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Subliminal Panda Playlist: IT MIGHT EXPLODE!!

1. Atomic Cocktail – Slim Gaillard

2. Bottle Up and Explode! – Elliott Smith

3. Timebomb – Beck

4. Little Bombs – Aimee Mann

5. Tiny Explosions – President of the United States of America

6. Mushaboom – Feist

7. Tick Tick Boom – The Hives

8. Bomb – Inara George

9. Dy-na-mi-tee – Miss Dynamite

10. Boom Biddy Bye Bye – Cypress Hill

11. I Bombed Korea – Cake

12. Exploding Snowhorse – The Octopus Project

13. Time Bomb – Rancid

14. Bombs Over Baghdad – Outkast

15. The World Exploded Into Love – Bob Schneider

16. Dynamite – Ima Robot

17. TNT – AC/DC

first aired 3/12/12 on URY

Honorable Mention:
18. Dynamite and Whiskey – Fred Eaglesmith

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March 4, 2012

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Subliminal Panda Playlist: Can’t Elope Songs

1. Can’t Buy Me Love – The Beatles

2. Can’t Stop – Love Arcade

3. Can’t Get Along Without You – Hard-Fi

4. He’s the Kind of Boy You Can’t Forget – The Raindrops

5. Can’t Keep Johnny Down – They Might Be Giants

6. You Can’t Always Get What You Want – The Rolling Stones

7. Alas, I Cannot Swim – Laura Marling

8. Got It All (This Can’t Be Living Now) – Portugal, The Man

9. Can’t Tell Me Nothing – Kanye West

10. Can’t Touch This – MC Hammer

11. Itch U Can’t Scratch – Junior Senior

12. You’ve Got To See Mama Ev’ry Night (Or You Can’t See Mama At All) – Kay Starr

13. Can’t Let Go – Lucinda Williams

14. Can’t Resist It – Lyle Lovett

15. Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue

16. I Just Can’t Seem To Get It Right Today – Joe Purdy

16. I Can’t Stop Loving You – Ray Charles

aired on URY 2/25/2012

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February 26, 2012

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Subliminal Panda Playlist: Songs That Take You

1. Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand

2. Take Out the Trash – They Might Be Giants

3. Take a Walk on the Wild Side – Velvet Underground

4. Take Me or Leave Me – Rent

5. Klaymen takes the “A” Train – Neverhood Soundtrack

6. Take It Off – The Donnas

7. Take Five – Dave Brubeck Orchestra

8. Take Your Time (Coming Home) – Fun.

9. How to Take a Fall – Elliott Smith

10. Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town – Cake (cover)

11. Every Breath You Take – The Police

12. Take Your Mama Out – Scissor Sisters

13. Take Me To Your Leader – The Newsboys

14. Take Me Away – Plain White T’s

originally aired on 2/19/2012 on URY

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February 19, 2012

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Subliminal Panda Playlist: Prepared & Ready to Go

1. Y’all Ready for This? – Jock Jams

2. Signal in the Sky (Let’s Go!) – The Apples in Stereo

3. Get Ready 2 Rokk – Freezepop

4. Prepare for the Fight (Dummies Club Mix) – The Lovemakers

5. Ready to Run – The Dixie Chicks

6. Ready for Fun – Veggie Tales (customized Brianne version)

7. Preparedness – The Bird and the Bee

8. Not Ready to Love – Rufus Wainwright

9. Be Prepared – Scar from The Lion King

10. Here We Go – Dispatch

11. Ready to Die – The Unicorns

12. Get Ready – The Temptations

13. Here We Go – Jon Brion

aired 2/11/12 on URY on the infamous *whisper* show

BONUS:

1. Preparanse – The Impostors Soundtrack
2. Here It Goes Again – OK Go
3. Poised and Ready – Brendan Benson
4. Not Ready to Make Nice – The Dixie Chicks
5. Hurry Up Let’s Go – The Shout Out Louds
6. Here I Go Again – Whitesnake
7. Here We Go – Brandston

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February 12, 2012

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Subliminal Panda Playlist: Alive or Dead but not Bon Jovi

1. Living Room – Paris Combo

2. Newport Living – Cute Is What We Aim For

3. LG Fuad – Motion City Soundtrack

4. We Trying To Stay Alive – Wyclef Jean

5. Alive with the Glory of Love – Say Anything

6. Exquisite Dead Guy – They Might Be Giants

7. Summertime and the Living’s Easy – Mahalia Jackson

8. Help, I’m Alive – Metric

9. Got It All (This Can’t Be Living Now) – Portugal. The Man.

10. Get Busy Living or Get Busy Dying (How to Save the Scene and Stop Going to Shows) – Fall Out Boy

11. Alive – Ima Robot

12. Dead – They Might Be Giants

13. Dead and Lovely – Tom Waits

14. Still Alive – GLaDOS & Jonathan Coulton

15. Your Ex-Lover is Dead – Stars

aired 2/4/2012 on URY

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February 5, 2012

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Subliminal Panda Playlist: Reduplicative Songs

1. Sing, Sing, Sing – Benny Goodman

2. Goodnight Goodnight – Hot Hot Heat

3. Tonight Tonight – Hot Chelle Rae

4. Sorry, Sorry – Super Junior

5. Me Me Me Me – Louis XIV

6. Yeh Yeh – They Might Be Giants

7. Chipi Chipi – Maria Ester Zamora

8. Run Run Run – Phoenix

9. Ooh-Ooh ft. Redman – De La Soul

10. Jumble, Jumble – The White Stripes

11. Fa Fa – Guster

12. Bang Bang – Dispatch

13. Dance, Dance – Fall Out Boy

aired 1/28/2012

BONUS SONGS:

a. Hey Hey – Dispatch
b. Swing, Swing – All-American Rejects
c. Television, Television – OK Go
d. Jumpin, Jumpin – Destiny’s Child
e. Louie Louie – The Kingsmen
f. Tomorrow Tomorrow – Elliott Smith
g. Dance, Dance, Dance – The Beach Boys
h. Zoom Zoom ft. Dr. Dre – LL Cool J
i. Kiss Kiss ft. T-Pain – Chris Brown

There are many other songs which fit this theme. Make your own playlist today!

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January 29, 2012

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Tiny Dissertation 1: OMG QWERTY WTF

Disclaimer: This post is about the process, not the result. You may be wasting your time by reading it.

Premise: I am left-handed (and proud!) The QWERTY keyboard is preferential to the left-hand. 56% of keystrokes happen on the left-side. More than 3000 English words can be written with the left hand alone (i.e. reverberates), while only 450 are possible with the right hand (i.e. lollipop). There are various models of letter frequency in English, one order from most used to least is: ETAON RISHD LFCMU GYPWB VKXJQ Z with the left-hand letters in bold.

Question: Do internet acronyms follow the pattern of 56% left-handed frequency? What is the letter frequency for the most used internet acronyms?

Hypothesis: The top 2 vowels are on the left-side, and I think it’s mostly the vowels that creates this imbalance. Most words are not vowel-initial, so their frequency should go down in a study of acronyms. This means that the top consonants TRSDF would need to appear more frequently to maintain this ratio. I think overall, left-handed frequency should go down in acronyms.

[and then suddenly…]

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January 25, 2012

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IPA FYI: Ejectives and Implosives

This week at the University of York I learned how to do ejectives and implosives in Articulatory and Impressionistic Phonetics class. Yay! Written in IPA, ejectives look like this: [p’, t’, k’] and implosives look like this: [ɓ,ɗ,ɠ]. Watch them now in a tiny video I just did to show off to my mom!