BBC: “They say rock and pop stars live life in the fast lane and now researchers have proved it. A Liverpool John Moores University study of 1,050 US and European artists found they are twice as likely to die early than the rest of the population.”

Second Hand Songs — a very helpful database for those interested in pop music antecedents.

[UPDATE: How dare Madison Avenue steal the absolutely kickass bass line from Pino d’Angio! This is a terrible musical crime, and I sincerely hope that Pino gets his justice! (Of course, it’s also possible that Pino lifted it from Risco Connection’s “Ain’t No Stopping Us.” Understand: the objection to Madison Avenue isn’t so much that they ripped Pino (and possibly Risco) off, but that they did so without the cheesy gravitas of the original tune!]

Dr. Hook, Shel Silverstein, and Dustin Hoffman live. (via Sarah)

It would appear that if you play two copies of tracks from Radiohead’s Kid A in shifting intervals, the two tracks line up and complement each other. Some folks have been busy making remixes to test this phenomenon.