Friday, July 31: Beastie Boys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend, The National, Fleet Foxes, MSTRKRFT, Q-Tip, The Pharcyde, Organized Konfusion, The Knux, Ra Ra Riot, Seasick Steve, Telepathe, Shearwater, Heartless Bastards, Flying Lotus, College Humor Live, Arj Barker, Eugene Mirman and Bo Burnham.
Saturday, August 1: Tool, My Bloody Valentine, Gogol Bordello, Arctic Monkeys, Neko Case, The Ting Tings, Yelle, Crystal Castles, St. Vincent, Tokyo Police Club, The Cool Kids, Kool Keith, Cage the Elephant, Chairlift, White Rabbits, Electric Touch, The Postelles, Black Gold, College Humor Live, Tim & Eric, Judah Friedlander and Jim Jeffries.
Sunday, August 2: Coldplay, Echo & The Bunnymen, MGMT, The Black Keys, Elbow, Silversun Pickups, Mogwai, We Are Scientists, Ghostland Observatory, The Gaslight Anthem, Etienne De Crecy, Lykke Li, Akron/Family, Steel Train, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis, College Humor Live, Janeane Garofalo, Michael Showalter and Todd Barry.
Tickets go on sale April 3. Single day tickets are $89, while three-day passes start at $199.
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Friday looks good
Monday, March 30, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
you make the call pt. 300!
vladdy putin: friendly picture taker or devious russian spy?
you make the call!!!!!
(if you didn't notice he's on the far left, in the pastel shirt..it almost looks like he's clenching his fist...)
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
I wish I had an Evil Twin
Saved by their indistinguishable DNA, identical twins suspected in a massive jewelry heist have been set free. Neither could be exclusively linked to the DNA evidence. German police say at least one of the identical twin brothers Hassan and Abbas O. may have perpetrated a recent multimillion euro jewelry heist in Berlin. But because of their indistinguishable DNA, neither can be individually linked to the crime. Both were set free on Wednesday. In the early morning hours of February 25, three masked men broke into Germany's famous luxury department store Kaufhaus Des Westens (KaDeWe). Video cameras show how they climbed into the store's grand main hall, broke open cabinets and display cases and made off with an estimated €5 million worth of jewelry and watches.
When police found traces of DNA on a glove left at the scene of the crime, it seemed that the criminals responsible for Germany's most spectacular heist in years would be caught. But the DNA led to not one but two suspects -- 27-year-old identical, or monozygotic, twins with near-identical DNA. German law stipulates that each criminal must be individually proven guilty. The problem in the case of the O. brothers is that their twin DNA is so similar that neither can be exclusively linked to the evidence using current methods of DNA analysis. So even though both have criminal records and may have committed the heist together, Hassan and Abbas O. have been set free.
LINK
pee-pee
"An 18-year-old has secretly painted a 60ft drawing of a phallus on the roof of his parents' £1million mansion in Berkshire. It was there for a year before his parents found out. They say he'll have to scrub it off when he gets back from travelling."
Monday, March 23, 2009
Antique House For Rent - Newmarket
Antique house, 4 large bedrooms, eat in kitchen, pantry, full bath with tub, living room and porch. 5 min. to UNH bus stop, 4 miles to UNH campus. Large yard with river frontage for swimming and boating. Ample off street parking. Newly painted with updated appliances. Available June, 2009. One year lease, 4 occupants. Utilities and heat not included. Security deposit required. No pets.LINK
Looks pretty classy guys, might have to make a phone call and check this place out.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Songsmith gets political
I'm assuming this is a response to this Paul Krugman blog entry. Politics aside, this kid is simply a tool.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
What's Your Walk Score?
Walk Score helps people find walkable places to live. Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc. Walk Score measures how easy it is to live a car-lite lifestyle—not how pretty the area is for walking.
