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It's Neil Young's Cortez the Killer, covered by Built to Spill from their 2000 album, Live.

A brief history of the legendary dumpster fire called TSR Dave Thaumavore RPG Reviews My favorite comment: "The moral of the story: you can only treat your employees, creatives, customers, vendors, publisher and sales channel like shit for decades before selling out to a like-minded company. 😕"

The Origin and Aftermath of 'Less is More' - Why Minimalism Failed - Stewart Hicks in architecture... sometimes less is less

Korn. In a Can - Still Coming Undone Bill McClintock, of course.

The Gotan Project - La Revancha del Tango:

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Attack of the Doc! (The Epic Story Behind G4TV and Attack of the Show)

The Sony Walkman article was #1 at Ars Technica this year: https://arstechnica.com/staff/2023/12/the-20-most-read-stories-of-2023/ I didn't end up getting one as I felt the ergonomic issues, price, and battery life didn't quite gel, according to some reviewers. There have been several updates to each Walkman (there is a 156-page thread covering the NW-A707 at Head-Fi, 255 pages for the NW-A300 to date), but the prices remain high and people are still complaining about the volume limits on non-Japanese units.

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A wayback playback... if it ain't Baroque... Music for a While - Henry Purcell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_for_a_While Merry Christmas and Season's Greetings, everyone!

The Last Reliant Robin (3-wheeled British car):

Some of the YouTube comments complained the video was long on explanation, short on performance, but that early synthesizer wasn't ideal for performing, from what I can see... more useful for recording and experimentation, I think.

Restored 478-key, 31-tone Moog synthesizer from 1968 sounds beautifully bizarre: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/restored-478-key-31-tone-moog-synthesizer-from-1968-sounds-beautifully-bizarre/

The Hillside Project (Josh Hill) - The Available Light https://thehillsideproject.com/listen

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There's More to This Controversial Painting Than You Think (American Gothic):

Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton: Knives Don't Have Your Back

I hope it works out. Harman acquired Arcam and I think it went to hell after that.

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Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere):

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Wikipedia: "Danger Zone" is a song, with music composed by Giorgio Moroder and lyrics written by Tom Whitlock, which American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins recorded and released in 1986. ... In 1986, Moroder collaborated with his protégé Harold Faltermeyer (of "Axel F") and lyricist Tom Whitlock to create the score for the film Top Gun (1986) which included Kenny Loggins' hit "Danger Zone" and Berlin's "Take My Breath Away". He wrote the theme song to the film Over the Top, "Meet Me Half Way", also performed by Loggins. In 1987, Moroder produced and co-wrote Falco's song "Body Next to Body". Moroder wrote the official theme songs, "Reach Out", for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, and "Hand in Hand", for the 1988 Seoul Olympics and "Un'estate italiana" for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. etc. Not quite... but there's nothing Giorgio Moroder couldn't do when he set his mind to it!

Bang & Olufsen Beocenter 1500 from 1976