Our most popular new online tools -- Google, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Digg -- were designed to help us tame the web's wildness, to tag its outer limits and set up user-friendly taxonomies. ChatRoulette is, in this sense, a blast from the Internet past. It's the anti-Facebook, pure social-media shuffle.

Starting in early 2011, visitors to NYTimes.com will get a certain number of articles free every month before being asked to pay a flat fee for unlimited access. Subscribers to the newspaper's print edition will receive full access to the site.

--11 Minutes of Action, WSJ. Also, a Vikings fans' fandom is worth $530.65.]]> sports rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6672.cfm Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST is expected to announce a pay wall of some sort "in a matter of weeks." Mix those two up, and maybe they could do a joint announcement.]]> media rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6671.cfm Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST FoursquareX. See also: Top Foursquare Users Index.]]> online rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6670.cfm Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST He was impervious to my flirtations until I grabbed his crotch and showed him my tramp stamp.

-- The Fucking Word of the Day, your new favorite site for the next five minutes.]]> books rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6669.cfm Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST The song is in D minor, but that chord first comes in at the 7th beat of the 16 bar progression. So when the song ends cold on the first note of that progression, it ends on Bb. This gives the listener a subtle feeling of an unfinished song, even though it ended on the 1st beat, which is typical of most songs. By not resolving the chord, the listener is more apt to hum the song and therefore more likely to need to listen to it again.

--Why Ke$ha went #1... and why it could've been bigger.... Also, chick looks like this:
]]> music rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6668.cfm Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST The Tonight Show on Craigslist. [via]]]> tv rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6667.cfm Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST a sarcasm punctuation mark is that it would be only used sarcastically.]]> books rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6666.cfm Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST Dave Winer is moving to NYC to become an NYU visiting scholar.]]> nyc rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6665.cfm Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST Apple Sends Gawker Cease & Desist for putting a $100,000 "bounty" out on iTablet proof.]]> media rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6664.cfm Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST 7 Books We Lost to History That Would Have Changed the World. This is interesting because it makes you wonder how things would have been different if the Library of Alexandria had survived. Also, I wonder why no one has jumped on this Gospel of Eve thing.]]> books rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6663.cfm Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST Foursquare at Harvard. [via]]]> online rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6662.cfm Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST Trailer to David Simon's new HBO series, Treme. It's about jazz musicians, post-Katrina. [via]]]> tv rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6661.cfm Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST Rumpus: You've previously mentioned a master password, which you no longer use.

Employee: I'm not sure when exactly it was deprecated, but we did have a master password at one point where you could type in any user's user ID, and then the password. I'm not going to give you the exact password, but with upper and lower case, symbols, numbers, all of the above, it spelled out 'Chuck Norris,' more or less. It was pretty fantastic.

Rumpus: This was accessible by any Facebook employee?

Employee: Technically, yes. But it was pretty much limited to the original engineers, who were basically the only people who knew about it. It wasn't as if random people in Human Resources were using this password to log into profiles. It was made and designed for engineering reasons. But it was there, and any employee could find it if they knew where to look.

This and much more in Conversations About the Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee.]]> online rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6659.cfm Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST The Unbelievably Bad Metaphors in Esquire's Profile of Jay-Z. (Nwah-whah? -- Slate has a culture blog? I guess so. The post about The Weirdest Zip Codes on the New York Times Netflix Map is also good. And if you're into that kinda thing, GQ has a blog too.)]]> music rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6658.cfm Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST The Daily Caller. It's an exact mix of HuffPo and Drudge, and just as ugly as you'd expect that to be. (A ticker? Seriously, a ticker?) [via]]]> media rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6657.cfm Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST Big Love fans likely noticed tonight that the the old opening sequence with The Beach Boys.... ...had been replaced with a new one with Interpol's "Untitled": Better? Worse?]]> tv rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6656.cfm Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST What Type Are You? The password to get in is character.]]> design rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6655.cfm Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST ]]> music rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6654.cfm Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST The essence of Warhol's genius was to eliminate the one aspect of a thing without which that thing would, to conventional ways of thinking, cease to be itself, and then to see what happened. He made movies of objects that never moved and used actors who could not act, and he made art that did not look like art. He wrote a novel without doing any writing. He had his mother sign his work, and he sent an actor, Allen Midgette, to impersonate him on the lecture tour (and, for a while, Midgette got away with it). He had other people make his paintings.

--The New Yorker, annoying abstracted online.]]> art rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6653.cfm Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST one-third of The Atlantic's revenue's come from its website.]]> media rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6652.cfm Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary ($364.68) that you many have seen lauded in the New York Times Magazine. Check out the video "How to Call Someone Stupid In Old English Using The Historical Thesaurus of the OED": ]]> books rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6651.cfm Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST having gorgeous girls try to sell you clothes may not be a great idea.]]> misc rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6650.cfm Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST "Google and Microsoft are paying roughly $.03 for every 1,000 tweets." Somebody overpaid!]]> tech rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz) http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-6649.cfm Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 CST The lyrics to Daft Punks "Around the World." [via]]]> music rex@fimoculous.com (Rex Sorgatz)