The Dark Knight , "Where is my Mind?" Promos

The Dark Knight is arguably my favorite movie. I've seen it countless times. Recently I saw some amazing promo commercials for its premiere on HBO. It uses the song "Where is My Mind?" by the Pixies to express the theme of chaos the movie embodies so well. The promos are quite great and the song is used perfectly.





MP3
Pixies - Where is My Mind?

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The Dark Knight

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Song of the Day: Sarah Harmer "Basement Apt." &

Sometimes you need the soothing sound of a beautiful pop song to relive what’s wrong with things. “Don't Get Your Back Up” & "Basement Apt." by Canadian singer, Sarah Harmer is easy listening folk music. The folk style of the song tells a story with its a moral message meaning behind it. It’s certainly not rock and rock, but it’s catchy and should lift your spirits. She’s got a very great voice so you should enjoy it. She reminds me of the style of other great Canada singers such as Amy Millan of Stars. The music, is enough to put me to sleep .

But, Sarah also has that amazing 90s period defining style making her reminiscent of Lisa Loeb, especially my favorite song "Stay" and the movie behind it "Reality Bites" (The generation X period piece).

As always, do support the artists and the site by supporting those we mention.

Sarah Harmer

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Sarah Harmer Albums

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Sarah Harmer MP3s at the MP3 Store

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The Tragedy of the Dreamcast / Dreamcast Girl naked

Looking back, the Dreamcast strikes me as an incredible system. Xbox itself and modern consoles have so much in common with what the system offered, it shames me to see its failure.

Why?

· It was the first system to push online gaming

o It was the first console to include a modem in the system

o Voice chat included

o Games like Phantasy Star Online still have people playing over private servers

o They even released a Dreamcast Mouse and Keyboard!

· The Dreamcast supported a VGA Adaptor (which, I use with my HD TV). Meaning games could be displayed with true 640×480 VGA (480p60 EDTV) output

The PS2 had the advantage because it released with DVD technology. In fact, I bought my PS2 before I bought my Dreamcast. DVD was really exciting and that gave PS2 a huge advantage.

What do you think killed the Dreamcast ?

For more info check out

http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2007/02/sega-dreamcast-101-beginners-guide.html

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Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover) is my hero, watch his Ali G style celebrity interviews on " Between Two Ferns"

For those who haven't seen these well you suck. I haven't seen The Hangover, yet, but everyone whose seen it says it's just awesome. Zach also does these great Ali G style celebrity interviews. Imo these are just awesome, better then Ali G ( Sacha Baron Cohen ). Every one of these is pure comedy gold. They are from funnyordie.com / Funny or Die.

Episode 1: Interview with Micheal Cera

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis from Between Two Ferns

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Episode 2: Zach interviews talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis from Between Two Ferns

Episode 3: Zach interviews Jon Hamm of AMC's Mad Men.

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis from Between Two Ferns

Zach interviews Natalie Portman and her dog, Whiz.

Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis from Between Two Ferns

Zach chats with Bradley Cooper, star / co-star of "The Hangover"

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis from Between Two Ferns

Between Two Cocks: Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, and Bradley Cooper with Matt Zaller
(Matt Zaller sits down to have a chit chat with the stars of The Hangover, in between to Cocks. Poking a little fun at Zach Galifiankis' show, Between Two Ferns. From National Lampoon. )



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Something thats helped with Twitter: URL Shortening

For those interested.

According to Google, these are the most popular URL shortening services used on Twitter.com.

Very often used
TinyURL.com - references

Sometimes used (more than 1000 references found)
urltea.com - references
snipurl.com - references

Occassionaly used (between 100 and 1000 references found)
rurl.org - references
tweetl.com - references
dwarfurl.com - references

Exceptionally used (between 10 and 100 references found)
urlx.org - references
kurl.nl - references
tinypic.com - references
shorl.com - references

Thanks to Here
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NEW DOMAIN NAME!

TELL YOUR FRIENDS
We now have a domain name
www.musicbirdsandcheerios.ca
or
www.musicbirdsandcheerios.com
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Song of the Day: Phoenix - "Lisztomania"

Catchy, cool and smooth. That's the way to describe the great single "Lisztomania" by Phoenix. It's pure indie pop rock. Makes you wanna dance, shake and bob your head. The clanging guitars and a backbeat that drives the song forward really ring through. The electric rock sounds bend & blend into a overlapping electric vortex with just a touch classic piano. Really I think that's why you have an album truly worthy of the title "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix". Get it? Piano is classical & Phoenix is "hip" :p .

