Via nevver

Via thedailywhat:

Single Serving Site of the Day: “You are listening to Los Angeles” — a brilliant, Scanner-esque mashup of live LAPD radio chatter and Creative Commons-licensed ambient music ripped from SoundCloud — is the brainchild of MeFite Eric “idontlikewords” Eberhardt.

He explains how the idea for the site came about:

The night the Giants won the World Series there were a lot of people on Twitter referencing the live police scanner webcast from soma.fm and I gave it a listen. Interesting stuff to be sure, but I got bored listening to just the voices and started playing some instrumental music in the background. I liked the results but it was complicated to explain to people how to replicate the mix (i.e. opening multiple copies of iTunes or VLC) so I made this site to simplify the process.

[mefi.]

(Source: thedailywhat)

J.D. Salinger as Mike Wallace [photographic reference for us youngs], via If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger…

Via libraryland:

Writer Oscar Wilde on trial for “gross indecency” (May 4, 1895)

As recorded in the British tabloid The Illustrated Police News, May 4 1895, which also “covered” “the secret actions of Jack the Ripper.”

Per usual, I’m late to the party on this. Oh well.

In all seriousness, how could you not love this man?

Lovely picture illustrating today’s elections in Iran, via Jezebel.

Hitler as a victim of the credit crisis; clip from Der Untergang.

Beautiful photographs, as typical of the Big Picture.

A new photo blog “turning the economic crisis into one of those clever internet memes.”