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...about that "half of the Kingston Trio"... When founder Dave Guard left the group in 1960, John Stewart replaced him, joining Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane. The Trio was a late-'50s chart sensation that helped establish the album, not the single, as the unit of pop music. Reviled and/or envied by purists, the group nonetheless got a myriad of kids hooked on traditional music. They were the training wheels of the folk movement, and kept wearing their smiles and striped shirts for decades as a tribute band to themselves. Reynolds was 75, Stewart...
...years ago, Fair Isaac produced a chart predicting the odds that a borrower with a certain credit score would default on a mortgage. For example, it predicted that a loan to a borrower with a 680 score had a 1 in 144, or 0.7%, chance of becoming delinquent over the life of the loan; a person with a 700 FICO score would have a 1 in 288 chance, or just...
...chose well. The mashup combines the best come-hither moments from these chart-topping videos: there's Katy Perry's ode to experimentation, T-Pain's hallway dance set, and a lot of Chris Martin's weird British whiteboy moves. According to Earworm, 2008 was a soaring anthem marked by violins, great emotion, rain-soaked sadness, flash, determination, and sex. A lot of sex. In the club, like a lollipop, with Mariah Carey-basically, whatever you like. 2008, you will be missed...
...that could be changing. The engineering company CH2M Hill is now joining hands with the U.S. Department of Energy to provide Internet solar maps of 25 American cities, using Google Earth technology to chart the precise solar potential of neighborhoods, literally rooftop by rooftop. The company has just finished mapping all of San Francisco, allowing residents to enter their address and take the solar measure of their own home. "People in San Francisco think we don't have any solar potential,' says Gavin Newsom, the city's deep-green mayor. "But the map shows we have a lot more...
Rose, Axl •17-years-in-the making album of plummets on chart after one week...