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Something about the song makes you feel young. It's very nostalgic. When I hear it I feel it defines the generation and indie hipsters in general. Really makes you feel part of the "Pepsi Generation". In fact the song would work perfectly in a Pepsi commercial or Apple Commercial.

Really I've always loved Phoenix since hearing "Long Distance Call" on their 2006 album, "It's Never Been Like That". They weren't that popular then though that song also was incredible and catchy and I tried to spread it around. This makes it really satisfying to see the band's recent popularity. In fact its funny how I was reintroduced to them: I was told by my cousin, (who really doesn't keep up with music lol), that there was this awesome "new" band that I had to hear. Turns out it was my "old favorite" Phoenix and I'm sure many make the same mistake as her. It was a great surprise to see the comeback. Plus, their Saturday Night live / SNL debut with Seth Rogen was great.

Video of SNL Performance is Below and MP3 is after

Phoenix - Lisztomania
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Phoenix - "Lisztomania"

Video for "Long Distance Call"

Phoenix - Long Distance Call
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As always do support the band and the site.
Remember no matter what anyone says I'd take actual vinyl or CD quality over MP3s any day.

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Album: "It's Never Been Like That"
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Vinyl)
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix on (CD)

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Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix
It's Never Been Like That by Phoenix
Phoenix "Long Distance Call" MP3
Phoenix Music
Phoenix MP3s at the MP3 Store

Oh & its available on vinyl. Pretty!!
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Vinyl) at Amazon.com



For those who go to "Derek Zoolander's Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too" : Listomania, Liztomania, Phoneix,


Oh and to support the site further
Zoolander at Amazon.ca

Zoolander at Amazon.com


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Coming Soon Stevie Wonder Montreal Jazz Fest Show Torrent

Coming soon. I'll be posting a video of most of the entire Stevie Wonder performance in Montreal on June 30 2009 or 09 at the Jazz Festival . Its fairly good quality too and I'll try and also post mp3s and a setlist (set list).

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New Elephant 6 Demos & Live Shows w/ Unreleased Material by Neutral Milk Hotel, Elf Power, Olivia Tremor Control, and The Sunshine Fix

That's right and lossless quality is available . Both Demos and Live Material have been discovered and I'm enjoying sorting through it all, though I'll stick to mainly Neutral Milk Hotel.
Neutral Milk Hotel, Elf Power, Olivia Tremor Control, and The Sunshine Fix are all great bands.
Links below and some info on what I found interesting.

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TORRENT WITH LOSSLESS BOOTLEGS HERE!!!

These links are for MP3s
(V0, the exception is Language of Stationary Travelers, which is V1.)


Neutral Milk Hotel

I've heard other versions of everything except "Now There is Nothing" and "Jam with Butterglory" , but its awesome to have lossless

Unreleased songs featured are in brackets

1996-07-22 Oakland Beehive, Pittsburgh, PA ( 01 Jam with Butterglory )

1996-07-25 Cicero's, St. Louis, MO (06 Through My Tears Goldaline, 07 Now There is Nothing, 09 Ferris Wheel On Fire)

"Now There is Nothing" is really quite powerful. I love it. This version I think is the best.
And this version of Ferris Wheel On Fire is great its got a great brass sounding synthesizer like instrument that really I love. This song is great and I wish a studio version existed.

1997-04-25 Knitting Factory, New York, NY ( 01 Sailing Through, 02 I Will Bury You in Time, 09 Through My Tears,10 Now There Is Nothing , 11 Ferris Wheel On Fire, 15 All the Colors of the Rainbow)

This is just an awesome show. Quality is great, lots of unreleased stuff. Definitely should be the top of your list.

VERY INTERESTING! before playing I Will Bury You In Time, Jeff says: "It's everybody's favorite, actually no it hasn't come out yet, it'll be on the next record"

1997-04-26 Terrastock Festival, Providence, RI ( 05 Through My Tears-Goldaline, 06 Now There Is Nothing)


1997-05-02 Rathskeller, Madison, WI (03 Through My Tears Goldaline Now There Is Nothing)

The quality of this show is listenable, but not amazing. But its fuzzy like Neutral Milk Hotel should be.

1997-05-03 7th Entry Street, Minneapolis, MN (02 She Did A Lot of Acid)
Quality is pretty poor.

1998-02-26 Sudsy Malone's, Cincinnati, OH (07 Ferris Wheel On Fire)
Quality is pretty poor

1998-06-29 Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL (07 Ferris Wheel On Fire)
Listenable version of Ferris Wheel On Fire.


