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Foo Fighters were founded by Dave Grohl, the drummer for Nirvana after the band's lead Kurt Cobain committed suicide in 1994. Hawkins was also the drummer for Alanis Morrissette's Jagged Little Pill tour and appears in the videos for "You Oughta Know, "All I Really Want" and "You Learn". [more inside]
posted by bendy at 10:14 PM PST - 70 comments

Marcus King and friends cover a 1967 song by Danny O'Keefe.
posted by valkane at 9:15 PM PST - 7 comments

It turns out, you can really waste away (your retirement years) in Margaritaville.
posted by COD at 2:38 PM PST - 96 comments

Nature: Documents reveal NASA’s internal struggles over renaming Webb telescope - which is to say, NASA ignored evidence of James Webb's culpability in purging queer people from NASA and tried to cover it up. [more inside]
posted by ursus_comiter at 1:42 PM PST - 15 comments

Barney the Cat on pianoforte and Jeffin Rodegheri on Modulus flea bass

Barney the Cat on pianoforte and Jeffin Rodegheri on Modulus flea bass [2] [more inside]
posted by y2karl at 10:02 AM PST - 21 comments

Rockstar is a computer programming language designed for creating programs that are also hair metal power ballads. [more inside]
posted by majick at 5:25 AM PST - 19 comments

My favourite thing is when people stick trackers on animals and one does literally nothing interesting and sits in 1 place 99% of the time and the researchers are like oh yeah that weird datapoint is Lazy Geoff, he doesn't ever do anything for reasons we don't entirely understand

There follows a long twitter thread with other examples of Lazy Geoffs.
posted by MartinWisse at 3:08 AM PST - 35 comments

Short video segment from BBC Four documentary Better than the Original: The Joy of the Cover Version featuring Deborah Evans-Stickland of the Flying Lizards discussing their 1979 cover of 'Money (That's What I Want)'. [more inside]
posted by maxwelton at 12:39 AM PST - 8 comments