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Bessie Smith

I promise not to spend too much time posting stuff from YouTube, but I thought this was amazing:

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Mr James Brown

And if you want more James Brown goodness, check out James Brown Olympia 1966.

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Supernature

At PFFA a while back, Melanie was complaining about a ‘best of the 70s’ compilation thtat was all one-hit wonders and disco. And how there was a lack of ‘Skynyrd, Doobies, CCR, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Aerosmith… [list of overblown guitar-rock acts continued for half a dozen more names]’. As though Skynyrd ever made a piece of music as good as this:

or indeed this:

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17th century fly-by

A cool thing from the people at Digitally Distributed Environments:

See the whole panorama here.

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Amusing football thing

Zlatan Ibrahimovic juggles chewing gum.
(via Släpkoppel)

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Sport on YouTube

A flukey goal; a flukey hole in one; and a freakish cricket shot.