1998-09-18 Pusterviksbaren, Göteborg, Sweden (06 Ferris Wheel On Fire, 10 Song for Ché)
Listenable version of Ferris Wheel On Fire.

DOWNLOADS

Neutral Milk Hotel
1996-07-22 Oakland Beehive, Pittsburgh, PA.rar
1997-04-26 Terrastock Festival, Providence, RI.rar
1997-05-02 Rathskeller, Madison, WI.rar
1997-05-03 7th Entry Street, Minneapolis, MN.rar
1998-09-18 Pusterviksbaren, Göteborg, Sweden.rar
1996-07-25 Cicero's, St. Louis, MO.rar
1998-02-26 Sudsy Malone's, Cincinnati, OH.rar
1998-02-27 Graffiti, Pittsburgh, PA.rar
1998-06-29 Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL.rar
1997-04-25 Knitting Factory, New York, NY (PART 1).rar
1997-04-25 Knitting Factory, New York, NY (PART 2).rar
1997-10-14 40 Watt, Athens, GA.rar
1997-11-21 40 Watt, Athens, GA.rar
1997-05-16 40 Watt, Athens, GA.rar

Elf Power
NYC Demos.rar

Olivia Tremor Control
Black Swan Network Private Tape.rar
Flydaddy Demos.rar
Language Of Stationary Travellers.rar
Live At The Stork Club, WFMU.rar
1997-03-18 Peel Session.rar

The Sunshine Fix
A Spiraling World Of Pop.rar

Remember Elephant 6 Band's do need your support truly as they are indie artists.For those who want to know more about Elephant 6 and the story behind the collective I highly recommend the 33 1/3 Series entry "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea". Actually all the books in this series are pretty great.

Buy "In the Aeroplane over the Sea" at Amazon.com
Buy it Amazon.ca

Each book is based on a different music album e.g. Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys or Pink Moon by Nick Drake

The Entire 33 1/3 Series at Amazon.ca
The Entire 33 1/3 Series at Amazon.com

From Amazon.ca or From Amazon.com


A Kindle Book is basically a e-book see wikipedia

Please Do Support the Artists. If you've heard and have the albums vinyl copies are great purchases. You can find vinyl of these records below. Plus the vinyl case looks great on the wall

Neutral Milk Hotel
Buy Stuff at Amazon.ca (They even have Vinyl)
Buy Stuff at Amazon.com
Neutral Milk Hotel MP3s at the Amazon MP3 Store

Support Elf Power
Buy Stuff at Amazon.ca
Buy Stuff at Amazon.com
Elf Power MP3s at the Amazon MP3 Store

Support Olivia Tremor Control
Buy Stuff at Amazon.ca
Buy Stuff at Amazon.com
Olivia Tremor Control MP3s at the Amazon MP3 Store

Support The Sunshine Fix
Buy Stuff at Amazon.ca
Buy Stuff at Amazon.com
The Sunshine Fix MP3s at the Amazon MP3 Store

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The Oliver Jewellery Commercials a Toronto favorite

Oliver Jewelers or Oliver Jewellery is run by Russell Oliver out of a store in Toronto. The commercials are famous in Canada and in Toronto, well your not Torontonian if you haven't seen these. He is crazy and he wants your freaking gold and silver and jewelery and he "will give you cash".

Famously he got sued by DC Comics because his "Cashman" character was "damaging" to the Superman Franchise.

In one of Russell's ads, he shrieks, "Even teeth!" He offers to enter your family mausoleum or dig up your grandfather and pull dead peoples' fillings out with pliers.

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Official Commercials


This commercial aired just a few days before Princess Diana died in that 1997 car crash. It was only aired a few times.



1995 Commercial


The Loan Arranger/ Lone Ranger Parody



Oliver Jewellery Cashman Music Video


Oliver Jewellery Commercial that Never made it to air #1


Oliver Jewellery Commercial that Never made it to air #2



Cashman / Superman commercial
The Commercial and a News Segment


Another News Segment



Parodies






TV's Royal Canadian Air Farce


Documentary News Segments
Oliver Jewellery and Lucy Zilio OMNI-TV 2005


Documentary: Toronto Commercials, Pt. 1: Russell "Cashman" Oliver from CityNews


2008 News Report



Random Clips

Cashman gives out cash at the WWF never seen



Imitators




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The Brainless removal of content : No Respect from the DCMA or the IFPI...

