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“Run Rudolph Run” is one of the most well-known songs to contain a lyric about urination

I’ve got to get home

Say, what’s in this comb

Me: “I forgot to mention one little thing: a ring.”

Santa: “Oh you mean like on the phone?? ;P”

Spotify is stuffing their playlists with cheap factory-farm music to avoid paying artists.

Soon people will be listening to AI music without even knowing or caring.

The Ghosts in the Machine

Wow I had totally forgotten about the whole #DaShareZ0ne debacle. What ever came of that? Did we ever learn exactly what happened?

Back in the 1960s, You Bought Your Christmas Music at the Tire Store https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42257785/goodyear-firestone-tire-christmas-record/

If you’re looking for a wildly different Christmas record this year: Dick Hyman and the Organ Orchestra – That Happy Christmas Feeling (1959)

#music

Wow people made quick work of knocking me out of the top spot on Short Circuit on #RowbotRally #Playdate https://play.date/games/rowbot-rally/

I can’t believe I’m saying this

But I might rewatch Gilmore Girls

I challenge you to do a “three-finger swipe undo” in Mail without also selecting a message.

Even four-finger swipe app switching on iPadOS seems to register taps for me.

Wow The Soft Bulletin just turned 25.

I’m delighted that The Substance has five Golden Globe nominations, including best picture: https://goldenglobes.com/film/the-substance/

There’s a #WordPress plugin for changing all YouTube embeds to “youtube-nocookie” embeds: https://github.com/wpexplorer/wp-youtube-nocookie/blob/main/wp-youtube-nocookie.php

Why is there so much teal and orange in AI imagery?

Christmas will always make me miss Brian O’Donovan now #Boston #GBH @gbhnews@mastodon.social

Wow Portishead’s “Dummy” turned 30 this August.

What’s the difference between Ghost Box and Belbury Music?

Anywhere here’s a new thing from them: https://belburymusic.greedbag.com/buy/prismatics/

#music

Corporate training modules are like:

You find a USB drive on the floor by the elevator. What should you do?

A. Mount it to your work laptop to see if there is any Bitcoin on it.
B. Throw it away. It probably isn’t important anyway.
C. Give it to someone in IT and explain where you found it.
D. Promptly swallow it while nobody is looking.

“Only Murders in the Building” just makes me so happy that Steve Martin and Martin Short got to do one last relevant thing that people like in the last quarter of their lives.