In The Merry Merry Month of … January

Posted on February 10, 2010 by 100b

Yeah, it’s been a while since we Merry Merry Month-ed, but January started off 2010 right with some fantastic releases. The obvious, the one everyone talked about, the one that had people gathered around their website waiting for a hint of what was to come is, of course, Vampire Weekend. Kicking of the new year, [...]

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100best: Jay-Z

Posted on April 10, 2009 by 100b

From the projects to the stage to the boardroom, hip hop performer and entreprenuer extraordinaire Shawn Carter – alias Jay-Z – has established himself through 10 (soon to be 11) albums as perhaps the greatest hip hop artist of all time. He is now almost a charicature of himself so it is easy to forget [...]

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100b’s News-ish Round-Up

Posted on July 2, 2008 by Julie

Let’s start off this week’s round-up with a good belly laugh, shall we? And what better way to get your giggle on than to poke fun at crazy bible-thumpers? The Guardian technology blog has a great story about how the American Family Association (who aims to educate us heathens to “change the culture to reflect [...]

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Those Zany Charts …

Posted on January 4, 2008 by tamboosh

Happy New Year everybody! 2007 was named Year Of The Dolphin by the United Nations Environment Programme, it was Year Of The Pig in the Chinese calendar and, my favorite, European Year Of Equal Opportunities For All! I didn’t know years got themes, is that new? I like it, it sounds like a communist hippie [...]

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