Covered this week; Record of the Year ripoff… Gaga fronts Metallica live at the Grammys… Greg Kurstin’s role in the writing of Adele’s ‘Hello’… top-notch HTML and CSS references… the yearly journey of the Oscar Statuette… Google fact-checking is worth a look for online publishers… Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, dead at 69… Clyde Stubblefield, the funky drummer, dead at 73… SpaceX hits the big time of space launching…
February 13, 2017
When it comes to the Grammys, the show and its awards were bullshit as expected… I mean, of Adele and Beyonce, I’m not their biggest fans… but I have given both ’25’ and ‘Lemonade’ extensive listens and by far… Lemonade is the uniquely creative more deserving Album of the Year.
The USA Today’s ‘brutally honest’ rankings of all the Grammys performances… my favorite by far was Gaga fronting Metallica, pure bliss.
February 14, 2017
For anyone familiar with Kurstin’s track record, his hand in Adele’s repeat success was no surprise. A multi–Grammy Award nominee, Kurstin is known in the industry as an “artist whisperer” who brings out the best in performers like Sia, Beck, Katy Perry, Foster the People, and many more. He does it by bringing a unique set of producing skills to his sessions — world-class ability as an instrumentalist, deep understanding of music and song structure, and a highly effective writing and producing process that runs through Logic Pro X.
February 15, 2017
For my coders… a nice, tight HTML reference along with its CSS counterpart…
February 16, 2017
“Workers at the Polich Tallix fine art foundry, about 50 miles north of New York City, began work in late September on the awards to be handed out Feb. 26. Each of the 60 Oscars shipped from the hangar-like production floor is 13½ inches tall with the same distinctive Art Deco features polished to a mirror finish. Each glossy black base lacks only a winner’s nameplate, which is added after the ceremony.”
February 17, 2017
Google continues to pursue truth amongst the chaos with ‘fact check’ tagging of online documents… if you’re someone who publishes to the web, fact checked documents raise higher in search results organically… read this article and follow the directions to join this movement.
February 18, 2017
“Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in the United States, reshaping the nation’s social and political landscapes and inflaming one of the most divisive controversies of the past half-century, died on Saturday in Katy, Tex. She was 69.”
Clyde Stubblefield, the funky drummer himself, dead at 73 of kidney failure.
February 19, 2017
Commercial space company SpaceX is now in charge of the historic launch pad that sent astronauts to the moon and hosted the shuttle program for years.
