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The playlist may not be as exhaustive as last week but it's quality. Enjoyment lies ahead.

• Hart to Hart Intro - if you've not seen the Adam Scott / Amy Poehler remake of the Hart to Hart intro, do so immediately. He's done it before and it's absurdly entertaining.
• Girl Talk Pilot - Sarah Michelle Gellar and Soleil Moon Frye had a talk show in 1989. If you can watch more than 3 minutes of this, I'll be quite impressed.
• Wanna dance with me? - NSFW language and completely nonsensical. I don't want to know the story here.. it's just ridiculous.
• Hee Haw Hambone and Eefing - five straight minutes of Hamboning and Eefing. If you don't see this as a proper precursor to the absurdity of Tim & Eric and their ilk, you're fooling yourself.
• Ham Face Girl - I realize this was posted in 2007 but it can't be seen too many times. Equal parts Adorable, Terrifying and Hilarious. via David.
• This Calls For A Celebration - celebrate good times.

Have a great weekend!

If you somehow managed to miss the news yesterday, steer your browsers over to the 2013 XOXO Festival site. Tickets are now on sale to the conference or just to the festival itself. I recall having a conversation with Andy Baio last year about how he would handle the attendees for the second iteration. You want new blood but you want familiar faces too - accomplishing that balance isn't easy. It appears that the Conference vs Festival ticket options are the solution to that issue. Well done. I had an absolute blast last year and can't recommend it enough. Such a phenomenal, informative, pleasing time to have.

I've been following the exploits of Digital Noise Academy since early 2006. The collaborative project between Ken Andrews (Failure, ON), Jordon Zadorozny (Blinker the Star, Abbey), Sharky Laguana (Creeper Lagoon), Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, AIR), Charlotte Martin and Fernando Sanchez. It's a jam packed list of talent and they've finally officially released their first record, Synemy.

Yes! another new EP.

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Arlo clued me in to the works of Creative Dash and their amazing Dribbble postings the other day and I can't decide if I should thank him or not. The work is absolutely inspiring and impressive on so many levels - the animations in particular - but they're so good they're depressing. Their full site and UI8 pack are equally awesome.

I'm both very intrigued and very skeptical of the promises of the Tomahawk player. It's an app that ties in multiple sources of music content (local library + spotify + soundcloud) into one central repository. It even has a social layer where you can pull in Facebook music wall posts or create radio stations from obvious sources like last.fm or This Is My Jam. It does alot... and that's where the intrigue and the doubt come in. Maybe too much? I'm willing to give it a whirl but sometimes less is more! Anyone given this a spin?

Thanks to Adam, I'm checking out this Downcast app - a better podcasting app than iTunes or the gnarly Apple Podcast app. It looks nice, it supports raw urls, you can jump forward 2 minutes as opposed to just 15 seconds and, best of all, it syncs your progress within the specific podcast across devices. Done and done.

Gauntlet Hair, No Age, Neko Case and a whole bunch more

I've not read everything from JD Salinger but what I have read has always been enjoyable. I've never quite, personally, understood the fascination with "Catcher in the Rye" but the fact that it does have such a cultish following is fascinating in and of itself. So, with that in mind, this Salinger documentary is pretty engaging. It goes into his somewhat hermit-esque lifestyle and shunning the world once he gained popularity.

I agree with this article that the marketing for the film makes it seem a little extra thrillerish and celebrity filled but Salinger's story is an interesting one, regardless of how it's being pitched.

The band Happy Birthday Amy called it a day several years ago and moved on to new projects (namely: Protomen). However, they recently unearthed an unreleased track and decided to put it out into the world. "EBE" is an enjoyable little diddy about space invaders and conspiracy theories.

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Thanks to Jed for the heads up on the long exposure works of Sharon Harper. Her collaged long exposure collections, like Moon Studies and Star Scratches, have an oddly painterly vibe to them.

The promise of an efficient WYSIWYG website builder used to be all the rage. For better or worse, it seems that dream died off because of the terrible code that was generated by the likes of Microsoft Word and Adobe Dreamweaver. Macaw is trying to revive that dream. The software aims to create responsive designs with succinct CSS. I've not used it yet but their site is quite impressive. Definitely could be a great tool for helping people get started with solid web design or for assisting on creating mockups that get transformed into full blown sites.

via Erica.

new track from a band that broke up years ago. Still surprisingly good.