New Wale Mixtape

Wale's new mixtape, Back to the Feature, dropped a couple days and I just finished listening to it. It's mostly produced by 9th Wonder (you might know him from 2004's Black is Back with Jay-Z) and almost every track is hot. Anyway as the title suggests, there are many, many features on this mixtape; too many to list them all. Some notables include Curren$y, Talib Kweli, Joe Budden, and Beanie Sigel.


HERE is the download link.

Be an obcessive conoisseur (Huge Douche) with Finger Food Plates!

Did you graduate from Holy Cross? Do you have an overstated sense of self-awesomeness? Do you smoke Djarum Black clove cigarettes? If your answer to any of these questions was "Yes," then I've found another item to add to your Christmas wish list. The Finger Food Party Plates are mini plates with rings (3 inches wide by 2.25 inches tall) that fit right around your finger. So, at your next modern art opening, while you're standing in the vernissage under a cloud of smug festering in your own superficial existence, you can eat a niguiri roll right off your forefinger!

GM Claims Chevy Volt Will Get 230 MPG--But How?

General Motors calls the Chevrolet Volt an extended-range electric vehicle. Essentially the only motive force comes from the electric motor; the gas engine only charges the batteries. In a press conference earlier today, GM's CEO Fritz Henderson said the Volt will have a city mileage figure of 230 miles per gallon--almost five times more efficient than a Prius. But considering the uniqueness of the Volt's engine, how did the EPA get that figure?

Popular Science calls it a "draft methodology." That's a quick way of saying the EPA is developing a few assumptions to populate a new "duty cycle" for the Volt. The duty cycle is the usage profile the agency uses when determining the city and highway mileage numbers to put on a new car's window sticker. The latest EPA cycle, set in 2006, accounts for actual driving conditions, such as high speed, aggressive driving, use of air conditioning, and cold temperature operation.

As John Voelcker from GreenCarReports.com points out, GM says the Volt can travel for the first 40 miles on battery power alone. That means, if you never drive more than 40 miles a day, your mileage is technically "infinity." Of course, that isn't quite accurate over longer distances. So the EPA likely adopted a test cycle that involves driving the Volt until the battery is discharged, and then for a further distance using gasoline power.



Read more about it HERE

Butter Prevents Suicides. Seriously.

According to THIS Metro article, giant bridges are being coated with butter so their bars and frames become too slippery for people to climb and then jump to their deaths. By extension, this prevents traffic jams caused by drivers who slow down or stop to witness a potential suicide. Here's an excerpt from the article:

"Government officials in Guangzhou in south east China ordered workers to smear butter on all of the climbable surfaces of the 1,000 foot long steel bridge.
Government spokesman Shiu Liang said: 'We tried employing guards at both ends but that didn't work - and we put up special fences and notices asking people not to commit suicide here. None of it worked - and so now we have put butter over the bridge and it has worked very well. Nobody can get up there and anybody who tries either falls'"

Simple, effective, yet very misguided. If someone wants to jump off a bridge, the last thing to stop them should be some Chinese engineers and their slick ledges- that's just delaying the inevitable. Plus, being denied access to the bridge will probably frustrate the person, thus exasperating his or her already extreme emotions. AND if they do kill themselves, it should be in a manly fashion. HERE are some ways to kill yourself like a man.

I've been Served. By the Man.

Sorry everyone, I can no longer post leaked music on my blog because apparently the man feels that I violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This is an email I received this morning:

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Affected URLs:

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Man on the Moon: End of Day Trailer, Track List, & Album Artwork

Above is the trailer for KiD CuDi's upcoming album, Man on the Moon: End of Day. The track list was released to the web about a week ago:

ACT 1 - THE END OF DAY
1. In My Dreams (Cudder Anthem)
2. Soundtrack 2 My Life
3. Simple As…

ACT 2 - RISE OF THE NIGHT TERRORS
4. Solo Dolo (nightmare)
5. Heart of A Lion (KiD CuDi Theme Music)
6. My World Feat. Billy Cravens

ACT 3 - TAKING A TRIP
7. Day N Nite (nightmare)
8. Sky Might Fall
9. Enter Galactic (Love Connection Part 1)

ACT 4 - STUCK
10. Alive (nightmare) Feat. RATATAT
11. CuDi Zone
12. Make Her Say Feat. Kanye West & Common
13. Pursuit of Happiness (nightmare) Feat. MGMT & RATATAT

ACT 5 - A NEW BEGINNING
14. Hyyerr Feat. Chip Tha Rapper
15. Up Up & Away (The Wake & Bake Song)

And finally, here's the much anticipated, very cultivated album artwork. The artwork is actually the reason that the album's release date was bumped back to September 15th opposed to original August 25th drop.

New KiD CuDi

Here's a freestyle by KiD CuDi performed on Tim Westwood's BBC Radio 1 show. The freestyle followed an interview promoting CuDi's upcoming debut album, Man on the Moon: The End of Day.