Toast House: 57 out of 100 — Somewhat Walkable
Old Central St Apartment, Newmarket: 69 out of 100 — Somewhat Walkable
My Montreal Apartment: 88 out of 100 — Very Walkable
Parents' House, Newbury NH: 12 out of 100 — Car-Dependent
Most walkable cities:
1. San Francisco
2. New York City
3. Boston
4. Chicago
WalkScore
Toast House: 57 out of 100 — Somewhat Walkable
Old Central St Apartment, Newmarket: 69 out of 100 — Somewhat Walkable
My Montreal Apartment: 88 out of 100 — Very Walkable
Parents' House, Newbury NH: 12 out of 100 — Car-Dependent
Most walkable cities:
1. San Francisco
2. New York City
3. Boston
4. Chicago
WalkScore
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
THIS IS REAL. BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID.
creepy intro, weird studio, viewing parties, chuck norris, 9.12 principles? this is bizarre on so many levels...
and at 2:51 all hell breaks loose.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
this has got to stop.
i'll agree, i've given kanye a pass for a while because he has some nice production and there seems to be a bit of merit to his work. but this. i'm not sure what's happening here...
on a side note i would like to shine up seacrest's cheek with a right hook...
Stewart & Cramer - The Full Uncensored Interview
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Possibly one of Stewart's best interviews I've seen on this show. Now, there is something inherently unfair about the DS gag on a journalistic level; taking short clips from years ago, potentially out of context and throwing them at an unprepared guest. But there is a problem with the Media and its relationship to the markets that Stewart is addressing more directly then I've seen anywhere else on television, and I think this interview illustrates the argument he has been making for some time now.
Part 2
Part 3
Possibly one of Stewart's best interviews I've seen on this show. Now, there is something inherently unfair about the DS gag on a journalistic level; taking short clips from years ago, potentially out of context and throwing them at an unprepared guest. But there is a problem with the Media and its relationship to the markets that Stewart is addressing more directly then I've seen anywhere else on television, and I think this interview illustrates the argument he has been making for some time now.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
For Your Health
So I've added a new gadget on the left; a list of our favorite blogs (for your health). The cool thing about it is that it also links the most recent post on that blog underneath, along with when it was posted. I started with my favorite blog, Freakonomics, along with LoA. If you have any other recommendations of blogs, or want to throw in a veto on this thing, let me know.
Yup, That's My School
The two front page articles from yesterday's TNH;
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STUDENT BODY ELECTIONS
Deadline passes, ballot remains void of candidates
For the second time in three years, the deadline for candidate petitions for student body elections passed without a single name in the running for student body president or vice-president. In an attempt to draw candidates for the top student government position, the deadline for petitions will be extended to 7 p.m. on March 25.
According to Student Senate Speaker Nicholas Wolf, petitions are only being accepted for the positions of student body president and vice-president. One petition was filed for the position of University System Student Board Representative before the Wednesday deadline, and the position won't be opened to the extended deadline. It is unclear what would happen should no candidate enter by the extended deadline. According to student senate by-laws, candidates for president must be at least second-semester sophomores and must retain their full-time undergraduate status until next April. Candidates for vice president must have been enrolled at UNH for no less than one semester.
Elections for all positions are scheduled to occur on April 22 and 23. It is unclear what will happen if no petitions are entered before that time. The new administration will take office on May 1. "Anyone who cares about the student body, who's interested about how this university works, who's interested in how they can change the community that they live in, should be interested in running for student body president and vice president," said Wolf. "It's really the best way to change UNH and to be a leader." Wolf was unsure of the reasons why no petitions had been filed. Petitions have been available since Feb. 23. Wolf said that at least 15 petitions had been taken from the office since then, but none had been returned.
LINK
Students find ways to enjoy spring break despite recession
Despite the economic downturn, students are still finding ways to travel and get away from snowy New Hampshire for spring break. Senior Angela Jones has been envisioning herself on a Jamaican Beach since early December. Jones, along with 16 of her sorority sisters from Alpha Xi Delta, will be enjoying the sunshine and clear waters for the entire break. In order to pay for the $1200 trip, Jones is spending her entire Christmas savings just to go. "I had to ask for a lot of money for Christmas," she said. "But it will all be worth it when I'm lying on a beach." Other students are traveling with parents who are paying for the vacation instead of friends so they can enjoy a warm week in destinations like Cancun and Florida. Jen Boucher, a Spanish and justice studies major, is flying down to Cancun with her mom and sister for four days. Boucher comes from a "family that loves vacations" and is taking full advantage of that fact by tagging along for a quick escape from the winter wonderland on campus.
LINK
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Lack of Regulation or Current-Account Imbalances?
