I taped Queena eating a Bacon Donut at Nickel Diner for this Saturday's Off-Ramp. As I proudly posted it to YouTube, I noticed that the Bacon Donut (BD) genre has a rich and caloric history on YouTube.

So compiled here for you is a Best of (ours being the best, theirs being the "of").

See this gal get her BD Cherry popped, while this BD whore eats three in three minutes. "Brah" talks an unsuspecting donut-maker into making him a BD.

Paula Deen kicks the BD genre up a notch by adding a burger, egg, and some old-fashioned southern Charm, while Fox News dude sees the Bacon Cheeseburger Doughnut phenomena as a clear sign of the apocalypse.

For those industrious souls who want to join the rapture, why not learn to make them yourselves.  Read More...

If you google the iPad, feminine napkin jokes are neck and neck with the actual iPad news. Heck, even Hitler weighed in. Does this mean we're collectively over-Appled? In Jobs' presentation on Wednesday, he re-positioned Apple as a "mobile devices company". Very unsexy way to position yourself when your company's been seen as more about innovation than business. Besides, something else could come along tomorrow and blow mobile devices out of the water (no idea what...I'm just sayin).

But my question is: What's the competition for the iPad? The iPod? As KPCC'S Molly Peterson says in our EXTRAS/THE VIDEO version of the CyberFrequencies radio show/podcast, Apple's entered the land of "ridiculously redundant devices". Watch CF outtakes video below:

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I saw a musical play last weekend by Ray Bradbury called Vision 2116. I loved it. (*disclaimer: movies like I'm Not There, Dancer in the Dark, and yes even Moulin Rouge can make me tear up long after everyone else has left the building.)

Ray Bradbury was there and still delivering wise cracks at almost 90, and I had the good fortune of chatting with Roslyn Shapiro whose husband formed a writer's group with Bradbury in the 1940's. She says Bradbury was terrified of driving and, according to wikipedia, never did get his license.

Richard Bach was also in the group and Roslyn's daughter talks about fights breaking out -- her father wrote a parody of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and all hell broke loose. Watch Roslyn Shapiro and her daughter tell the story below:

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CyberFrequencies was in full force at the LA Art Show this year! (Which means two of us went.) I think there may have had some pretty good art. Sadly, I didn't seem much of it because I was waiting in line for about an hour for TWO Hama Sushi rolls. I didn't even bother trying to get a drink because the lines were twice as long. Now I think that if they wanted folks to buy art, they should have liquored them up and sprang for a couple people walking around with those cute little drink trays. But then...LA Art Show didn't ask me for my advice...so I'll stick to what I know.

Featured on KPCC's Off-Ramp this week were graffiti artist friends & collaborators El Mac & Retna. Here's what they had to say:  Read More...

Decide for yourself which beatboxer is better!



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Who's a better beatboxer?
	Daichi
	Julia Dales
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On Flavorpill LA Tanja Laden and Shana Nys Dambrot's Browsers:

1. Annenberg interviews with photographers

2. Tiger Woods' Slow Jam Remix

3. Dark Bob's New Year Special  Read More...

In case you're a little fuzzy on your history, the original Rosetta Stone was about four-feet-tall and two-feet-high. The ancient Egyptians etched three languages - hieroglyphic and Demotic and classical Greek - onto the one-foot-thick slab. Napoleon's soldiers found the stone and it unlocked ancient Egyptian civilization -- before then, nobody could read hieroglyphic!

The high-tech Rosetta Disk fits in the palm of your hand, has about 1,500 languages etched-on in microscopic writing and is designed to last ten thousand years.

Rosetta project director Laura Welcher says it could be the tool that unlocks ancient-English to the far-future. But more importantly, Welcher says with the world's languages (and culture) disappearing, the Rosetta disk will be a reminder of how diverse humanity once was. Check out the full-interview on CyberFrequencies Radio  Read More...