YouTube - South Park - Somalia Pirates



So I posted a review and mp3 link to Noah and the Whale's "First Day of Spring", a couple days ago. The song in question is available as a free mp3 download on the band's site. So out of all posts, I'm shocked to see that the DMCA has targeted that one. I got the whole email. I have contacted blogger to explain things, but its been days and no response. Here's what I was sent (expand article to see).


"Blogger has been notified, according to the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that certain content in your blog infringes upon the copyrights of others. The URL(s) of the allegedly infringing post(s) may be found at the end of this message.The notice that we received from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the record companies it represents, with any personally identifying information removed, will be posted online by a service called Chilling Effects at http://www.chillingeffects.org. We do this in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Please note that it may take Chilling Effects up to several weeks to post the notice online at the link provided.The IFPI is a trade association that represents over 1,400 major and independent record companies in the US and internationally who create, manufacture and distribute sound recordings (the "IFPI Represented Companies").
The DMCA is a United States copyright law that provides guidelines for online service provider liability in case of copyright infringement. We are in the process of removing from our servers the links that allegedly infringe upon the copyrights of others. If we did not do so, we would be subject to a claim of copyright infringement, regardless of its merits. See http://www.educause.edu/Browse/645?PARENT_ID=254 for more information about the DMCA, and see http://www.google.com/dmca.html for the process that Blogger requires in order to make a DMCA complaint.Blogger can reinstate these posts upon receipt of a counter notification pursuant to sections 512(g)(2) and 3) of the DMCA. For more information about the requirements of a counter notification and a link to a sample counter notification, see http://www.google.com/dmca.html#counter.Please note that repeated violations to our Terms of Service may result in further remedial action taken against your Blogger account. If you have legal questions about this notification, you should retain your own legal counsel. If you have any other questions about this notification, please let us know.
Sincerely,


The Blogger Team"



Now, I love Noah and the Whale and they are an incredibly blog friendly band. In fact, I heard about them through music blogs.

I did write that one bad concert review on them (see here). But I also gave their album a glowing review and furthermore I praised this new song with flying colors. So whats going on? Seriously, being new to the blogging scene and not having a backup I felt hurt.

Seriously, does anyone read the disclaimers on the sides of music blogs? I mean brainless attacks like this are just inexcusable. I emailed blogger and still no response. I have redone that post as best as I could, now with a link to download the mp3 via their site.
Link Here
But, it still upsets me. There is a fine balance between pissing people off and making sure things stay fair. I had to reformat the whole post and it was just a pain in the ass and it was time consuming.

It just shows lack of respect, and it makes them out to be some brainless copyright crazy computer out to censor and annoy. I've done 3 pieces on Noah and the Whale. I'm a university student in biochemistry and that makes time a resource that is really precious. So when I've taken the time, to write 3 essays on the band and attend a show (which, was during my final exam period) its just a piss off. MP3 blogs, make little to no money and serve solely to promote mainly indie artists. As I mentioned I heard about Noah and the Whale through a MP3 blog.

I'm sure the band has nothing to do with it personally and I don't take it personally. But, I do take offense that someone associated with the band didn't have the courtesy to simply email me before going all "DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!" on me and calling the FUZZ.


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They need to watch those South Park. Episodes on The Gay Fish (Wikipedia Article) and The Somalian Pirate (Seriously the wikipedia article is hilarious). I think they portray messages that really need to get through their heads.

Personally I believe that they go about trying to change music in the wrong way.

The perfect article on this can be found here. To all those who haven't read it, its a great read.

When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide.

MP3s
Kanye West - Gay Fish (Full version)

Kanye West South Park Gay Fish Parody - More bloopers are a click away

Still please do support Noah and the Whale. They do make great music


Amazon Links


Amazon.ca
Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down


Amazon.com

Noah and the Whale Music (Pre-order the new album)
Noah and the Whale MP3s at the MP3 Store

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Song of the Day: Noah and the Whale - The First Days Of Spring

If you remember in my article on Noah and the Whale’s recent live performance (link), I was upset because I felt

“The songs from their debut were very acoustic and natural. It was full of violins, bells, acoustic finger plucking and cute girl boy harmonies. During the performance all the instruments were electric, so the intricate finger plucking that was present in all their songs was replaced by a mushy electric guitar. You can’t make an electric guitar sound like the folk style you get from an acoustic guitar and ukulele. It was yet another thing that ruined the songs for me.”

