KILLING THE MUSIC INDUSTRY ONE MIXTAPE AT A TIME (2009 SUPPLEMENTAL EDITION)

Because there are no losers in the TFI Music Vault – whichis to say, just because an album didn’t make the Top 20 list doesn’t mean there’s nothing worth listening to on them – Team Def is proud to present at no additional cost a bonus podcast of music we enjoyed in 2009.

Terribly Frog Productions presents:



( Track listing and recommended playing order enclosed )

For a folder of individual DRM-free MP3 files + artwork [MB], click here.

For an exclusive Def Mix MP3 + artwork [ MB], click here.

Offer expires in seven days (or whenever Mediafire deletes them). Feel free to circulate among friends, relatives, work colleagues, teammates, neighbors, pharmacists, personal trainers and schoolchildren.

The usual caveats and govt warnings apply.

CREDITS

Song links by Johnny Cash (from this album)

Artwork stolen from Gil Elvgren

Man on fire,

This is dF

HEALTHCARE REFORM UPDATE FROM THE UNITED STATES OF BATSHIT

ITEM [via dinopollard ]: Rep. Michele Bachmann warns America that the Obamacare plan could include a provision in which if you criticize it, you’ll end up on a blacklist that will deny you treatment – just like they do in Japan.

Her source: some random guy she just happened to meet.

"He said that in Japan, to wait and get health care is almost impossible. You get on a list and you wait and you wait and you wait. But he said this is something people don't know: in Japan, people have stopped voicing their opinion on health care. There are things that are wrong with Japanese health care, but people are afraid of voicing. 'Well why is that,' I asked. [He said], 'Because they know that would get on a list and they wouldn't get health care. They wouldn't get in. They wouldn't get seen. And so people are afraid. They're afraid to speak back to government. They're afraid to say anything.' Is that what we want for our future? That takes us to gangster government at that point!"

Video is here if you want it.

And so much for bipartisanship.

FUN FACT: Most hospitals and doctor’s offices in Japan are privately run, not govt-owned, though the govt regulates costs heavily to keep them affordable. Health insurance is mandatory, but private insurance remains an option. It’s not perfect by any means,  but it’s not exactly the “govt takeover of healthcare” Bachmann says it is.

That said, she’s never actually been to Japan, so what the hell do I know?

Making a list,

This is dF

YR MODERN WORLD: BETTER LIGHTING THROUGH GROUPTHINK

I get press releases.

Sometimes they are from The Future.





Yes.

Technically, of course, there’s nothing futuristic about this. A number of companies have been working on this kind of thing since at least 2001, namely as a PC interface for quadriplegics and people who otherwise can’t use their hands to use computers.

Does the InteraXon technology work? No idea. Who cares? THIS is the 21st Century I signed up for.

Thinking out loud,

This is dF