Robert Torres of last week's show on the gaming high school Quest to Learn says:
Some of my favorites sites are:
Design by Design
Quest To Learn
New York Times Education page
Daily Kos
Pandora
BBC
Ferry Halim
Shambhala
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Netflix just announced that it’s well on its way to a, well, blockbuster year of profits. The online movie outfit banked 430 million in revenue, lowered its costs-per-subscriber (who now number 11 million), and boosted all of the important acronyms and ratios that stock analysts care about.

But the rah-rah press releases don’t mention an important detail: I am responsible for Netflix’s exorbitant profits.

Okay, so I’m probably one of several million people. Here’s how it happened...   Read More...

Before I get known as the pro-file-sharing, anti-industry anarchist, let me state for the record: I just think if invention gets ahead of industry, industry shouldn't try to shut down invention. A “group representing copyright owners” (whatever that means!) recently shut down Pirate Bay, again!

Folks will hop over to any number of other BitTorrent sites, so shouldn't the record industry spend its money thinking up new ways to stay relevant? Put those Pirate Bay guys on the payroll instead of in jail.  Read More...

Pop star Lily Allen got into an online spat with her fans in the UK when she came out in favor of a government proposal to stop illegal downloading: if you get caught downloading copyrighted material three times, you lose your Internet access. Yep, and according to Fox, three strikes might be coming soon to a computer near you!

Draconian?

Dan Bull thought so and was inspired to write "Dear Lily," which has been going viral.

Is his song a manifesto of the Cyber Generation? Rafer Guzman, entertainment writer for Newsday, says, if so that's a sad commentary on what the youth of today care about: the entertainment industry. And besides, big concept albums take big money...you'll never produce an album like Bowie's Ziggy Stardust from your home computer.

You can download Dear Lily here and tell us what you think. Manifesto of a movement? Or misguided trend?

Or to download Dan Bull's newest album Safe click here.  Read More...

Tao Lin writes from his apartment in hyper-connected Brooklyn. Robert Peake programs by day but writes in his free time in sleepy Ojai. And Katie Peterson teaches, most recently at a remote college in eastern California. And yet they're all grappling with what it means to express their art on the Web, especially on instant media like Twitter, IM, and gchat. I asked them to share their stories in this week's podcast (at right). They were also kind enough read some of their work....

Robert Peake reads "Digital Forensics" and "Yellow":
Katie Peterson reads "Aubade: Winter" from her collection This One Tree:
More Twitter reflections/thoughts/images from Katie:
Tao Lin's "some of my happiest moments in life occur on AOL instant messenger" from his collection you are a little bit happier than i am:
Check out video readings (including William Shatner's Ode to Sarah Palin!) after the break...

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I'm a big fan of Julieta Venegas.

I got the download for the show from labandaelastica.

Ruben Rodriguez says that

"Just when it seemed that Julieta Venegas was taking a well deserved sabbatical after a string of international successes, our favorite chanteuse from Playas de Tijuana makes a splash on the scene with a couple of collaborations between musician pals."

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Can you picture T.S. Eliot tweeting? Or e.e. cummings thumbing out inspired text messages? How about Shakespeare proclaiming, "Let me not to the gchatting of two minds admit impediments!"

Sure, it's a little ridiculous to envision the Bard with a Blackberry. But mixing poetry (high art) with microblogging (no art?) isn't just happening; it's flourishing. As the web prioritizes shorter, more efficient forms of communication (from email to chat to twitter), poets have taken note...and taken the form to fascinating new places.  Read More...

Arianna Huffington says "Oh I have tons of stuff on my browser"...
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Good for you, Mark Zuckerburg! You created Facebook, this century's hottest tech phenomenon. You're young (25!), you're rich (a billionaire!), and you're a Harvard dropout. That takes chutzpah. Just this week, you gobbled up rival company FriendFeed and gained the support of two tech moguls: Arianna Huffington and Marc Andreeson, late of Netscape. Your Facebook status probably reads: "Revolutionizing the internet." You should be commended.

But I don't trust you. If you friended me, I'd ignore you.

