Popdose (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Damn right, “My Sharona.” The Knack’s one monster hit, co-written by lead guitarist Berton Averre and singer Doug Fieger, has kept my heart pumping and my hands pounding on steering wheels, tabletops, and drum sets for nearly 30 years. While some may write it off as slick corporate new wave rock, the drive [...]
My Coldplay.com (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Music has always been a huge part of my life, often when we go through strong emotions it can really help us to listen to music. The UK band Coldplay seem to either have the knack of writing such passionate songs about real issues which face people, or they have a map of our lives [...]
The Urban Woo (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Just as I have tracks that I wish would be buried at the bottom of the Pacific, never to be heard ever again (I Will Survive, Brown Eyed Girl, you get the drift), there are songs that I never tire of, and am rather obsessive about in that I can listen to them ten times, one after the other; it's like an addiction. Some of them could be considered quite irritating, but meh. Casino Royale - Herb Alpert...
Attytood (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Tell 1980s pop rockers to stop terrorizing America, especially our friendly neighbor to the south: Some people getting late night and early morning telemarketing calls in the Wilmington area have been doing a double take when they see the...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
If Facebook's CEO is to realize his aspirations, the hoodie, aw shucks routine has to go.
800-CEO-READ Blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Friday was opening day at SXSW, the famous Austin music/film/media/interactive festival that's been running for the past two decades. If you're not familiar with it, here's an introduction. Most of us here are missing the fun. But one of our...
Gold-Plated Witch on Wheels (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
I don't usually discuss religion in a philosophical way here for a couple of reasons. First, religious people get it and already have plenty of religious things to read and non-religious people don't get it and don't want to read those things. The second is that it is often awkward for me to talk about these things in a less than abstract way because God is so personal to me. Call it the hiding-in-my-closet-to-pray-t...
Living with Bert (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
I often complain that Bert doesn't have the knack of pleasant chit-chat. It is my belief that he only speaks when necessary (and that's according to his definition of necessary, not anyone else's). Yesterday I decided to prove this, and started to record everything he said to me. This is a complete transcript of the first couple of hours (after that I told him what I was doing and then we had
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Former Scotland captain led the tributes to Jonny Wilkinson after the England fly-half had broken the world points-scoring record.
The Hits Just Keep On Comin' (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
We’re heading back to WLOF in Orlando, Florida, for the survey from this week in 1967, featuring the usual chart-topping classics that have never been off the radio ever since (”Dedicated to the One I Love,” “Strawberry Fields Forever,” “Ruby Tuesday,” “The Beat Goes On,” “Happy Together”), and the much-more-interesting boatload of obscurities lurking below. 13. [...]
Phones Review (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
It seems Samsung have the knack of attracting customers and then making sure they keep them. Samsung has just been named top in customer brand loyalty within mobile phone brands by Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Exchange Index. Chief Marketing Officer at Samsung Telecommunications America, Bill Ogle says: ”The Brand Keys Customer Loyalty Award is a significant [...]
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
SONY (3): Group Firms Boost India Sales On 'Bollywood' FeverTOKYO (Nikkei)--Sony Corp. (6758) group firms in India seem to have discovered the knack of driving up sales of home electronics by linking aspects of local culture to their products.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
New program encourages arts and crafts discovery for families IRVING, Texas, March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Michaels Stores, Inc., the nation's leading arts and crafts specialty store, is celebrating National Craft Month in March with the introduction of "The Knack(SM)" a new online and in-store program for parents and teachers to help children discover their creativity. The name of the program comes...
East Grinstead Courier (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Cricket: Sevenoaks Vine Cricket Club have announced Omar Iqbal will replace Guy Hollamby as chairman.
TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
Backed by outgoing President Vladimir Putin, a once-KGB kick-ass spy, the newly-elected President of Russia has infuriated many Russkies, some still Commies. The ex law school professor and first crony to Vlad, Dmitry Medvedev, became President of R...
