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What better way to procrastinate than by plundering my iTunes library?

I’m proud of my iTunes library. I believe it contains a nice mixture of different genres and new and old songs. Some have been on top of the Billboard Hot 100 others are so obscure I’ve never met anyone who knew it. So here it is, broken down into statistics:

Number of Songs: 5919
Number of Albums: 656
Most Recently Played Song: “Sunday Bloody Sunday” – U2
Most Played Song: “International You Day” – No Use For A Name (196 times, which equals 9 hours and 31 minutes)
Most Played Song that maybe you haven’t heard: “Invincible” – Capone N Noreaga
Most Recently Added Album: 3 – Nouvelle Vague
First Song Alphabetically: “A-Hole” – Bowling For Soup
Last Song Alphabetically: “The Zookeeper’s Boy” – Mew
Longest Title: “Homecoming / The Death Of St. Jimmy / East 12th St. / Nobody Likes You / Rock And Roll Girlfriend / We’re Coming Home Again” – Green Day
Smallest Number In A Song Title: “.38.45” – Thievery Corporation
Largest Number In A Song Title: “9 Million Bicycles” – Katie Melua
Shortest Song: “Horrible Theme” from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (10 seconds long)
Longest Song: “Titanic Suite” – James Horner (Excluding songs with several minutes of silence before a bonus track or mixtapes that might be concidered one continuous song)
Shortest Song With A 5-Star Rating: “A Perfect Government” – NOFX (2:06)
Longest Song With A 5-Star Rating: “23” – Jimmy Eat World (7:25)
First Album Alphabetically: Abbey Road – The Beatles
Last Album Alphabetically: Youth – Matisyahu
First Album Numerically: #1’s – Mariah Carey
Last Album Numerically: 1996 - Ryuichi Sakamoto
First Five Songs That Pop Up On iTunes DJ:
“Ride With Us” – Turbonegro
“Fields of Gold” – Eva Cassidy
“See The Sun” – Dido
“Hoppipolla” – Sigur Rós
“Here Comes the Night” – David Bowie
Five Songs I have Never Played
“Stripped, Pt. 2” – Christina Aguilera
“La Canoa” – Susana Baca
“Sverige” – Kent
“Follow My Way” – Chris Cornell
“Just Been Born” – Heather Nova

Using the outdated, but still working, iTunes Stat 0.2b widget I discovered these additional tidbits about my library:

Total Playcount: 56268 times
Hours Spent Listening: 4654 hours (approx. 194 days)
Songs without Artwork: 726 (out of 5919 is pretty good!)
Number of Playlists: 47
Unrated songs: 2049 (35% of the songs in my library)

(via Neven Mrgan)

This is unbelievable: In 1899 Thomas A. Edison filmed people doing tricks on their bikes. Riding backwards and other stuff that looks BMX flatland. There’s even a guy almost sticking the loop almost a century before Matt Hoffman did it in Jackass.

(via Kottke)

What do they have in common you might ask yourself? A lot more than you think!

One of the best viral videos I’ve seen in a while. College Humor have some great original stuff, esp. the prank war!

I’m back from the mountains where I had a great time. Took a lot of cool images, I’ll see if I can get them up in a few days. In the meantime there’s this one of me pulling a no-footer over a 2 meter gap on a snowracer.

Snowracer jumping was a lot of fun!

My new hobby: Watching YouTube videos of surgeries. Here are a few to start with. Warning, some of them might not be for the faint of heart.

Kevin Rose posted some leaked pictures of the new Tesla Model S, and it’s absolutely gorgeous! Reminds me of a slightly sporty version of the Jaguar XF. Love the glass roof and the touchscreen centre console.

GQ has a slideshow of their picks for The 50 Most Stylish Men, with great style tips. Worth a look if you like clothes.

Dress seasonally. In the summertime, shift to lighter weight—and lighter color—suits. Think cotton, not wool.

This is without a dubt my new favourite blog on the internet. I discovered it in January and read the entire thing in an evening. I like it so much I might actually save all the post and make a book for my kid. In addition to all the great advice, there are also great pictures and songs.

Not all of the rules are equally good, and there are certain I disagree with (like 304), but most of them are things you should follow. Few of my favourites are:

314. If your art is bad, make it bigger.

301. Dress for the job you want, not for the one you have.

259. If it looks like rain, carry an umbrella. She’ll thank you.

200. Drive across the country. Don’t rush.

187. Smile at pretty girls.

174. If you are tempted to wear a cowboy hat, resist.

160. On occasion, go to the movies by yourself.

P.S. Fun stuff for Norwegians: see if you can find Kong Harald…