Jim Kweskin – 4 Albumsvia Wrath of the Grapevine, and relating a truly bizarre odyssey (Only In America, etc. etc.) that I’ve known bits of since the day. The Jug Band in its pre-1965 incarnation was an important bit of Cantabridgiana, but the later Lyman story is quite beyond The Pale.(tags: musicscuriosa) Time-lapse of 1990 LA mall – Boing Boingno cell phones, and I swear people look thinner(tags: videonaciremaethnography)Posted by oook at July 9, 2009 07:00 AM

These are my links for July 7th through July 9th:Knowledge Ecology Notes » Pope Benedict XVI encyclical letter denounces excessive zeal for assertions of intellectual property rights in knowledge – The Pope’s latest encyclical (a kind of churchy APA) decries “excessive zeal for … intellectual property, especially in the field of health care.”Lifehacker – How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network’s WEP Password with BackTrack – wep – Today we’re going to run down, step-by-step, how to crack a Wi-Fi network with

Last week it was Portia De Rossi .  Granted I had just watched the complete DVD boxset of Arrested Development from start to finish and there was an episode where she obviously had no bra on and you know how those crazy Americans love their air conditioning, but that wasn’t the only reason. Nice. This week may just divide the opinion. It’s going to have to be Lily Allen. Look at that.