IN RECENT months many economists and policymakers, including such unlikely bedfellows as Paul Krugman, an economist and New York Times columnist, and Hank Paulson, a former American treasury secretary, have put “global imbalances”—the huge current-account surpluses run by countries like China, alongside America’s huge deficit—at the root of the financial crisis. But the IMF disagrees. It argues, in new papers released on Friday March 6th, that the “main culprit” was deficient regulation of the financial system, together with a failure of market discipline. Olivier Blanchard, the IMF's chief economist, said this week that global imbalances contributed only “indirectly” to the crisis. This may sound like buck-passing by the world’s main international macroeconomic organisation. But the distinction has important consequences for whether macroeconomic policy or more regulation of financial markets will provide the solutions to the mess.In broad strokes, the global imbalances view of the crisis argues that a glut of money from countries with high savings rates, such as China and the oil-producing states, came flooding into America. This kept interest rates low and fuelled the credit boom and the related boom in the prices of assets, such as houses and equity, whose collapse precipitated the financial crisis. A workable long-term fix for the problems of the world economy would, therefore, involve figuring out what to do about these imbalances.But the IMF argues that imbalances could not have caused the crisis without the creative ability of financial institutions to develop new structures and instruments to cater to investors’ demand for higher yields. These instruments turned out to be more risky than they appeared. Investors, overly optimistic about continued rises in asset prices, did not look closely into the nature of the assets that they bought, preferring to rely on the analysis of credit-rating agencies which were, in some cases, also selling advice on how to game the ratings system. This “failure of market discipline”, the fund argues, played a big role in the crisis. As big a problem, according to the IMF, was that financial regulation was flawed, ineffective and too limited in scope. What it calls the “shadow banking system”—the loosely regulated but highly interconnected network of investment banks, hedge funds, mortgage originators, and the like—was not subject to the sorts of prudential regulation (capital-adequacy norms, for example) that applied to banks.
In part, the fund argues, this was because they were not thought to be systemically important, in the sense that banks were understood to be. But their being unregulated made it more attractive for banks (whose affiliates the non-banks often were) to evade capital requirements by pushing risk into these entities. In time, this network of institutions grew so large that they were indeed systemically important: in the now-familiar phrase, they were “too big” or “too interconnected” to fail. By late 2007, some estimates of the assets of the bank-like institutions in America outside the scope of existing prudential regulation, was around $10 trillion, as large as the assets of the regulated American banking system itself. Given this interpretation, it is not surprising that the IMF has thrown its weight strongly behind an enormous increase in the scale and scope of financial regulation in a series of papers leading up to the G20 meetings. Among many other proposals, it wants the shadow banking system to be subjected to the same sorts of prudential requirements that banks must follow. Sensibly, it is calling for regulation to concentrate on what an institution does, not what it is called (that is, the basis of regulation should be activities, not entities). It also wants regulators to focus more broadly on things that contribute to systemic risk (leverage, funding and interconnectedness), the significance of which was probably under-appreciated until the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the subsequent chaos. And there is much more to be done, it suggests, involving cross-border banking, disclosure requirements, indices of systemic risk and international co-operation.
Yet there is an underlying inconsistency here. The IMF’s version of “how it all happened” is a classic example of institutions gaming the regulatory system. It is impossible to anticipate all the possible ways in which regulations can be evaded. And while the wisdom of hindsight may make it appear blindingly obvious that non-bank financial institutions could become large enough to pose a risk to the entire system, clearly this was not apparent to policymakers at the time. Increasing the scope of regulation may well prevent the precise problems that led to this crisis from recurring in the same way, but nothing stops financiers from finding ways to evade the plethora of regulations that the fund is proposing. It is hard to shoot a moving target. And what about those pesky imbalances? The IMF’s view, broadly speaking, is that without excessive risk-taking by financial institutions, which was aided by the absence of regulation, imbalances would not by themselves have caused the meltdown. But equally, without the flood of money seeking returns, the risky financial instruments that the IMF is blaming for increasing systemic risk may not have grown and posed the risk that they did. Some blame the IMF’s policies during the Asian crisis for spurring countries in the region to build up enormous reserves. That may offer part of the explanation for why the Fund has come down so strongly on one side of the debate.
The Economist
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This is a good article on the Current-Account imbalances around the world and their effect on the economic meltdown. The Economist assesses the debate of what went wrong pretty accurately in my opinion, with both clearly contributing to the crisis.
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