle" dancing is sick, though.

The newly reissued Super Rail Band album is fantastic. I'm not sure if the name of the album is "Soundiata" or "Belle Epoque Volume 1."

An unfamiliar email address texted me this poem over the weekend:

Pallid waste where no radiant fathomers,
Onto my frozen fingers.
That patch of white at the very end of the road
The mortal architect had brought to life. 

At first, I thought it was random-word spam.
Then I thought it was a poem about death.
Then I realized it was a poem about the man-made nature of conceptions of the afterlife.

I was right the first time. (link, link) Dang.

Most frequently played:
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Bahamadia - Culture Cut
Chamillionaire - Ridin (Feat Krayzie Bone)
Dee Dee Warwick - Foolish Fool
Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins - Limbo Jazz
Gabor Szabo - Gypsy Queen
Jaylib - The Red
Louis Armstrong - You'll Never Walk Alone
Love Joys - One Draw
Maria Suntan - Deep And Dozen
Mavado - Weh Dem A Do (Remix)
Med Feat. Poke - What It Do
Modern Jazz Quartet - In Memoriam
Ms. Dynamite - Dy Na Mi Tee (Swizz Beatz Remix Feat. Nas)
Nina Simone - Be My Husband
Rhymefest - Feva
Syclops - The Fly
The Killers - Read My Mind (Pet Shop Boys Stars Are Blazing Mix)
Tracey Thorne - Raise The Roof
X Plastaz - Msimu Kwa Msimu

The bootleg of "daft punk - live in keyspan park, coney island, brooklyn ny" is pretty amazing, far better than their studio albums. Their forthcoming live album should be pretty good.

Best listening experience I've had in a long time: Max Roach - We Insist! Freedom Now Suite at 5am, after staying up all night while driving around staten island a few days after Roach passed away.

Kind of silly but:
Lil Wayne - Come Around (Live On Rap City)
Kanye West - Young Folks
Groove Armada - Your Song (Tim Love Lee's Semi Bearded Remix).mp3

Quite good:
African Virtuoses - Classic Guinean Guitar Group
Brother Ali - Champion (Remix)
Various Artists - Special Xeme Festival National
Various Artists - Congo, Rumba On The River
Baaba Maal - Live At Joe's Pub
Various Artists - Authenticite, The Syliphone Years

The African Pearls Series:
Various Artists - African Pearls Vol. 1 Congo
Various Artists - African Pearls Vol. 2 Guinee Cultural Revolution
Various Artists - African Pearls Vol. 3 Mali
Various Artists - African Pearls Vol. 4 Senegal

Orchestra Baobab's catalogue runs deep! Bamba, Ndeleng Ndeleng, On Verra Ca (The 1978 Paris Sessions) and Une Nuit Au Jandeer are all quite good.

Absolutely perfect song I rediscovered:
The Melodians - Sweet Sensation

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting �
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver.