Monthly Archives: February 2012

A telephone call between a financial adviser in Beverly Hills and a trader in New York was all it took to fleece taxpayers on a water-and-sewer financing deal in West Virginia. The secret conversation was part of a conspiracy stretching across the U.S. by Wall Street banks in the $2.8 trillion municipal bond market. The [...]

The new lead single for How I Got Over, now dropping June 22nd. A remix/re-imagination of Monster Of Folk’s song by the same name. The Roots – Dear God 2.0 | Mediafire Via: [...]

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Download Video or MP3 -Iamnotarapperispit.com In another excerpt from the interviews from the How To Rap book, Sheek talks about how he makes notations throughout his rhyme notes so he knows when to pause, put emphasis, etc. when he’s recording. You mean there’s still a rapper who writes shit down? Who knew. Via: [...]

The first step in what the New Jersey Nets hope is a quick turnaround is in place. New owner Mikhail Prokhorov is eager to get started on the rest. Prokhorov’s purchase of the team was approved Tuesday by NBA’s owners, who welcomed the first non-North American into their club. The financial transaction was closed at [...]

US scientists are warning that radiation from controversial full-body airport scanners has been dangerously underestimated and could lead to an increased risk of skin cancer – particularly in children. University of California biochemist David Agard said that unlike other scanners, the radiation from these devices is delivered at low energy beam levels, with most of [...]

The fact that he’s at least trying to be the “old Drake” is commendable…I guess Drake – 9 AM in Dallas Freestyle Produced by Boi-1da Photo by Jonathan Mannion. Via:NR [...]

BERKELEY, Calif. — UC Berkeley is adding something a little different this year in its welcome package — cotton swabs for a DNA sample.In the past, incoming freshman and transfer students have received a rather typical welcome book from the College of Letters and Science’s “On the Same Page” program, but this year the students [...]

It’s so crazy how the internet impacts many of the marketing + design decisions of today’s artists and musicians. The drive for SEO, search engine optimization, is important for musicians to be able to differentiate their products, and make sure consumers can find their music+web presence without much noise. As a blog that relies on [...]

Finally someone speaks the truth. In an interview with Spiegel Magazine, former Bundesbank chief Karl Otto Pohl, says it how it is: “Without a “haircut,” a partial debt waiver, [Greece] cannot and will not ever [repay its debt]. So why not immediately? That would have been one alternative. The European Union should have declared half [...]

Julian Assange, the Australian founder of the whistleblower website Wikileaks, says he had his passport taken away from him at Melbourne Airport and was later told by customs officials that it was about to be cancelled. Last year Wikileaks published a confidential Australian blacklist of websites to be banned under the government’s proposed internet filter. [...]

Alicia Keys feat. Drake – Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready) (Remix) | Mediafire Props to DJ Enuff. Via: [...]