"Sappy" is a song by the American rock band Nirvana. It is the final, uncredited track on the 1993 AIDS-benefit compilation album No Alternative.

This is my favorite Nirvana song. I just realised tonight that I have absolutely no idea how I know it. I thought it was on Bleach. In fact, every time I listen to the Nirvana stuff on my iPod I kick myself for not having Bleach, in particular because I want to hear this song. It somehow perfectly captures what Nirvana really is about, the smothering hell of patriarchal suburbia that as I young man I some how simultaneously wanted and wanted to escape and wanted to see others escape. This song isn't on Bleach. I'm going to take my copy of Bleach to work tomorrow and listen to it and make sure that I don't somehow have some fucked up copy that includes this song, but its not supposed to be on that album. How the hell do I know this song? I don't have a copy of No Alternative. Never did. Furthermore, my recollection of this song is not mixed out the way that the stuff on In Utero is mixed out. In fact, I'd really like to hear this song mixed out that way. I recall the recording being fairly flat. But definately in a studio. I have a bootleg copy but its not right. Whack!

This is evident from a recording of a February 1994 concert in Rennes, France in which the audience kept requesting the song - bassist Krist Novoselic, after performing it, shouted to the crowd, "Did you hear it on a bootleg? Because it wasn't listed on the album."

Sappy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well, obviously, I can't say much about this new SCO filing [PDF] at this time. It's all about moi. A bit more here and here.

Why is anyone still doing business with SCO?

Groklaw - My Very Own Motion, Tra La

What the hell is Hillary looking at!? - The Something Awful Forums

House prices in the U.S. from 1890 until 2005, plotted as a roller coaster that you ride from a first person perspective. Here is the datasource. Hold on to your hats.

Real Estate Roller Coaster - Google Video

E. Howard scribbled the initials "LBJ," standing for Kennedy's ambitious vice president, Lyndon Johnson. Under "LBJ," connected by a line, he wrote the name Cord Meyer. Meyer was a CIA agent whose wife had an affair with JFK; later she was murdered, a case that's never been solved. Next his father connected to Meyer's name the name Bill Harvey, another CIA agent; also connected to Meyer's name was the name David Morales, yet another CIA man and a well-known, particularly vicious black-op specialist. And then his father connected to Morales' name, with a line, the framed words "French Gunman Grassy Knoll."

Rolling Stone : The Last Confessions of E. Howard Hunt

Historical Income Tables - Families -- Mean Income Received by Each Fifth and Top 5 Percent of Families, All Races: 1966 to 2005

America's class system in numbers.

Historical Income Tables - Families

There are several disturbing similarities between the U.S. economy's recent behavior and its behavior in 2000–01, but also some reassuring differences.

I don't feel reassured. You can actually SEE the bubble popping in this chart.

National Economic Update, March 2007 - Economic Research Publications - FRB Dallas

In the winter of 2002, with the federal budget stretched thin, President George W. Bush asked Congress to give back money that lawmakers had earmarked for local projects so it could be used instead to fund the Pell grant program, which helps needy students pay for college. One of the local projects that had drawn particularly harsh scrutiny was a $273,000 federal grant that U.S. Rep. Sam Graves had procured to study goth culture in Blue Springs, Missouri. "It's one of those priorities that my constituents asked me to fight for," Graves told an Associated Press reporter at the time.

Ignorant conservative pork barrel bullshit. This is old news, but its worth a look.

Kansas City - News - Black Hole - pitch.com

Google had been using satellite images of New Orleans that accurately showed broken levees, flooding and repair efforts. But in the new shots of the Big Easy, cranes, tarps and all indicators of human suffering have disappeared, giving the city the look of a "virtual Potemkin village," according to the AP.

Rep. Brad Miller (D-North Carolina), the chairman of the House Science Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight called the photo swap "airbrushing history" and a "great injustice" to Katrina victims. Miller on Friday asked (.pdf) Google CEO Eric Schmidt to explain why the images were replaced.

Google is innocent. They upgraded to higher resolution pictures that happened to be older. However, the fact that this caused such a stir signifies the importance of public access to satellite imagery, which is itself a fairly recent development. I want GoreSat.

Google Maps update sitrs Katrina drama

EMI Group will soon sell digital music with better sound quality and no digital rights management restrictions through Apple's iTunes Store.

Wow. I am really quite amazed by this announcement! I really, honestly thought Jobs was blowing smoke.

EMI, Apple partner on DRM-free premium music | CNET News.com