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It's not normally the type of music I like, but I kinda dig this song. All the charm would be lost though if they had to edit it for TV or Radio.

When I saw Ben Folds in Fargo a while back he mentioned that he was going to be making an album with Nick Hornby. This is the first song off the album that is coming out September 28th.

He calls this video a "videosong", which means in his words:

Things You Think is (almost!) a VideoSong, a new medium with 2 rules:
1. What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice).
2. If you hear it, at some point you see it (no hidden sounds).

I don't know why I didn't post this video before. Probably because in my world, Sing It Loud is a pretty popular band, but in real life they probably aren't. They are a great band from Minneapolis that I have seen twice. I love this video because it was filmed in Minneapolis, and shows off many of the famous landmarks.

I missed the Perseids this year because of bad weather. This is a great time-lapse video of what I missed. Look at that sky! I wish the sky looked that good here in town. Damn you light pollution.

I finally had time to watch Phil Plait’s “Don’t Be A Dick” talk. Like all of Phil Plait’s talks, this is a must view also. He explains how hard it is to changes people’s minds when they think they are right, and being a dick about it makes it that much harder.

One of my biggest pet peeves is people that believe in woo, or any other nonsense that is not based on facts. I try to be nice about it when I see it.

I gave up talking to my family about their woo beliefs. My Brother is a chiropractor, and the rest of my family is pretty religious. Their belief in nonsense runs rampant. I don’t want any family fights, so I just keep my mouth shut.

But online is a different story. I try to be nice and point people who believe in woo in the right direction. Whenever I see someone online afraid to vaccinate their kids because they are afraid of Autism, I try to point them to the REAL facts. Most of the time I just get blown off.

Often times I hear people talking about going to an acupuncturist, or taking some worthless supplement, or getting their ears cleaned out with ear candling — all nonsense.

It’s really had to get people to look at the REAL facts. It’s so easy for people to know what answers they want, and then find sites that confirm them. The internet is full of woo, and many of the woo sites come up high on Google because they all have some kind of product to sell you. Real facts are hard to find, and when you do they are a really dry read. The real trick is learning how to think critically, and use common sense.

Letters to Cleo were one of my favorite band of the 90s. Lately Kay Hanley has been making music with Linus of Hollywood — who also released a great album in the 90s with Size 14 — in a band called Palmdale. They have an EP available on iTunes, and this is the latest video from it.

I guess I am not the only one who thinks road signs are backwards. I read them backwards every time.

The card trick starts about 1:40 into the video. I love this card trick, and it amazes me even though I know how it's done. I have always wanted to be good at card tricks, but I can never remember them, and haven't put it the time to learn all the fake shuffles well enough to pull them off so smoothly.

Tegan and Sara released their video for "Northshore" today. It's one of my favorite songs off their latest album, but don't ask me which one is Tegan and which one is Sara. I can never for the life of me tell them apart.