The electric sound didn’t cut it in their live performances. I never liked this song when I first heard it. But, the recording goes and does what I loved about Noah and the Whale; it gives that nature feel to the songs and brings back the sense of biblical importance I was talking about in my review of their debut album (link). This truly sounds like a grandiose composition of “spring"

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I stand but what I said about how they needed to perform their original songs with acoustic instruments as it made those songs sound biblical in that respect. This song uses a beautiful string section, grand piano and multiple other nature-like sounds. There’s even this beautiful shofar like ancient horn sound. This natural feeling takes the song and makes it “biblical”. The electric guitar works here as its ring is quite “natural” as it complements everything else. You can’t perform this song as a standard 4 member electric rock and roll band; it’s like a symphony arrangement (grand piano and string orchestra). In conclusion I love the song; it’s much more serious, dark and reflective then their debut.

But, I am fond of the evolution and I will be looking forward to their upcoming album The First Days of Spring (August 31st 2009).In conclusion I love the song; it’s much more serious, dark and reflective then their debut. They just need to figure out how the hell to perform these Beach Boy orchestrations live.I will say what I also said in my review of their show, I really do miss the "boy-girl harmonies" and Laura Marling & Wendy Jane are missed.

MP3s (see for yourself the difference live vs. studio)
The First Days Of Spring (Single MP3) (Get it at their site)

The First Days Of Spring(Shepherds bush Empire, 03/06/09) (Credit: flowersintime.org)
Support Noah and the Whale. Store links below

Amazon.ca
Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down

Amazon.com
Noah and the Whale Music (Pre-order the new album)
Noah and the Whale MP3s at the MP3 Store

Note: This is a repost of an earlier post.

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Save the Internet in Canada

You will notice the new banners for Net Neutrality & SaveOurNet.ca. These groups want to protect Canadians rights to free internet.

The question is, is should ISPs be smart pipes or dumb pipes.

Smart Pipes

• Can censor content or monitor your activities
  
• They traffic shape
  
• They can add ads
  
• They are anti competitive.

Join the fight
For more info click these buttons

Support the Cause By

Signing the Petition at Neutrality.ca

and tell your friends
Donating to the Legal Fund of SaveOurNet.ca

My Own Concerns
Personally my concerns started when I got an email from my ISP Tek Savvy in April of 09 suggested a scary new direction for the internet. It stated Bell was attempting to do the following

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"We are writing to you today as many activities are underway to shape/reshape Internet use as you all know it. Over the last year some of you have been made aware and/or have seen activities on throttling in the news or in your daily lives. Another proceeding relating to the Internet in Canada required Telecom providers (Bell/Telus/etc.) to provide ISPs with wholesale service speeds that match those that they offer to their own retail customers.

Specifically, Bell has been directed by the CRTC to provide matching speeds which would allow us all to have more flexibility in our day to day online requirements. Instead of adhering to these directives, Bell decided to take this issue to the federal Cabinet and at the same time file a tariff application with the CRTC proposing to introduce Usage Based Billing (UBB) on its wholesale customer accounts.

What does this mean for you, the consumer?

Bell provides TekSavvy with last mile, wholesale DSL access services, which TekSavvy uses to provide you with your Internet access. If Bell were to be allowed to introduce UBB on this service, a cap of 60GB would be imposed on all of its users, with very heavy penalties per Gigabyte afterwards (multiple times more than our current per Gigabyte rate of $0.25/GB on overages). This would inherently all but remove Unlimited internet services in Ontario/Quebec and potentially cause large increases in internet costs from month to month."

To those who still have trouble understanding Error404 helped explain it better

"This issue (the specific Bell vs. CAIP dispute) is not well understood apparently, so let me try to clear this up.

The CRTC, way back, mandated that all the ILECs (Bell, Telus, etc.) must provide access to their ADSL equipment to other ISPs

This mandate specifies that ISPs must connect to the ILEC's backhaul network (this is important), and pay for a certain amount of bandwidth on that backhaul connection. They also pay per customer that connects. When the service is provisioned, a point-to-point link over the backhaul network is established, directly between the ISP and the customer. Note that Internet traffic is never mentioned, and indeed customer's won't even see the ISP's network *at all*. This arrangement could be used by a non-ISP service provider to carry different types of non-TCP/IP traffic, or a VoIP provider not providing Internet access or any other number of arrangements. The point is that the ILEC is not providing an Internet connection, they're providing a point-to-point link only, with a specified service rate.