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Miami It Band the Awesome New Republic are our guests on the podcast this week.

You can DOWNLOAD their Rational Geographic Series for free.

My favorite song is Birthday, which you DOWNLOAD right now - instant gratification!  Read More...

We put the question to Howard Dean and the Awesome New Republic's Michael John Hancock. Their answers?

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My primary lines of work are clustered around two major set of issues:
Fighting Counterfeit medicines in the developing world and mobilizing awareness about and responses to Africa’s developmental challenges, with an obvious emphasis on Ghana, where I live.  Read More...

In our podcast, Molly Peterson finds Howard Dean totally dreamy. But a lot of her countrymen have found him a little too screamy.

When you google Howard Dean the second link is about the scream, or should I say SCREAM. Why that scream brought him down I'll never understand, but in its aftermath an American legacy was born: the "Dean Scream" genre.  Read More...

I wanted to interview Howard Dean at the Fortune Magazine Tech Conference. The Fortune people gave me the number to Howard Dean's people and I emailed them. Then, a few minutes later, I got a call.

“Hi Tanya, this is Howard Dean calling.”  Read More...

When you hear the word "pirates," what pops into your head? Plunderers? Somali terrorists? Johnny Depp? Scoundrels? Peglegs? Illegal downloaders?

How about "model sharers?"

That's what occurred to bestselling author Paulo Coelho while he was following the Pirate Bay trial. "The Pirate Bay" is an international file-sharing site where you can find everything from music and movies to video games and porn.   Read More...

89.3-KPCC's Molly Peterson shows us the Kindle DX on the beach.


At $489 is it worth it?
Molly Peterson: No, unless you have $489 to blow.
Queena Kim: Yes, if I had $489 to blow. As far as luxury items go, this is a useful one. You can read newspapers, magazines, download pdfs from work and you don't have to lug around a computer. And I was kinda sad when I had to give it back.   Read More...

The same day that the Phillies poached ace pitcher Cliff Lee from the Indians, Microsoft announced its own blockbuster trade: it purchased Yahoo's search engine rights for the next 10 years.

The same day that the Phillies poached ace pitcher Cliff Lee from the Indians, Microsoft announced its own blockbuster trade: it purchased Yahoo's search engine rights for the next 10 years. Microsoft plans to retire Yahoo! Search and replace it with its new "decision engine" Bing.  Read More...

Because I'm a radio reporter, friends ask me "Hey, what kind of recording equipment should I buy?" Usually, they want to record their 97-year-old granny's voice or get their dad telling some funny story. My answer: iPhone.  Read More...

Listen to John Rabe and Kevin Ferguson try out the iPhone:

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The U.S. government is considering ending troop access to all forms of social networking.
"It’s the latest twist in the Defense Department’s tangled relationship with so-called “Web 2.0″ sites. But while earlier social media blockades have been thrown up over bandwidth and secrecy concerns, this fresh ban stems from fears that Facebook and the like make it far too easy for hackers and cybercrooks to gain access to the military’s networks."Via Wired
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It's truly amazing what kids can do on the web these days. Scott Simon, NPR host and CF guest, told us "literally, within two minutes of opening" his iPhone, his six-year-old daughter showed him how to take pictures and eventually download aps. My friend's six-year-old, Lola, wants to be a star on the Web. (See CyberTV)

Lola's cousin Ocelotl loves to go to the Jackson Pollack's site where he can make his own paint-splattered homage.

But still, every parent I know is conflicted. Should my kid go online? Is it safe?  Read More...

With Michael Jackson’s passing, YouTube views of videos like Thriller have been skyrocketing, that should almost go without saying but USA Today doesn’t think so. In fact, the online world has been buzzing with so many MJ queries and web hits that when the news first started circulating, Google assumed the internet was under attack.  Read More...

In the wake of the Craigslist killing the attorney generals of three states met with Craigslist to get them to take down advertisements for "prostitution and other suspected illegal sexual activities."


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