14 January 2007

Beatles Sgt. Pepper's 40 'years ago today' countdown



It's difficult to know when to date some sorts of events. For example, it was approx 40 years ago today, that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. The creative process began when?; the recording sessions in late '66; the release in mid '67. In some sense, there is a countdown to the day on which we can say "It was 40 years ago today that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play." Unless you were buying records in the summer of '67 you may have no idea what I am talking about. If you were...




sources:
wikipedia
last.fm
pandora

Megite wisdom of crowds

I am so glad I checked out Megite. The wisdom of crowds let me know the second most important thing about which I should be informed.



follow up:
David Foster Wallace (p.37 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments)

In the comments, someone connected with Megite made it clear that this sort of stuff is meant to be filtered out. Good point by Mr Wallace. Cheap shot by me; sorry.