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It seems that the number of music stores in KC is dwindling as digital music purchases continue to grow. I am an avid music collector and wanted to create a list of local stores that still sell vinyl (LPs), CDs, etc. I tried to leave chain stores off the list...

Kansas City / Overland Park

Vinyl Renaissance (Nieman Rd. and Shawnee Mission Pkwy) - CDs new and used, vinyl new and used. Highly recommended http://www.vinyl-renaissance.com/

Earwaxx Records (64th N. Oak Tfwy) - new and used CDs, new and used vinyl, recently expanded. Owner Gary is very knowledgable and will cut you a good deal.

Zebedee's Records (39th St. and Roanoke) - used CDs and vinyl Zebedee's

Streetside Records (Westport and Broadway) - CDs new and used, new vinyl

It's a Beautiful Day (40th and Broadway) - A fairly large selection of used and new vinyl, CD, and cassettes in a hippie setting.

1/2 Priced Books (SW Tfwy and Westport Rd., 119th St. Olathe, 89th and Metcalf, Lawrence) - Used CDs, vinyl, and cassettes

Prospero's Books (39th St. and Bell) - They sell used CDs and vinyl in the basement

Halcyon Diversified Trading (47th and Mission Road) - They sell posters, music equipment, and vinyl as well as old toys, clothes, and anything kitsch

Vintage Stock (Liberty, Independence, Blue Spings, Lee's Summit, Overland Park 135th St., Overland Park 92nd St., Shawnee) - new and used CDs

180 Records (39th St. and Broadway) - DJ records. not sure if still operational

CD Warehouse (58th and Antioch in Northland, 64th and Quivira Shawnee Mission, I believe Lee's Summit and Blue Springs as well) - used CDs

CD Tradepost (1094 West Santa Fe Olathe, KS) - Used Cds.

The Flipside (11212 W. 75th St. in Shawnee, KS) - Posters and a small selection of used CDs.

7th Heaven (76th and Troost, Blue Springs, Lawrence) - new CDs. I'm not really sure what they carry here anymore.

Boom Records???? (19th and McGee) - I've heard rumors of this place opening in another month or so. The guy running it supposedly has 60K plus LPs.

Lawrence

Love Garden (822 Massachusetts) - CDs new and used / Vinyl new and used. They also run their own record label. Love Garden.

Kief's (across the street from Love Garden) - A Lawrence fixture that carries vinyl and used CDs.

Lawrence Downtown Antique Store (Massachusetts Street) - Various booths of used cassettes and vinyl.

CD Tradepost (2540 S Iowa and also 4000 W 6th Suite C) - Used Cds

Hasting's (1900 W 23rd St) - I was told they carry CDs.

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So my birthday was two months ago and I totally forgot to post this. It's a photo / video collage put together by my bastard friend Luke aka Lou. This was from a surprise birthday party at my own house. Thanks for throwing that guys and you couldn't have asked for a better host, err wait...

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Dang you They Might Be Giant's-style song for getting stuck in my head all week.

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This week is the 40th anniversary of the "Mother of all Demos", Douglas Engelbart's presentation of a new computing system called NLS (or Online System) at the Fall Joint Computer Conference at Stanford University. Why is this important? Because it is the demo that first introduced the world to the concept of the computer mouse, hypertext links, and on-screen text editing. This demo is amazing in the fact that it combined video monitors and cameras with computer images. Check out the video of this historic demo.

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Check out my friend Sarah's band Poradova. She also has some audio samples up on her myspace page.

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I stumbled across this link while searching for creative gift ideas. A Buy Nothing Christmas. This initiative was started by Canadian Mennonites and the website is tied in with Adbusters (just be sure that you don't go to buynothingchristmas.com because that will take you to a crappy online webstore that sells gifts). Too bad my friends and family don't participate in this.

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I wonder if wikihow knew about my Zombie Houseswarming party last year because today's How to of the Day is "How to Look Like a Zombie".

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Here's a link to an awesome collection of photos of professionally-done graffiti murals in Kansas City. This guy also has some other cool pictures from around the city.

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Slow Fade - The afterlife of an indie band:

Then the album, "Spiderland," appeared. On its cover was a black-and-white photograph of the musicians swimming in an abandoned quarry, their smiling faces hovering above the water. But the record was not the product of feckless youths; it was a foray, both brave and frightened, into adulthood. Just six songs and thirty-nine minutes long, "Spiderland" was sui generis, a series of compositions so studiously arranged that they sound as though they might have been notated, like classical music,though they retain the rawness and intimacy of improvisation.

That's a show I'd like to see.

It's something I never thought I'd see - a memorial service for a bulletin board.

China's cracked down on public discussion sites, as they did before with some of the blogging providers.

Jeremy Goldkorn at Danwei describes the latest update:

Some arm of the sour and corrupt Nanny authority has resticted access to Internet bulletin boards (BBS) hosted on servers at Tsinghua University, Peking University and Nanjing University to students and people with university Internet accounts. These BBS were formerly available to the public.

Furthermore, all students who still have access to the BBS will apparently have to register with their real names if they want to continue posting to the BBS. The above-mentioned BBS were previously sources of lively debate about social, economic and cultural issues.

Way to go Nanny!

This may not seem like much; after all, it's just a BBS, and the students can still post. But by blocking outside IP addresses, it will effectively kill the culture of the BBS. And without any hope of anonymity, there won't be much left for the students.

On Saturday Qinghua students gathered to mourn the BBS. One student took a lot of pictures, and posted them on flickr with the name "smth dying". Check it out.