In better news, Yo La Tengo is touring again, including a trip to Durham in September. Here's a free MP3 from their upcoming album.

Truly this is a summer of infinite linkdumps. Things will only get worse once summer camp starts.

* Glad to see pseudo-liveblogging tenure denial II has the happy ending I was expecting.

* Raleigh slime monster update.

* The Universal Translator is here! This is pretty amazing.

* Push is a simple sidescroller with a unique "cosmic distortion" gimmick.

* 'How Beckham Blew It': Inside the L.A. Galaxy.

* Bank runs, Amish style. Not a hoax, not an imaginary story.

* Yo La Tengo rocks the Twitter.

The view from my iTunes. I got this idea from Fred at occasional fish.

1. In iTunes, select View Options under the View menu.
2. Turn off everything but “Artist.”
3. Select all and copy.
4. Search and Replace the word “track” with nothing.
5. Paste the results into the Wordle.net Create page.

Here's mine...

Yo La Tengo persists in murdering the classics.

How Yo La Tengo took its name from the 1962 Mets season. Via blucarbnpinwheel.