MTV censors names of P2P apps from Weird Al video
— could be old news, and only recently noticed with the launch of MTV Music #Lorna Mills' class on outsider net.art from 4chan to Nasty Nets
— a mess of interesting links, just start from the first class and work forward #ReConstitution 2008, live infoviz remix of the 2008 presidential debates
— three MIT grads used custom C++ code to remix the closed captioning in real-time #Rescue Princess 2.0, ways to make web apps more game-like
— exploratory learning with levels, items, inventory, quests, and scores #Trailer for Touchgrind, multitouch skateboarding game for the iPhone
— let your fingers do the grinding #Shoot the Player
— musicians filmed live in Australia, inspired by La Blogotheque’s Take Away Shows #Polifics, the Election '08 Fanfiction community
— Obama/Clinton, Obama/Clinton/Biden, and even Obama/McCain slashfic via Delicious #Banksy's Village Petstore & Charcoal Grill
— very creepy NYC storefront with animatronic hot dogs, squirming chicken nuggets, and monkey porn #Flickr now offering shape boundaries for 150,000 places
— also, new user-created OpenStreetMap tiles for Baghdad and Kabul #You Can Vote However You Like
— there should be one kid in the back singing about Ron Paul via buzzfeed.com #CNN asks voters to say something nice about the other guy
— like Greene, I find this really refreshing #James Kochalka hits 10 years of drawing American Elf
— I highly recommend the first two collections, and the third’s out next month via John Martz #Girl Talk's Feed the Animals: The Official Sample List
Last month, I dissected Girl Talk’s Feed the Animals using the list of samples lovingly collected by hundreds of Wikipedia users. But that was totally unofficial, a crowdsourced attempt to find musical needles in a giant mashup haystack.
Well, the official CDs were shipped out last week to everyone who donated more than $10. Inside, as promised, was the official sample list — a one-page insert with every single sample on the album. Steve Heil was the first to scan it and contact me.
Unfortunately, a huge block of printed small-caps text isn’t very useful for my kind of fun, so I tried throwing into several OCR engines on WeOCR to turn the image into text. Tesseract gave the best results, but it was still a mess that needed quite a bit of cleanup.
Anyway, here it is. The complete list of all 322 samples in Girl Talk’s Feed the Animals, available as a CSV, Excel, or Google Spreadsheets document.