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Thirds

Citizen Cope/Clarence Greenwood has a very restrained playing style in that he rarely plays full chords. Most of the guitar work in this song is with thirds; you can try these chords:

• G: 320xxx
• C: x320xx
• A: 542xxx

The Chords

Citizen Cope
More Than it Seems

The entire song is: G C A G

Lyrics:

Your so Pure(ah)
Your heart is full of
All i ever need
And i cant take it
I cant speak
So i just sit here and stare

My adorer, let me tell you a story
About someone in me
Now its gunna be surrounding me

Break my silence

Yea its a little bit more than it seems
We can make outside my dreams
Yea its a little bit more than it seems
We can make outside my dreams

My adorer, they say i dont know ya
I sure do know
Sure do miss ya
I can't take it
I can't take it

My adorer, your heart is full of
All ill ever need
I cant take it
I cant speak

Break my silence

Yea its a little bit more than it seems
We can make outside my dreams
Yea its a little bit more than it seems
(We can make it) We can make outside my dreams
Yea its a little bit more than it seems
(We can make it) We can make outside my dreams
Yea its a little bit more than it seems
(We can make it) We can make outside my dreams
Outside my dreams

Tabbed by Matthew Gruman

http://matthewgruman.com

Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/citizen_cope_lyrics_9271/every_waking_moment_lyrics_31222/more_than_it_seems_lyrics_338473.html

Yes, nearly 1/3rd of every single Vista crash was caused by NVIDIA drivers, and that includes all the computers out there that, you know, don’t have an NVIDIA graphics card.

Via Gizmodo.

Spring, Vancouver. It’s SPRING.

If you’ve never tried Matzo Brah, now is the perfect time (impress your Jewish friends for Passover!) It’s delicious and ridiculously easy to make:

1. Crack your matzo into small pieces and soak in hot water for ~1 minute, depending on how soggy/crisp you want it.
2. Drain the water through a strainer.
3. Add eggs, use a 2:3 matzo:egg ratio and adjust for next time if it’s too eggy, by beating them into the wet matzo.
4. Pan fry (I use butter) at about a half inch thickness until it starts to brown, then flip and do the same for the other side. Either make them in person-sized portions, or fry it all up and cut up later.
5. Add salt and enjoy!

As with most Jewish cooking, the more butter/salt/oil the better. Also like most Jewish cooking, you can add raisins and cinnamon to sweeten it up. I’ve known people who eat it with jam or maple syrup, too.

It’s possible to (mis)use all seven words in a one-sentence book report: “Mario Puzo’s intriguing novel eschews the lyrical as the author instead crafts a poignant tale of family life and muses on the compelling doings of the Mob.”
[emphasis mine. mg]

From Papercuts, via Quill.

Why? Well.. I was sitting thinking what I should do for my next robot, what it should do.. Listening to music.. making a rythm with some robot-parts.. Thought; “Hey, I will make a robot that drives around and plays on stuff”

Yellow Drum Machine via Boing Boing.

There are few commercial signs or posters in a recently opened Mile End bookstore, but one in particular appears to have upset a local resident.

That person formally complained to the Office québécois de la langue française, which dispatched an inspector Friday to check out and photograph signage at the Librairie Drawn & Quarterly on Bernard Ave. W. near de l’Esplanade Ave.

The complainant alleged there was too much English on signs, but on a visit yesterday, all a reporter could find in English only was an antique, hand-drawn paper clock on the door of the storefront.

The offending item, about 12 centimetres in diameter, says Open, Come In.

From The Montreal Gazette via Quill Blog.

For those who may not know, Bill 101 is a Quebec law stating that French must be more visible than any other language. Drawn and Quarterly is one of the best (THE best?) comics publisher in Canada. The ideal of Bill 101 is to help keep the Quebec culture and language alive. The ideal of Drawn and Quarterly is to keep comic culture alive and progressive.

The reality is that Bill 101 does little more than promote both subtle and not-so-subtle prejudice, while wasting taxpayer dollars, to satisfy the misguided ideals of a select few. Drawn and Quarterly, on the other hand, publishes awesome comics.

A more effective way to promote and sustain the Quebec culture would be to promote the Quebec culture. Believe it or not, its existence isn’t actually dependent on monolinguism.

According to mastheadonline (sub req’d), the number of starts and closures have both declined in the past year, with the biggest decline in the b-to-b sector, where only 5 books were launched. Total launches in 2007 dropped 15 per cent from 2006. On average, measured over 10 years, about 60 consumer magazines are launched.

From Canadian Magazines.

One of the challenges with tracking online magazines is coming up with a definition of “online magazine.” Is something like the multi-contributor, multi-topic Torontoist an “online magazine” or a blog?

From the comments.

This is a bit concerning. No one in the magazine/journal industry has come up with a solid definition of what it means to be an online magazine/journal, yet they are being included in current grant applications if they just don’t label themselves as blogs.

Qualitatively, I’ve been noticing (and getting contacted by) a lot of magazines/journals that just don’t have a print version. I wonder how much this has affected their figures.

For what it’s worth, I think that Torontoist is a better “magazine” than most magazines.

Suggestions

One big debate right now is how to track online readership because of the disparities between stats programs. Something I’ve brought up is the idea of active users: users who have logged in over the past 30 days. This is a typical way to measure online usage.

The problem, of course, is that you’d have to log in. Options:

• Make content available whether logged in or not and just count logged in users. Print magazines don’t count readership at magazine stands or libraries.
• Follow the lead of Instapaper and make a painless registration process. Don’t want a password? Don’t bother. You don’t need demographics, you need raw numbers.
• Use LONG sessions in your login script! Don’t make people login every time they come to your site; give the option to stay logged in for a few months.

This is what happens when you take the proportions of cartoon/Nintendo Mario’s face and apply real-world characteristics to it. It was created using Photoshop and a bunch of features from a bunch of real faces. It is currently creeping the shit out of me.

Kotaku.