There are a couple other relevant points here. One is that nowhere in the mandate are monthly traffic caps mentioned, billed for or anything else. The ISP must have sufficient bandwidth at their backhaul POP to carry all their client's traffic, but that's it, and they pay per mbit on this. If a client wants to saturate their DSL line 24/7, Bell shouldn't be able to do anything about it since they're mandated to provide this service, and are only providing backhaul. Further, this hyptothetical saturated DSL connection may not even be carrying Internet traffic, it could be a point-to-point link between a satellite office and large corporate head office or some such.

Once the traffic reaches the ISP's POP, the ISP is then responsible for routing it onto the Internet via their own transit providers. This might be Bell again, but no matter the arrangement, the Internet transit is completely separate from the DSL circuit.

Bell has been throttling their own customers for years now. Only recently have they started throttling their wholesale customers (ISPs). There are a whole bunch of reasons why this is unacceptable. First of all, the fact that they're even touching the traffic it all is a huge concern - they are contracted to provide a simple data link between two locations at a specified bandwidth. The throttling they're imposing is unnecessary (if they're having bandwidth problems on their backhaul, they need to upgrade service or throttle their own customers, period), and it represents opening 3 or more layers of encapsulation to get at their customer's traffic and examine it. And then *modify* the traffic that's being carried on what should be an opaque point-to-point link.

And that's not even getting into how Bell has recently started pushing high-bandwidth services like IPTV and 16mbit service (that their competitors don't have access to). If they can offer these intensive services over their backhaul, why is it necessary to throttle this traffic?

Anyway, this is a messy situation in particular. It's also a good question to ask in general. I believe the Internet is critical infrastructure and needs to be a dumb, opaque pipe to the network. There's far too much room for abuse, unfair treatment of certain protocols or services and on and on. Let's hope the hearing bears that out, or we're in for a long, tough ride."

In order to push forward we need to expand network capabilities not throttle them. We need to make the internet a free place with better capabilities.



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Covers!: Micheal Jackson/Jackson 5 Tribute (also Chipmunk Videos)

If you read the post you'll find
Songs covered by Micheal Jackson and songs of Jackson's covered by others.

This will be updated as more becomes available. So watch this post


Covers done by The Jackson 5



From: In Japan! (1973)

This album is pretty rare apparently, but its a recording of a japan performance where they did . It actually was released on CD-4 (Compatible Discrete 4) / Quadradisc in 4.0 sound back in 1973 in addition to CD, but only in japan. The CD-4 release is like a holy grail and extremely rare. I downloaded a supposed mix as I'm a huge fan of surround sound releases, but it sounded awful. I did manage to track down 128 kpbs mp3 versions, so enjoy those for now. It was also re-released in 2004 in the US but only 5000 copies were released.


http://what.cd/requests.php?action=viewrequest&id=54329

MP3s
The Jackson 5 -Superstition (Originally by Stevie Wonder)
The Jackson 5 - Papa Was a Rollin' Stone (originally by The Temptations)
The Jackson 5 - Ain't That Peculiar (originally by Marvin Gaye)


If your a what.cd user be sure to vote for the request for FLAC's of those incredibly rare releases

What.cd requests
In Japan! (CD-4 (Compatible Discrete 4) / Quadradisc) (4.0 FLAC)

In Japan! (2004 US Re-issue) (FLAC 100% log)


Micheal Jackson - Beat it Covers

Inactive Messiah - Beat it (interesting metal cover)
Fall Out Boy - Beat it (feat. John Mayer) Video MP3
BeatRaid - Beat It (really nice female vocalist cover) Youtube profile
Driving East - Beat it

I was introduced to this song by Alvin and the Chipmunks actually, and I used to particularly love Weird Al's parody "Eat it" so those are my favorites. Check out the great music video for the chipmunk version

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Eat it MP3 Video

Alvin & The Chipmunks - Beat it (Original Version) MP3 Video

(Clip is from the 1980's Alvin & the Chipmunks cartoon. The Chipmunks cover Beat It by Michael Jackson in the episode The Gang's All Here)

Alvin & The Chipmunks - Beat it (90s Rockin' Through the Decades version) MP3

Alvin and the Chipmunks Misc
Rockin' Through the Decades actually didn't have a music video with the chipmunks singing Jackson's songs, this was the exception to all other songs. Though as seen above a 90s version was on the soundtrack. Instead Alvin dances along with Jackson in his various songs.

Alvin & Micheal Jackson in Rockin' through the Decades

More Covers at

Fong Songs
i Guess i'm Floating
Grand Passion
blowin' your cover
Cover Lay Down
Cover Me






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