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This is the week you can listen to REM’s next album before it comes out. The album is called Accelerate. Supernatural Superserious is the first single and I really like this song. There is a song called Houston, but I don’t think it is flattering to the Bayou City!

The catch is, you have to have a Facebook account to listen. Once you have that, get the iLike application and search REM.

While you’re listening to the album, friend me on Facebook. Or Twitter.

Enjoy! It’s back to the rocking days of Monster.

(Image courtesy of Flickr user themongkey)

Two interesting things I’ve seen recently on Twitter.

Marc1919 posted about checkoutmyInk:

We are a group of tattoo enthusiasts who could not find a good tattoo site that did not charge money. So we decided to build one ourselves. Our main goal is to have a free site where people can store their pics online and search for tattoos pics, and at the same time, help build a community. We also want to help tattoo artists and shops promote themselves and show off some of their amazing works.

And treocast shows us Qwitter. Qwitter is a social tool designed to help you quit smoking. you can track how many cigarettes you smoke a day, plus keep a journal and overall share with others to keep you strong.

Oldies but still goodies as they say. Classic network news blooper clips with the likes of Sam Donaldson and others still on the air to this day.

The Tapes Of Wrath (part 2) bloopers
Tapes Of Wrath II (part1)

Didn’t I warn you about the once-a-month posting?? I am barely squeezing this in!! Let’s just go straight to business…
1st week in March – We went & saw They Might Be Giants with friends, I shot a wedding with Christine and went on a lovely GHPA tour of Glenwood Cemetery. Not too bad of a […]

Ken Hoffman has news on former Rock 101 KLOL DJ Dayna Steele’s new book:

The most successful woman in radio during the ’80s was undeniably Dayna Steele, who did middays on KLOL. No one was more involved in charity events than Steele.

Today, no longer in radio, Steele runs a successful consulting company called Steele Media Services. She is a businesswoman, motivational speaker, mom and, now, author.

Her new book, Rock to the Top: What I Learned About Success From The World’s Greatest Rock Stars ($17.95, Brown Books Publishing) is part self-help, but mostly just a ton of fun stories about superstars like Mick Jagger, Sting, Van Halen, David Crosby, Aerosmith and what radio was like “before corporations started buying up all the stations and turning radio from an art form where personalities thrived to a modern business that cares only about the bottom line.”

READ THE REST

(Image courtesy Flickr user Rex Enigma)

Are you paying WSJ to read that story?

Major update to Miro, the free/open Internet TV client

How to hack RFID-enabled credit cards for $8

YouTube videos in high quality

Supposedly this video is a big hit on the Internet:

If you don’t know “the todd” from nbc’s series “scrubs,” then come witness magic of machismo. yeaaah!

WATCH IT

Hello all,
It’s about time we did another show.  Spring training is almost over and the 2008 season is about to start.  Here is a short summary of what has been going on in Astros world as well as a preview to the ‘08 season.
Show Notes:
No ‘08 Intro yet, working on it, so you get a […]

I reviewed author Mike Riccetti’s Houston Dining on the Cheap before. Well now he is putting out the Houston section of the Zagat Survey for 2008 Texas Restaurants guide covering 1,505 restaurants in Austin, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Houston and San Antonio:

Houston: The much-anticipated newcomer, Reef, is now delivering innovative seafood in a refreshingly unpretentious Midtown space, helping to reinforce the local trend of casualness in fine-dining restaurants. The popular Uptown Sushi spawned a spin-off, Blue Fin, and just as the appetite for sushi continues unabated, so does the trend for small plates, exemplified by new wine bar SoVino. Highlighting both those trends is Soma, which opened with a bang in early 2008 on increasingly bustling Washington Avenue with star chef Robert Gadsby. Another big name, Robert Del Grande, just launched The Grove in Downtown’s Discovery Green with Ryan Pera, formerly of nearby 17, at the helm. The suburbs welcomed a slew of stylish new eateries including Neapolitan-rooted Amici in Sugar Land with its Vallone family pedigree, French-influenced Aura in Missouri City and Pearland’s Killen’s Steakhouse.

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Mike told me about two place off the radar you might want to check out - The Lemon Tree and Tampico. Thanks for the tip!

BoingBoing shows us a very funny Onion video:

The Onion’s latest video segment — a newscast from a future where humans are subservient to robots — is not only uproariously funny, it’s also a damned fine, top-notch piece of science fiction. More like this, please. Link