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How to Repair Your Guitar Hero Instruments

Has your inner-Rock Band Guitar Hero been sidelined by breakdowns in inferior plastic equipment? 

Are your drum fills losing the star power you once had?  Is your guitar’s whammy bar a little less…. whammy?

Josh Straub has the answers for you with his ULTIMATE GUITAR HERO INSTRUMENT PHOTO REPAIR GUIDE.

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Mastering One’s Domain, so to speak

The Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy published a study by Aniruddha Das entitled “MASTURBATION IN THE US” that says that people aren’t enjoying themselves as much as others might think they are.  What’s the old joke –  “Those who say they aren’t doing it are lying?”

Sociologists from the University of Chicago’s Department of Sociology and Population Research Center asked 3,116 Americans how often they pleasured themselves over the previous 12 months.  Here is a little bit of what they found:

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Celebrity Twitter Accounts

The 2009 WEBBY AWARDS nominations have been announced, showcasing the very best ideas and website executions.  The Webbies will be presented on June 8th.

One of the nominations in the Celebrity/Fan category is CELEBRITY TWEET

Celebrity Tweet is a directory of verified celebrity Twitter accounts that you can follow if you choose to do so.

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Book food News

Foods That Help You Fall Asleep

The book SLEEP TO BE SEXY, SMART, and SLIM has all sorts of tips on things you need to do to help you fall asleep and stay asleep through the night.

One of the tips that they suggest is to watch what you eat in the hours before you go to sleep, eating only foods that digest quicker.

A study entitled High Glycemic Index Carbohydrate Meals May Shorten Sleep Onset published in the American Journal of Clincal Nutrition agrees with this philosphy, stating that eating a meal with a high glycemic index four hours before you go to sleep can cut your “falling to sleep” time in half by increasing the amount of tryptophan and seratonin your body produces.

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10 Things You Don’t Know About… What Makes Coldplay, Coldplay

ColdplayA few days ago, we mentioned that during a recent 60 MINUTES INTERVIEW WITH COLDPLAY’S CHRIS MARTIN, the camera showed a list of the 10 rules that Coldplay has for staying true to themselves and being the best band they could be.

You’ve asked what the other rules are, so here they are:

  1. Albums must be no longer than 42 minutes
  2. Production must be amazing, rich, but with space, not overlayered, less tracks more quality. Groove and swing  Drums/rhythm are the most crucial thing to concentrate on; diff. between bittersweet and science of silence
  3. Computers are instruments, not recording aids.
  4. Imagery must be classic, colorful and different. Come back in glorious technicolor.
  5. Make sure videos and pictures are great before setting release date. And highly original.
  6. Always keep mystery. Not many interviews
  7. Groove and Swing.  Rhythms and sounds must always be as original as possible. Once jon has melody, twist it and weird it sonical
  8. Promo/review copies to be on vinyl. Stops copying problem, sounds and looks better.
  9. Jaqueline sabriado, ns p cc, face forward
  10. Think about what to do with charity account. Set up something small but really enabling and constructive.

If you want to see the rules in context, you may want to watch the entire interview yourself.

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2009 Oreo Double Stuf Racing League Winner

The second Oreo Double Stuf Racing League (DSRL) competition has been held, with ten Oreo-lovers in West Palm Beach licking Oreos for money.

THE RULES FOR THE OREO LICKING COMPETITION ARE:

  1. Twist the cookie open
  2. Lick the icing in the middle clean off the cookie without breaking it (breaking the cookie will force the competitor to start over with a fresh Oreo).  Competitors can not use their teeth to scrape the icing off the cookie.  Tongue only.
  3. Dunk the cookie halves in milk and eat them
  4. Finish by drinking all the milk
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Game: Guess the BMG Music Catalog CD

A while ago we posted a GUESS THE CD game, where players would have to guess the name of the CD based on the track listing that you provide.

Here’s a variation on the theme: guessing the song based on the listing provided in the BMG Music Catalog sales brochure.

You don’t remember the BMG (or Columbia House) Music Club?

<old man voice>Yeah, I remember when we had to purchase our music the old-fashioned way, through the mail.  We’d have to go through a magazine listing and select the CDs, albums, audio cassettes, or 8-track tapes that we’d like to purchase; send in a postcard with a penny taped to it; and in 4-to-6 weeks, a package would arrive containing our selections… and we’d be lucky if they got the shipment right, or if they were in original packaging instead of being labeled as “special to Columbia House”.  We didn’t have any of this new-fangled instant over the Internet-get the music instantly kind of crap.  We had to work at getting our music.  And we liked it.</old man voice>

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Twitter Memes: #Honk if you #FollowFriday

Some Twitter users can a bit like lemmings, retweeting or otherwise repeating exactly what other Twitter users do whenever something cool is going around.  Everybody wants to be different, but they still want to exist as part of the in-crowd and participate in a group activity.

Some memes, like #Honk, exist just to be silly and fun.

Sometimes, a meme is grown out of necessity before it takes on a life of its own.

#FollowFriday was the brainchild of Micah Brown.  The concept was simple:  all Micah wanted was the names of other cool or interesting people to follow on Twitter (since finding those people on your own can be a daunting experience as Twitter doesn’t have a “I’m a cool person” checkbox on the user profile pages that others could search on).