Monday News: Grammatical mistakes that haunt you forever; First unsigned artist to hit #1; Google et al require warrants for email contents
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Macklemore the first unsigned artist in modern history to hit #1 on U.S. Charts – Macklemore first came to my attention when he did this great music video in support of the gay marriage effort in Washington. I watched “Thrift Shop” on YouTube and quickly forgot it. The other day it was playing on the radio and I thought to myself, hey, that’s those guys from the gay marriage video. Then I read this article about how Macklemore will become the first unsigned to a big label artist to ever reach billboard’s #1 charts and he did so on the trumpets of music bloggers who have promoted Mackelmore. Silent Attraction.
The Most Blatant Grammar And Spelling Mistakes Ever Seen In Tattoos – To every person everywhere, my response will now be “only God can fudge me.” Click on the link for more examples of hilarious tattooes. Happy Place
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook say they require warrants to give over private content – Congress failed to pass reform on the ECPA, instead allowing an amendment which would require the government to get a warrant to obtain the contents of emails hosted in the cloud. Currently emails that are over 180 days old have little privacy protection. Now companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook are publicly saying that they will require the government to present a warrant and will stand their ground on the Fourth Amendment, an Amendment the Supreme Court has been slowly eroding with each issued decision.
It’s a little sad that information providers are more interested in protecting privacy rights than the US government but with more individuals becoming concerned about privacy, it is likely in the best interests of these companies to be proactive about protecting its users. The Verge
Children’s & YA Hardcover Sales Up 24% – September 2012 publishing numbers show a substantial rise for Chidren and YA books. Knowing that over half of YA books are being purchased by adults, the YA growth numbers aren’t showing an increase in a pool of readers but a shift from the adult hardcovers which are down 1.5 percent. Mass markets continue their monthly decline, down 16.1%. GalleyCat
Thanks for that link to Macklemore’s gay marriage video. Made me cry.
Isn’t a tattoo one of those things that you want to make sure that everything’s set in stone– correctly– before they get the needle out? It’s sort of like when you’re filling out a birth certificate and they say “make sure you’re absolutely positive the spelling is right”.
So we are dependent on the “integrity” of MS, Google, FB and Yahoo to protect our data? Yeah, this will go well.
The first time I heard Thrift Shop was on New Years Eve when I was at a party that was themed “Goodwill Formal.” So I was actually in a Goodwill prom dress that I found. I loved that there was a song about how awesome thrift shops are. I love that he made it to #1. The song is awesome.
I’ll have to watch the video later when I am not at work…
Small correction: Macklemore is the 1st unsigned artist since 1994 to reach #1. The first was Lisa Loeb.
@Patricia Eimer:
If Rhianna (sp?) can get a horrendous mistake any Francophone would have caught up right away on her neck (her ‘Rebelle Fleur’ tattoo, which probably makes every Francophone/Francophile on the planet cringe), I think it’s almost expected that us commoners will also end up with mistakes on our bodies (disclaimer: I’m not tattooed). Especially when it comes to sentences/symbols/foreign languages.
@Patricia Eimer: I have a friend who is a tattoo artist, and I have heard clients argue in favor of wrong spelling more than once, and now he has a little disclaimer document that people have to sign if there are spelling/grammar or placement issues. People who can’t spell/don’t have basic grammar are very touchy, it turns out, about being corrected.
Check out Matt’s rant at The Oatmeal.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling
Thanks, I am going to show the post to my tattoo mad under aged sons and hope for the best.
@leslie: OMG that rant is hilarious.
Who would have guessed that I would be forwarding my 16 year old hip hop loving son an article from DA.;) thanks for keeping me well rounded!