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alkaline trios new album drops today (july 1) and they released a video the 30th of june. the theme is all steampunked out. if you dont know what steampunk is, read up on it here.

otherwise the video is after the jump so check it out

eff you and the faux haux you rode in on. guardian. ronaldo wants real madrid to buy his contract out with man. utd.

2 dudes from the refused who were in the internation noise conspiracy have started a new hard core band the ac4. theyre playing in sweden soon. check out the video below:

“On June 12, 2008, Earthlink Wireless plans to disconnect their municipal WiFi service in the City of Philadelphia. For the sake of being timely, I am releasing my unfinished documentary about the joint program between Earthlink Municipal WiFi and the local non-profit, Philadelphia Wireless, forgoing further editing and technical corrections.”

its too bad that this initiative didnt go anywhere. the digital divide is a hard subject to grapple with. giving people wireless access is one thing but what if they dont have anything to use to connect to the wireless. was there sufficient support for users? connecting a windows machine to a wireless network can be hella annoying sometimes, well any device for that matter on that network. the OLPC was for third world countries, laptops were still pricey and the eeePC wasnt on the horizon yet when the intiative launched so was there a need for such a large rollout, not to be classist or anything but trying to be realistic. the goal of covering an entire city in wifi is a lot to bite off especially for a company that doesnt know the city all that well. how much penetration does earthlink DSL have in this area? look at verizon a major player in the area cant even get their FiOS going to a degree to compete with comcast. and to be blunt what major initiative has the city been able to pull off successfully lately anyways. single stream recycling?

movie below

Change is in the Airwaves: A Documentary about the Philadelphia Wireless Initiative from George Rausch on Vimeo.

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-skateboarding grew from 5.8 million to 10.1 million participants between 1998 and 2007

also from the report in 2007 baseball participation was down 4.7% with 14 million participants, soccer down 1.3% with 13.8 million, basketball was down 9.7% with 24 million participants. skateboarding was up 4.2% year to year with the 10.1 million participants. this is odd that declining sports still get the same amount of support while a growth sport such as skateboarding is still considered a sport for hoodlums and should not be publicly supported.