Mavis Staples sings loud and proud on NPR.

Good comparison of the major online steaming music services.

Four years old, but damn if it ain’t great. Laid back 70’s California guitar rock via Texas, sparkling harmonies, driving melodies, and bears endless listening. Close to my album of the noughties. Must buy.

Silhouettes on Big Picture.

Wah, getting a handle on privacy is getting harder and harder. Maybe Eric Schmidt really does know everything:

If I look at enough of your messaging and your location, and use Artificial Intelligence,” Schmidt said, “we can predict where you are going to go. Show us 14 photos of yourself and we can identify who you are.

Hopefully teaches you how to cope with Sydney shock jock road rage as a cyclist.

Hide and seek for fast grown ups.

After watching King of Kong you’d doubt it, but Billy Mitchell apparently really can play, setting new World Records for Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr.:

Mitchell evidently quit his Donkey Kong game immediately after beating Chien’s mark. Asked why, Mitchell said: “Some say I’m being cocky. Some say I’m being lazy. I say, I’m being Billy Mitchell.”

Love the dodgy videos posted in the comments to the post too - all part of the mythos.

Posterising lyrics.

Annabel Crabb on the life of a journo on the election ride, and how the impact of always-on coverage might have dumbed and dulled down the campaign:

Now, thanks to the advent of wireless, BlackBerrys, iPhones and iPads, most journos have absorbed the major newspapers and websites before they show up to the press conference. If Kevin Rudd has said something in Brisbane, or Candidate X has made some Holocaust reference, the journos will know all about it. And the questions reflect that, I think. Whereupon in former campaigns, the questions might have centred more around the policy being offered, these days they are more likely to canvass the campaign issue of the day. This liberalisation of communication has been answered by the campaign teams with even tighter management.