Category: just for fun

Saturday random 10 tunes

Emulating FlackLife again (but a day late and with a PC instead of an iPod), here are my not-so-random 10 tunes.*

      “Perfect World” – Indigo Girls
      “Train In Vain” – Annie Lenox
      “0340 Crazy Tonight = Strong Teeth” – the Kleptones
      “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite/I Want You (She’s So Heavy)/Kelt” – The Beatles (from Love)
      “In the Sun” – Blondie
      “I Bleed” – the Pixies
      “Folsom Prison Blues (Live)” – Johnny Cash
      “Hound Dog (Elvis Presley Cover)” – Albert King
      “Godzilla” – Blue Oyster Cult
      “Prince of the Punks” – The Kinks

* Tunes are “not-so-random” because I use Winamp and Predixis MusicMagic to create a playlist based on a single tune, which I pick. Today’s tune (perfect for a cold, drizzly day in the Midwest): “(I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea,” by Elvis Costello.

Friday Five: Random Play

Five contextless links:

  • Some retailers in the UK are getting more traffic from social networking sites like MySpace than from search engines (Google being the 800-pound exception, of course). Hat tip: BeyondPR, who observes that marketers should “re-evaluate your online spend to include social networks.”
  • Just another crumby marketing ploy? Put your name on a piece of toast. Via Brand Infection.
  • If MySpace were a country it would be the 11th largest and other scary thoughts on globalization. YouTube presentation, via FlackLife.
  • Internet-based alumni relations is the latest entry in Michael Stoner‘s ongoing discussion with Andy Shaindlin, executive director of the Caltech Alumni Association (and blogger at Alumni Futures). The discussion gives new meaning to the idea of “high-tech, high-touch.” Says Shaindlin: “We estimate that on average we reach alumni with electronic ‘touches’ at least 15 times as frequently as we do face-to-face. And electronic contacts outnumber those via print by about 4:1.”
  • While YouTubing for references to our campus‘s annual St. Pat’s festivities, I discovered a fun 3-minute clip of the 1949 St. Pat’s Parade through downtown Rolla, Mo. The parade was shot with an 8-millimeter camera but is in color. The guy who posted it is a UMR graduate (history, 1970) and the film was taken by his father in law. This clip offers a glimpse into an unusual 99-year tradition of our campus. The weeklong celebration culminates with the parade downtown tomorrow.